Fourth-year dental students Areon Smith (L) and Rachel Jackson (R), perform a procedure on a patient while first-year student Kali Harris observes at Meharry Medical College’s Oral Health Day September 24.
Students in one of the Meharry School of Medicine’s dental clinics provide free cleanings, fillings and extractions during the college's Oral Health Day September 24.
Fourth-year dental students Areon Smith (L) and Rachel Jackson (R), perform a procedure on a patient while first-year student Kali Harris observes at Meharry Medical College’s Oral Health Day September 24.
Photo: Lucius Patenaude
Patients wait in line for Meharry Medical College's Oral Health Day.
Photo: Lucius Patenaude
Students in one of the Meharry School of Medicine’s dental clinics provide free cleanings, fillings and extractions during the college's Oral Health Day September 24.
Antonio Roberts, a fourth-year student at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry, has decided to specialize in pediatric dentistry when he graduates. It was fitting that he got to serve at the school’s Oral Health Day event on Saturday — the first time the event included children. As a child, Roberts had silver crowns on all of his teeth, and he wants to do his part to prevent the same outcome for other kids.
Antonio Roberts
“Just having that childhood trauma, I eventually navigated toward the sciences and art,” Roberts said. “I worked my way towards dentistry also wanting to understand more about my condition as a child, and really taking ownership in that is what anchored me in dentistry.”
