BOSNIAN toddlers are looking forward to saying 'cheese' thanks to a new scheme run by Captain Jamie Deans, RADC Dental Officer with 5 Field Ambulance.
Sponsored by the World Health Organisation, the project, which comes under the G5 community care umbrella, aims to combat widespread dental disease in Bosnia-Herzegovinan children under the age of five.
A similar programme is successfully run in Glasgow, so planning for this massive task had begun even before troops had left their Fulwood Barracks in Preston.
Lancashire lads and lasses will help distribute toothpaste and brushes with information leaflets to 3,000 lucky pre-school kids on a six-monthly replacement basis in the hope of educating them towards good dental hygiene.
" We want to lower disease levels while raising awareness levels," explained Cpt Deans.
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