Native Americans aren’t applying to dental school. A…

The first time Rudy Oxendine visited a dentist, he was in middle school. In the poor rural community he’d grown up in as a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the notion that everyone was destined to end up with dentures was pretty much a given, …The first time Rudy Oxendine visited a dentist, he was in middle school. In the poor rural community he’d grown up in as a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the notion that everyone was destined to end up with dentures was pretty much a given, …