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 […]
Countdown to Kindergarten Reaches 79 Boston Children with Oral Health Education
BUGSDM student, staff, and faculty volunteers provided free dental screenings and oral health education to an impressive 79 Boston children entering kindergarten this fall and their families August 28 at Countdown to Kindergarten. The annual event, presented by Boston Public Schools at Boston Children’s Museum, celebrates Boston children’s transition to kindergarten and gives their families […]
Operation Stand Down Brings Dental Care to Veterans
BUGSDM volunteers joined Operation Stand Down August 10. The two-day event, presented by Veterans Benefits Clearinghouse, offers homeless veterans in Boston resources such as haircuts, clothing, housing advice, and health screenings. The school provided dental screenings, toothbrushes, toothpaste, and referrals to 75 veterans. This is the first time BUGSDM has participated and also the first time […]
Science News Seeks Opinion of Dr. Dana Graves
Dr. Dana T. Graves, professor of periodontology and oral biology, discusses recent discoveries regarding the influence of bone cells on energy metabolism leading to type 2 diabetes in this week’s issue of Science News."The fact that bone cells regulate energy metabolism, and that they do it through osteocalcin, is a major finding," he says in […]
Program White Coat Turns Boston Children into Tomorrow’s Dentists
Boston University School of Dental Medicine welcomed 17 Boston-area children ages 9 to 11 during the week of July 23 to 27 for the third annual Program White Coat, the school’s career exploration day program introducing children to dentistry and other health professions. The program is one of BUSDM’s pipeline programs, which encourage underrepresented minorities and […]
BUSDM Volunteers Promote Careers in Dentistry
Boston University School of Dental Medicine returned to the Boston Public Health Commission’s Boston Area Health Education Center (BAHEC) Health Career Expo for area high school students July 13 to teach teens about careers in dentistry. Nearly 100 students, who are part of the Youth to Health Careers (Y2HC) Summer Enrichment Program stopped by the […]