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North Texas HDA Serves and Mentors through Give Kids A Smile
In February approximately 70 kids benefited in McKinney, Texas by the North Texas HDA Chapter. Alongside dentists, 16 dental students participated as mentees.
70 children served 16 dental student mentees
Scientific & Research Spotlight Dr. Virgilio Mongalo, DMD, is one of HDA’s new members. He recently published an article on Dental Tribune titled “Safe, accurate, implified sinus-lift technique for general practitioners”. Dr. Mongalo is the clinical director of computer-guided surgical implant training at Georgia Health Sciences University, Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is chairman of Mongalo Implant Institute, where dentists come to Mexico or the Dominican Republic for seven days of intensive surgical training under board-certified oral/maxillofacial implant surgeons. He can be reached at (786) 249-4510 or info@liveimplants.com. You may find Dr. Mongalo’s article as part two of a series of three in the February 2013 edition of Dental Tribune.
Marisol King’s research entitled “Endothelin-Converting Enzyme-1 (Ece1) Function in Zebrafish Craniofacial Development” is one of five national finalists for the Craniofacial Biology Group Award for outstanding student research. She will be recognized at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research/International Association for Dental Research to be held in Seattle, Washington this March 20 -23rd. “I am very excited to be a finalist for the award as it is a reflection of the time and work I spent completing this research during the first two years of dental school. Being a Hispanic dental student, I look forward to not only representing the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine, but also the Hispanic Dental Association,” says King. Marisol King, class of 2014, University of Colorado, School of Dental Medicine ASDA Social Chair, Hispanic Student Dental Association Vice President. Ms. King is also nominated by her school’s dean and the head of the school’s dental student research group to participate in the ADA Foundation’s 49th Annual Dental Students’ Conference on Research on April 21-23 in Gaithersburg and Bethesda, Maryland.
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