TCC Dental Hygiene Students Attend National Board Competition

Tallahassee Community College (TCC) students attended the Dental Hygiene National Board Competition hosted by It's Hygienic at the State College of Florida. During this event, dental hygiene students in their last semester throughout the state participated in a multi-round competition consisting of 400 questions, ranging from anywhere to core sciences, dental hygiene process of care, to the ethics and research within the field.

TCC's team, Buccal Up!, consisted of five second-year dental hygiene students: Imani Oteghile, Hannah Poston, Jennifer Hedrick, Lindsey Bassford and Christina Davidson. They were joined by fellow student Brenda Page and Dental Hygiene Program Advisor Debra Burtoft. Other TCC dental program students also attended, acting as audience members to benefit from the board review.

"Our students represented TCC well," said Burtoft. "We placed in the final four and were able to participate in the final round. We ended up [in] fourth place out of nine teams who competed."

Imani Oteghile was awarded a $400 scholarship as part of a short essay contest, and Jennifer Hedrick won a $299 National Boards Review Membership from Student RDH.

To learn more about TCC's Dental Program, visit www.tcc.fl.edu/academics/programs/b317/.