Two Fort Lee dentists recently returned from a trip to Cambodia, where they spent a week providing much-needed dental care to children in the largely impoverished country. Pediatric dentist Dr. Jamie Diament-Golub and her husband, Dr. Jon Golub, an orthodontist, who have private practices in Fort Lee and Westwood, participated in the Cambodia 2012 KIDS [...]

On the first floor of an office building in a side street of what passes for Thessaloniki’s Chinatown is the Social Medical Centre. Outside on the landing, a queue of the city’s downtrodden waits patiently in the gloom: ill but uninsured, and therefore unable to get treatment elsewhere. Inside, a revolving team of harassed medics [...]

When he’s not helping locals alleviate their tooth ailments, Dr. Ed Weiss is trekking through remote parts of the world to provide volunteer dental care to those who wouldn’t have access otherwise. For nearly 20 years, the Auburn dentist has traveled to remote communities all over the world to offer humanitarian services in his specialty. [...]

Nearly 40 junior doctors of the dental college have stopped attending to the out-patients’ department since yesterday, citing acute shortage of basic items like gloves required to prevent contamination. The North Bengal Dental College has 37 junior doctors who said it was not possible for them to pay from their pockets every time the stock [...]

With 76% of Nepalese people needing dental treatment, figures from Work the World’s 2011 Dental Outreach Projects highlight the problem of oral health within rural communities in the developing world. The Work the World Dental Outreach Projects run throughout the summer months, with teams of up to 12 dental students heading out to screen, treat [...]

For Dr. Mark Lisagor, it was the opportunity to meet other volunteers who believe in making a difference in the lives of those less fortunate. For Jan Tevrizian, dental hygienist, it was significant, meaningful and thought provoking experience. For all of them, it was the children. These three are among the nearly 750 people who [...]

Monday morning, the two banka boats picked up the dental team and our main sponsors from Letsshare.tv from a resort in Moal Boal. The ocean had calmed down, and there was no wind – absolutely beautiful! And then we saw the dolphins. They came right next to the boat swimming as fast as the [...]

Great Shape! Inc. seeks volunteer dental professionals to participate in the world’s largest international humanitarian dental project. Great Shape!, Sandals Resorts International and the Jamaican Ministry of Health collaborate for the 1000 Smiles project to provide free dental care and education in rural schools and health clinics to some 15,000 people in Jamaica every year. [...]

International Medical Relief, a charitable organization that provides medical care to underserved and vulnerable people around the world, seeks a dentist to provide dental care and to assist in a research study to identify new strains of malaria during its upcoming mission trip to Haiti July 2-10. Volunteers will treat patients in street clinics, displaced [...]