The thing about bossy people, though, is that they think they’re doing you a favor. Your mother, for instance, simply must tell you to wash your hands (even though you’re nearly 40 years old) because she can’t bear to let you walk around with germs on them. Your spouse, meanwhile, may try to boss you around in the backyard because he or she is sure you’ll pull out the tomato plant instead of the milkweed. The potential catastrophes are simply too great to not lend these pearls of wisdom. Don't Be So Bossy
The thing about bossy people, though, is that they think they’re doing you a favor. Your mother, for instance, simply must tell you to wash your hands (even though you’re nearly 40 years old) because she can’t bear to let you walk around with germs on them. Your spouse, meanwhile, may try to boss you around in the backyard because he or she is sure you’ll pull out the tomato plant instead of the milkweed. The potential catastrophes are simply too great to not lend these pearls of wisdom. Dental Mission to Nicaragua
Our purpose is to partner with our missionaries to provide quality dental care that witnesses to God's love for all people. In addition to dentistry, we take gifts and school supplies to children, and often do some maintenance or other work, depending on needs.
Continues to expand, adding more supplies, equipment, and services with each trip. The majority of the dentistry is restorative, with 20% extractions. With God’s guidance we hope to expand the ministry, reaching more villages each year.
For more information please visit http://www.peacehost.net/Dorothy/
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Continues to expand, adding more supplies, equipment, and services with each trip. The majority of the dentistry is restorative, with 20% extractions. With God’s guidance we hope to expand the ministry, reaching more villages each year.
For more information please visit http://www.peacehost.net/Dorothy/
Fluoride
Keeping kids' teeth healthy requires more than just daily brushing. During a routine well-child exam, you may be surprised to find the doctor examining your child's teeth and asking you about your water supply. That's because fluoride, a substance that's found naturally in water, plays an important role in healthy toothdevelopment and cavity prevention.
Tooth decay occurs when plaque — that sticky film of bacteria that accumulates on your teeth — breaks down sugars in food. The bacteria produce damaging acids that dissolve the hard enamel surfaces of teeth. If the damage is not stopped or treated, the bacteria can penetrate through the enamel causing tooth decay (also called cavities or caries). Cavities weaken teeth and can lead to pain, tooth loss, or even widespread infection in the most severe cases.
Fluoride combats tooth decay in two ways. It is incorporated into the structure of developing teeth when it is ingested and also works when it comes in contact with the surface of the teeth. Fluoride prevents the acid produced by the bacteria in plaque from dissolving, or demineralizing, tooth enamel, the hard and shiny substance that protects the teeth. Fluoride also allows teeth damaged by acid to repair, or remineralize, themselves. Fluoride cannot repair cavities, but it can reverse low levels of tooth decay and thus prevent new cavities from forming.
Poverty Tied To Poor Dental Health
Lower income and education levels are tied to poor dental health. Researchers found that the lower a person's income and education level, the more likely that person would suffer from severe periodontitis, or advanced gum disease that can lead to tooth loss.The finding remained true even after adjusting for age, gender and neighborhood income level. Living in a lower socioeconomic neighborhood wasn't always linked to poor dental health, but, in this study, low-income whites living in disadvantaged neighborhoods had almost twice the rate of severe periodontitis as the general population.
The study's authors suggest more research into the ways neighborhoods can influence health-related behaviors, especially among less-educated and lower-income individuals.
For more information please visit www.apha.org
Reaching the POOR
The Western Pacific Region has seen remarkable improvement in child survival rates, however, evidence increasingly shows persistent and growing inequalities in child health still exists across countries in the Region. Numerous studies describe how children living in poor households face greater exposure to the risks of ill health.
The multiple dimensions of poverty have been found to have a significant negative impact on child survival, including low income and social exclusion;
limited educational attainment, particularly among women; inadequate living conditions; and under nutrition. Children residing in poor and vulnerable households thus suffer a disproportionate burden of morbidity.
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Channel of Hope
Channel of Hope Cebu supplies volunteer teachers to an Australian-based missionary organization whose sole aim is to help poor children get a future outside the slums, through helping them learn to read and write and prepare them for a full education.Additionally, Channel of Hope Cebu organizes free dental camps for underprivileged families. Sparked by an article in the Danish Dental Journal in 2002, dentists now travel regularly from Denmark to work with local dentists in providing dental care to the needy. Most of the dental missions are arranged on the island of Cebu, but in recent years the dental program has expanded to include treating the poor who live on the nearby islands of Bohol, Negros and Leyte.
More information is available at http://www.familycare.org
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More information is available at http://www.familycare.org
U.S. Navy dentists
U.S. Navy dentists provide free dental care to Surinameses who requested aid during the first day of a five-day visit by the Military Sealift Command hospital ship, USNS Comfort, to the country, in Zanderij, south of Paramaribo,
October 3, 2007. U.S. and Canadian doctors arrived on the ship on the final leg of their 12-country goodwill mission called Partnership for the Americas, and are expecting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to preside over the mission's closing ceremony in Paramaribo on Saturday.
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October 3, 2007. U.S. and Canadian doctors arrived on the ship on the final leg of their 12-country goodwill mission called Partnership for the Americas, and are expecting U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to preside over the mission's closing ceremony in Paramaribo on Saturday.
Mission of Mercy Events
Over 75 dentists, 63 dental assistants, 31 hygienists, 50 office staff, and well over 200 non-dental community volunteers dedicated two days of their time to make the event possible. In addition, it took a small army of staff and helpers along with 8 consultants from the Kansas Mission of Mercy group, and a semi trailer load of loaned dental equipment to turn the event center into an organized high-volume dental clinic.
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