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Prevent Before
You Treat.

Transforming India's oral health through prevention, education and community outreach — one school, one village, one workplace at a time.

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607 camps conducted

35 states & UTs reached

830 volunteer dentists

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Live impact dashboard

Prevention, counted.

Every number below comes from field reports filed by our camp leads. Updated 30 June 2026.

607

Camps conducted

135

Villages adopted

2,18,850+

Students educated

1,49,560+

People screened

214

Oral cancers caught early

830

Dentists volunteering

States & UTs covered

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Why IDE Smilez

India does not have a dentist shortage.
It has a prevention shortage.

There are more than three lakh registered dentists in the country. Yet most Indians see one only when the pain becomes unbearable — by which point the cheapest, simplest interventions are long past.

IDE Smilez — Indian Dental Express — was built to close that gap. We are not a clinic chain. We are a public-health foundation that takes prevention to where people already are: classrooms, panchayats, factory floors, playing fields and family homes.

We go first. Screening happens before symptoms, not after.
We teach, then treat. Every camp leaves behind knowledge, not just a prescription.
We stay. Adopted villages get a three-year commitment, not a one-day photo opportunity.

Our story & mission Project Bharat

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85%

of Indian schoolchildren have at least one untreated cavity by the age of 12.

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1 in 3

oral cancers worldwide occur in India — and most are found far too late.

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70%

of Indians live rurally; the overwhelming majority of dentists practise in cities.

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₹1 : ₹8

every rupee spent on prevention saves roughly eight in later treatment.

Indicative public-health figures shown for illustration. Replace with your cited sources before launch — see README.md.

Our programmes

Nine ways we reach people

Each programme is a repeatable playbook — trained team, standard protocol, measured outcome — so a camp in Bastar runs the same way as one in Bangalore.

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Schools

School Oral Health Program

Annual screening, brushing drills, fluoride application and a referral card for every child in the school.

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Workplaces

Corporate Dental Wellness

On-site screening days for employees, with the surplus funding free rural camps under Project Bharat.

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Families

Family Preventive Plans

A simple yearly prevention cycle for the whole household, with reminders in your own language.

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Villages

Rural Village Adoption

We adopt a village for three years — baseline survey, quarterly camps, trained local health champions.

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Early detection

Oral Cancer Screening

Tobacco-belt screening drives with a defined referral pathway to a tertiary centre within seven days.

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Communities

Community Dental Camps

Free camps for apartments, temples, ashrams, RWAs and NGOs — screening, cleaning and clear next steps.

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Children

Pediatric Preventive Dentistry

First visit by the first birthday, sealants, diet counselling and habit correction before damage sets in.

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Athletes

Sports Dentistry

Custom mouthguards, dental-injury protocols and pitch-side readiness for school and state-level teams.

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Last mile

Mobile Dental Units

Fully equipped dental vans that reach hamlets, tea gardens and hill blocks with no dentist for 60 km.

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Project Bharat

One lakh villages.
One preventable disease.

Project Bharat is our flagship national mission: reach 1,00,000 villages with structured preventive oral health care, and leave behind a trained local champion in every one of them.

Adopt — a baseline oral-health survey of every household in the village.
Educate — school sessions, anganwadi workshops and gram sabha talks in the local language.
Screen — quarterly camps with an oral-cancer check for every adult over 30.
Empower — train two village health champions who carry the work between visits.

Inside Project Bharat Sponsor a village

135

Villages adopted so far

1,000/yr

2026-27 target

270

Village health champions trained

3yr

Commitment per village

Where we work

Every camp, on the map

Select any state or union territory to see what has been done there. Darker tiles mean more camps completed.

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Fewer camps More camps · Tiles are arranged geographically, not to scale.

How a camp actually runs

Four steps, every single time

Request & recce

You raise a request. Our outreach lead confirms headcount, space, power and consent requirements within two working days.

Educate

Before a single mouth is examined, the group gets a 30-minute session in the local language — brushing, diet, tobacco, warning signs.

Screen & record

Every participant gets a documented oral examination, an oral-cancer check if over 30, and a colour-coded referral card.

Follow through

Red-flag cases are tracked to a tertiary centre. The host receives an anonymised report within 14 days.

▶ Story film Village adoption · Karnataka

From the field

The ulcer that would not heal

At a routine village camp in Ramanagara district, a 52-year-old farmhand mentioned a sore on the inside of his cheek that had been there "a few months". It was screened, flagged red, and biopsied within nine days.

Stage I. Treated. Back at work in eleven weeks. Had that camp not happened, the first hospital visit would almost certainly have come a year later — and the story would have ended differently.

"Nobody had ever looked inside my mouth before. They looked, and they did not let it go."

RM Ramesh M.Screened at a Project Bharat camp, Karnataka