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CPD lecture on the Hall technique.

Treatments completed for all the children from the orphanage.

rather than having their offending tooth
removed. A lot of time was spent with our
rudimentary Urdu and with the help of the
local pharmacist to explain the dangers of
just taking antibiotics.
Advice was given in regard to periodontal
disease, orthodontic-related issues, cleaning
fixed and removable prostheses, effects of
diabetes on the dentition and smoking's effects
on the mouth, including oral cancer advice.
The DAN team were given a generous
donation of safety plus syringes by Septodont.
These were simple to use and helped protect
our team and patients from the risk of crossinfection. They were also simple to discard
and remove from the hospital.
The last extraction patient of the day,
however, became a difficult case. A young lady's
lower right second molar became problematic
in its removal. All six dentists had an attempt
at removing these roots, with no success. The
main reason for this was that we only had a
few instruments left and they were not the
ones we actually needed for the job.
We needed a small elevator or luxator,
but all of them had been previously used
and so were not sterile. The anaesthetic had
started to wear off, so we reluctantly made
the decision to abandon the treatment and
dispense painkillers with antibiotics to the
patient. We explained to the patient the exact
problem we encountered and that we had

made arrangements on the following day for
her to be seen by a private dentist and have
the roots removed without having to travel
or pay for treatment.
We took this as an opportunity to learn
from our experience and when we plan to
visit this area again next year, we will be
better prepared.
Later that evening we were invited to
KORT's annual remembrance event. The
children put on a spectacular event with poems,
songs and articulate speeches in both English
and Urdu. They also performed emotional
plays about how the catastrophic earthquake
in 2005 had affected some of them in losing
parents and loved ones, but also how the
founder and staff of the orphanage had given
them hope for a brighter future.

Lecture on orthodontics.

Lecture on blood-borne viruses.

Tuesday 10th October
The morning was spent treating young
boys from the orphanage. This involved nine
direct restorations (composite, amalgam, glass
ionomer), three scalings and 26 extractions.
We had invaluable help from the staff and
older children who have been training with
the DAN teams since 2015. This help involved
suctioning, bringing the children in, calming
the very anxious children, mixing materials
and giving postextraction instructions.
Meanwhile that morning, two dentists
visited Zobia school. This is a small school

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