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Editor’s Introduction to Project Reports

This section of the newsletter is dedicated to articles submitted by team leaders of volunteer programs
supported by our Section. Since July 2021, Section VIII has provided grants for the projects listed below which
are led by Section VIII Fellows:
Region Program Contact/Program Leader
Adelaide Community Dental Outreach Program Margie Steffens OAM
Cambodia Healthy Kids Cambodia Bethy Turton
Cambodia M'Lop Tapang Petrina Bowden
Cook Islands Aitutaki Project (Aitutaki Project) Liz Webb
Kimberley Kimberley Dental Team John Owen AM

Nepal Project Yeti George Manos
Nepal Village Health Improvement Program Sandra Meihubers AM
Pacific Islands SFTP “Pacifica Conference”, Fiji, August 2022 Jonathan Cole
Pacific Islands SFTP “Pacifica Conference”, Western Samoa, July 2023 Jonathan Cole
PNG Webinar Development Len Crocombe/Mahmood Siddiqi
Timor Leste Dental education of Ana Paula Salgado David Sheen AM
Timor Leste Maluk Timor CPD Ross Dunn AM
Tonga Tonga dental facilities on three school campuses David Goldsmith
Tonga Mobile dental van David Goldsmith
Tonga Tonga Perio Disease Management Program Mohammed Shorab
Vanuatu Gudfala Tut Skul Program (school program) David Goldsmith/Barry Stewart
Vanuatu Cleft Palate Program Liz Webb
Vietnam Long Tan Dental Program Greg Miller

The level of support our Section is able to provide is made possible only by the generous donations made by
Section VIII Fellows with their annual renewal payments. Thank you!

I hope you enjoy the articles that follow and are inspired by the what our Fellows who lead these programs
are sharing with us.

Editor Jenny Ball

Aitutaki Oral Health Project, clinic, using portable gear (and a lot of Kiwi grit), we

Cooks Group provided restorative and preventive treatments to
over 100 children from Araura Primary School and
the attached kindergarten. The clinical focus was
Kia Orana, ICD Fellows. Thank you so much again for on temporising/treating the permanent dentition,
your generous grant in 2022. These funds enabled placement of Fuji 7 on permanent molars and placing
three New Zealand oral health workers to go to the stainless-steel crowns on kindergarten children
outer island (Pa Enua) of Aitutaki Island in the Cooks using the Hall SSC technique. We also made clinical
Group in April 2022 to make an initial assessment of assessments of the children from the third school,
the oral health of the children. Vaitau Primary.

Following on from this visit, I took a team of four self- During this visit, children from all three primary
funding New Zealand oral health workers back to the schools and their attached kindergartens were given
island for two weeks of clinical work in June 2022. topical fluoride treatments (300+) and were gifted
Working out of a partially equipped school dental eco-toothbrushes, kindly donated by The Humble

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