FREE DENTAL CAMPS
The increasing use of Gutka (a kind of chewing tobacco), Paan (betel leaf combined with tobacco, areca nut and other ingredients), cigarettes and a lack of oral hygiene awareness have led to an alarming condition of increasing oral disease including mouth cancers. This condition worsens in under-developed areas due to poverty and illiteracy. Our mouth is the entry way of disease but oral health is given least importance due to lack of awareness and education, a lack of qualified dentists and due to the cost of dental treatment (which is considered to be expensive).
Considering the current situation, our team decided it is high time that someone should step forward and start working for this neglected cause. For this purpose, Al-Mustafa Welfare Society has established a Mobile Dental Unit. This unit is well equipped with all facilities including four Dental Engines. Our team of volunteers arranges camps in different parts of Pakistan, especially the under-developed areas. In these camps, patients are provided free dental treatments, medicines and counseling.
Since, only treating the patients is not the long-term solution of the problem, spreading awareness on the importance of maintenance of oral hygiene is also crucial, therefore, our volunteers practically teach the people about:
- Methods of brushing the teeth
- Importance of swishing after eating
- Health hazards of chewing different kinds of tobaccos
- Importance of nutrition in maintaining dental/oral health.
