Association donates $10,000 to FDTC’s dental program
The South Carolina Dental Association donated $10,000 to the Florence-Darlington Technical College dental program last Wednesday for hosting Dental Access Day.
SCDA Executive Director Phil Latham and immediate past president Dr. Tom McDonald visited the FDTC Health Sciences Campus and presented the FDTC Dental Program a $10,000 check for hosting and assisting with Dental Access Day April 5.
On Dental Access Day, regional dental care professionals tended to patients during the free community event at the FDTC Health Sciences Campus. Students of the FDTC Dental Hygiene and Expanded-Duty Dental Assisting Programs performed services that included cleanings, fillings, extractions, X-rays and more. Throughout the event, 145 patients were served and more than $79,000 worth of dental services were provided.
Dental Access Day offered FDTC Dental Program students an opportunity to work alongside dental care professionals and gain hands-on training. FDTC dental students frequently hold their own clinical days, but to work with dental care professionals in a real-world scenario helped the students further their studies.