ADSO Celebrates the Year of the Dragon

The Asian Dental Student Organization (ADSO) in collaboration with CHP volunteered at Tet In Boston 2012. The festival is an annual Vietnamese new year festival organized by the Vietnamese-American Community of Massachusetts and the Intercollegiate Vietnamese Student Association that every year attracts 700+ attendees and hundreds of vendors. This year’s festival celebrated the beginning of the Year of the Dragon and was held at Harbor Point Middle School in Dorchester.

Volunteers hosted a table with age appropriate, interactive oral health activities and information and also handed out complimentary toothbrushes and toothpaste. Michelle Vo DMD 13 organized the ADSO participation at this event and Drs. Gladys Carrasco and Ana Keohane served as CHP Faculty Sponsors. Sathvik Seshadri DMD 12, Stephanie Leung DMD 15, Nazia Malik DMD 13, Anna Lechowicz DMD 13, Kinjal Patel DMD 13, and Danny Shum DMD 13 volunteered.

“Around 1,000 people attended this year’s Tet in Boston festival,” said Vo. “The main thing that the participants were interested in at our table was our celebrity smiles game where they had to guess the smiles of different celebrities. We had an adult version and a kid’s version of the game.” She continued, “The children were also interested in learning what types of food are good and what types are bad for your teeth.”

Photos are available on facebook and flickr.