Provides an atmosphere for sharing common interests and developing life-long friendships.

 

Through the student and alumni chapter, can assist and facilitate your adjustment to the new scholastic situation.

 

Provides focal point for your social activities.

 

Offers a Big Brother/Big Sister Program, which enables student members to interact with alumni on a professional as well as social basis.
 

Offers the opportunity to attend its International Convention where you meet other schools, meet alumni from all parts of the continent and overseas and participate with them on an equal basis - creates the opportunity to make contacts concerning future post-graduate training, employment or establishment of a personal practice.

 

Has compiled a Post-Graduate and Residency Guide to assist you in selecting a program and advise you with your application.

 

Because of its size, distribution, history and caliber of members, can create considerable influence in education, the profession and many communities.

 

Has established a Foundation, second only to the A.D.A., to provide support to dental education in your school as well as throughout the world, to further dental research, promote dental health and charitable endeavors.

 

Is the only dental fraternity which invites its students to attend its annual convention on a par with the alumni and subsidizes the expenses of the official chapter delegates and, to a lesser extent, all of the students attending.

 

Is the only dental fraternity in which the student, following graduation, automatically enters the alumni ranks without any re-evaluation.

 

Appoints students on many of its International Committees and expects them to participate actively.

 

Through the Foundation, maintains an emergency loan fund for sophomore, junior and senior students.

 

Is actively concerned with community involvement, sponsoring both dental and general activities on the local and international levels.

 

Promotes active contact with all of its members serving in the Armed Forces.

 

Offers substantial savings to its members in purchasing group accident and health, hospital and life insurance programs.

 

Encourages auxiliaries on the student as well as the alumni level for spouses and friends of the members.

 

Originally built the Biological Laboratories at Brandeis University and then went on to found the School of Dental Medicine at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Sponsor the Dental School at Tel Aviv University, and continue to actively support their growth, research and academic programs.

 

Is the only dental fraternity that provides an Externship Program for junior students entering their senior year where they have the opportunity to observe some of the finest clinicians for a minimum of two weeks. Externships have been sponsored in Toronto, Washington DC, Boston, New York, Miami, Atlanta, St. Louis, Albuquerque, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.

 

Provides a bulk purchase program for students.

 

Provides an Associateship Program, which attempts to match new graduates with dentists who are seeking associates.