Dental prosthetics laboratory for Vanuatu .

Rotary Club of Ballarat West – Creating Smiles in Vanuatu!!

Members of the Rotary club of Ballarat West have provided a new Dental Prosthetics service for Vanuatu all the way through from concept to completion by

Identifying a need for this service on visits by Rotary dental volunteers in Vanuatu
Designing a dental laboratory. capable of providing a comprehensive removable denture service
Providing by donations a full range of specialist prosthetic equipment and supplies
Taking a new shipping container, air-conditioning it and installing fitted cabinetry, lighting, specialist electrical wiring and plumbing and quick release air and gas fittings

Utilising Rotary facilities (RC Ballarat South shed) as a base for the fit out the shipping container
All work provided by licensed Rotary tradesmen to Australian standards
Providing many years of supplies and consumables to make the project sustainable in Vanuatu
Shipping the container to Vanuatu via DIK D9780 and gaining customs free clearance in Port Vila by the Rotary Club of Grassroots Vanuatu
Installing the laboratory on cyclone proof footings in Port Vila in a permanent position with adjacent complementary clinical dental facilities
Commissioning the Lab. - testing out all equipment and materials by 2 Advanced Dental Prosthetists
Making dentures in the Lab. for NiVan patients at no cost by professional Australian dentists and Prosthetists

All the work from concept to completion by past and present members of the Rotary Club of Ballarat West so no labour costs involved in the project. Registered RAWCS project 43/2014-15.

Valuable initial and ongoing support for this project by the Rotary Club of Grassroots Vanuatu and the Presbyterian Church of Vanuatu

We took this shipping container

With input from Dental Prosthetist Bill Davies we designed a Lab. and drew up scale plans and elevations

Added this cabinetry and fittings from the Ballarat Base Hospital Dental Department decommission.

Ballarat South Rotary shed offered us their facilities to use as our base

Rotary tradesmen fitted out the container

To make a custom built dental facility

We added these donations of dental equipment and supplies (several years' supply). Donations of several years of acrylic and over 1000 new sets of denture teeth plus all the consumables needed to make dentures