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We have news about the Kenya Medical Outreach team. Tyler is going there this summer to lead a boys group from Providence Christian Academy and Brad is leading a Team to do Tembae Na Yesu. Dollie and Penny have moved back to the USA for a sabbatical and intend to move their mission to Israel in the near future. All that info makes for a bit WOW!

Cumming Dentists: Do You Have The Right Toothbrush?

The Right Toothbrush For Your

 

Do we always put alot of thought into choosing what kind of toothbrush we use. Well, as a general rule, I would have to say no. Most people are mainly interested in the color of toothbrush they purchase.

 

Many family's have a system where every member has a color that has somehow been assigned to them. This way no one uses the wrong toothbrush. This is great, but when picking out our toothbrush, we need to start thinking about what we are getting it for.

 

The job of a toothbrush is to reach and clean most areas of the teeth. The bristles of a toothbrush are very important when deciding on which one is the best for you. Soft bristled toothbrushes should be chosen as opposed to hard bristles which tend to cause gingival recession. Soft bristles are just more flexible and clean beneath the gingival margin without causing damage to your gums. We should also notice the size of the head of the toothbrush.

 

The head should be small enough to get to the hard to reach areas of the teeth. We should replace our toothbrush every 3 months or when the bristles start to wear. You should also change your toothbrush after a cold, flu, sore throat, or mouth infection. Maybe this information will help you and the health of your mouth the next time you purchase a toothbrush.

 

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Cumming Dentists: Stress And Your Dental Health

Can Stress Affect Your Dental Health?

 

Are you battling stress in your life?

 

These days it is more like who doesn't have some sort of stress in their life. It seems that there just aren't enough hours in the day to do all that we "think" we need to get done. A recent stress in America Survey found that nearly 40 percent of adults experience wakefulness at night because of stress. Stress can have many different side affects on our bodies.

 

It can also have an impact on our dental health. One common side affect of stress is teeth grinding. Some people grind their teeth at night during their sleep and not even realize they are. This can cause headaches, sore jaws, or pain when biting.

 

Making small changes in your lifestyle can reduce stress levels. Eating healthier would be a great place to start. Until your stress becomes more managable, there is an appliance that can help with your teeth grinding. A mouth guard. It will act as a cushion for teeth when you are grinding. This will take the pressure off of your teeth which is causing your discomfort. The dentists here at Suwanee Dental Care can evaluate and determine if teeth grinding maybe the cause of your pain and discomfort. Come in today and get on your way to feeling better.

 

 

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Kingdom Focus in 2011 Mission Trip

Eight team members from the USA traveled to Matunda and Narok Kenya to conduct the Transformed By Grace And Love Conference five times in eight days.

Attendance of the conferences by local pastors and leaders was excellent plus there were dignitaries from distant cities such as Nairobi, Nakuru and the TransMara.

Dollie Sauls and Penny Martin of Valentine International assisted in the planning and operation of the Kenya Medical Outreach mission this year and were a true blessing once again. Virginia and Moses of Streets of Light Organization and Campus Crusade For Christ also worked with us for the second year and were a welcome local team for all of their assistance in translation, music and support with the local people.

Each of our presenters did a fabulous job and made the spiritual journey one to remember. The Father's Heart was there and The Father's Love abounded. Joan, Tommy, Sheila, Tom, Angel, Donna, Pam, Lisa and I so enjoyed ministering to the folks in Matunda (ElDoret area) and Narok. Finally, we did enjoy out safari time in the Masai Mara at Fig Tree Camp also.

Ready for Kenya 2011

The Kenya mission team for 2011 was annointed with blessed healing oil and prayed over tonight at a consectation service by the Senior Associate Pastor of Sugar Hill UMC, Rev. Marylane Brooks and the Healing Rooms At Sugar Hill team. Nine members of the team were present and received the blessing: Angel Johnson, Tom Wilson, Donna Wilson, Pam Smith, Cynthia George, Joan Cason, Lisa Stamper, Sheila Williams, and Dr. Bill Williams.

Transformed By Grace and Love is the theme of our mission this year and we will be ministering God's love to those whose hearts have been broken. We enlist your support for intercessory prayer as we embark on this mission in the coming days.

Kenya Mission 2010

Is A Kenya Dental Mission In Your Future?

Can you imagine pulling 645 teeth in a week, especially if you are just a freshman in dental school?

Who would have thought that ten years after our initial landing in Kenya for our first dental mission to the legendary Masai tribe that we would be celebrating Kenya Medical Outreach’s 15th mission trip with a KMO alumni cookout at our home in Suwanee, GA and planning our 16th for the summer of 2011?

Why do we fly eight hours to London, nine hours to Nairobi and drive six hours over tarmac and dirt roads to reach the “Forgotten People” of Olmekenyu?

Why do 23 Americans from all walks of life save, sacrifice, do odd jobs, send out letters for support, fundraise, and do whatever it takes to gather the $4000 it takes to go on the mission trip, some year after year after year?

Why would a young Masai man escort his wife 40 kilometers across the border from Tanzania to the remote village of Morijo in Kenya arriving in the dead of night to see the mission team from America?

Why would 2000 people line up outside out hospital clinic in the heat of the African summer on the equator?

Why would our full time missionaries in Kenya wait with Leonard, our patient from Olmekenyu who had his nose eaten away by tuberculosis, for six days in a dank, dark Nairobi hospital while the boy was examined and the diagnosis confirmed?

Well, the questions could go on and on, but the bottom line is that we offer hope to the tens of thousands who live in the land of the Masai Mara and its surrounding environs. We came to a long forgotten area of Kenya over a decade ago and we never left. Many years have passed; many have traveled to this exotic land with us. Typically, one third of our 20-25 Kenya Medical Outreach mission teams are alumni now, one third are our friends from our area (Atlanta, Georgia) who have never been on our mission, and one third are, amazingly, strangers who found out about our trips from either the suwaneedental.com or kenyamo.com web site. They take a leap of faith and sign up with us sight unseen. Our team members have come from California, Florida, Missouri, Boston, Dallas, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Tennessee and beyond.

The makeup of our team is typically this: one dentist (DMD or DDS), maybe two, a few predental students, some high school students, several teachers or housewives, a physician (MD or DO), three nurses (RN or LPN), perhaps a dental hygienist (RDH) and either a nurse practitioner (NP) or a physian’s assistant (PA). Pastors, businessmen and pharmacists may round out the group in any particular year.

What is a typical day like on the mission field? In Olmekenkyu, we built three bunkhouses and have a kitchen / dining hall for serving our team breakfast. The number of patients for dental and medical services builds as the morning dawns and by 8:00 a.m. fifty are in line. We finish our toast, boiled or fried eggs, Kenya tea and by nine o’clock when we begin seeing patients, there are three hundred in the line. We divide into medical, dental, optometry, worming stations. Some of our team hike up the hill to the Olmekenyu Primary School to work with the students, teach, lead Bible Study, or meet with the school administrators about projects we support like water tanks, glass window installations for classrooms or concreting floors.

The dental team is six or seven team members strong. We work with a local dentist, Dr. Daniel from Narok, as our coverage on the mission and we have an ample number of surgical instruments donated by Dr. Arun Nayyar and others to perform extractions, although we have my portable Asceptico dental unit for fillings and scaling. Our system is this: we numb ten patients, extract, numb ten patients, extract, numb ten patients, extract. We go for hours like that, doing mostly simple extractions, sometimes surgical extractions and an occasional filling or ultrasonic scaling. Tea time is honored as our team takes a break at 11:00 a.m. and then lunch at one or two in the afternoon. Our team usually has a designated camp cook and the food is generally outstanding, even when local produce and meats such as chicken, lamb and goat are in the offering.

The experience for non­­-dental folks in the dentistry department is memorable. Getting up-close and personal with the how-to and techniques of exodontia is a certainty. Pulling a tooth is common for lay folks on our mission trips. Dental students become fully capable and competent to handle almost any extraction after being on one of our mission teams. The experience is worth a fortune to any dental student ready to graduate into the real world of private practice; just ask Matt Milner from the Medical University of Mississippi School of Dentistry, Hubert Park from Tufts University School of Dentistry or Caroline Norment from the Medical University of South Carolina School of Dentistry.

The opportunity to give back to others who have no ability to receive but by the grace of God those dental services we offer is why we do what we do. In the areas we go to, there is no dentist, no physician to see them; there are no instruments, no supplies, no anesthetics, no clinics where people can seek help for even a simple tooth ache. They are left with primitive options by untrained nurses who have inadequate tools for the job. Where we go, we try to train the nurses and give them a set of proper instruments for tooth removal. We show them the techniques for gaining adequate dental anesthesia so that their extractions are painless. It’s the least we can do because we’ll be gone in a few days….until next year.

In Kenya, at the equator, the sun sets at six o’clock, so we try to be completed by then each day. More than once we’ve worked by flashlight in the dark. Each day we may see over 100 dental patients and 200 medical patients in our clinics. Its rewarding as well as tiring. The dinner hour is a time of reflection on the day and talking about what transpired in our individual clinics. Man, the stories we hear - the tales that are told! There is never a dull moment on mission in Africa.

To learn more about Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc. go to www.kenyamo.com or www.suwaneedental.com/kenya/2010.html

Bill Williams, DMD, MAGD

Director, Kenya Medical Outreach, Inc.
Founder, Suwanee Dental Care
Founder, Solstice Dental Advisors