Dental Clinic Update

As many of you know, we’re in the process of adding a new dental clinic/meeting room onto the existing building, which now houses the classroom/eye clinic and bodega.

The room is coming along nicely and it should be completed within the next four to six weeks. The new room will be used for the dental clinic during mission trips and for a classroom and meeting space during the balance of the year. Happily, it will be far easier to set up the dental lab than it has been in the past, since we will now have permanent plumbing and electrical service embedded in the floor. The room will also have a drop ceiling, good lighting, and fans for ventilation.

The room overlooks the soccer field and play area, so we expect the view through the large windows to be a pleasant one.

In the photo below, you can see the general layout for the room and the access boxes that house the services for eight dental chairs and utility sink (air, suction, water, electricity, drainage). The boxes are temporarily covered with heavy blue plastic sheathing to protect the cavities fom cement and dirt while the cement floor is poured and tile floor is set.

Many thanks to Doug Liguori, Mike Koppes, Bill Rutar, and Lenny Lenz for their efforts and to Don Hibbard for his vision. The new dental lab is a great addition to the campus and will surely get much use.