Category: Dental Hygiene

Ms. Megan Lea, a 2018 graduate of our BSDH program represented the students from District XII at the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) Students Annual Meeting in June 2017. Lea along with dental hygiene classmates participated in the student poster contest at the 2018 Washington Dental Hygienists’ Association (WDHA) symposium where her group was awarded…

EWU Dental Hygiene students Tori A., Veronica S., Tessa H., and Mercedes M. won third place in the Undergraduate Student Research Competition at the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Annual Session in Columbus, Ohio in June 2018. These students under the tutelage of  Ms. Windy Rothmund, RDH, BSDH, MSDH presented their research poster on “Vaping, We Are Not…

EWU Dental Hygiene Professors Lisa Bilich and Windy Rothmund were invited by Dentsply Sirona to attend the Ultrasonic Teaching Sirona-Dentsply Institute held in  York, Pennsylvania.  This in-depth training consisted of three and one half days of training with experts around the world on the principles of powered instrumentation.  Bilich and Rothmund are leading the development…

Lindsay Lundquist, RDH, BSDH (2010), MSDH (2017) was selected to participate in the Dentsply Sirona Graduate Poster Competition at the American Dental Hygiene Association. She presented her thesis research on ” Using Simulation to Promote Reflective Thinking in Dental Hygiene Practice”  Lundquist will join Lisa Bilich, RDH, MEd.  in San Antonio Texas at the International meeting…

The EWU Dental Hygiene Department participated in their eighth consecutive Vets’ Day this year, providing a low-cost dental services to veterans. For the third year, the event included the involvement from the inter-professional teams from the College of Health Science and Public Health, who treated 45 veterans with dental care, including health screenings for 12…