World Dental Development Fund
The aim of the FDI World Dental Development Fund (WDDF) is to improve oral health globally, primarily through the establishment of innovative prevention and access programs in disadvantaged populations. WDDF illustrates FDI's commitment to its members and the funded projects reflect the core values and principles of FDI, which are integrity, a culture of inclusiveness, excellence, and ethical behaviour.
About the Fund
Each year, FDI supports three to five projects. Each project can receive a maximum of CHF 10,000.
Projects should revolve around at least one of the following topics:
- oral health education;
- oral health promotion;
- oral disease prevention;
- oral healthcare delivery;
- oral health integration into primary healthcare.
Projects must benefit disadvantaged individuals and/or communities and contribute to improving oral health. Projects must relate to local, regional or national strategic health aims within the country and should be developed in consultation with local authorities and stakeholders. Priority will be given to projects with a prominent educational component and strong potential for sustainability.
Applications are closed
The application for FDI World Dental Development Fund will open in January 2026.
The submission deadline is on 15 June.
Featured project
Archives
- Chile - Oral Health in Long Term Care Facilities for the elderly
- Cooks Island - Healthy Islands 2030+: Towards a Cavity-free future for the Tamariki (Children), Cook Islands: Staff capacity building
- Fiji - Serua/Namosi Community Health Outreach
- Rwanda - Oral health promotion for children in rural communities of Bugesera
- Uganda - Creating Sustainable Dental Care for Uganda through Prevention, Therapy, and Education
- Bangladesh - Supervised toothbrushing, handwashing and silver diamine fluoride application for school children in Rajapalong, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh
- Peru - OralHealth Strategy: Oral Health from Childhood for a Healthier Peru
- Nepal - Promoting oral health in the most unreached remote area of Nepal: Campus to Community School based program
- Pakistan - Assessing the DMFT index to determine the prevalence of caries in Mithi, Sindh Province, Pakistan
- United States - The HIVE Mobile Dental Application Project
- India-Kalpetta (Shofu funding) - Common risk factor approach for improving early childhood oral health and malnutrition in preschool children in Kalpetta, India
- India-Mumbai - Upscaling the Whole Mouth Health Advocacy and Capacity Building project based on Vision 2030 for Sugar Control in India
- Kenya - Integrating Oral Health Care into Primary Health Care: Training Community Health Workers in Kiambu County-Pilot Programme
- Nigeria (Shofu funding) - Oral health interventions in nursing mothers to prevent severe early childhood caries in 2 years old Nigerian children
- Tanzania - Raising Oral Health awareness to the primary school students around Tanzania
- India - Implementing a post-pandemic Health Coaching training programme for empowering dental professionals in disease prevention
- Nigeria - Oral Health Promotion in Schools and Primary Health Services in Internally Displaced Persons’ (Idp’s) Host Communities
- Rwanda - Raising awareness on the importance of sanitation and hygiene services in prevention of contagious diseases in 9YBE (Nine years Basic Education) schools
- Tanzania - Reducing Inequality through Dental Outreach to Primary School Students in Tanzania
- United States - Portable Clinic on Wampanoag Tribal Land
- Chile - Comunidades Sonrisas (Smiles in your Community)
- Nepal - Improving oral health status through community outreach and capacity building of dental practitioners in COVID-19 crisis
- Tanzania - Raising awareness on the importance of Sanitation and Hygiene services in prevention and protection against infectious diseases in Tanzania
- Zimbabwe - Oral Health for Mental Patients
- Cambodia (Shofu funding) - Treatment, education, and prevention: improving the oral health of children in Cambodia
- Nigeria - Traditional Folk/Song: A tool for oral hygiene promotion among children and teenagers in in rural communities Nigeria
- Tanzania (Shofu funding) - Reducing inequality through dental outreach to primary school students in Tanzania
- Vanuatu - Gudfala Tut Skul Projek (GFTSP)
- Costa Rica - Oral Health Protection Project for Vulnerable Indigenous Population of Coto Brus
- Kenya - Oral Health: Well mother, well baby
- Nepal - Smile Campaign in the Chepang Hill Tracks of Nepal
- Tanzania - Ways to preserve that winning smile