Dr. Roshan Parikh, and his Chicagoland Smile Group is giving back with Mission: Veteran Smiles, a community health initiative focused on members of the Armed Forces. With help from UIC volunteers, they recently provided over 300 veterans with free dental care.

Sugar Bugs, an illustrated children’s book by Dr. Sam Weisz, a 2006 alumnus of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, and his wife, Erica, tells the story of a boy named Robbie whose mouth is home to the Mutans family—the “sugar bugs.”