Bringing Residents to Rural Communities
Our UCSF Open Smiles Collaborative curricula expands the hands-on, experiential learning of UCSF Dental Public Health and Pediatric Dentistry dentists in rural local oral health programs.

2023 Field Sites: Alameda County | Butte County | Sonoma County | Trinity County


Piloting the virtual dental home/school-based telehealth model in Tuolumne County. These elements of our program are led by Dr. Paul Glassman, DDS, MPH, a leader and pioneer in the virtual dental home/telehealth school program and the Smile Keepers Dental Program, a 28-year-old, school-based dental program led by Mrs. Erika Hagstrom-Dossi, RDA, Ocean Arellano, RDHAP, and Cady Kuykendall to provide preventive school-based preventive oral health services.