Oral Biology

UBNow sat down with dental school dean Joseph Zambon to learn more about the school’s community service efforts and recent successes.

Two million years of eating meat and cooked food may have helped humans evolve into unique members of the great apes, new UB research suggests.

The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine will host the fifth Dentistry Smiles on Veterans, an annual program that welcomes local veterans to receive a day of free dental screenings, cleanings, extractions, restorations and denture repairs.

University at Buffalo researchers discovered that the human diet — a result of increased meat consumption, cooking and agriculture — has led to stark differences in the saliva of humans compared to that of other primates.