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As
previously reported in the UTDBeflash, the School of
Dental Hygiene raked in several awards during the Student
American Dental Hygienists’ Association’s
annual meeting in early February. Details of the awards
are listed below:
Table clinic winners were: first
place, Elizabeth Onescu Lee, who presented "Hooked
on Hookah”; second place, Jessica Clements and
Jennifer Thompson, who presented "Periodontal Disease....Is
the ’Blue Light Special?’”
Cheryl Josserme, second-year
student, received Outstanding Dental Hygiene Student
in the state of Texas and also won the Omega Student
Scholarship of Excellence.
Nancy Tran won the Nicole
Eusebio Memorial Service Scholarship, and Jessica Clements
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| From left to right) Jessica
Clements, Cheryl Josserme, and Nancy Tran are pictured
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Holly
Rice, clinical assistant professor, was installed as
president of the Texas Dental Hygiene Educators Association
(TDHEA) for the 2006-07 year at the Annual Meeting in
Dallas on Feb. 4. The TDHEA, which was formed in 2000,
consists of dental hygiene educators in the state of
Texas. Dental hygiene instructors Donna Warren and Harold
Henson also have been president of this group. The UT
Dental Branch has the distinction of being the only
school of the 21 schools in Texas to have three faculty
members serve as president.
The UT Dental Branch celebrates African American Heritage
Month through education. Catherine M. Flaitz, D.D.S.,
dean of the Dental Branch, spoke on a panel conducted
by the Office of Institutional and Cultural Diversity
this afternoon. Below are just a few facts. For more,
contact dbnewsdesk@uth.tmc.edu.
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Rice is shown here at the TDHEA meeting
with student and scholarship winner Jessica Clements.
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The top three oral health risks for African-Americans are:
Dental Caries
- African American adults have twice the number of untreated
dental caries (46 percent) as compared to whites (23 percent).
- Poor and minority children suffer nearly 12 times more
restricted-activity days due to dental caries than children
from higher-income families.
Periodontal Disease
- African Americans have the highest risk of losing all
of their natural teeth in the 65 years and older age group
than any other race/ethnicity group (33 percent).
- Early onset of aggressive periodontitis in adolescence
occurs twice as often in African Americans than in Hispanics
and 10 times more frequently than in whites.
Oral and Pharyngeal Cancer
- The incidence rate of oral and pharyngeal cancers is
10.1 per 100,000 in whites and 12.5 per 100,000 in African
Americans.
- African Americans are 1.5 times less likely to have
an oral cancer examination than whites.
Johnathan Walton and the Walton's World team from the Channel
11 “Morning Show” visited the UTDB Tuesday, Feb.
21, to learn about dentistry as a career and spotlight the
new mannekins in the simulation lab. Walton was joined by
Joe Ontiveros, D.D.S., assistant professor of Restorative
Dentistry, and several dental and dental hygiene students
live on television. To watch online, go to http://www.khou.com/news/waltonsworld/
and click on "Be a Dentist." In some cases, pre-registration
may be required before viewing the video.
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The UT Dental Branch will celebrate Go Texan Day, the
kick-off to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, at
12:15 p.m., Friday,
Feb. 24, with cake and punch for all faculty
and staff in the Cooley Conference Room, Room 3.095.
Anyone who comes to work dressed
in their western best can enter to win a drawing for
free CDs, barbecue lunches and gift certificates. Names
will be drawn at 12:45
p.m. This event is sponsored by the Dental Branch
Dean’s Office.
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