Well, we just completed our week of'catch-up' days in Dr. Du Bois' office. As mentioned, it is VERY small and we finally realized there is no air conditioning in the two operatories! The small waiting room has air, as does her office, but not where all of us work. (Long story there.) So THAT is why there are two fans roaring. Their location blows the patient's bib over their faces so we have to use extra large paper clips to pin the bib to their shirt or blouse. Can be a bit uncomfortable for me! We also discovered on Friday that there is a 5th dentist that works in the office! He is a Peruvian Oral Surgeon that comes in as needed to extract teeth for the other 4 dentists. He used to work for public Grenadian Health for one month rotations, that didn't work so he comes in to Dr. Du Bois office to exctract teeth as they need. Nice guy, interesting commute!
The front door of the office, 2nd floor at the 'mall'. It is at the
cruise ship drop-off, quiet now, crazy in the winter months.
The main clinic, the fan is out of the picture on the right.
Assistants are watchers and spit suckers, I 'assist'
myself with instruments, etc. Indeed, when I extract teeth
EVERYBODY watches.
This is our 'office', two boxes and my carry-on for
our instruments and supplies. Small hallway, that
is the mop bucket to the left!
1000 Smiles will want our conclusions after 'follow up' week. They are mixed. We saw a total of 15 patients (their goal) but almost that many scheduled that didn't show up. Friday was our worst day. 6 were scheduled and only one showed up! Half of the patients seen were not 'follow up' patients from the 3 week clinic at the Cricket stadium, but new patients. Actual need for follow up procedures after 2000 procedures by all the volunteers? Practically zero. Hey, we do pretty good work.
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