Impact you can trace to a single partnership.
Because every partnership is documented, our impact is not an estimate — it is a record.
The gap is structural — and documented.
69% of dentists serve only 27% of the world's population
of WHO member states have fewer than 5 dentists per 10,000 people
annual global cost of oral conditions (2019)
Sources: Gallagher et al., PLOS ONE 2024; Jevdjevic & Listl, Journal of Dental Research 2025.
Money alone does not solve a structural gap. Most oral diseases are largely preventable (WHO Global Strategy on Oral Health 2023–2030), and lasting improvement requires local capacity: trained teams, working equipment, reliable supply, and continuous professional exchange. That is why DentShare invests in long-term practice partnerships rather than one-off donations.
Reported, not estimated.
Each partnership reports annually against its own first-year plan: goals set, goals reached, support delivered, and exchange activities completed. We aggregate these partnership-level records into our network-wide impact report. Our methodology will be public — including its limitations.
Micro updates
Short, verified progress notes from active partnerships.
Project completions
Documented before/after records for every funded project.
Annual partnership reports
Goals set vs. goals reached, per partnership, per year.
Global impact report
The network-wide aggregate, published annually with methodology.
What we don't claim
We do not publish estimated "patients reached" multipliers or extrapolated figures. If a number appears on this site, it comes from documented partnership records — or it carries its scientific source, year, and author.
Read more on our Transparency pageTwo practices. One story at a time.
Real partnership stories will be told here in both voices — with the consent and review of everyone involved. Every story is approved by both practices before publication. We do not publish images of patients without documented consent, and we never use imagery that reduces our partners to their needs.
Until the first approved stories are published, here is what a partnership can look like: when Dr. Femi's practice joined DentShare, her team had the patients and the skills — but a sterilizer on its last legs and no path to modern endodontics. Her partner practice in Hamburg didn't send a parcel and move on. They planned a year together: monthly case calls, a maintenance workshop, and finally two weeks side by side at the chair.
"We learned more than we gave."
Illustrative image — not an actual member practice.
Illustrative image — not an actual member practice.
The problem is not a lack of dedication.
Committed dental teams exist everywhere. What is missing is a reliable connection between practices that have resources to share and practices working hard without them. That connection is what DentShare builds — one partnership at a time.