Smiles on Friday – June 13, 2025

Smiles on Friday is our weekly update from around the ECU School of Dental Medicine. Follow the activities of students, faculty, staff and residents each week. If you want to receive the email version, please send a note to smilesonfriday@ecu.edu.

Three dental students sitting in chairs.

Dr. Dimple Shah, 2nd year Family Medicine resident, reviews anatomic landmarks for local dental anesthesia with GPR residents Drs. Miguel Ibarra and Tyler Reason ’24.

Two students holding tiki torches.

D3s Samantha Yarboro and Kaylee Flannigan were group leaders at Survivor: Radiology during this week’s Preparing Tomorrow’s Dentists.

Three women in dental clinic.

Dr. Karen Barwick, our new director of CSLC-Lillington, had a great time learning more about CSLC operations from Mary Beth Stroud and Haley Casper, dental assistants at CSLC-Ahoskie.

People posing in front of a window.

Dr. David Marsh ’15, president of the Gaston County Dental Society, welcomed guest speaker Dean Chadwick, who also reconnected with Dr. Haleigh Bass ‘23 as well as incoming D1s Sarah Jamison and Tori Clifton.

Two students in a dental clinic.

D3s Aubrey Agnelli and Abdurrahman Zaghloul talk about their next patient in the pediatric dentistry clinic today.

Graphic with text Have a great weekend! Smile! Greg


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