Posts by Ryan Burrows
Neil’s story
I lost a crown about seven months ago and it left a big crater in my tooth that was uncomfortable, it was causing me to fiddle with it from my tongue and it was starting to get painful, I was getting infections and just generally pushing me down, it constantly filled up with food and…
Read MoreTake part in Dentistry’s BIG Community Challenge
The dental community is joining together in 2026 to take part in a BIG 100km charity challenge – and now is your chance to sign up and be part of it. Dental groups, suppliers, clinicians and energetic fundraisers are being invited to test their limits and raise money to support Dentaid The Dental Charity in…
Read MoreNikki Choong Cambodia
We spent one week inside a Cambodian prison and another visiting rural village schools – two completely contrasting worlds, yet both filled with patients in desperate need of care. We saw over 1300 patients as a team, with over 680 extractions and 350 fillings. We worked long days with no air-con, no suction, sometimes using…
Read MoreDentaid launches overseas volunteering opportunities for 2027
We’re giving dental professionals the chance to change lives by volunteering overseas in some of the world’s most under-served communities in 2027. As Dentaid The Dental Charity reaches its 30th anniversary of providing care around the world, we’re looking to the future by releasing our calendar of overseas outreach opportunities for 2027 in Uganda, Cambodia…
Read MorePaul Kearney Cambodia
A Cambodian Adventure: From Prisons to Primary Schools Everything about Cambodia is an adventure—from crazy food to tropical rainstorms, from Lara Croft temples to swimming under 80-foot waterfalls. Then came the dentistry. First week? In a prison. Inmates lined up outside our makeshift clinic at Siem Reap prison—some anxious, most stoic, all waiting for something…
Read MoreTake on a fundraising challenge for Dentaid in 2026
Seasoned thrillseeker or someone looking to add a bit of adventure to your life? Dentaid The Dental Charity is looking for fundraising heroes to help make a difference to people’s lives through dental care in 2026. Our fundraising events calendar for the upcoming year has plenty of opportunities for everyone from keen walkers and ultra-runners…
Read MoreDentaid marks a successful 2025 overseas
As 2025 comes to an end, Dentaid The Dental Charity is reflecting on a successful year helping to provide care to poor and remote communities in Uganda, Malawi and Cambodia. Dentaid’s work overseas this year led to 4,889 adults and 5,963 children getting access to life-changing dental care. Our work took us to remote areas…
Read MoreDentaid celebrates 10 years of providing care in the UK
Dentaid The Dental Charity has returned to the site of its first-ever clinic to mark ten years of providing life-changing care to vulnerable people across the UK. We provided care for people experiencing homelessness and addiction in Dewsbury in West Yorkshire at the charity Kirklees in Recovery on our mobile dental unit on Wednesday 3rd…
Read MoreOur response to the ‘Unhealthy State of Homelessness’ report
As a dental charity we see the impact of poor oral health on a person’s wellbeing on a daily basis. What we also see are the wider health issues that those experiencing homelessness face and so we welcome Homeless Link’s fourth wave of research on ‘The Unhealthy State of Homelessness 2025’. In this they break…
Read MoreDentaid supports vulnerable in busy week across the North
More vulnerable people in the North of England have been given access to free dental care thanks to Dentaid The Dental Charity, which has launched new three new clinics in Preston, Manchester and South Tyneside in the space of one week. Our mobile dental unit made its first visits in support of several different charity…
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