BitcoinSmiles

In 2021 BitcoinSmiles, a crowdfunding organized by @BtcpayServer and @bitcoin_design to provide dental care to the "forgotten people" of 🇸🇻raised 1.97 #BTC.
5 years later (2026), we're excited to share the impact your donations still have in bringing smiles with #Bitcoin🧵👇

Andrés (75) is retired but spends his time on household chores and growing corn. He lost his teeth more than two decades ago due to severe periodontal disease. Without dentures+no faculty to chew properly, suffers from gastric issues & significant bone loss in his mouth 🆘️⛑️🦷

Hilda (67) tends a small vegetable garden, growing produce to provide food for her own table. She was born without an uvula—a condition that causes difficulty in swallowing food, as well as frequent, sudden bouts of vomiting--She had no teeth since 20 years ago. 🆘️⛑️🩺🪥🦷

Santa Ana is the 2nd most populous & significant city in the country, serving as economic/industrial/ commercial hub of the western 🇸🇻. But multidimensional poverty is critically concentrated in Santa Ana & Tacuba, districts identified as having the 📈rates of extreme poverty ⛑️

Another day of work completed ⛑️. We carried out the final prosthetic try-in for the first group of patients undergoing rehabilitation in Santa Ana. Everything was successful and ready for final processing! Next appointment: a new bitcoin smile 🌋🦷🧡 "BTC fixes teeth"