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Local Dentist Sends 288 Toothbrushes To Uganda

Sharon resident Dr. Robert Chavez, who has a Stoughton office, supports a former patient doing humanitarian work.

A Ugandan village has 288 toothbrushes partly thanks to Dr. Robert Chavez going to a Brockton McDonald's about three months ago. Chavez says there, by chance, he met former patient and sterilization technician David Rice. Rice told the Sharon resident and local dentist about the Ugandan Water Project, a humanitarian effort he was participating in for the second straight year. "He said, 'I am going to Uganda.' And then I said, 'Wow. Why?' And he told me the story of Uganda and the fact that he had been in Uganda the year before, and felt so compelled to go back because of the accomplishments that he had achieved, and that he was going this time with a dental hygenist," Chavez said in his ARCH Orthodontics' Stoughton office last week. "And …

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