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Philadelphia – Veterans coming to Penn Dental Medicine for dental care now have a new resource to help cover the costs of their treatment – the Penn Dental Medicine Veterans Dental Care Fund. This new Veterans Fund was recently established through a $100,000 gift from a Penn Dental Medicine alumnus and his wife with hopes...
Philadelphia — Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) is collaborating with Fundación ADM, Institución de Asistencia Privada to present the Global Oral Health Forum 2023, taking place March 30-31 in Merida, Mexico. The main goal of this two-day gathering is to encourage and facilitate a dialogue between major stakeholders in the...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine faculty explore some of the latest advances in the field of dental medicine in a new course that has launched on Coursera, the global online learning platform. The course, Frontiers in Dentistry, focuses on five distinct areas that have gone through significant transformation recently and the therapeutic and scientific innovations...
Philadelphia- Danielle Silver (D’23), Rachel Shi (D’24), and Alvin Zad (D’24), three DMD students at Penn Dental Medicine traveled to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hadassah Ein Kerem Campus for a two-week dental immersion program as part of Penn Dental Medicine’s International Dental Student Exchange Program. This exchange program allows dental students studying at partnered...
Philadelphia – Adding to the depth and diversity of its dual-degree programs for DMD students, Penn Dental Medicine announces a new dual-degree with Penn Nursing, enabling interested and qualified students to earn a Master of Science in Nutrition Science (MSNS) along with their DMD. This new offering brings the total number of dual-degree options to...
Philadelphia — Dr. Zhi Ren, a current NIDCR R90 postdoctoral trainee within the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD) – Penn Dental Medicine’s collaborative center with Penn Engineering — was awarded the 2022 American Society for Microbiology (ASM)’s Early Career Symposium (ECS) Best Presentation Award. The award was presented as part of the ASM...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine faculty members were recognized for their research and innovation as part of the Penn Center for Innovation’s (PCI) 7th annual Celebration of Innovation. This annual event celebrates Penn researchers and innovators who were named as inventors on patents issued to Penn this past fiscal year and highlights significant commercialization achievements....
Philadelphia — Penn Dental Medicine’s Dr. Hyun (Michel) Koo, Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Division of Community Oral Health, Division of Pediatric Dentistry and Co-Founding Director of the Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD), has been recognized for the scope and depth of his research — named on the Highly Cited Researchers™ 2022 list from...
Philadelphia – “For the first time in years, I can smile. I am not embarrassed to face the world,” said one patient. “The grant allowed me to have teeth and eat the foods I love,” said another. “I couldn’t have afforded teeth without this help,” shared a third patient. This is just a sampling of...
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine student research was well represented at the recent Greater New York Dental Meeting with seven student researchers making poster presentations on their projects. They presented their work as part of the Meeting’s Scientific Poster Session, held Sunday, November 27 at the Javits Center in New York. “Presentations at professional meetings...
