Flying V Building for Ahpin Dental - Spruce Grove, Alberta
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wildwoodke
N 53° 32.556 W 113° 54.115
12U E 307725 N 5936550
Ahpin Dental is found in a renovated building that shows the remnants of the classic flying V of the 60s that was constructed throughout North America and here in Spruce Grove, Alberta.
Waymark Code: WMDGQ1
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 01/13/2012
Views: 6
"After our visit to Gabon, Africa in 2003, Dr. Ahpin was determined to get even more hands-on with the people. He was limited in his ability to be able to provide free dentistry by the hospital we visited, so he decided to set out on his own and make sure he reached people who otherwise had no access to dental services.
In 2005 he successfully established a traveling dental unit providing all of his own equipment and supplies for visits to Niger, Africa. The equipment needed for dentistry is complex and includes a self-contained unit to provide suction, water, and a hand piece. Of course for this he needed a generator and water supply.
After an initial information-gathering trip to Niger in 2004, he began his first dental mission in January 2005 with the Christian Missionary Alliance Church who already had an established medical mission regularly traveling to Niger. He travels with the doctors and nurses to remote regions of Niger, often sleeping under the stars and sometimes working under a tree without the use of his equipment."
See his website for more on this great work in Africa: (
visit link)