Drs. Stoopler and Sollecito, of the Dept. of Oral Medicine, share the case of a man who experienced severe pain when taking the first bite of a meal.
Dean Denis Kinane and Dr. David Tarica, an alumnus and member of the School’s Board, were recent guests on Wharton Business Radio’s “The Business of Health Care.”
The new 55-chair clinic is a general restorative teaching clinic for DMD students that will increase the School’s capacity to see more patients.
The ABO is the only orthodontic specialty board recognized by the ADA. Within the ABO, Dr. Chung has represented the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontists.
UCC is a free clinic coordinated by Penn students from the Medicine, Dental, Nursing, and Social Policy & Practice schools, as well as undergraduates in a variety of disciplines.
Penn Dental Medicine faculty/staff members were honored for excellence in teaching by the School’s graduating class with the 2017 teaching awards.
Dr. Karabucak, who had been serving as Interim Chair since 2014, has been on the Penn Dental Medicine faculty since 1998.
The Penn Current highlights the recent Evans Building renovations and plans for the next major facilities projects to be made possible by the late Dr. Robert Schattner.
Collaborating with Penn Vet, Dr. Kathleen Boesze-Battaglia, Dept. of Biochemistry, contributed her expertise in lipid biochemistry and spectral analysis of lipid debris to the study.
Students and faculty provided free dental care to 105 area children as part of Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY)’s 14th annual Give Kids a Smile, April 12.
This was the ninth year that students in Penn Dental Medicine’s Oral Cancer Awareness Society organized the event, which this year drew a total of 474 participants.
Dr. Mohammed Alharbi (GD’14, DScD’17), a DScD candidate, was awarded second place in the senior basic science category of the 2017 IADR Unilever Hatton Awards.
Dr. Mitchell has been a member of the faculty within the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology since 2009; her promotion to Professor is effective July 1, 2017.
Discoveries in the course of his research into periodontitis, led Dr. George Hajishengallis and an NIH colleague to successfully treating leukocyte adhesion deficiency.
Dr. Yuan Liu has been selected as the first recipient of the Fellowship. Her research will target the identification of risk biomarkers for early childhood caries.
Dr. Mupparapu, Professor of Oral Medicine, has been on the faculty since 2012. Penn presents eight Lindback awards each year for teaching excellence.
Dr. Hydar Ali, in the Dept. of Pathology, has spent his career discerning mast cells’ unique qualities and honing in on strategies to modulate their activity to improve health.
Penn Dental Medicine is now accepting applications for its first class of prosthodontics residents to begin in July 2017. The application deadline is April 20, 2017.
A new study from the lab of Dr. Henry Daniell gives hope for a therapy to keep hemophilia patients from developing antibodies that cause a rejection of clotting-factor infusions.
Taking a look at drugs to manage dental pain, Consumer Reports talks with Dr. Elliot Hersh on the effectiveness of over-the-counter options vs. prescription opioids.
