From 71% to 38% untreated decay in three years
A government school in Hyderabad joined the annual screening programme. The same children, screened three years running, with brushing drills and sealants in between.
Numbers on the impact page tell you the scale. These tell you what it looked like for one person, one school, one village.
At a routine village camp in Ramanagara district, a 52-year-old farmhand mentioned a sore inside 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 squamous cell carcinoma at stage IV is a different conversation entirely.
"Nobody had ever looked inside my mouth before. They looked, and they did not let it go."
A government school in Hyderabad joined the annual screening programme. The same children, screened three years running, with brushing drills and sealants in between.
An ASHA worker in a tribal-belt village now runs monthly brushing sessions herself and has escalated four suspicious lesions to us between our visits.
A Pune technology company's three-day employee screening produced enough surplus to fund nine free camps in Vidarbha — with reports sent back to the staff who attended.
A hockey coach who had sat through our protocol training re-implanted a state player's avulsed incisor pitch-side. The tooth survived.
A desert block where the nearest dentist was a bus and most of a day's wages away now has a van on a published quarterly route.
A cohort of eight-year-olds sealed at a school camp, followed for two years. The comparison against the unsealed year group above them is the argument for the whole programme.
Case studies are illustrative and drawn from the programme brief. Replace with documented, consented field cases before launch — and never publish an identifiable patient without written consent.
"Two hundred and forty children screened in one day, and every parent got a card telling them exactly what to do. We had never had anything like it."
"I went as a final-year student expecting to observe. I examined eighty people and taught a class in Kannada. It taught me more than a semester."
"The reporting was better than most of our funded CSR projects. Baseline, quarterly updates, and an outcome comparison we could audit."
Hosted a camp, volunteered at one, or been screened at one? We would like to hear what happened next.