The team at Implants & Oral Surgery of Chattanooga spent two weeks in Honduras to help relieve oral pain from people living in villages located in Choluteca. Employees and oral surgeons visit Honduras every year to bring toys, blankets, toothbrushes, dental floss, shoes and dental services to various parts of the country. During their ninth trip to Honduras, surgeons were able to extract more than 600 teeth for adults and children.
Implants & Oral Surgery of Chattanooga, formerly known as East Brainerd Oral Surgery, practices a full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery with expertise ranging from dental implants and bone grafting procedures to single or full-mouth extractions. Every year, oral surgeons in the practice partner with ChristWay Community Church to provide free oral healthcare to villages in Honduras.
Implants & Oral Surgery of Chattanooga Co-Owner Dr. Richard Johnson says traveling to Honduras is an important part of his job. “God has blessed us with the knowledge and ability to perform oral surgery well, and we enjoy every day we perform these procedures on our patients. God oversees us taking care of people in pain and need, soothing them and helping us get through each procedure in a comforting way,” said Dr. Johnson. A missionary living in Honduras selects multiple villages each year through the church, with the team spending ten days performing surgeries in the chosen villages.
Employees at the office travel to Honduras with the surgeons every year. Executive Assistant Brittany Stehr says the experience is always rewarding. "Honduras was full of beautiful people and landscapes, but it was also full of broken, hurting people who live in poverty. It was not only a place to pull teeth, but a place where we were able to use the talents that God has blessed us with to further His kingdom by telling others about Him. The most rewarding part for me was not just relieving these people of their oral pain, but seeing the joy they found in us taking the time to love and care for them,” said Ms. Stehr.
Implants & Oral Surgery of Chattanooga is located at 1350 Mackey Branch Dr., Suite 110 in Chattanooga. They are accepting donations for their next trip to Honduras. Donations of toothbrushes, shoes, toys or dental floss can be dropped off at the office from now until the end of the year.