A.O. provides an atmosphere for sharing common interests and developing life-long friendships.
A.O. through the student and alumni chapter, can assist and facilitate your adjustment to the new scholastic situation.
A.O. offers a Mentorship Program, which enables student members to interact with alumni on a professional as well as social basis.
A.O. offers the opportunity to attend its International Convention where you meet other schools, meet alumni from all parts of the continent and overseas and participate with them on an equal basis – creates the opportunity to make contacts concerning future post-graduate training, employment or establishment of a personal practice.
A.O. has compiled a Post-Graduate and Residency Guide to assist you in selecting a program and advise you with your application.
A.O. is the only dental fraternity which invites its students to attend its annual convention on a par with the alumni and subsidizes the expenses of the official chapter delegates and, to a lesser extent, all of the students attending.
A.O. is the only dental fraternity in which the student, following graduation, automatically enters the alumni ranks without any re-evaluation.
A.O. through the Foundation, maintains an emergency loan fund for sophomore, junior and senior students.
A.O. is actively concerned with community involvement, sponsoring both dental and general activities on the local and international levels.
A.O. promotes active contact with all of its members serving in the Armed Forces.
A.O. offers substantial savings to its members in purchasing group accident and health, hospital and life insurance programs.
A.O. is the only dental fraternity that provides an Externship Program for junior students entering their senior year where they have the opportunity to observe some of the finest clinicians for a minimum of two weeks. Externships have been sponsored in Toronto, Washington DC, Boston, New York, Miami, Atlanta, St. Louis, Albuquerque, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Jerusalem.
A.O. provides an Associateship Program, which attempts to match new graduates with dentists who are seeking associates.