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Dr. Natasha Lee in Peru and Fiji ... and Oakland

By: Natasha Lee DDS

My typical patients are educated, tech-savvy, healthy, 30-something. Although oral health may not be their highest priority, they generally have the means and avenues to receive care should they choose to do so. This was the narrow limit of my experience as a private practice dentist living and working in San Francisco. But that changed a couple of years ago when a group of my students at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of dentistry approached me to accompany them on a dental outreach trip to Peru.

After the students worked extremely hard to raise donations of dental supplies, planned the travel, connected with the Rotary Club International in Peru, and gathered a dedicated group of students and volunteer dentists, we found ourselves in Lima. Our volunteer group was divided up into small groups and local volunteers drove

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