Student Loan Repayment Grant Program
The CDA Foundation’s Student Loan Repayment Grant Program significantly reduces the amount of debt load for graduating dental students in exchange for service in an underserved community dental clinic.
Students completing a dental school education graduate with an average of $250,000 in accumulated student loans. Dentists graduating with such enormous financial burdens are economically discouraged from working in underserved areas because loan reimbursement requirements begin shortly after graduation. This financial obligation erodes the recent dentist’s ability to choose where to apply his or her skills other than in a practice that provides sufficient income to fulfill the loan obligation.
Through the CDA Foundation’s Student Loan Repayment Grant Program, these new dentists are not only increasing access to much needed oral care within their community, but building relationships with and changing the lives of their grateful patients.
Student Loan Repayment Grant Program Video
Student Loan Repayment Grant Recipients
Apply for a Student Loan Repayment Grant
Contribute to the Student Loan Repayment Grant Program.
Dr. Celia Mendoza, a Student Loan Repayment Grant recipient, is serving her community at the Roybal Health Center Dental Clinic in East L.A.
CDA Foundation in Action
Loan Forgiveness
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