Team Dental is a dedicated group of dental professionals headed to Ghana with nonprofit Operation International to provide much-needed dental care to the underserved community in Techiman. We will also provide oral health education and teach the local dentists advanced dental practices that are utilized here in the states.

Want to join us in making a difference? Any donation will help us provide life-changing and life-saving care to patients who are in dire need for help. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause, your support means so much to our team. Please note: each team member has a specific fundraising goal, if your team member has already hit their goal, consider spreading the love to another of our volunteers!

More About Team Dental:

Team Dental is a chapter of Operation International, a secular nonprofit that provides medical care to those in need in underserved countries. The team was founded in 2014 by two dentists who shared a long history of partnership and a commitment to volunteer work: Nilesh Patel and Amul Patel. Their work began with yearly missions to Haiti and have since taken trips to Ecuador, Uganda, Bolivia, and Tanzania, treating at times more than 1,000 patients in a single mission by setting up a full-service clinic in regions lacking regular dental care. To learn more about us click here.

More About Operation International:

Operation International is a secular, non-political, humanitarian organization founded in 1996 by Medhat Allam, MD; Ravi Kothuru, MD; and Robert Mineo, CRNA under the original name of International Surgical Mission Support. The founders aspired to offer free medical care to children and adults suffering from the lack of basic health care in poor countries.

In our quest to advance human rights ideas, Operation International provides free medical care to people in need — regardless of gender, cultural, ethnic, political or religious affiliations. To ensure that our efforts impact underserved communities for years to come, we also offer education and training to local health care workers during each of our medical missions, as well as improve hospitals’ infrastructure through equipment donation.

Team NY, the first Operation International team, made its maiden mission to Haiti in 1997, where the founders of the organization witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of poverty and inadequate medical care.

Since the beginning, our teams of doctors, clinicians, nurses, and aides have expanded to include over 200 medical professionals in multiple Chapters located throughout the United States, the UK, and Hong Kong.

In our many medical missions to date, we have directly impacted the lives of thousands of people by performing life-saving and life-changing surgeries including cancer surgeries, sight restoration surgeries, burn reconstructive surgeries, corrective surgeries for congenital anomalies such as clubfoot and cleft palate, and obstetric and gynecological surgeries.

Help Bring Life-Changing Dental Care to Ghana

Operation International's Team Dental is heading on their first mission to Ghana in October

Team Members