June 7, 2013
I have made it my mission to help improve the oral hygene of the kids at my school. I have always been a big supported of the dentist and the idea of tooth brushing and after realizing that that is just not a thing here i set my sites to fill that gap. Luckily for me, the Japanese have a system already in place! They come to the school about once a week and do a tooth brushing session with the kids. I have picked up on this and have gotten some tooth brushes and tooth paste donated (if you happen to be reading this and are a detest by the way please feel free to support my effort with brushes or paste) and have my kids brush their teeth everyday after lunch. What I didn't know is that in addition to their regular tooth brushing visits, the malimali program comes along and sets up a whole station using desk chairs and blow-up pillow to do sealing and checks on the kids. I am not sure but I guess maybe it is one class a term or something because only our class 2 got the sealing this time, but the do checks and reports on all the kids. I love the dentist and have been worried about my teeth so I had them check mine too- turns out I am doing okay. This one one of the cooler I have seen here and definitely one of the more effective ones, even more cool was the women doing the sealing was Tongan- I guess they have a program on the min island to become, as they call it, a teeth doctor.
portable!
the Japanese Aid Volunteer Misako and one of my fellow techers doing checks on the kids
the got the kid's benches and put them together and plug some stuff in and they were ready to start putting sealing on the kids' teeth!
the kids were a mixture of super curious and worried it might hurt- I kept asking if they will cry and they kept assuring me they wouldn't and they would try and look less apprehensive
a boy from class 2
one of my favorite kids of all time- Taniela
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