Author: Anne Stein

In the rural Albanian village where Oneida Shushe ’19 was born, there wasn’t a single dentist. A trip to a dentist in the city was expensive, so people only went when someone was in a lot of pain. “Lack of access resulted in poor oral health for everyone, including me,” Shushe says. “I had a mouthful of cavities by age 9.” When her family won a visa lottery to move to the United States and settled in Albany, N.Y., Shushe, who was finishing up the third grade, noticed her new classmates had much healthier teeth and gums than the children…

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