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For the past eight years, oral surgeon Dr. Cameron Lewis has travelled to rural areas where residents are less likely to have access to specialized dental treatments, working out of other dentist’s offices and using their equipment to do oral surgery like wisdom teeth extractions and implants. Without him, rural residents might otherwise have to travel to another city to see an oral surgeon or wait until a local surgeon has time to see them. Of the 46 million Americans who lived in dental health professional shortage areas as of 2018, two thirds were in rural areas. Lewis estimates that about 1% of dentists operate the way he does. Most, he said, prefer to have their own office and their own clients. But his priority is making as much of a difference as he can for those in need.
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