Well, 9 fun filled days of drilling and filling are over. We had 101 people in our group down in Nicaragua. We drilled, filled, cleaned, extracted, examined and x-rayed over 500 people.
I examed this young man and did a few fillings on him. As you can see he has a large, black nevus on his lip. I asked him how long he had it and he said since he was born. He is a fairly handsome lad, but this thing is a destroyer of a social life, of self confidence, really of a lot of things. The oral surgeons with us looked at it and they felt it could be excised safely. So, they did it.
You can see the excision site and the suturing. This is going to be a life changing event for this young man that will bless his life measurably in the years to come. Another young man was diagnosed with a large cystic lesion in his mandible. There is talk of getting him here to the US to have the surgery necessary to treat the lesion and hopefully save his life.
The young Nicaraguans we treated were great. They are physically much smaller than us but they have big hearts.
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