Sachem Dental Group has partnered with the Stony Brook Foundation to establish the Sachem Dental Group Endodontics Scholarship Fund at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine. This initiative is aimed at providing financial assistance to select high-achieving residents enrolled in the school's Advanced Dental Education Program in Endodontics.
Patrick Lloyd, dean of the School of Dental Medicine, expressed gratitude for the support provided by Sachem Dental Group. "We are grateful for this generous gift from Sachem Dental Group, whose support will allow program residents to complete their endodontic training not only with a lesser financial burden but give them more freedom to pursue professional opportunities after they graduate."
Sachem Dental Group, known for offering various oral healthcare services in Central Suffolk County, has been operating for more than 30 years with six offices, including locations in Holbrook, Lake Ronkonkoma, Nesconset, Selden, and Patchogue. Anthony Gentile, DDS from Sachem Dental Group, highlighted the group's connection to Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine, saying, "As Sachem Dental Group developed into the largest private group dental practice on Long Island, we could not have done so without our many doctors that graduated from Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine."
Gentile emphasized the importance of the scholarship fund: "The partners — those who started Sachem Dental and the current partners and staff — felt it necessary to give back to the school. We have selected the students of the Advanced Dental Education Program in Endodontics as beneficiaries of our Endowment. By paying it forward, we hope every graduate will do the same."
Thomas Manders, DDS '91, director of the endodontic residency program at Stony Brook, looks forward to continued success for their trainees. He stated, "I, along with the entire endodontic faculty, express my deepest gratitude to Sachem Dental Group, a longtime ally of the school. Their support will allow scholarship recipients, as well as our program, to thrive well into the future."
The endodontics residency program, accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation, was established in 1996 and is one of seven dental specialty programs at Stony Brook. The program is two years long and consists of five residents, admitting two and three in alternating years.