University of Texas School of Dentistry offers free dental services to hundreds at the Good Samaritan Inn

News August 13, 2017

For the third time in less than three months, clients of the Good Samaritan Inn (GSI) have benefitted from free dental services from a visiting team of  medical missionaries from the United States of America.

Dr. Victoria Manon,   from the University of Texas School of Dentistry, lead a medical mission team of   forty five to the Good Samaritan Inn where over  two days, two hundred and thirty seven clients received dental services  which amounted to an  estimated value of $1.2M dollars.

The team was invited to Jamaica and the Good Samaritan Inn by Dr. Lincoln Edwards, President, Northern Caribbean University who was a former faculty member of the Dental School at the University of Texas

The visiting Texas University dentists treated eighty seven (87) clients on Sunday August 6, 2017 and one hundred and fifty clients (150) on Tuesday August 8, 2017. The medical team offered oral examinations, cleanings, fillings and extractions free of cost to their clients.  The team had raised their own fund to support the mission and brought their own supplies to treat clients who turned up at the Inn over the two days. Many clients benefitted from more than one service with some receiving as many as three.

Dr. Victoria Manon, who is from a medical family also had her father Dr. Victor Manon who is an Oral Surgeon   and  instructor for the group. Her husband Shane is also a dental student and a team member in the mission trip.  She was more than delighted to bring the team to the Good Samaritan Inn to give back to some of the people who need it most.

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