Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Fifty years ago, the first class was accepted to the Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine. Since then, the school has graduated more than 1,500 students who have dedicated themselves to delivering the highest quality of dental care throughout the country. Read more.

Eastman Institute For Oral Health, University of Rochester Awarded Grant to Assess Comorbidities and Understand Barriers to Care for People with HIV/AIDS

A new grant awarded to Eastman Institute for Oral Health, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center, will help get to the bottom of a longstanding problem in a first-of-its-kind U.S. study. For people living with HIV/AIDS and who also have psychiatric and dental comorbidities, the result is often treatment gaps, diagnostic complexities, increased healthcare costs and poorer outcomes, compared to the general population. Read more.

University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine: Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic Expands Services to Offer Dental Care

The Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic, which has been providing free health care to uninsured and underinsured Western New Yorkers since its founding in 2001 by a group of UB medical students, has expanded its services to include dental care, thanks to a 2023 UB Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Community Partnership Development Seed Grant. Read more.

Student News

Touro College of Dental Medicine at New York Medical College Welcomes the Class of 2027

Touro College of Dental Medicine welcomed the Class of 2027 with a complete orientation week. During the week, students learned the ins and outs of the dental school, met with their professors and upperclassmen, learned what to expect during the next few years of rigorous schooling, and, although delayed by rain, enjoyed an outing to Boundless Adventure Ropes Experience. Three students discuss their hopes for the future and what drew them to New York’s newest dental school. Read more.

University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine: Bitemark Evidence Can Send Wrong Person to Prison, Death Row, UB Professors Say

During a trial for murder or another violent crime in which a victim has been bitten, prosecutors may display photos of the bitemarks next to tracings of the suspect’s teeth. And the two may appear to fit perfectly. Case closed, right? Read more.

Columbia University College of Dental Medicine: New Drug Shows Promise in Preventing Cartilage Loss from Osteoarthritis

People suffering with osteoarthritis currently have only two treatment options: pain management and joint surgery. Both options can have complications and neither targets the disease’s root causes. Mildred Embree, DMD, PhD, assistant professor in the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, would like to change that. Embree, who leads the Cartilage Biology and Regenerative Medicine Lab at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, has recently published a study in Cell Stem Cell. Read more.

Awards

NYU College of Dentistry’s Hispanic Student Dental Association Marks Four Consecutive Wins in HSDA Pediatric “Nuestros Ninos” National Competition and Other Notable Activities

For the fourth consecutive year, the NYU Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA) and the Department of Pediatric Dentistry have won first place in the Hispanic Dental Association Pediatric “Nuestros Ninos” National Competition. The winning presentation, by D3 student Daniela Pereira, was titled “Severe Childhood Caries and Children of Hispanic Migrant Families Asylum Seekers, and it highlighted the work that NYU Dentistry is doing with asylum seeking children as part of school-based outreach programs. Read more.

More News

Columbia University College of Dental Medicine: NIDCR Director Visits CDM

On September 5, Rena D’Souza, DDS, MS, PhD, director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, a division of the National Institutes of Health, visited the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine. Dr. D’Souza is past president of the American Association for Dental Research and the International Association for Dental Research and her connection to CDM spans decades— she worked as a researcher in the late ‘70s with Dr. Melvin Moss, a former dean of the school., in the Center for Craniofacial Growth. Read more.

University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine Students Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

The 37-year-old man had a troublesome crown replaced on Sept. 28 by students and faculty members from the School of Dental Medicine. He didn’t have to come to campus for the service or pay a fee. Expenses were covered and the service was provided in the comfort of a brand-new mobile dental unit (MDU) parked off of Virginia Street on Buffalo’s West Side. Read more.

Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Hosts Inaugural Dental Educators Day

Driven by the shortage of dental school faculty in New York and across the United States, Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine hosted its inaugural Dental Educators Day on Thursday, October 5, on Stony Brook University’s south campus. The event was held in conjunction with World Teachers’ Day, and will be celebrated at Stony Brook on the first Thursday in October each year. Read more.

NYU College of Dentistry Hosts UN Side Event on Oral Health and Universal Health Coverage

NYU College of Dentistry’s World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Quality-improvement, Evidence-based Dentistry hosted a side event on oral health and universal health coverage in collaboration with The Lancet on Sept. 20, on the occasion of the 2nd United Nations High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage. The event focused on kick-starting the WHO Global Oral Health Action Plan, a commitment to strengthening efforts to integrate oral health care into universal health coverage and advance oral health policy on the global stage. Read more.

Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine Premieres New Magazine

Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine released its new magazine, On the Cusp, this fall, highlighting the latest achievements and milestones of the school and its alumni. Read more.

NYU College of Dentistry: Latest Issue of NYU Dentistry’s Global Health Nexus is Online Now

The latest issue of Global Health Nexus, the flagship magazine of NYU College of Dentistry, is online now. Titled “Dentistry’s Leadership Landscape,” the new issue explores the importance of leadership education for dental students and what NYU Dentistry is doing to develop the next generation of policy-oriented leaders for the profession. Read more.