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Volume 46, Issue 3 for March 2019

International healthcare volunteering: lessons learned from efforts to put a sustainable model for emergency dentistry and oral health education into rural tanzania

I came late to dental volunteering although I had been considering it for several years. My awareness of Bridge2Aid grew during my time as Chair of the General Dental Practice Committee of the British Dental Association and I was impressed that their programmes appeared to have at their heart the principle of sustainable aid. In particular, I liked the idea of a short-term training programme whereby local health workers could learn skills to enable them to provide emergency dentistry.