UNE dental hygiene students educate over 500 Maine children

UNE Dental Hygiene students providing K-12 outreach
Third-year dental hygiene students providing K-12 outreach.

Students from the Department of Dental Hygiene have been actively involved with outreach work during the Spring 2017 semester, providing oral health education for students in Southern Maine.

Courtney Vannah, IPDH, M.S., assistant clinical professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and her students traveled to Horace Mitchell Elementary School in Kittery and Blue Point Elementary School in Scarborough. Between the two visits, the third-year dental hygiene students educated and provided oral health care supplies to 536 children from kindergarten through third grade.

Students placed an emphasis on making the visits engaging and hands-on, incorporating games and a visit by the tooth fairy into their lesson plans.

 

To learn more about the Department of Dental Hygiene, visit www.une.edu/wchp/dental

To apply, visit www.une.edu/admissions

Third-year dental hygiene students teach about cavity prevention
Third-year dental hygiene students teach about cavity prevention.
UNE's dental hygiene tooth fairy visits with students
UNE's dental hygiene tooth fairy visits with students.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.