Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia – Inside a ger, a traditional Mongolian tent, in the sprawling suburbs of Ulaanbaatar, children queue to have their teeth checked at a mobile dental practice that roams the vast country, providing treatment that is hard to come by in remote areas.
Hundreds of thousands of children in Mongolia suffer from untreated dental problems due to the combination of readily available sugary drinks and processed foods with a lack of dental care.
But the Misheel Kids Foundation (MKF) and its fleet of mobile dental clinics are seeking to address that, braving huge distances and frigid temperatures to provide oral healthcare to both the capital and far-flung communities.
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