I have been a practicing dentist in the United States for over 30 years. If you’re serious about undertaking an Amazon Promise expedition into the remote jungles of Peru, know this; you are about to experience one of the most rewarding dental and personal experiences you will ever have in your life. There is a huge need for dental services in the Upper Amazon Basin, especially among the river people, whose lives are becoming more and more affected by the “developed” world. The people of this region consume much sugar, obtained from candy, soda, and/or the sugar cane they grow themselves, and as a result dental disease is rampant throughout the area.

This trip is not a holiday to the South of France. You will work very hard. No, actually, you’ll work very, very hard, and be paid only with the pure, honest, undying gratitude of these wonderful people. Please don’t think for one minute that you’re going to help the “poor” people in the jungle. These people are the true vanishing children of the earth, with their own culture and values, and you will come back a completely changed person with regard to the way you look at yourself, your own life, and your own culture – they have so very much to teach us. You will also work within a very close proximity of a shaman chanting a healing ritual……. We work with the culture, not at the culture.

Using portable generators, compressors, collapsible dental chairs and a unique collapsible hand piece delivery system, we are equipped to provide for all types of dental needs ranging from exodontic oral surgery to state of the art high speed operative dentistry for complex restorations.