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UB dental students 3D print free face shields for local dentists
6/24/20

UB dental students are using 3D printers to supply UB and Western New York dentists with protective equipment as local practices return to providing oral health care. 

UB spinoff awarded grant to advance medicinal toothpaste
6/8/20

The UB School of Dental Medicine and OptiMed Technology were awarded a manufacturing grant from the Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund to accelerate the development of their products to the market.

The nation’s first oral biology PhD program turns 50
6/4/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine established the first Department of Oral Biology in the U.S. in 1960. Three years later, UB created the first PhD program in oral biology in a dental school.
UB receives $1.2 million grant to train future oral health researchers
7/16/13
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Department of Oral Biology in the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Grant to allow PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to engage in critical oral health research in areas such as salivary gland physiology and oral infectious diseases.
UB dean chairs international symposium on oral and systemic health
2/4/14
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Michael Glick, DMD, dean of the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, has organized and will act as program chair of “The First International Quintessence Symposium on Oral Health: The Oral-Systemic Connection” to take place in San Diego on Feb. 7-8.
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