2025 Trip Planned
We are very excited to announce that plans are well under way for Dentistry for Honduras 2025. The project will commence on February 19, 2025 and will include 3 teams over a 3 week period. The first 2 teams will be led by Dr. Bill Kerr over the first 2 weeks and the third team will be led by Dr. Mike Cusato.
Our teams have been travelling to El Porvenir Honduras since 2009 and have been part of the Health Outreach Family for almost as long. Our teams consist of dentists, hygienists, dental assistants and lay people without dental experience. We focus our attention on school children from grades 3 to 6. Our hygienists clean their teeth, give them diet and oral hygiene instruction, give them topical fluoride treatment, and examine their teeth for dental disease. Our team at the dental clinic see any of the children requiring urgent dental care. Our dentists and dental assistants mostly do fillings, extractions and root canals. In 2024 our 3 teams saw 486 children and we completed 143 extractions, 330 fillings and 4 root canals.
We are currently building our teams and are looking for volunteers. We especially are in need of Dental Hygienists and Dental Assistants but we have opportunities for all positions. If you are interested in applying for a position on one of our teams please email Dr. Bill Kerr at [email protected] .
If you would like to support our teams financially please donate online at www.healthourtreach.world and select Donate Now button and scroll down to select Honduras General or select one of our Honduras volunteers