DMD Student Delivers Donations to Vietnamese Orphanage
While most students in the DMD 07 class are anxiously awaiting graduation, Anhphi Nguyen is busy preparing for a different kind of departure. Just two days after commencement (May 22), Nguyen will visit the children of Chua Linh Son temple in Vietnam to deliver $3,000 raised by Boston University Vietnamese Student Dental Association (BUVSDA) at […]
Orchard Gardens Students Become Dentists for a Day
Sixty second-grade students at Orchard Gardens K-8 School on Albany Street in Boston got a new look at the field of dentistry April 10. For the fourth year, BUSDM hosted the annual Orchard Gardens Sealant Program/Field Trip to BUSDM. Students learned about oral health in the Simulation Learning Center and participated in an interactive oral […]
BUSDM Takes On Diabetes, Promotes Oral Health
An increasing body of evidence links oral health with diabetes risk. BUSDM students and faculty worked to reduce that risk March 17 by providing free dental screenings and education at the American Diabetes Association’s Boston Diabetes Expo, an entertaining and educational event for people living with and affected by diabetes. This was the fourth year […]
Held Helps Launch Nicaraguan Fact-Finding Mission
Kathy Held, assistant director of extramural programs, returned this week from a 10-day community service trip to Rio San Juan, Nicaragua, with Project Stretch, a non-profit organization that provides dental services to disadvantaged children worldwide. The trip marked the first to Rio San Juan for the Project Stretch team, which aimed to determine if area […]
BU ASDA Volunteers Give (Boston) Kids a Smile
Boston University’s chapter of the American Student Dental Association (BU ASDA) provided free, interactive dental education to approximately 100 children at the Yawkey (formerly Boys & Girls) Club of Roxbury February 7. BU ASDA works with BUSDM’s Division of Community Health Programs (CHP) to host the event each year as part of Give Kids a […]
Program White Coat Molds Future Dentists
It wasn’t an uncommon sight last Friday at 100 East Newton Street: ten figures in white coats sitting hunched over a conference room table, scratching notes on slips of white paper. But in this case, only one was able to touch his feet to the ground. This was the inaugural class of Program White Coat, […]
Faculty Volunteer for Elder Health
As part of our ongoing commitment to community outreach, BUSDM faculty last week provided dental care services at a health fair for Boston seniors. Kathy Lituri and Corinna Culler, clinical instructors and dental hygienists from the school’s Division of Community Health Programs, and Negar Nasseripour, assistant clinical professor in the Department of General Dentistry, screened […]
BUSDM Hosts 21st Annual Oral Health and HIV Symposium
BUSDM’s Division of Continuing Education last month convened the 21st Annual Oral Health and HIV Symposium. The day-long event, held June 24 and attended by 110 dental health care professionals, featured presentations by BUSDM faculty and other experts about new concerns in AIDS, HIV infections, and the practice of dentistry. Participants learned about emerging issues in HIV […]
Special Olympics Brings Special Smiles
BUSDM faculty, staff, and students teamed up to help screen nearly 300 top athletes competing in the June 18 Massachusetts Special Olympic Summer Games. The dental school has offered strong support to the Special Olympics since 1993, when the School and Dr.Stephen Perlman PEDO 76 pioneered the Special Smiles program. “Dean Frankl and I shared […]
School Awarded $900K for Community-Based HIV/AIDS Program
The HIV/AIDS Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last month awarded BUSDM and Holyoke Health Center (HHC) a grant to implement an oral health program for patients with HIV and AIDS in western Massachusetts. The Community-Based Dental Partnership Program grant of $300,000 per year for three years will help BUSDM and […]