Maa Gayatri Dental Clinic

Down on Urvashi Cinema Road in West Champaran, inside Ranjan Niwas, that is where we are. Maa Gayatri Dental Clinic is just a small dental office where we spend our days looking at teeth. It’s usually pretty loud outside because of the traffic near the old cinema. We have a couple of dental chairs and the usual tools that make those high-pitched noises. People mostly come in when they have a toothache they can't ignore anymore. We do a lot of fillings and cleanings. It’s not the most glamorous job, but someone has to do it. The waiting room isn't huge, so when families come in together, it gets cramped pretty fast. We try to keep things clean and tidy, but in West Champaran, the dust finds its way in everywhere. Most of our patients live nearby, so we end up chatting about local news while we work. We don't go in for fancy advertisements or anything like that. Most people just find us by walking past or hearing from a neighbor. We keep the hours pretty regular, though we stay late if someone comes in with an emergency. It's just a regular local clinic. We’ve been here for a while and we know the rhythms of the street. Nothing more to it than that, just keeping people's teeth in okay shape and making sure the instruments are properly sterilized for the next person.