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LB 605 and College of Dentistry Renovations
Legislative Bill 605 was approved by the Nebraska Legislature and then signed by Governor Dave Heineman on April 11, 2006. Read more...
College of Dentistry Hosts Successful Accreditation Visit
The 22 members of the Visiting Committee of the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation spent Oct. 23-25 assessing the UNMC College of Dentistry's programs, students, faculty and staff, and left with a favorable impression. Read more...
UNMC-powered Army dental team provides care in Philippines
A 1980 graduate of the UNMC College of Dentistry and dental officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, Capt. Charles Craft, D.D.S., has spent the past 28 years providing dental care to underserved people around the world. It was during a 2007 mission in the Philippines that Dr. Craft saw firsthand the potential global impact that College of Dentistry graduates can truly achieve. Read more...
Program could increase pediatric dentists in Nebraska
Of the 36 pediatric dentists currently practicing in Nebraska, only four have practices in communities outside of Omaha and Lincoln. That's chilling when you consider that dental disease is the most common chronic ailment for children ages five to 17. "Twenty five percent of the children in the state experience 80 percent of the dental disease reported," said Kimberly McFarland, D.D.S., assistant professor in the department of oral biology at the UNMC College of Dentistry. To address this challenge the College of Dentistry is implementing a new telehealth and service learning program for its pediatric dental residents. Read more...
Nebraska Teledentistry Project
In an effort to more completely serve the oral health needs of the people of Nebraska, especially those in rural areas, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), College of Dentistry (COD), began implementing a Teledentistry Project in 2003. According to the literature, “Teledentistry is defined as the provision of real time and offline dental care such as diagnostic planning, consulting and follow-up, via electronic submission from different sites.” Read more...
Childrens' Dental Day
In Fall, 2001, the UNMC College of Dentistry began a program to devote it's entire Lincoln facility, students, staff and faculty for a full day to provide dental screening, diagnosis, cleaning and care to underserved children in Nebraska . The children typically come from non-fluoridated communities and have little or no access to dental care. The program is now held each winter and is scheduled to coincide with the ADA's Give Kids A Smile day in February.
In 2004 this program was expanded to include a two day trip in June to the Panhandle where faculty, staff and students provide comprehensive care out of local hospitals and private dental offices in up to four communities simultaneously. In 2005, the program was further expanded to include 4 half days of clinical activity in Hastings at the Central Community College dental hygiene clinic. Since 2001, the College has held 14 Dental Days and 4 Hastings programs, called !Sonrisa!.
During this time college students and faculty have treated nearly 5000 children and provided over $1M in dental care at no cost to the patients or their families. The College is planning to continue Dental Day as a regular twice-yearly activity. So far, the Lincoln Dental Day has served children from Beatrice, Fremont , Norfolk, Madison, Hastings, Grand Island , Harvard, Lexington, Wakefield, North Bend, Columbus, Crete and Lincoln. The Panhandle program has served children from Sidney, Alliance, Chadron and Gordon and their environs. Media and more...
Children receive free dental sealants, fluoride treatments
by Vicky Cerino, UNMC public affairs
You might not expect to see a dental hygenist in an elementary school, but Cynthia Tiedeman says there's a critical need for such services. Tiedeman, the school nurse at Liberty Elementary School in downtown Omaha, was on hand when volunteers -- junior and senior dental hygiene students from the UNMC College of Dentistry - recently placed sealants and provided fluoride treatments on the teeth of 175 second- and third-grade students. "This is such a nice way to introduce children to oral health professionals," Tiedeman said. "If this weren't available here, the children would not get it. I believe in prevention. Toothaches interfere with learning." Read more...
UNMC College of Dentistry, 3 other states form consortium to boost rural populations' access to oral health care
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry has partnered with state dental associations in Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, and South Dakota, to form a consortium to address oral health access problems of underserved populations in rural areas. Read more...
Research NIH Funding
The College of Dentistry was ranked 21st in NIH funding for federal fiscal year 2006, the second highest ranking the COD has achieved in its history. The COD was ranked 9th in NIH funding per FTE, the highest ranking in the history of the College. Previously, the COD had been ranked 25th in NIH funding in federal fiscal year 2005, 24th in NIH funding in federal fiscal year 2004, 20th in NIH funding in federal fiscal year 2003, 29th in NIH funding in federal fiscal year 2002 and 28th in federal fiscal year 2001. This is now the fourth consecutive year that the COD has been ranked in the top 25 in NIH support to dental schools and the sixth consecutive year that the COD has been ranked in the top 30 in NIH support to dental schools. Extramural research funding is now twenty-fold higher than nine years ago.
NIH renews Dr. Wheelock's CoBRE grant
Peggy Wheelock, Ph.D. Steve Caplan, Ph.D. When you're a new investigator, having just one person to ask for suggestions about the complicated world of grant writing is helpful. Having two high profile researchers as your mentors for five years is unheard of. But that is exactly the winning formula Peggy Wheelock, Ph.D., said led to the success of seven junior investigators at UNMC to obtain their own RO1 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read more...
New Faculty
The College of Dentistry is pleased to introduce you to the faculty members who have joined us this year.
Shawneen Gonzalez - Assistant Professor Radiology, (Oral Biology)
Dr. Brent Johnson - Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Section, (Hospital Dentistry)
Dr. Frank Driscol - Postgraduate Pediatric Dentstiry Section, (Hospital Dentistry)
Dr. Vince Rothe - Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Section, Hospital Dentistry(volunteer)
Dr. Lourdes M. Secola - Postgraduate Pediatric Dentistry Section, (Hospital Dentistry)
Dr. Khurrum Sheikh - Postgradute General Dentistry Section, Hospital Dentistry
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