“Thanks to you, I'll be a dentist who can watch her patients' whole health.”

Caitlin Deitz is this year's holder of the Foti scholarship, established by the school's Class of 1980 to honor their late classmate David Foti, DDS. She is learning a new approach to the dentist's role as a health provider. Most people see their dentist more often than their physician, so dentists are ideally placed to watch for developing health problems, like high blood pressure. Caitlin wants to be the kind of practitioner whose patients are comfortable telling her about their overall well-being. By the time she starts practicing, dentists may be offering basic health-screening tests as part of routine visits. But the key factor in this new vigilance will always be the dentist's relationship with her patients.
 

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