YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Dental students and dental industry professionals gathered at Choffin Career and Technical Center Friday morning, awaiting a bus of around 50 students from Youngstown’s Paul C. Bunn Elementary School.
The event was a kickoff to the “Give Kids a Smile” program – a collaborative effort put on annually by the American Dental Association and the Ohio Dental Association.
“We have been doing it for 21 years at Choffin – our home for many years,” said Dr. Sergio Nadler of the Corydon Palmer Dental Society and a dentist at Modern Dental Concepts in Warren.
Corydon Palmer Dental Society is a nonprofit association of 300 dental practitioners who practice in Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana counties. Several members attended the event as volunteers.
“We have dentists, we have hygienists – we also have some assistants,” said Nadler. “We are seeing a lot of kids and we are going to be rotating through a lot of stations.”
Volunteers were paired with students in Choffin’s dental assistant program and students studying dental hygiene at Youngstown State University. Each team was expected to serve about six children.
Source: Dentists, Dental Students ‘Give Kids a Smile’ / The Business Journal