ADHA Announces Recipient of 2010
Student Member Community Service Award

CHICAGO, July 1—The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) has named SUNY Canton College of Technology Student American Dental Hygiene Association as one of three recipients of the Student Member Community Service Award. It was honored during the Saturday Plenary Session and Awards Presentation at ADHA’s 87th Annual Session in Las Vegas on June 26.

The program is being honored for providing preventive dental hygiene care for high risk populations. All students who participated in this project were May 2010 graduates of the SUNY Canton dental hygiene program and student members of ADHA.

Sponsored by Tom’s of Maine, this award recognizes outstanding student chapters of ADHA that have made a significant contribution to the community. At least 90 percent of an institution’s dental hygiene class must be student members of ADHA for the chapter to be eligible for consideration.

ADHA is the largest national organization representing the professional interests of more than 150,000 dental hygienists across the country. Dental hygienists are preventive oral health professionals, licensed in dental hygiene, who provide educational, clinical and therapeutic services that support total health through the promotion of optimal oral health. For more information about ADHA, dental hygiene or the link between oral health and general health, visit ADHA at www.adha.org.

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