Facilitating the supply of physical resources is one of Dentaid’s four major strategic priorities for improving oral health for disadvantaged communities around the world.

Dentaid is world renowned for its equipment supply operation. Since the charity began, Dentaid has helped establish almost 200 charitable dental treatment clinics in over 50 countries around the world. For the last five years, one complete dental surgery has left Dentaid’s workshops for overseas every ten working days. Hundreds of smaller shipments have also been despatched, including instrument kits to equip health workers provide dental care in remote rural communities. We estimate that every year, over a million people worldwide are safely relieved of oral pain thanks to this work.

By sending dental equipment, Dentaid aims to improve the services that existing dentists can provide.

UK dentists and dental companies generously donate equipment, the majority of which is second hand.  The equipment is transported to our workshops near Salisbury for full testing and refurbishment.  The refurbished equipment is packaged into complete surgeries, which are then sent to charitable projects all over the developing world.

Each project has to meet strict criteria:

It must have a qualified dentist or therapist who will use it on a regular basis.

It must be a not-for-profit organisation.

It must be committed to the care of the poor.

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Along with the equipment we send an extensive kit of dental instruments.  View kits

As well as providing equipment and instruments for the indigenous dental workers we also equip UK dental professionals, conducting short term working visits, with a full instrument kit.  View Overseas Aid Kit (OAK)