Penn Dental Medicine

Penn Dental Medicine’s Geelsu Hwang Engineering a Next-Generation Dental Implant

Every year, roughly 3 million Americans receive implants to replace lost teeth. While this...

Penn Dental Medicine Study Finds a Combined Treatment that Could Take a Bite Out of Tooth Decay

While fluoride-based treatments have long been the gold standard in dentistry for preventing tooth...

Nanorobotics System Presents New Options for Targeting Fungal Infections

Infections caused by fungi, such as Candida albicans, pose a significant global health risk...

Penn Dental Medicine Study Identifies New Bacterial Species Involved in Tooth Decay

Collaborating researchers from Penn Dental Medicine and the University of North Carolina (UNC) have discovered...

Penn Dental Medicine Launches Educational Video Series, Podcast on Statistical Concepts

The Penn Dental Medicine Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) has launched  “Statistics with Crayons,” a...

Penn Dental Medicine Study Finds Cavity-Causing Microbes Form Superorganism that Crawls on Teeth

A Penn Dental Medicine study has found that a cross-kingdom partnership between bacteria and...

Penn Study Shows Shapeshifting Microrobots Can Brush, Floss Teeth

Shapeshifting microrobots may one day act as a toothbrush, rinse, and dental floss in...

Penn Dental Medicine Study Shows How One Inflammatory Disorder Exacerbates Another

The immune system remembers. Often this memory, primed by past encounters with threats like...

Penn Dental Medicine Study Shows Gum with Plant Protein May Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission

A chewing gum made with a plant-grown protein “traps” the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral...

Penn Dental Medicine Study Finds ‘Nanozyme’ Therapy Prevents Dental Plaque Buildup

A growing body of evidence points to a link between iron-deficiency anemia and severe...