Cambodia Tooth Angel Project - CTAP

In Cambodia, where 80 percent of the population are designated as 'poor' by the UN, we need your help to make a difference. Read below and see what can be achieved by working together. We invite you to take up the challenge together and become a "Champion" on our TEAM.

In our home country we take being able to get urgent medical and dental care, when we need it, for granted. In Cambodia however, access to basic health care is beyond the reach of many of the poor.

The Cambodia Tooth Angel Project aims to bring desperately needed basic dental and medical treatment to the most vulnerable and destitute Cambodian men, women and children. For many in Cambodia, dental and medical treatment is a luxury they just can't afford. Over a third of the 15 million people live on less than $1 a day and so the cost of an extraction at a private clinic is just not possible. There is no "free" public service available in Cambodia, as even at the hospitals and health centres people need to pay for treatment. With only a handful of dentists and doctors left after the Khmer Rouge 'Reign of Terror' in the 1970s, the number of dentists, doctors and nurses now numbers in the hundreds, however for a country the size of Cambodia with 15 million people, most people miss out on any dental and medical care, especially the vulnerable and destitute. The average 5 year old child in Cambodia has 8-10 decayed teeth, and teenagers in Phnom Penh have an average of about 6 decayed permanent teeth. So the needs are very great.