Corvallis Dental Care - Dr. Cam Little DDS

In January 2019 Dr. Little and his wife visited Landrail Point, Crooked Island Bahamas. There is not a dentist on their island of 200 people. In January 2020, Dr. Little returned with a donated government surplus dental unit and other equipment he purchased or that was donated. Dr. Little and his son Sean treated people for 6 days. They were scheduled to return in 2021 but the Covid pandemic intervened.

Dr. Little returned in May of 2023 with one of his fellow Army National Guard dentists, Dr. Jason Ellis. They brought with them a donated portable x-ray unit and a steam sterilizer. Together they treated 59 patients, providing cleanings, fillings, and extractions. They hope to get other dentists to volunteer from the U.S. and Bahamas. All funds raised go to purchase dental equipment and supplies.

Please send your tax deductible donation to:

Caring Hands Worldwide
P.O. Box 459
Lowell, OR 97452

Use the word LANDRAIL in the memo line of your check. Or contact Randy Meyer at [email protected]

Dr. Little and Dr. Gray at the Dental Trauma and Triage continuing education class in Louisville Kentucky.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Dr. Little will be having foot surgery this Friday the 18th so the office will be closed from Friday December 18th through Sunday January 10th. We will return on Monday January 11th. We wish him a speedy recovery and we wish you all a happy and healthy holiday!

The NEW Oral B IO toothbrushes are in and they make great gifts! We are selling them for just $157 and then we will also send you home with rebate information so that you can get back $30! Your rebate will come back to you as a $30 Visa gift card.
*(These retail for $249.99 in stores like Target and Best Buy.)

To all of our patients that we have missed!

Our community has been through a lot over the last few months, and all of us are looking forward to resuming our normal habits and routines. While many things have changed, one thing has remained the same: our commitment to your safety.

Infection control has always been a top priority for our practice and you may have seen this during your visits to our office. Our infection control processes are made so that when you receive care, it’s both safe and comfortable.

We want to tell you about the infection control procedures we follow in our practice to keep patients and staff safe. Our office follows infection control recommendations made by the American Dental Association (ADA), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We follow the activities of these agencies so that we are up-to-date on any new rulings or guidance that may be issued.

You may see some changes when it is time for your next appointment. We made these changes to help protect our patients and staff.

For example:
Our office will communicate with you beforehand to ask some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again when you are in the office. We have hand sanitizer that we will ask you to use when you enter the office. You will also find some in the reception area and other places in the office for you to use as needed. You may see that our waiting room will no longer offer magazines, children’s toys and so forth, since those items are difficult to clean and disinfect.

Appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients. That might mean that you’re offered fewer options for scheduling your appointment. We will do our best to allow greater time between patients to reduce waiting times for you, as well as to reduce the number of patients in the reception area at any one time.

We look forward to seeing you again and are happy to answer any questions you may have about the steps we take to keep you, and every patient, safe in our practice. To make an appointment, please call our office at 541-754-6226.

Thank you for being our patient. We value your trust and loyalty and look forward to welcoming back our patients, neighbors and friends.

Sincerely,
Dr. Little

Dear valued patients,

In light of growing concerns about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, especially given its presence in the state of Oregon, we are writing to provide an update from our office.

Your health and safety are always our highest priority. Our office has been closely monitoring and adhering to recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the state of Oregon. However, the situation around COVID-19 is unprecedented. As health care leaders in Oregon, dentists across the state are taking additional steps to stop the spread and ultimately contain the virus.

As of now, we are required to be closed until June 15th. We are hopeful that the date could be moved up and we would be able to open up sooner. If you have appointments scheduled during this time, our office will be contacting you to reschedule. In the case of a dental emergency involving pain, please call the office at 541-754-6226 and the voicemail will have instructions on how to reach me. Please only utilize this for true dental emergencies.

At this difficult time, we all have a responsibility to do what we can to prevent the further spread of the virus. We will provide updates on the status of our office as they become available. In the meantime, we encourage you to continue to take the necessary precautions as outlined by the CDC and the state of Oregon to protect your health and the health of those around you, and regularly check for updates as this unpredictable situation is rapidly evolving.

Sincerely,

Dr. Little

Tip Tuesday! Call us if you'd like to schedule your next cleaning!

In January 2019, Dr. Little and his wife Liza (pharmacist at Fred Meyer) visited Landrail Point, Crooked Island Bahamas for a vacation and fishing trip. They were accompanied by Bob and Inday Johnson. The local restaurant owner and person responsible for setting up the fly fishing trips is a wonderful lady named Willie Gibson. She asked Dr. Little if he would return again and provide volunteer dentistry, and he agreed. The problem is that there is no dental clinic on the island of roughly 300 people. Dr. Little drew from his Army National Guard experience working with portable dental equipment to come up with a workable solution.

One of the dentists in Dr. Little's National Guard unit put him in touch with Randy Meyer at Caring Hands Worldwide. Their mission is to bring dentistry to under served areas of the world. Randy was the key to making this mission a success due to his donation of an Army surplus portable dental unit. Other donations came from the Johnsons, Suburban Christian Church, some local dentists, and from Dr. Little. Various equipment was shipped to Florida, consolidated, and arrived in Nassau Bahamas on December 12th. Jim Beecroft built an electrical outlet and foot switch to operate the vacuum that was incredibly useful. Craig from Les Schwab donated money to purchase the vacuum.

In the Bahamas Dr. Little worked with Pastor Danhugh Gordon. He is the pastor of the church in Landrail, but also is the lead pastor of a church in Nassau. His organization the South Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, was instrumental in helping Dr. Little acquire a volunteer dental license and getting the equipment placed on the mail boat to Crooked Island.

Dr. Little needed an assistant, whom he found in his son Sean Little. Having decided to pursue dentistry as a career, Sean had 4 weeks of training to prepare him to be an assistant. He was ably trained by Dr. Little's expert dental assistants Kira and Alisa. Months of gathering supplies and packing 100 pounds of it into suitcases was accomplished by Alisa. One carry on bag was a portable x-ray unit borrowed from the Oregon Army National Guard.

Dr. Little, Sean, and Bob Johnson left Jan. 8th on the red-eye from Portland Oregon to Atlanta and arrived in Nassau Bahamas on the 9th. They flew Saturday morning January 11th to Crooked Island. There are only 2 flights per week, one on Wednesday and one on Saturday. They arrived on Thursday to be sure they wouldn't miss the Saturday flight.

Due to bad weather, the equipment also arrived late on Saturday. All food, equipment, and merchandise has to be ordered from Nassau and brought in on the mail boat. It carries several containers and drops them off at each island. Our equipment was unloaded along with food, bicycles, and everything you can think of.

The local nurse Mrs. Beulah Carol volunteered the use of some of the rooms in the rural medical clinic to set up the dental clinic. A facial massage/tattoo chair was used for a patient chair. A shop vac with foot switch was used for suction. And a pressure cooker on a hot plate was used for sterilization. For this first visit, mostly emergent care was performed, ie. big fillings and extractions.

Many of the people on the island go without dental care because there is no dentist on the island. The nearest dentist is in Nassau which is a $300 flight and requires staying 3 nights. There has not been a dentist on the island in over 6 years, and mostly extractions were performed when the dentist did come. Because of all the dental equipment that is now in Landrail Point, future volunteer dentists from Nassau or from the United States will be able to perform cleanings, fillings, extractions, crowns, and root canals. One thing that is needed is a used Nomad/ Aribex portable x-ray unit, laptop and digital sensor. These 3 items total over $12,000 brand new. Hopefully a used one can be procured at a Government Surplus auction. If you feel like making a donation, please make it to Landrail Point Dental Clinic fund.

Halloween flew by this year, but here's how we looked for those that missed us!