Oral Health Promotion Foundation

Smile Express in an initiative of The Oral Health Promotion Foundation. It provides dental care to people residing in remote villages of the country a Read morend works to pursue the aim of “oral health for all”. The organisation achieves this through a fully equipped mobile dental van which provides on-the-spot diagnostic, preventive, proactive and healing dental care services at the doorsteps of the underprivileged, rural population. The mobile van is equipped with all required dental care equipment and caters to checkups and consultations, x-rays, information about oral hygiene practices and many other interventions to correct teeth problems. It also sets up dental camps where it provides semi-electrically operated dental chair which is the most important equipment for dental procedures. This chair helps to position the patient and helps the doctor carry out the dental procedure with ease and to the satisfaction of the patient. Its services are helpful to the rural populace who don’t have the means or capacity to get treated at costly urban dental clinics. In the process of bringing dental care to the doorsteps of villagers it is also spreading the information on good dental hygiene and encouraging people to quit smoking thereby preventing occurrence of oral cancer.