Sinking Their
Teeth Into Costa
Rica
By Alice Chen,
emorywheel.com
For most
students, a
spring break
trip to Costa
Rica sounds like
the perfect
exotic getaway.
For the Emory
American Student
Dental
Association (EASDA),
the trip of a
lifetime meant
sweat, blood and
tears — but
mostly sweat.
To get hands-on
dental
experience while
providing care
to patients in
need, a group of
seven students
went to
Puntarenas, an
impoverished
town in Costa
Rica, with
Volunteer for
Intercultural
and Definitive
Adventures
(VIDA).
Despite humid
weather in the
upper 90s,
College seniors
Lisa Roseman,
Andrew Baek,
Chelsea Dinner,
Laura Daly and
Diana Pimentel
and College
juniors Joe
O’Geen, Paul
Choi and Riyaz
Jiwani worked
eight hours a
day for three
days in a small
church that
housed all of
two dentists’
chairs.
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