You can never go just once.
The child hadn’t slept for weeks. His dental pain was profound but not unusual in Guatemala’s remote mountains. So like many others, his mother had walked five hours to get to the clinic. And as soon as the child’s tooth was extracted, he drifted asleep, finally peaceful.
“You know,” one of the founders of the clinic explained to Dr. Natasha Rockwell, “for our children pain is part of their life.” As the only female dentist on a mission trip with a small group of doctors from the nonprofit, DIG or Dream Invest Grow, Rockwell was treating a lot of women and children. “You treat the mother and then the child on her lap. And their dental disease is very progressed.”
