Lasting Impressions | Summer 2017

30 © NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY inviting atmosphere. The CDM worked with medical and phar- macy students to provide nutritional counseling and information on poison control and vaccinations. “We were able to provide comprehensive care to the families we educated and treated. We’re committed to making a child’s first dental visit a truly enjoyable experience,” said Adam Saltz, M.P.H., who is a class of 2017 D.M.D. candidate. “Our transition to electronic health records also made the program run exception- ally smoothly.” Saltz and fourth-year student Divya Puri were codirectors of the 2017 Give Kids A Smile event. The Give Kids A Smile program, launched nationally by the American Dental Association Foundation in 2003, is one of the world’s largest oral health charitable programs. The program annually provides dental care to more than 350,000 children from low-income families across the country. u