{"id":164863,"date":"2020-10-02T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=164863"},"modified":"2020-10-02T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:26:23","slug":"dental-students-perform-free-oral-screenings-norwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/10\/dental-students-perform-free-oral-screenings-norwich\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Students Perform Free Oral Screenings in Norwich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the School of Dental Medicine were able to get hands on experience while serving the community during a free health event in Norwich, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Greater Norwich Chamber of Commerce (GNCC), second, third, and fourth year dental students provided free oral screenings at the \u201cBetter You, BETTER TOGETHER\u201d community event.<\/p>\n<p>This event was open to the public and included free dental screenings, flu vaccines, COVID-19 tests, health care screenings and a food drive.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Rousseau, DMD class of 2022 said: \u201cDental care is absolutely\u00a0critical to a person&#8217;s overall\u00a0well-being\u00a0and self-esteem.\u00a0I love events like these because it is an opportunity\u00a0for me to connect with my community and\u00a0provide knowledge\u00a0on\u00a0how to improve\u00a0oral health and hygiene habits outside of an office setting!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Robert Strick, DMD class of 1979, coordinated the event with UConn students and the GNCC. \u201cWe were very pleased with the resounding enthusiasm and professionalism displayed by all the students,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The following students participated in the event:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Year 2 students\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nizi Acharte<br \/>\nJulia Witt<br \/>\nAmy Mohamed<br \/>\nPatricia Hare<br \/>\nKevin Song<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Year 3 students<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nanette Panzardi Rivera<br \/>\nAlbert Chen<br \/>\nDimitri Adamidis<br \/>\nJohua Kwolek<br \/>\nMichelle Rousseau<br \/>\nEmma Wentworth<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Year 4 students<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ryeed Khan<br \/>\nStephanie Petterson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the School of Dental Medicine were able to get hands on experience while serving the community during a free health event in Norwich, Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":164866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2166],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2177],"class_list":["post-164863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sdm"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 11:58:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/164866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164863"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=164863"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=164863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}