The Global Oral Health Initiative

A Project of the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity

Reducing the debilitating nature of dental disease faced by those in need, worldwide.

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This site has been created to provide exposure of the many wonderful ways dental professionals provide care and support to those who have dental and medical needs. We believe that poor dental health is debilitating in the sense that it affects overall well being and creates a psychological stigma. Please join us here and share your thoughts and personal experiences. If you have been a part of a program or mission that has helped people, feel free to upload your photos with commentary. We will all benefit.
 

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Marc Rothman

Dental fraternity co-hosts charity dinner

December 18, 2009

ATLANTA, Georgia--Tomorrow's SMILES and Atlanta Alpha Omega Chapter teamed up with Atlantan Magazine Nov. 5, 2009, to sponsor the first "Toasting Tomorrow's SMILES" dinner.

The fundraiser to benefit Tomorrow's SMILES, a program of the nonprofit National Children's Oral Health Foundation, raised more than $12,000 to provide oral health services to help promising at-risk students be better prepared for happy, healthy and productive futures.

The 56 guests enjoyed a… Continue

Posted by Marc Rothman on December 19, 2009 at 6:27pm

Howard Strang

A Reminder

There are so many people in our world for whom the thought of Dental Insurance or any kind of Dental Plan seems so unrealistic its nonsensical. I was reminded of this as I read the story of Erik Winn, a dentist from Sycamore, IL who recently traveled to Haiti with a group from his church to… Continue

Posted by Howard Strang on November 11, 2009 at 4:51pm — 1 Comment

Joyce Schneider

Anybody else outraged at the story in Sunday's NY Times about the cancer-causing water pollution in Charleston, W. Virgina,and the horrible damage this is inflicting on the teeth of the residents…

Anybody else outraged at the story in Sunday's NY Times about the cancer-causing water pollution in Charleston, W. Virgina,and the horrible damage this is inflicting on the teeth of the residents (particularly children's teeth) not to mention other alarming health effects this is having? How can this be happening? State regulators knew about this and still continue to look the other way. Just look at the photo of the teeth &mouth of the 7 year old on the front page of the paper. Worse yet… Continue

Posted by Joyce Schneider on September 15, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Joseph Amodeo

Dental practitioners play an important role in regards to HIV/AIDS

Initiatives such as the Global Oral Health Initiative are imperative to the overall success of health care and in turn the furtherance of the development of countries around the world. Actually this has an interesting connection to my academic studies (MA in Political Science), which focus on the implementation and impact of health policy. I am currently working on developing a program for the Ukraine in regards to HIV/AIDS policy as a part of my graduate program at The Rockefeller College of… Continue

Posted by Joseph Amodeo on February 2, 2009 at 11:30pm — 3 Comments

Kelliann Rita

AO Beta Iota helps out with "Chopper Toppers"

4 Members of the Alpha Omega Beta Iota Chapter at the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine volunteered at Manuel High School's MLK Day Health Fair by placing sealants with Kids In Need of Dentistry's Chopper Topper Program. For more info on KIND or AO Beta Iota please visit: http://www.kindsmiles.org or http://betaiota.ao.org.

Posted by Kelliann Rita on January 19, 2009 at 7:43pm

Vladi Dvoyris

"Teddy Bear Hospital" - is it really for stuffed Teddies alone?

In the Ein-Kerem medical campus - with a total of 3000 students - the School of Dental Medicine is one of the smallest schools. However, our students take an active part in all of the activities on campus, including a new one, that has become one of our best projects in the past two years.



"Teddy Bear Hospital" is a project that we have adopted from European medical students' organizations. The concept includes opening a "field hospital" in a school or community center, and asking… Continue

Posted by Vladi Dvoyris on January 12, 2009 at 3:30pm

Sam Zwetchkenbaum

Next step for Uganda community

Thanks to all who have written about my experience and also that of Tani and Adam over in Uganda. I am trying to figure out what the next step should be. Initially, I had thought that it would be good to put together a proposal for a grant to fund a dental clinic in the new health center which is being built, but two major problems come into play...1) the building of the new health center has been stalled due to lack so funds, and 2) who would staff the clinic? I'm sure there are other issues,… Continue

Posted by Sam Zwetchkenbaum on December 14, 2008 at 11:23am — 1 Comment

Sam Zwetchkenbaum

Uganda survey pictures

I just added some pictures from Uganda taken by Adam Baruch this summer. Adam, son of Detroit frater Murray Baruch, and Tani Shtull-Leber, are University of Michigan pre-med students who went to work in a health clinic near the Abayudaya community and were able to fulfill my request of performing a dental survey. They did a great job and I will be posting the results of that survey soon.

Posted by Sam Zwetchkenbaum on October 23, 2008 at 6:50am — 2 Comments

kenneth spektor

Volunteering Matters, Our experience in Bolivia

'' What can we do today, to help these beautiful but orphaned and unwanted children?'' this is what Yvonne and I hear as we walk into the first of our daily breakfast meetings in Cochabamba,Bolivia.



Immediately we both know that we are with a group that will fulfil every expectation (and probably more) that we had hoped for when we flew from London to Bolivia. We have joined 24 like minded wonderfully talented and philanthropic individuals from the USA on the 21 st Annual… Continue

Posted by kenneth spektor on July 28, 2008 at 2:52pm — 1 Comment

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