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On
behalf of the South Carolina Dental Hygiene Association, welcome to
our website!
My name is Renee
Spencer and I am the 2009-2010 President of our professional
association, SCDHA. You are cordially invited to connect,
rejuvenate and learn with us through the information found here. If
there is anything you need, please do not hesitate to seek me; I am
willing to help in any way I can.
One only need pick up the newspaper or tune into a talk radio show
or television newscast to know the current events and timely topics
that affect us in so many ways today. What does this all mean to us
when we put on our dental hygiene hats? Will healthcare reform
impact us/our bosses/our patients? How long will we wait to see
proposed changes implemented and what should we do in the
meanwhile? Is my career going to still carry its value if/when laws
change? These are some questions that are running common through
the minds of everyone that is in our profession. There is no better
arena to learn something you didn’t know, meet someone you hadn’t
met, or discuss something about which you feel passionate than by
belonging to your professional association, full of dental
healthcare providers, educators, researchers, and product
representatives just like you!!
South Carolina Dental Hygiene Association is comprised of
registered dental hygienists that are committed to the profession of
dental hygiene. We are women and men with a dedicated passion to
serve the public in the highest respect of providing dental hygiene
services and education while interacting with the dental team in an
ongoing drive to give our best. Simply put, SCDHA wishes to
preserve dental hygiene in its truest form while moving forward in
the profession as we look to the future. This is done through/in
many ways: membership, education, legislation, public relations,
and fellowship. It has been my privilege to serve in the capacity of
your president throughout the past year and I look forward to this
next year and what is ahead. For those of you that are already
members, I congratulate you and applaud your commitment. For the
rest of you that may be thinking about membership, hesitate no
longer—find a member and ask what he/she feels about belonging,
unity and professional advancement. For those of you wondering
about our association, investigate us to the next level---check us
and you will see for what we stand and how deep our care and
commitment run. Finally, for those of you that think you know what
we are about and have decided, on poor information or rumor, that
SCDHA is not your professional association,
please find me. As registered dental hygienists, you cannot
want to be uninvolved in a group of real people working for the
betterment of what we do for our patients’ and our own fulfillment.
Please consider joining SCDHA and/or serving the association in some
way. Your time has come. We need you and you need us; you won’t
find better people! Please meet me via email, facebook, text,
mobile or land phone lines, or in person and “show me your smile”.
I am here to serve you, along with some wonderful executive board
line officers and committee chairs who make this association run
smoothly. None of this can exist without YOU. Enjoy yourself as you
network, learn, laugh, grow and advance in this wonderful profession
of ours---dental hygiene. Welcome, again!
Sending smiles,
Renee G. Spencer, RDH
SCDHA President
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