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Dentistry Without Borders

Dentistry Without Borders

  Dentistry Without Borders: An Interview with Dr. Shinn Dr. Shinn is the founder of World Wide Smiles Inc., an outreach organization formed to provide dental care, facilitate disease prevention, and promote education and practice of good oral hygiene worldwide....

Dr. Shinn To Receive ADA Humanitarian Award

Dr. Shinn To Receive ADA Humanitarian Award

  CHICAGO, December 19, 2012 – For the last 22 years, Dr. Sherwin R. Shinn has dedicated his life to providing oral health care to underserved people. For his efforts, Dr. Shinn has been named the 2013 ADA Humanitarian Award recipient. He realized his life’s...

Meeting Soman Sherpa in Nepal – A Defining event for Dr.Shinn

Meeting Soman Sherpa in Nepal – A Defining event for Dr.Shinn

  Dr.Shinn realized his life’s mission during his trip to Nepal in 1990. There, he met a 5-year-old Soman Sherpa on a rural trail who was swollen from temple to armpit with a life-threatening systemic infection caused by abscessed teeth. He saved the girl’s life...