Five Recognized for Research Excellence

Five Eastman Institute for Oral Health professionals were recognized at this month’s American Association for Dental Research’s local meeting.

EIOH Resident Eliminates Patient's Prolonged Pain

Some people believe in coincidence, while others believe that a certain chain of events is orchestrated by the hand of a higher being.

Whatever the source, Theresa Nelson of Elmira, NY, is incredibly happy that her particular series of events led her to Eastman Dental, where she finally received relief from pain she had been experiencing for years.

Eastman Dentist Awarded for Community Health Efforts

EIOH Pediatric Dentist and Assistant Professor Lisa DeLucia, DDS, was awarded a Dr. David Satcher Community Health Improvement Award.

UR Students Host First Annual Dental Awareness Week

Public health advocates and aspiring dentists Brandon McDonald (UR ’13) and Yasmin Mattar (UR ’14), lobbied university administration last year to begin an annual Dental Awareness Week on campus. They gathered supporting students’ signatures, produced a video, met with the Dean of Students, and even made a giant gold tooth sculpture to bring attention to oral health disparities in the nation, as well as raise awareness to students’ own oral health.

Dentists Gather to Sink Their Teeth into Bench-to-Chair side Research

This month more than 100 dentists and other oral health care providers from the northeast U.S. gathered in Rochester as part of one of the largest translational research efforts nationwide aimed at improving the public’s oral health.