FHU Students Help Provide Free Dental Care

Freed-Hardeman University's chapter of Remote Area Medical (RAM) provided 458 patients in need with free dental care during a pop-up clinic at Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry during Meharry Oral Health Day in early March. Twenty-one student volunteers helped to provide an estimated $127,532 in services at the one-day clinic in Nashville, Tennessee.

The pop-up clinic set a record for the FHU RAM chapter for the most patients served in a single day. Members of the FHU chapter who attended include: Isaac Amar, Anna Jacobs, Lily Simpson, Addie O'Brian, Dylan Totty, Ben Wade, Matthew Goodin, Emma Guin, Asa Jopson, Ava Cox, Ella Embry, Emily Seibel, Jadyn Allen, Jeanne Seibel, Logan Summers, Luke Sullivan, Maddie Sullivan, Miriam Gallagher, Nina Thompson, Matthew Kuhl and Dan Chang.

Chang, who is the RAM chapter president at FHU, said the Church of Christ in Green Hills, Charlotte Heights Church of Christ, Cameron Miller, and Jackson Stephens helped make the clinic possible. Miller, an FHU alumnus and admissions counselor, chaperoned the trip to Nashville and praised the students' work. "By going on the trip, the students showed great maturity. Many of them passed up club retreats to serve the community," Miller said. "The RAM employees complimented their attitudes and work ethic. It was a great chance to show the quality of FHU's spiritual and academic education."