Dalhousie College President Dr. Kim Brookes not too long ago toured the College of Dentistry’s Executive Assisted Populations (GAP) Oral Well being Health facility, which serves new Canadians wanting oral well being care.
The GAP Health facility companions with the Immigrant Services and products Affiliation of Nova Scotia to offer dentistry to new immigrants to the province. Many sufferers obtain their first-ever dental assessments on the hospital. The care is supplied by way of dentistry and dental hygiene scholars and college. It’s funded by way of Dalhousie alum, previous school individuals and donor Susan Keating-Bekkers.
Now not handiest does the hospital supply necessary oral well being remedy for such a lot of sufferers, additionally it is an excellent finding out alternative for college students to achieve self belief with hands-on revel in amongst a various workforce of sufferers.
“Consider how the ones interactions trade who those scholars are and what they care about,” Dr. Brooks says. “It allows them to suppose extra about who their sufferers are and the way they may be able to keep in touch with them extra successfully. That suggests higher, extra empathetic, and extra inclusive care.”