It was last Sept. 11 when Beverly Mae Cabanatan boarded a Boeing 737 plane from Lomalinda, California en route to Saipan to work for the Seventh Day Adventist Dental Clinic.
Cabanatan, 29, is the latest addition to SDA Dental Clinic's hygienist staff. She said she didn't have a choice to select the date for her trip to the CNMI and admitted that her friends did make some light jokes about the schedule since it was the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Cabanatan said though that she didn't worry about it because she was more excited to see Saipan and work.
Since then she has fallen in love with the island, which she said is very beautiful, “More than what I expected.”
Cabanatan graduated in 2004 at Lomalinda University with a degree in dental hygiene. She has worked as a dental hygienist since then. She said, as a dental hygienist she has been very active in educating and promoting good oral hygiene.
Cabanatan will be working for the Seventh Day Adventist Clinic for a year. She said her colleagues in the company have been very friendly and warm. “Everyone is great, helpful,” she said.
One of her visions as she continues to work with the clinic is to get herself be more involved in helping the kids in the CNMI practice good oral hygiene. “I am hoping to reach out different areas such as the teens in the CNMI,” she added.
Cabanatan said she would take an active part in the clinic's upcoming “Clinic with a Heart,” a community project to promote good dental care and hygiene in the Commonwealth.
Cabanatan has an accountant brother and a sister that works as an occupational therapist in California.
Dental Hygiene Month
October is once again the Dental Hygiene Month and dentists and hygienists from Seventh Day Adventist Dental Clinic will be doing their rounds to promote dental hygiene awareness, especially among children in the CNMI.
Dental hygienists from the clinic will visit kindergarten and elementary students at their schools and show them the proper way of brushing their teeth. The project coincides with the nationwide observance of National Dental Hygiene Month.
The American Dental Hygienists’ Association sponsored the nationwide observation of the month of October as National Dental Hygiene Month. Each year ADHA chooses a specific dental hygiene-related topic to focus on and this year’s topic is tobacco and heart disease.
ADHA is encouraging dental hygienists across the nation to get involved in the 2005 NDHM effort to increase public awareness of these tobacco-related risk factors, and how dental hygienists save lives by recognizing the symptoms of life-threatening diseases before they get serious.
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