 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing with 40 years of being in the hearing care industry you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 North Lake Drive in Prestonsburg. On Tuesday, September 12th, the Southeast Kentucky Chamber of Commerce held its monthly members meeting. This month's featured guest speaker was Pamela Stein of the University of Pikeford College of Dental Medicine. The main topics of discussion for the meeting included the dental college gaining accreditation and encouraging new orthodontic students to join. Today we discussed the vision of the University of Pikeford College of Dental Medicine, what we really want to accomplish and we talked about where we are in the process, where we are in the process of becoming accredited and getting our building ready and recruiting students and faculty. So it's just letting everyone know about the new dental school, what we're about and where we are in the process of starting. Creating a dental school is is just yet another way for you Pike to serve the region. They have the medical school, the optometry, the nursing, masters in social work and now we have dentistry and that it's really needed in this region. Although the College of Dental Medicine is in its early stages students can expect a lot from it. Students will be gaining clinical experience early on and doing community service to better prepare them after graduation. We would like our students when they graduate to feel like they can handle all kinds of different situations that they won't have to refer their patients out for for things that sometimes are referred out when a general dentist could actually do those things. So we want to educate our students on a variety of different dental procedures and have them become very comfortable with it. So not just do it one time but do it repeatedly under the supervision of very qualified talented and kind professors who will help them become very proficient at a variety of different procedures. Reporting from Mountaintop News, I'm Nick Colum.