Henry Schein will donate dental equipment valued at $860,000 to students in the ADA's Community Dental Health Coordinator (CDHC) pilot program. The students will use the equipment initially for hands-on clinical training in the program, which will produce new members of the dental team to help provide oral healthcare to people living in underserved communities.
After training, the equipment will be used to provide services to patients.
Henry Schein's donation is part of Henry Schein Cares, the company's global corporate social responsibility program that seeks to enhance access to healthcare for underserved populations around the world.
Temple University in Pennsylvania is training students to work in urban areas; the University of Oklahoma is training students to work in rural communities; and the University of California, Los Angeles in conjunction with Salish Kootenai College in Montana is training students to work in Native American communities. All the educational institutions collaborate with Rio Salado College in Tempe, AZ, to deliver the online and clinical components of the curriculum.
The first group of CDHCs completed training programs in Oklahoma and California on September 26, and the second group is scheduled to graduate in the fall of 2011.
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