Sanford-Brown College Clinical Instructor Katherine Barnum (right) of Arlington Heights works with student Marcia Meadors (left) of Chicago in the new Dental Hygiene Clinic, which opened this week. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media

Sanford-Brown College student Marcia Meadors of Chicago works in the school's Dental Hygiene Clinic last week before a celebration of the clinic's opening. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media

Sanford-Brown College Dental Hygiene Program Chair Shirley Beaver gives a tour last week of the new Dental Hygiene Clinic during a celebration of the clinic's opening. Students began working there Feb. 18. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media

Sanford-Brown College Dental Hygiene Program Chair Shirley Beaver talks about the new clinic and its panoramic x-ray machine last week during a tour at the downtown Skokie college. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media

Sanford-Brown College's new Dental Hygiene Clinic, which was scheduled to open this week, has state-of-the-art equipment and 15 stations for students to provide free dental work for the community. | Buzz Orr~Sun-Times Media

Dental hygiene students at Sanford-Brown College in downtown Skokie pose at the entrance of the school's new dental hygiene clinic scheduled to open this week. The school celebrated the opening in grand style. | Photo courtesy of Sanford-Brown College