ADHA Announces Participant of 2009 DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Student Clinicians Program

Chicago, July 1, 2009—The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) has recognized Sarah (Bullington) Clark, BSDH, MS, of Alexandria, Tenn., as a participant of the DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Student Clinicians Program. She was honored during the DENTSPLY/ADHA Student Clinician Program Awards Banquet at ADHA’s 86th Annual Session in Washington, D.C., on June 19.

The purpose of the DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Dental Hygiene Research Program is to promote dental hygiene research by supporting one graduate dental hygiene student from each accredited graduate dental hygiene program offering a Masters of Science Degree in dental hygiene and related disciplines (as identified by the ADHA) to present his/her research at the 2009 ADHA CLL at Annual Session. This program allows the student clinician an opportunity to compete for awards and recognition. The DENTSPLY/ADHA Graduate Dental Hygiene Research Program consists of a poster presentation where the research or clinical findings are presented in a format that includes a hypothesis, methods and materials, results, discussion and a conclusion.

Clark received a Masters of Science in dental hygiene from The University of Tennessee Health Science Center at Memphis in 2008. She was also awarded the Outstanding Master of Dental Hygiene Graduate Student Award from The University of Tennessee. Sarah received a Bachelor of Science in dental hygiene from East Tennessee State University in 2006 and Associate of Applied Science degrees from Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College in 2002. She is an active member of ADHA and the Tennessee Dental Hygienists’ Association.

ADHA is the largest national organization representing the professional interests of more than 150,000 dental hygienists across the country. Dental hygienists are preventive oral health professionals, licensed in dental hygiene, who provide educational, clinical and therapeutic services that support total health through the promotion of optimal oral health. For more information about ADHA, dental hygiene or the link between oral health and general health, visit ADHA at http://www.adha.org.

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