Los Angeles Dental Students take Carestream Dental Equipment to a Community that Needs it Most

ATLANTA—According to the World Health Organization, Honduras has only two dentists per 10,000 people; the United States has eight times that number. To address this need for dental professionals, Carestream Dental recently loaned an RVG intraoral digital imaging system to members of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) Philanthropy Committee, comprised of University of California, Los Angeles dental students, for their 2014 dental mission trips to Guaimaca, Honduras. Four fourth year dental students; three third year dental students; four pre-dental students; and two UCLA faculty—one periodontist and one prosthodontist—traveled to Guaimaca, June 14-26, 2014. The students will take the RVG sensor back to Guiamaca for two more dental mission trips in September. “We first met these dedicated students at a student fair last fall and knew Carestream Dental could contribute to their work in Honduras,” Colby Ledbetter, regional director, Carestream Dental, said. “We were able to work out a loan of the equipment and now the students will be able to use the sensor for the rest of the year on each trip.” Though the ASDA Philanthropy Committee has provided oral health instruction, cleanings, amalgam and composite restorations and extractions to the community in Guaimaca since 2010, this year was the first time the dental students had an intraoral sensor available to them. “Having the digital X-ray made a difference between ‘mission-lev...
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