After spending time in Ostrow’s Community Oral Health Programs, Cynde Mai is energized to use her dental degree to give back to medically compromised, geriatric and other patients with unique needs. BY JAMIE WETHERBE IT’S NOT OFTEN YOU FALL into dentistry, but that’s how Cynde Mai MS ’20, DDS ’24 found herself in the field. […]
Asha Green, Daniel Ip and Somkene Okwuego have their dental educations paid for, thanks to a National Health Service Corps scholarship that requires them to spend two years practicing in a health professional shortage area. IT’S A STATISTIC THAT’S NEVER FAR from the mind of Asha Green DDS ’26: just 3.7 percent of dentists in […]
First-generation college student Erika Correa DDS ’22 wants to use her career to help improve others’ lives. IT WAS A FABLED TRIP to the orthodontist to get braces that first sparked then-13-year-old Erika Correa’s interest in a dental career . “My new smile after my braces gave me confidence, which really changed my life for […]
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THAT TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTH and having confidence as a patient can reduce the chances of you having a higher body mass index (BMI), needing preventative care and using the emergency room, while increasing the chances of you having better clinical indicators (such as blood pressure, lipids, triglycerides, A1C)?2 […]
The prestigious five-year training grants are meant to support tomorrow’s leading thinkers in craniofacial research as they launch their academic careers. OSTROW HAS BEEN AWARDED TWO RESEARCH GRANTS from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to support nine PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, giving USC the distinction of being just one of […]
Breaking the Mold As an adolescent, Levi Powell didn’t often see people like him in healthcare. Now, he hopes to be set the example for other underrepresented minorities to know they can do anything they want. LEVI POWELL FIRST FELL IN LOVE with dentistry as a sixth grader under the treatment of a Black orthodontist […]
Ed. Note: The following essay, written by Oluwaferanmi Balogun DDS ’24, was one of the awardees of the inaugural Clifton O. Dummett Sr. Essay Competition in which pre-doctoral students at select universities were invited to write about race relations in the dental profession. AS A RECENT GRADUATE OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY, having earned my Bachelor of […]
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