Bringing oral health education and care to the community

The school year is in full swing, and Texas A&M College of Dentistry students are busy volunteering at community health events. Here’s where they were Sept. 13:

Several dental students were at Mission Arlington for a day of teeth extractions, under the supervision of Dr. Dax Sinn, an adjunct faculty member in public health sciences. Fourth-year students volunteering included Austin Bond, Youngju Oh, Adriana Vega, Armando Ferandez, Bahram Soroushi and Alix Matthew. Third-year student volunteers included Karina Perez-Estrada, Saad Mohammed, Van Nguyen and Jacob Williams.

Komal Gajera, a third-year dental student at Texas A&M College of Dentistry, provided dental education at Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Step into Your Health Event at Hamilton Park United Methodist Church in Dallas. Tanisha Bhat, a predental student at The University of Texas at Dallas, joined him.

AKA’s Alpha XI Omega Chapter hosted the event for the second year.

Fourth-year dental students Zoe Lina Arasah, Omar Soto, Christine Gonzales and Gustavo Mendez and second-year dental hygiene student Lauren Espinosa provided oral health screenings at no charge at the community health fair at Cedar Hill ISD Collegiate Academy in Dallas. Dr. Martha Alvarez, a part-time faculty member in pediatric dentistry, supervised the students.

A&M Dental’s public health services’ community service involvement spreads awareness of the college’s dental services, Alvarez said.