Oral Health Disparities Revealed at State House Briefing
Disparities in the oral health of Massachusetts children were revealed in a special session held January 24 at the Massachusetts State House. The findings were the result of the first statewide survey of this magnitude and focus since 1979. The survey was sponsored by Delta Dental and conducted in part by Boston University Goldman School […]
Looking Forward to Yankee Dental Congress 33
Yankee Dental Congress 33 takes place next week at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. The exhibit halls are open Thursday, January 31 from 10:00 am – 5:30 pm, Friday, February 1 from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, and Saturday, February 2 from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. BUGSDM will be sponsoring two lounges and one […]
Recent Awards Focus of CHP’s 2008 Grant Funded Programs
The Division of Community Health Programs (CHP) recently received four grants. These four comprise the majority of the grant funded programs that CHP will focus on in 2008. The grants include the following: National Institutes of HealthPublic Health Nurses as Oral Health Advocates: A Feasibility StudyThis grant will explore the feasibility of public health nurses […]
Program White Coat Invites Past Students to Celebrate the Holiday Season
Faculty, students, and children who have participated in Program White Coat in the last three years gathered at BUGSDM from 5 to 6:30 PM Friday, December 14, to celebrate the holiday season and their interest in dental medicine. Program White Coat is a weeklong program that takes place in the summer for children ranging in […]
Dr. Gregory Stoute and BUVSDA Students Put Their Skills to Work on the MAC Van
Director of Minority Affairs Dr. Gregory Stoute, and Boston University Vietnamese Student Dental Association (BUVSDA) members, Cindy Tran DMD 11, Lucas Patrick DMD 11 and Linh Nguyen DMD 10, all took time out of their busy schedules to volunteer on the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) Foundation’s Mobile Access to Care (MAC) Van November 30. The […]
Student Group Spreads Thanksgiving Spirit
Thanksgiving may be a few weeks away, but Boston University Vietnamese Student Dental Association (BUVSDA) is already showing a giving spirit. The group delivered its first bundle of clothing this week to Rosie’s Place, a shelter for poor and homeless women in Boston. BUVSDA has organized the drive for the past three years. This year, in just […]
Spread the Dental Health Wealth with the Outreach Van Project
BUGSDM students are accustomed to providing dental care anywhere–whether in the treatment center, in a remote Central American village, or, as is now the case, on a street corner in East Boston. This month, a group of enterprising dental students took on this unlikely treatment spot as members of BUMC’s Outreach Van Project. The project visits […]
School Concerned With Men’s Oral Health
Men are less likely to seek preventive dental care and more likely to develop oral cancer and gum disease than women, according the the Academy of General Dentistry. These perils of being male encouraged seven BUGSDM student volunteers and the Division of Community Health Programs to participate in Boston Medical Center’s Partnership for Men’s Health […]
SNDA Volunteer Event May Help Recover Missing Children
Boston area parents now have a new tool to aid in the recovery of missing children thanks to BUGSDM’s chapter of the Student National Dental Association (SNDA). SNDA members took dental impressions and mouth swabs of children ages two to 15 at the Child Identification Program (CHIP) event at Roxbury Community College September 22. Parents […]
DMD Student Shirley Austin Named Schweitzer Fellow
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship has named Shirley Austin DMD 09 a 2007 U.S. Schweitzer Fellow for a community service project to improve access to oral health care for refugee families in Greater Boston. Beginning this month, Austin will visit seven Somali and five Burmese refugee families to discuss preventive care. "A lot of the families […]