Dentists Delivering Service (DDS) was founded August 21, 2009, by a dentist that observed patients with various dental maladies while participating in a medical mission in Embu, Kenya. These patients were unable to get emergency or routine dental care due to economics and geographical location.
During the Embu mission, Dr. Veronical McClurkin encountered a female patient suffering from a facial growth of dental origin for more than 15 years. Along with her co-worker, Dr. Lynda Mixon, fees for surgery and post operative care were paid in full to Embu Hospital for removal of the patient’s cervical tumor. It was then Dr. McClurkin decided to form an organization to deliver dental services to those unable to access dental health care.
Dentists Delivering Service is a non-profit organization consisting of volunteers that travel to 3rd world countries to provide services in areas that have no infra-structure to support dental clinics or offices.
December 02, 2009, DDS completed a two week mission in Kisii, Kenya. More than 100 people received treatment for dental emergencies. In 2010, DDS will travel to Nairobi, Kenya to provide preventive and basic preventive dental health to more than 200 orphans of Motherly Care Children’s Home. The group will also deliver lectures on dental health and disease to several schools local to Embu, Kenya. Click on the link below and enjoy the DDS Video.
