The Christian Dental Fellowship in the UK, the Christian Medical Fellowship and the Global Child Dental Fund are assisting the International Christian Medical and Dental Associations (ICMDA) in Ukraine and Poland to coordinate an appeal for dental items. These items will be donated to non-profit organisations/charities to help relieve the emerging dental emergencies in Ukraine, treating children, the disabled, and refugees.

Suitable materials and equipment include:

  • Dental consumables: glass ionomer, composite, lining materials - Dycal etc

  • Hand instruments restorative: excavators, flat plastics, amalgam pluggers - carvers, burs - high and low speed, extraction forceps deciduous and adult, luxators - elevators, LA syringes - needles - LA cartridges

  • Preventative/oral hygiene: toothbrushes, toothpaste, fluoride varnish

  • Consumables: face masks, gloves, protective glasses, bibs, cotton wool rolls, gauze, bite packs etc.

It is requested that nothing is donated that needs to be kept refrigerated or materials that cannot be hand mixed.

If you would like to make a donation, please email steve.sturman@cmf.org.uk AND vicky.lavy@icmda.net. This is to ensure the ICMDA warehouse knows to expect your donations and that it can be coordinated with the shipments.

Please then send the items to Elbar Worldwide Group, Hay Lane, Foston, Derby, DE65 5PJ. The staff at Elbar will receive goods Monday to Friday 08:30-16:30. These items will then be sorted and sent out to Ukraine.

For enquiries please email cdfadmin@cdf-uk.org.