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Penn Dental Medicine views scholarship as a central component of excellence in instruction and patient care and places a high priority on research. The School’s research enterprise spans scientific disciplines to translate new knowledge into clinical therapies that positively impact our understanding of oral disease and advance patient care.

Research Overview

An overview of the School’s research enterprise and leading research programs, which span both the basic and clinical sciences.

Research Overview

Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry (CiPD)

Bridging Penn Dental Medicine and Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences with cutting-edge research and training to accelerate the development of new solutions and devices to address unmet needs in oral health, while also recruiting the next generation of leaders in these fields.

Center for Innovation & Precision Dentistry

Center for Clinical and Translational Research

Our highly specialized Center provides clinical research support and services spanning the full spectrum of a study from conceptualization to closeout for industry, federal, and foundation sponsors.

Center for Clinical and Translational Research

Center for Integrative Global Oral Health

Uniting health researchers, educators and practitioners to seek creative solutions to address unmet oral health needs related to the worldwide prevalence of caries, periodontal disease, oral cancer and craniofacial deformity.

Center for Integrative Global Oral Health

Center for Persons with Disabilities

A site for clinical research with studies on the design and implementation of products to enhance oral care in people with disabilities and other related issues.

Student Research

Students have the opportunity to gain hands on experience in research through the summer research program and the research honors program, and there are advanced research programs for postdoctoral students through the Doctor of Science in Dentistry and the Master of Science in Oral Biology.

Student Research

OMS Research Collaborative

Established to further inter-institutional collaborations in OMS research on a broad scale.

OMS Research Collaborative