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St. Lucia 2009
In June 2009 Dr. Dave and his son Brydan spent two weeks with a team of 14 health care
professionals and other volunteers in St. Lucia to assist the local population with
their medical needs. Dr. Dave and Brydan headed up the
volunteer dental program with a primary focus on oral surgery for
relief of pain, as well as spending some time
doing restorative dentistry and sharing Dr. Dave’s knowledge of the
latest techniques with the local dentists.
It is always a
real learning experience to go to the third world. It sharpens your
ability to adapt to new and inventive ways of treatment in a world of
limited resources. It always teaches me how fortunate we all are
to practice in a setting with everything at our fingertips.
The
St. Lucia trip was a great learning experience for Brydan and
gave him the opportunity to see the hard realities of working and
living in the third world.
