Anissa Salem Yafai, RDH, MSHCM, is a full-time assistant professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where she teaches dental science, periodontics, and public health. She has taken on teledentistry initiatives within her community pre- and post-pandemic to improve access to care within underserved populations. With that, Yafai hopes to inspire her students to fully utilize their scope of practice. She can reached at: yafai@pacificu.edu.