Media cover 91AV's Dental Careers Exploration Camp

A number of media outlets covered 91AV's third annual Dental Careers Exploration Camp for high school students that took place June 24-26, 2012 on the Portland Campus. 

The camp provides students interested in a career in the field a chance to learn more about the various roles that staff in a dental office fill, from dental assistant to hygienist to oral surgeon.

, and WMTW 8 ran features on the camp interviewing high school students and faculty, including clinical assistant professor of dental hygiene Lionel Vachon, D.D.S., former Trustee Jeffrey Doss, D.D.S., and College of Dental Medicine Dean James Koelbl, D.D.S., M.S., M.J.

Other online media outlets that ran stories on the camp included the Associated Press, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal, WGME 13, the Boston Globe, Dentistry IQ, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the Denver Post.

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