The Student National Dental Association was founded in 1970 as a student version of the National Dental association. A group of dedicated African-American dental students at Meharry Medical College found it necessary to create an organization that linked minority dental students across the nation together in fellowship and in service.  

The Student National Dental Association continues to rise to the occasion as the key student voice in matters of oral health for the underserved and the education of minority oral health care professionals throughout the world with 6 basic objectives:

 

1. To promote and encourage an increase in minority enrollment in all dental schools. 

2. To be committed to the improvement of dental health care delivery to all disadvantaged people. 

3. To provide time a skill in assisting those programs within the greater community which required some measure of dental expertise.

4. To contribute to the welfare of dental students.

5. To educate and involve its members in the social, moral, and ethical obligations of the profession of dentistry. 

6. To promote a variable academic and social environment that is conductive to the mental health of minority students.

 

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