
It was always my intention to work in the field of healthcare because of the opportunities this area of work offers to help others directly and fundamentally. My initial purpose was to pursue a medical career. Still, an interest in dentistry developed when I witnessed, at close hand, the great mi…
I am a young woman and a dentist from India, 26 years old; I now live in the USA. I hope to be accepted to earn the DDS Degree at XXXX, in particular, because of my deep admiration for the research going on in your program dedicated to oral cancer and reducing the size of tumors. Since my own lifet…
If you were to look into the waiting room of a typical US dentist’s office, you are likely to see several relaxed-looking patients reading magazines. If you look at those queuing for treatment at a free dental clinic in India, you will see many swollen faces and pain-filled eyes but also the smilin…
As I write this, thousands of miles from my childhood home in Mumbai, I reflect on the events that placed my feet irrevocably on the path of Dentistry, a path laid with an understanding of what it truly means to be poor, stigmatized, and ostracized simply because of where you went to school. Whether…