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Plaza College celebrates ribbon cutting for new dental clinic
PHOTOS BY DEAN MOSES
Th e Queens community has
a new place where families can
receive dental care while students
can learn the ins and
outs of dentistry.
On Friday, Oct. 20, Plaza
College celebrated the ribbon
cutting for their new
Community Dental Clinic.
Charles E. Callahan IV,
CPA, chief operating offi cer
of Plaza College and Charles
E. Callahan, Plaza College
MS President, were joined
by many elected offi cials,
including Borough President
Melinda Katz, Senator Jose
Peralta, and Congressman Joe
Crowley, for this momentous
occasion.
Another elected officials
who were in attendance were
Assemblywoman Alicia L.
Hyndman, Assemblyman
David Weprin, Councilman
Barry S. Grodenchik and
Councilman Daniel Dromm.
Earlier this year, Plaza
College announced that aft er
a two-year-long process selfstudy,
program review, and
site evaluation, the college had
been approved to off er the
city’s fi rst Dental Hygiene program
to their fi elds of study.
Th e program is the fi rst new
program in all of New York
City in the past 27 years.
In conjunction with the
new program, Plaza College
announced that it would
be opening an on-site
Community Dental Clinic.
Th e new state of the art clinic
is open to the public, providing
services such as preventive
dental hygiene procedures
including dental prophylaxis,
dental radiographs,
topical fl uorides, anxiety and
pain control procedures, oral
health education, infection
control procedures and dental
offi ce procedures.
While expanding the community’s
access to dental
care, the clinic will allow
the student hygienists needed
to complete the program
and obtain licensure. Under
the watchful eye of licensed
dentists and hygienists, students
of the Dental Hygiene
program will screen patients
to not only determine their
oral health status, but to help
them create a treatment plan
to provide quality care for
their teeth.
For more information about
the Plaza College Community
Dental Clinic or Plaza College’s
Dental Hygiene Program, visit
www.plazacollege.edu.