Okay, I do a little prepping and this book is part of it. Published by the Hesperian Foundation, the outfit behind Where There Is No Doctor, and written for health workers and villagers with no dentist within a day’s travel. It teaches how to examine a mouth, spot decay and gum disease early, clean and fill a cavity with hand instruments, extract a tooth safely, handle an abscess, and know when a case is beyond you. Illustrated line by line so it works across languages and literacy levels. Half the book is prevention and teaching others — sugar, brushing, fluoride, running a village dental program. Now in its twenty-first edition.
Where There Is No Dentist