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FDI Releases Guide to Promote Oral Healthcare for Refugees

The FDI World Dental Federation has released Promoting Oral Health for Refugees: An Advocacy...

Scholarships to Support African-American Students Interested in Dental Careers

LIBERTY Dental Plan of California has partnered with nonprofit Improve Your Tomorrow (IYT) and...

Grant to Remove Dental Barriers to Medical Treatment at University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi School of Dentistry will use a five-year, $2.25 million Health...

Employee Mental Health Requires Support During the Pandemic

Healthcare workers including dental professionals in the United States have been facing the COVID-19...

OSHA Issues Best Practices for Dental Offices to Protect Employees

The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued an...

Pipeline Program Steers More Underrepresented Students Toward Dental School

Despite calls for a more diverse workforce, only 15.2% of dental school applicants in...

Delta Dental Launches National Oral Health Institute

Delta Dental is launching the Delta Dental Institute, which it calls a first of...

Adolescents Offer Suggestions for Improving Oral Healthcare

Dental care is free for everyone under the age of 18 in New Zealand,...

Harvard School of Dental Medicine Dean to Step Down

R. Bruce Donoff, MD, DMD, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM)...

Volunteers Take a Dental Health Day for the Disability Community

As I entered the Viscardi Center’s brightly decorated gymnasium on the morning of Friday,...