Tag Archive for Dental Hygiene

Dental clinic re-opens

Quick work and detailed planning allow Dental Hygiene program to safely keep training students and serving the community       For 51 years, Clark College’s dental hygiene clinic provided affordable dental service to the community—until the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close in spring term. Now, thanks to careful planning by the college’s dental…

All smiles

2019 Dental Hygiene graduates

Clark College Dental Hygiene celebrates a 100 percent pass rate      Clark College’s dental hygiene program has long had plenty to smile about: its high-quality teaching facilities, its status as the college’s first bachelor’s degree program, and its important work providing dental hygiene care in the community. Recently, the program’s faculty received news to…

Free dental health day for kids

Young girl in dentist chair

Dental Hygiene students give community a great reason to smile      The Clark College Dental Hygiene Program will hold a free children’s dental clinic on Saturday, February 3, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the main campus of Clark College. The event will take place in the Firstenburg Dental Hygiene Education and Care…

Little patients, big smiles

Young girl in dentist chair

Children’s Free Dental Health Day helps more than 100 kids      Some days, it’s like the Tooth Fairy is trying to tell you something. For instance, there’s nothing like losing one of your baby teeth to remind you that you need to visit the dentist. Fortunately for Juliet Shiemke, age 7, students from the…

Free Children’s Dental Health Day on Feb. 4

The Clark College Dental Hygiene Program will hold a free children’s dental clinic on Saturday, February 4, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the main campus of Clark College. The event will take place in the Firstenburg Dental Hygiene Education and Care Center in the Health Sciences Building on Clark’s main campus. Dental hygiene…

Penguins Fly

Dental Hygiene BAS grads

Clark College’s 80th graduating class takes wing        “Mommy did it!” read the message on Ashley Ellis’s mortarboard cap, the glittery writing sparkling in the sun as she waited outside the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater before Clark College’s 80th Commencement ceremony on June 16. Ellis wrote the message for her 2-year-old son, Paul, who…

Keeping Kids Healthy

Dental Hygiene

Clark College Dental Hygiene hosts Free Children’s Dental Health Day on Feb. 7      The Clark College Dental Hygiene Program will hold a free children’s dental clinic on Saturday, February 7 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the main campus of Clark College. The event will take place in the newly remodeled Firstenburg…

Clark to offer its first bachelor’s degree

Dental Hygiene student

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) has approved Clark College’s proposal to add the college’s first baccalaureate degree. Starting in the fall of 2015 the college will offer a Bachelor of Applied Science in Dental Hygiene. The B.A.S. in Dental Hygiene will benefit both students and the community, according to Dr. Tim Cook,…

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