February 05, 2008
Dentistry team in Tunisia to mark the start of the 10th annual charity surgery mission.
Drs David Precious, Reg Goodday, Chad Roberston (all members of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Dal) and Michael Shimizu (Dal alumnus, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery currently professor at the University of Western Ontario) will meet with the Minister of Health for Tunisia, M. Mondher Zenaidi, on February 9 to mark the start of the 10th annual charity surgery mission in Tunisia. The first mission in 1998 took place in Bizerte when Dr Precious and Dr Ben Davis (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dal) teamed with surgeons from Japan and Tunisia. Since that time, more than 500 children have been evaluated for care and the mission has grown to include surgeons from Italy, France, Japan, Tunisia and Canada. Dr Archie Morrison, (Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Dal) participated in the 2007 mission in Sousse. This year the surgery will take place in Sfax at the Habib Bourguiba Hospital.
