Pacific Healthcare Experts Discuss Back To School Eye, Ear & Oral Care

While parents are starting to check school supplies, clothes and tech needs off the lists as the school year begins, ��Ƶ healthcare experts remind everyone that screenings for a child's oral, ear, and eye health are just as important for ensuring your child's academic success.

Professors from Pacific’s dental hygiene, audiology, and optometry programs appeared recently on in Portland to discuss the need for screenings and treatment as kids prepare for the school year as part of the program’s “Back To School Week.” KOIN AM Extra airs weekdays on Portland’s CW 32 (KRCW-TV).

Need A Screening?

If you or your child needs an oral, hearing or vision screening, ��Ƶ’s healthcare clinics provide screenings to the public.

Dental Hygiene

The Dental Hygiene Clinic, located on Pacific’s Hillsboro Campus, provides preventative and basic restorative dental hygiene services for patients three and older. Services are performed by Pacific dental hygiene students under the supervision of licensed dental health professionals.

222 SE 8th Ave., Suite 270, Hillsboro, OR 97123
Website | 503-352-7373

Audiology

The Pacific EarClinic, located in Hillsboro in OHSU’s 7th Avenue Medical Plaza, offers comprehensive hearing evaluations for patients of all ages, including newborns. The clinic also provides hearing instrument technology evaluations, fitting, and follow-up services. Screenings are conducted by Pacific audiology students under the supervision of the department’s licensed audiologists.

333 SE 7th Ave., Suite 4150, Hillsboro, OR 97123
Website | 503-352-2692 | earclinic@pacificu.edu

Optometry

With locations in Forest Grove, Cornelius, Hillsboro and Beaverton, Pacific EyeClinics provides state-of-the-art vision screening services, including glasses and contact lens services, special services for the partially-sighted, and testing and treatment for eye diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, and diabetic retinopathy. Exams are conducted by optometric interns in their final year of doctoral training, supervised by licensed optometrists on the Pacific faculty.

Forest Grove | 2221 Pacific Ave., Forest Grove, OR 97116
Website | 503-352-2020

Cornelius | Inside Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
1151 N. Adair St., Suite 104, Cornelius, OR 97113
Website | 503-352-8543

Hillsboro | 222 SE 8th Ave., Suite 110, Hillsboro, OR 97123
Website | 503-352-7300

Beaverton | 12600 SW Crescent St., Suite 130, Beaverton, OR 97005
Website | 503-352-1699