Dental Mavericks are a charity set up to help end daily dental pain for the children of Morocco. Our 
Principal Ketan Shah has joined the Mavericks team for the past 2 years with their projects and travelled to Morocco to help the children.
Just imagine, living with your family in an isolated fishing village with no dentists, a high sugar diet, no toothbrushes and no fluoride tooth paste. You don’t need to be a dentist to imagine the consequences, but the dental neglect shocks even the most experienced of this group of national dentists and their team. Abscesses, pain and distress, parents of these children in Morocco are no different to any other around the world, they want their children helping.
Ketan along with a group of dentists and team members travelled to the Rif mountains to remote villages. The team treated hundreds of children over the course of the week and mostly carried out extracting rotten teeth, along with fillings and providing education so that the children can look after their own teeth on a daily basis. For Ketan this was a chance to use the skills he has to give something back to people who have considerably less.
Dental Mavericks are also in the process of setting up permanent clinics and oral hygiene programmes working in conjunction with Moroccan dentists.
This September the Dental Mavericks team will be returning to Morocco to continue their work.
If you would like to know more or to support the Mavericks team visit:
http://www.dentalmavericks.org/
You may donate online here: http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/KetanShah2
We will be having a number of fundraising events in the practice over the coming weeks. The best way to stay aware of these is by following our Facebook page, where we will keep you updated: https://www.facebook.com/BrightsideDentalUK
