So who are we and what do we do?
Den-Tech is the brainchild of dental technicians Andrea Johnson and Andrew Sinclair who after visiting Uganda with another dental charity realised that there was a great need for quality dental technology services in the country and other developing countries like it.
There are many charities who provide the incredibly valuable service of ‘dental pain clinics’ but no real provision for the restoration of the dentition thereafter.
This can leave patients with large gaps where teeth have been extracted meaning that they can quite often struggle to eat and chew their food well, to speak properly and to look and feel normal.
Andrea and Andrew felt very passionately that this should not continue and that if they could set up a high quality, supported, working and training dental laboratory in the country they could help provide not only a little help now but a legacy of support and training that could be a leg up to the native people and not just a temporary hand out.
They set up their charity called Den-Tech in 2017 and have enlisted a board of trustees who are equally as passionate about using their skills and resources to help out those less fortunate. The board of trustees now comprises of a number of key players in the dental industry; you can view their brief biographies on the committee members page.
This drive and enthusiasm has now extended to helping out those less fortunate in the UK, the homeless. This new project in addition to the existing overseas ones has received a fantastic amount of support from the dental technician community who are pulling together to provide a full range of dental technology services free to those most vulnerable and needy in our society.
Our wonderful flagship supporters Blueprint dental who have already donated and continue to donate an incredible amount of dental materials and equipment on behalf of their customers have now put their full weight and resources into helping this project to succeed. It can only go from strength to strength.
It is also only through the generosity of companies such as Blueprint Dental, DB orthodontics, John Winter, Schottlander, Skillbond and WHW and of course the brilliant community of dental technicians around the country that can make this charity a success, so from the bottom of our hearts we, the Den-Tech trustees thank you and look forward to us all achieving great things together in the months and years to come.
We always love to hear from new companies; laboratories and people in general who would like to get involved and help out in some way so please do start the chat by heading over to our volunteer/subscribe page and sending us an email!
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