Eastman Institute for Oral Health’s Specialty Care Clinic is the first oral healthcare provider in the nation to be recognized as an Age-Friendly Health System Participant. Because the U.S. population aged 65 years and older is expected to nearly double to an estimated 83.7 million in 2050, experts say health systems are not equipped to reliably provide evidence-based practice to older adults at every care interaction. Read more.

Patricia H. Swanson was recently named “Junior Educator of the Year” by the American College of Prosthodontists and received the Charles Craig Teaching Award from Omicron Kappa Upsilon. In this interview with Chairside Magazine, Dr. Swanson discusses the ongoing changes in dentistry and how dental education is adapting. Read more.

For the past several years, our dedicated faculty and staff have been harnessing the science of learning in unique preparation for the Class of 2023 to take the INBDE, which is designed to provide information to U.S. dental boards seeking to determine whether licensure candidates have the necessary level of clinical skills to practice entry-level dentistry safely. Read more.

The fourth class of graduates from Touro College of Dental Medicine (TCDM) celebrated their commencement with a live Awards Ceremony followed by the Hooding and Commencement Ceremony on May 21. Under the Tent NY Sunshine Cottage on New York Medical College’s campus, an audience full of friends, family, and peers gathered to honor the 112 graduates with the tradition of hooding, representing the passage from student status to graduate status. Read more.

Forty-five Doctor of Dental Surgery students, as well as graduate students and residents of Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine’s Class of 2023, received their degrees and certificates at the school’s annual convocation ceremony held at the Staller Center for the Arts on the university’s main campus. Read more.

As he begins his third year of dental school, Alexander Constantine likened the donning of his white coat to crossing a threshold. “It marks the difference between my pre-clinic and clinic days,” said Constantine who was one of the 115 dental students to don his white coat at Touro College of Dental Medicine’s (TCDM) White Coat Ceremony on June 1. “It proves three things: the confidence I have in my classmates, the confidence I have in my faculty, and the confidence I have in myself.” Read more.

On Thursday, April 20, Touro College of Dental Medicine (TCDM) hosted its 6th Annual Give Kids A Smile (GKAS) event. Students from the Classes of 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 partnered with TCDM faculty and staff, and local volunteer dentists from the Ninth District to provide free dental screenings, oral health education, and other assorted fun activities for hundreds of elementary students and families from Yonkers in Touro Dental Health’s state-of-the-art clinic. Read more.

New research from the NYU Pain Research Center shows that altering the chemical properties of an anti-nausea drug enables it to enter an interior compartment of the cell and provide long-lasting pain relief, thus illustrating how pain signaling occurs inside cells rather than at the surface. According to Dr. Nigel Bunnett, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Pathobiology and the study’s senior author, “Sustained signaling in endosomes is necessary for the hyperexcitability of pain-sensing neurons involved in chronic pain.” Read more.

The Columbia University College of Dental Medicine Epsilon Epsilon chapter of Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU)—the national dental honor society — inducted 11 CDM students and three members of the faculty members at its annual ceremony on May 9, 2023. Read more.