Sachem Dental Group Endodontics Scholarship Fund Established at School of Dental Medicine

Sachem Dental Group, together with the Stony Brook Foundation, has established the Sachem Dental Group Endodontics Scholarship Fund at Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine. The fund will provide financial assistance for select high-achieving residents enrolled in the school's Advanced Dental Education Program in Endodontics.

"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," said Patrick Lloyd, dean of the School of Dental Medicine.

Offering a wide range of oral healthcare services, Sachem Dental Group has been a fixture in Central Suffolk County for more than 30 years, with six offices in locations that include Holbrook, Lake Ronkonkoma, Nesconset, Selden and Patchogue.

"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," said Anthony Gentile, DDS, of Sachem Dental Group. "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, who directs the endodontic residency program at Stony Brook, looks forward to welcoming even more outstanding endodontic trainees in the years to come.

"I, along with the entire endodontic faculty, express my deepest gratitude to Sachem Dental Group, a longtime ally of the school," Manders said. "Their support will allow scholarship recipients, as well as our program, to thrive well into the future."

Established in 1996, the endodontics residency program is one of seven dental specialty programs at Stony Brook that is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation. It spans two years and is composed of five residents, admitting two and three in alternating years.