Gift from dentalcorp to support critical skills shortage

With shortages of Certified Dental Assistants (CDAs) across Canada, dentalcorp is investing in a local solution with a gift to the Our Students, Your Health campaign.

Canada’s leading and fastest-growing network of dental practices, dentalcorp is giving $35,000 in support of a new dental clinic inside Okanagan College’s Health Sciences Centre in Kelowna . The modern clinic will educate CDAs for the Okanagan and beyond.

“It’s important to our network and our industry as a whole to do our part to foster innovative, best-in-class professional development, particularly among our up-and-coming generation of clinicians,” said Guy Amini, President, dentalcorp. “We know that having the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology under the guidance of industry-leading instructors will continue to attract talented, ambitious individuals to our field and help fill the many current and emerging roles we have available.”

With a network of over 430 practices across Canada, dentalcorp has four clinics in Kelowna and 12 across the Okanagan. dentalcorp’s gift will support a dental operatory and a new panoramic X-ray room for students. Okanagan College has been educating CDAs since the 1970s.