Lasting Impressions | Summer 2016

42 x NSU LASTING IMPRESSIONS Student Impressions Kelly Cundy is now in her fourth year at NSU’s College of Dental Medicine, but as a child, she wasn’t always the perfect dental patient. Once, when the Fort Lauderdale native was hav- ing a tooth filled, she bit the hand of her pediatric dentist, Dan S. Arnold, D.M.D., who is now a professor of pediatric dentistry at the CDM. “We always laugh about that,” Cundy said. “I’ve come a long way since then.” Indeed she has. The niece of an orthodontist, this cheerful 26-year-old has known since high school that she wanted to pursue a career in dentistry, and after four years as an under- graduate at Florida State University, she was thrilled to return to South Florida and join NSU’s College of Dental Medicine, which she considers one of the top emerging dental schools in the country. Through her classes and her experiences performing cleanings as a second-year student and through more involved procedures as a third-year student at the CDM’s clinics in Davie, North Miami Beach, and Oakland Park, Cundy has already navigated a great deal of dental dilemmas. Future Pediatric Dentist Gives Kids Smiles BY JOHN THOMASON Kelly Cundy (right) with Reneida Reyes, D.D.S., M.P.H., PC, president of the American Dental Association’s Foundation, and third-year CDM student Adam Saltz during the Give Kids A Smile reception.