After watching her older sister get fluoride varnish applied to her teeth, 3-year-old Trashal Rai started crying when it was her turn.
The Nepalese sisters weren’t in a traditional dentist’s office. Instead, they were receiving care in a mobile clinic parked along a curb outside Family Health Services‘ Twin Falls medical clinic.
Dental hygienist Lindsey Taylor used a translator phone — with an interpreter on the line — to help communicate with the family.