For the past 17 years, Dr. Eisig has traveled with a multidisciplinary team of 65 medical providers to the Hospital Universitario Hernando Moncaleano Perdomo in Neiva, Colombia.
A maxillofacial prosthodontist and accomplished clarinetist, Philip Terman, DDS ’62 understands more deeply than many that, when their mouths do not function, people suffer.
They were known as the ‘grin and bear it years,’ when a dental filling cost $2, a price too steep for most people who instead resorted to tooth extraction.