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Every tooth in a mans head is more valuable than a diamond. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
to you, can help us maintain our excellence. Join us in our events and be an active member. If youre a pre-dental, you can join ASDA and pay on our chapter website! Remember that ASDOH is an auto-enrolled school, so be sure to take advantage of our benefits such as discounts on The Next DDS, Geico, T-Mobile, just to name a few. You are a part of our ASDA, and winning IDEAL ASDA is as much as your award as it is ours. We hope you will continue to help out and join in on our events. Hope to see you at our next event!
These students are given the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to receive free room and board, and their tuition paid for by their sponsors donations. The students are selected based on their ambitious goals and commitment to serve their communities as future professionals. Some students at One-2-One were in high school, others were medical students, nursing students, engineering students, and a few were taking informal classes with the organization staff, while waiting for an official sponsor. The sponsors are only obligated to donate to a student for one year, so all of the resident students futures were up to fate, every year. From March 11- March 16, 2012, ASDOH ASDA members had the pleasure of working with One-2-One staff and volunteers to provide free dental care in the Kandal province, about 1.5 hours outside of Phnom Penh. We arrived to the Khairos guest house that is run by the resident students, and were greeted by the house leader, Konnga. She explained that the first floor had two large rooms that were reserved for visitors. These visitors are often volunteers from overseas, (like us, ASDOH students), or just travelers that are exploring the city. The second floor is reserved for the resident students, one room for the girls, and another room for the boys. The residents take turns cooking meals and cleaning for all of the students and the guests every day. They also offer free laundry service to the visitors. On the first night, the students took us to the Mekong River via the One-2-One tuk-tuk, for a boat ride. On the boat, we ate fruits and snacks, sang songs, played games, Continued on next page and really enjoyed each others company. It was so inspiring and refreshing to see these young people full of energy and life, despite the devastating circumstances that
Congratulations to ASDOH Class of 2012 on graduating! Everyone at ASDOH and ASDA is very proud to have you serving our communities all over the nation. And a special congratulations to those continuing on to specialties. We wish you all the very best in your future endeavors.
Here are just a few of your fellow students who were accepted into residency programs Alissa BordaGPR Residency, Greater Puget Sound VA Hospital Trent C. Buehler Air Force AEGD Stephanie Canton AEGD, Dental Education in the Care of Persons with Disabilities Fellowship , University of Washington, Seattle, WA Clark Chen Prosthodontics, University of California San Francisco Shane Clark Endodontics, University of Missouri, Kansas City School of Dentistry Trent Clifton Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Kentucky Rena J. Christman Pediatric Dental Residency, Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin Matthew Dahar Pediatric Dental Residency, Medical University of South Carolina Marian Farag AEGD, VA Bay Pines, Maderia Beach, FL Stephen Hutton Periodontics, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda Naval Post Graduate Dental School (Washington D.C.) Maryam Meschi Pediatric Residency Program, Baylor College of Dentistry James McLaughlin Army Prosthodontic Residency Program Jessics Nguyen AEGD, Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health Rakhee PatelGRP, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY Hemali Rajyaguru Orthodontics, Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health Avanija ReddyPediatrics, University of Alabama School of Dentistry Jeremiah SturgillOrthodontics, Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health