Sir, I am looking for donations of dental equipment to help with my volunteer dental work and I wonder if BDJ readers can help. I am a retired community dentist in Wales, and retired from all work dental in the UK. I now work as a volunteer dentist for charities providing free dental work for poor children in under-developed countries.

In 2013 I did volunteer dental work in Vietnam and Ladakh (north India) with a US based charity Global Dental Expeditions (GDE). In 2014 I will be working for GDE in Nepal (in April/May), and in Kenya (in August/September) with the Swedish Rotary Doctors charity.

We work in quite difficult clinical situations using mobile equipment doing the best we can to treat children, who otherwise would not receive dental care. The dental work needed is often extensive, and our equipment is very basic. I need: a dental head lamp – LED cordless; a composite curing light – cordless; high speed diamond burs; and an apex locator. I wonder if any dentist out there has any of these items that could be donated to greatly assist my charity volunteer work? With thanks in anticipation. Please contact me on birgitta@jibi.eclipse.co.uk.

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