It’s the week of Thanksgiving — the week that we find ourselves thinking about the people and things that we are blessed to have in our lives. For some reason, I find myself thinking back to ADA 2015. I am thankful for many things in my life, including the opportunity to be a dentist — the profession that… Read More »
With a valuable set of portable skills, dentists are empowered to meet oral health needs all over the world, including countries where dental care access is limited. The ADA New Dentist News spoke with two dentists who have made international volunteer work part of their lives. They are Dr. Ellen Thrailkill, a private practice dentist in Pickens, South… Read More »
According to ADA News, a group of Arizona State University students is working with California-based nonprofit IMAHelps to design and build a state-of-the-art mobile dental facility for use by dental students and dentists on mission trips in Nicaragua. The venture began in 2013 when IMAHelps pitched the project to Engineering Projects in Community Service, a design-based service learning… Read More »
Know any dental students who volunteer for community service projects? Three ADA Foundation dental student scholarship and award programs share a Nov. 13 application deadline. The Foundation’s Predoctoral Dental Student Scholarship Program — including the Underrepresented Minority Dental Student Scholarships, the Dr. Robert B. Dewhirst Scholarships and the Robert J. Sullivan Scholarships — helps predoctoral dental students defray… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the latest article in a New Dentist Now blog series, My New Dentist Life, following a new dentist’s first year experiences out of dental school. The views expressed in this article are the personal opinions of the author and are not intended to reflect the views, positions or policies of the ADA or the… Read More »
Austin, Texas — As Dr. Ensy Atarod makes the transition from being a “new dentist” to a dentist, she looks back at her time at the ADA Institute for Diversity in Leadership as transformative. “As a new dentist I knew graduation did not mean the end of learning, but what dental school failed to tell us was as… Read More »