MEETINGS & EVENTS
MEETINGS & EVENTS
Free Dental Screenings
Teams from the NYU Langone Hospitals Postdoctoral
Dental Residency Program provided free dental
screenings to 549 preschoolers at District 20 Pre-K
Centers in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, and
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, in June 2017.
Special Olympics Smiles Day
Becky Herman, Director of Recruitment and
Community Outreach, and Dr. Steven Perlman, DDS,
MScD, DHL (hon), Global Clinical Director and Founder,
Special Olympics Special Smiles, Clinical Professor of
Pediatric Dentistry, Boston University School of Dental
Medicine and Faculty at NYU Langone Hospitals
Postdoctoral Dental Residency Program attended
Smile Day. The event was hosted by University at
Buffalo School of Dental Medicine at the Museum
of Disability History on Thursday, March 3, 2017
in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Perlman and Ms. Herman
visited two area schools and collaborated with faculty
and students from UB Dental's American Academy
of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry Student
Chapter along with staff from the B. Thomas Golisano
Foundation to discuss ways to address access to care
for children and adults with developmental disabilities.
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Medical Mission
Faculty and Residents from Hawaii participated in the Aloha Medical
Mission, a week-long mission to Manapla, Philippines, where they,
along with three other dentists from Hawaii, treated over 860 patients.
The mission team also included five anesthesiologists, three general
surgeons, one otorhinolaryngologist, two gynecologists, two plastic
surgeons and nurses. The Aloha Medical Mission, led by Dr. Brad Wong,
has visited the same area for the past fifteen years.
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AAPD Lobby Days
Faculty and residents of the Pediatric Dentistry
program participated in the American Academy of
Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) lobby days March 11-12,
2017. They met with congress members to lobby for
continuation of Title 7 funding, to keep Affordable
Care Act expansion and prevent block granting of
Medicaid. Faculty participants included Drs. Shina
Amin, Mariella De Stefano, and Rajesh Adhia. Dental
resident participants included Drs. Paul Zeylikman,
Jeremy Morris (Brooklyn, NY), Daniel Gonzalez
(Holyoke, MA), Catherine Kolasny, Rhoderick Blasco,
Mehreen Kassoo, Jaspreet Ghuman (all Maryland),
Aarika Anderson Elter, and Ara Greer (Yakima, WA).
Dental Van Services
AEGD residents from Kokua Kalihi Valley (KKV)
Health Center in Hawaii helped to provide expanded
preventive dental services to area public schools
in two fully equipped, two-chair dental vans that
routinely visit schools within Kalihi Valley. The vans
are staffed by a general dentist supervisor and
equipped to provide examinations, prophylaxes,
sealants, and referrals.
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