Austin Community College is aiming to meet a growing demand for dental hygienists in Central Texas through an expanded dental hygiene clinic.
ACC officials celebrated the opening of the newly renovated space at the ACC Eastview Campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 1. Through the facility, ACC is projected to nearly double the dental hygiene program’s enrollment and provide affordable dental care to more community members, Michelle Landrum, ACC Dental Hygiene department chair, told Community Impact.
“ACC’s dental hygiene program expansion opened doors of opportunity, not only for me, not only for our classmates, but for our surrounding communities in need of reliable access to preventive dental care,” dental hygiene student Lauren Smith said.