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New Periodontal Clinic Set for Completion by
Year's End

December 8, 2007

The New Year will bring a new state-of-the-art clinic for Penn Dental Medicine. Construction of the School's D. Walter Cohen and Morton Amsterdam Periodontal Clinic is on schedule for completion by the close of December and will be fully outfitted and operational in early January. Work began in June and the transformation and expansion of this clinical space has proceeded smoothly.

While situated in the same location as the old periodontic clinic (the first floor of the Evans Building), the space is being entirely reconfigured and expanded – at 4,600-square feet, it will be 600 square feet larger than the former clinic. The new facility will include 18 operatories, three surgical suites, a recovery room, and state-of-the-art digital radiography. Among the special features will be a surgical suite specially outfitted for transmitting case demonstrations live to the classroom; cameras will be installed in the ceiling and the operating microscope so cases can be observed in lecture spaces within the School. The clinic also will have a state-of-the-art student laboratory as well as an office for postdoctoral residents to treatment plan and a locker room for faculty and staff.

"The faculty, residents and staff are looking forward with intense anticipation to the new clinic," says Dr. Joseph Fiorellini, Chair of the Department of Periodontics. "With state of the art technology and space, patient care and teaching will be enhanced."

This new facility is the next phase of the School's current Capital Improvement Plan, which also includes plans for renovating the Main Clinic and Endodontic Clinic.

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