The UMB Dental School, along with various dental associations in the US, has brought its dental and hygiene students to remote areas where dental care access is limited.
UMB extended its outreach activities to six more weeks as part of its curriculum this year. There are several projects scheduled by the Dental School every year across the state.
“We want to imprint on our students that, not that only are they practitioners, but they are part of a community that needs the care of professionals,” according to Norman Tinanoff, director of program of UMB Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry. “We emphasize that in all four years,” Tinanoff added.
Tinanoff states that the university students are instructed that dental medicine is not just a surgical practice. The Dental School also aims to provide its students proper experience in different community settings.
There are several Maryland residents who do not have access to dental health care. The university has various outreach projects like providing dental health care to the following: children of migrant workers on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, immigrant families who have no access to the dental programs offered by the federal and state governments, the Langley Park found in central Maryland; Baltimore’s Esperanza Center; and the different rural communities found in the Eastern Shore and in the northern part of Maryland.
The UMB Dental School actively collaborates with various state and national dental associations, which include the Maryland Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, National Dental Association, Hispanic Dental Association as well as the Maryland State Dental Association.
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