Volunteering dentists step up in Syria ...Kuwait

In the long, dimly lit hallway outside the makeshift dental clinic recently put together in her Damascus nursing home, Elham Ayash, 77, sat with nearly a dozen other elderly women in silence, patiently awaiting their appointments. Her face would occasionally twist with the throbbing pain that had become all too familiar to her. Ayash and the other residents of Dar Al-Karama Nursing Home are among Syria’s 709,000 elderly women, mostly plagued with poverty after a 12-year civil war that has left them unable to afford dental treatment in a country where 10.4 percent of the adult population suffers from edentulism. Many of these women have opted to have their ailing teeth

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