Improving oral, health awareness with student outreach prog


Community care: The multidisciplinary team from UM posing for a photo with the centre’s residents.

THANKS to a team of Universiti Malaya (UM) dentistry and pharmacy undergraduates, a programme was recently conducted to raise oral and health awareness and provide basic oral screening for individuals with intellectual disabilities at a centre in Kuala Lumpur.

The community outreach initiative, dubbed 3D (Dental, Diabetes & Disability), was led by the varsity’s Faculty of Dentistry lecturer Dr Jessica Francis, and held on April 23 at IQ70+.

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