Dental Hygiene Articles

Shawn A. Kiser, director of dental hygiene at Pennsylvania College of Technology, was recently appointed as a consultant to the North East Regional Board of Dental Examiners. Kiser will serve as a member of a team of examiners whose responsibility is to determine clinical competency for dental hygiene candidates taking their licensure examination.

Laura A. Luttrell, a dental hygiene major from Elizabethtown, has been chosen by Pennsylvania College of Technology's Student Government Association as "Student of the Month" for September. Among her extracurricular activities, this month's honoree is vice president of The Student American Dental Hygienists' Association and participates in SGA.

On May 3, senior dental hygiene students at Pennsylvania College of Technology provided free dental sealants to children at the first Sullivan Sealant Day. The sealant program was a community event cosponsored by Penn College, the Sullivan County School District and Sullivan County Action, a nonprofit organization.

Tammy S. Clossen, assistant professor of dental hygiene at Pennsylvania College of Technology, will be honored for the second consecutive year in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." Clossen's biography will appear in the 10th edition of the book, to be published later this year. Clossen also appeared in the book's ninth edition, published in 2005.

Dental hygiene students and faculty from Pennsylvania College of Technology, working with volunteer dental hygienists, provided free oral screenings, sealants and education for 118 as part of the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association's statewide Sealant Saturday program on Feb. 4..

Volunteer dentists, dental hygienists and Pennsylvania College of Technology's dental hygiene students will offer free oral screenings, sealants and education for children ages 7 to 15 on Feb. 4 as part of the Sealant Saturday program. The event is sponsored statewide by the Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists' Association and is hosted locally by Penn College in its dental hygiene clinic from 9 a.m.

Philadelphia area dental hygienists now have the opportunity to earn baccalaureate degrees to advance in their field thanks to a unique program using videoconferencing technology. The bachelor of science degree course work in dental hygiene will be delivered from Pennsylvania College of Technology, in Williamsport, to a classroom at Montgomery County Community College.

Thanks to an agreement between a private, liberal arts college and a public college of technology, advanced education in dental hygiene is now available in the Philadelphia area. Starting this fall, Pennsylvania College of Technology will offer its bachelor of science degree in dental hygiene at Harcum College, in Bryn Mawr.