Denist Kenneth Macdonald regularly visits Cambodia.
A DENTIST from Stornoway has gone to Cambodia with some strange hand luggage - 10 handmade heads.
The aid agency that Kenneth Macdonald works there
for could not afford so-called phantom heads for dental students to
practice on so he made his own.
And the one he built for a few
pounds proved so popular and cheap compared to the £1,000 ones normally
used in developed countries that they ordered as many as he could make.
Kenneth
has been visiting Cambodia at least once a year and sometimes more to
carry out voluntary work for the One-2-One Charitable Trust.
It
employs six dental nurses who can do simple extractions and it was
recently decided to improve their training to take in simple fillings
too.
He said: “We needed what is called a phantom head. Students
in this country use them to practice on and for cutting cavities. So I
made one of these here.
“The aim was to replicate the well-tried professional version but with cheaper materials that were easily replaceable.”
To
find out more about Kenneth’s phantom heads and Cambodia visits, check
out the full feature in this week’s Stornoway Gazette, out today
(Thursday, February 14th).
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