Hi, I'm Anna Peterson, and I want to thank you for visiting my fundraising page. You may have seen me on TikTok or Instagram talking about teeth!

In March 2025, I am flying out to Tanzania with a group of clinical educators to provide dental education. We are delivering core oral health messages to thousands of teachers, nurses, village managers and health workers who are then educating their own communities.

Raffle Tickets

Each raffle ticket is £5. All you need to do is ensure you add your name and email address when submitting the donation rather than ‘anonymously’ donating.

The raffle prize includes, a hygiene appointment, a brand new Oral-B iO 3 electric toothbrush and a goodie bag full of dental surprises. Totalling over £400. Plus you get to support a fantastic charity and help the children and families in East Africa.

More about the work

Oral diseases affect around 3.5 billion people worldwide, disproportionately impacting the most disadvantaged populations, typically in remote rural areas. The pain caused by oral disease can affect someone’s ability to eat and carry out every day tasks – such as working and attending school.

One of the key pillars of our work is embedding oral health knowledge into communities where this does not exist. This preventative work can be carried out on a large scale and is the key to large scale improvement in oral health across the population.

Ending Infant Oral Mutilation

In Tanzania Bridge2Aid have a prevention programme focused on the issue of Infant Oral Mutilation. Because there is very little knowledge around oral health in rural east Africa some dangerous myths and treatments have become established. If infants suffer from sickness or diarrhoea when they are developing their first set of teeth, traditional healers often diagnose the growing teeth as the cause of the illness. They call these teeth plastic teeth (due to their softness). The ‘treatment’ (Infant Oral Mutilation) is to remove the growing canine teeth without the use of anaesthetic – and usually with unsterilised, improvised implements. This is extremely painful, dangerous and can be fatal.

Infant Oral Mutilation happens to around 2.5 million children each year in East Africa. It is a dangerous and sometimes fatal practice where developing teeth are gouged out of the gums of small children using unsterilised, sharpened bicycle spokes. This practice is dangerous and sometimes deadly.

The small-print

The hygiene appointment will involve a full oral health assessment, ultrasonic scaling, Air Polish and a prophy paste polish.

You must be 16+ to enter and we will require a medical history and consent form to be signed prior to the treatment. You can enter as many times as you like.

Winners will be announced in January and we will accommodate you with dates, times and locations that work best for your appointment.

If you have any questions please feel free to pop in and ask, or message me on instagram @annapetersondental if that is easier.

Thank you and good luck!