A dentist from Bradford is set to travel to Morocco later this month to help children that have no access to dental treatment. Carl Taylor, 37, is principle dentist at Taylored Dental Care, and he is to travel with a group of dentists who aim to help improve dental health in rural areas of the country.
The dentists are travelling with the Dental Mavericks charity and they will pay for travel themselves, as well as offering their services free of charge. Dr Taylor explained to the Telegraph and Argus that many children are in ‘great need’ of quality dental services as they live a long way outside cities and towns where clinics are situated. He said that it is ‘heartbreaking’ to think of children with easily treatable conditions that are suffering pain and inflammation as a result of lack of treatment.
Dr Taylor is hoping to treat at least twenty children per day while he is in Morocco, mainly in remote areas located in the foothills of the High Atlas Mountains, many miles outside of Marrakech, where treatment would be more readily available. Co-founder of the charity, Cally Gedge, said that this is lifesaving work which aims to prevent less serious conditions, such as decay, from deteriorating to the point of septicaemia, which can be fatal if left untreated.