Changing Faces of America

Outreach honored: Dental student coordinators for the Community Dental Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry include, from left, Luis Gutierrez, Chris Kim, Ryan Ray Dela Cruz, Osvaldo Amezcua, Crystal Chang and Pamela Bui. The clinic received the 2012 ADA Foundation Bud Tarrson Award for its mission to treat homeless clients

Some Americans in their 50s, 60s and 70s  are having a hard time understanding that the 'old' America of their youth is no longer the America that we live in.   I have no idea of whether the young dental students in this picture were born in America but there is no doubt that they ARE Americans. These are the future names and faces of our country.

The dental class at SUNY/Buffalo in 1972 had TWO  female dental students. My class of 1973 had FOUR females and the class of 1974 had SEVEN.  The fact there there were female dental students at all was dismaying to the faculty at the time. Today, 53% of professional schools...Medical, Dental and Law..are female.

This is a different and perhaps a better America. What a great country we live in.