Dental Education

WEST ALLIS, Wisconsin – The Wisconsin Dental Association (WDA) Foundation, which is largely supported by individual member dentists of the WDA, recently awarded $8,000 in scholarships to 16 dental hygiene students enrolled in state technical colleges who have demonstrated academic achievement and financial need.

CHICAGO, Illinois – The Dental Assisting National Board, Inc. (DANB) announces the publication of DANB’s 2006 State Career Ladder Templates for Dental Assistants, a reader-friendly guide to dental assisting requirements for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This new volume is intended to guide readers to a clearer understanding of how each state defines the job titles and the legal practice of dental assistants and (in some states) orthodontic and oral and maxillofacial surgery assistants.

NEW YORK, New York – New York University College of Dentistry's Department of Endodontics is celebrating its 80th anniversary on Wednesday, June 13, 2007. The celebration will begin with an afternoon scientific session at the NYU College of Dentistry (Room 614, 345 East 24th Street, NYC) followed by a reception and dinner at The Water Club, 500 East 30th Street in Manhattan at 5:30 p.m.

NEW YORK, New York – Charles N. Bertolami, D.D.S., D.Med.Sc., a leader in the dental research, education, and clinical communities, has been named the 14th Dean of the 142-year-old New York University College of Dentistry. He will assume the post at NYU's College of Dentistry on September 1, 2007.

LOS ANGELES, California – A study from UCLA’s Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture finds that the number of Latinos who graduated from dental schools, and hence able to acquire licenses to practice dentistry in California, fell by nearly 80 percent between 1982 and 1999 from 74 to 15 percent, even as the state’s Latino population increased by 42.7 percent (7.7 million to 10 million) during that time.

ROCHESTER, New York – The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry moved up two slots to 34th best research medical school and up eight slots to 13th best primary care medical school in U.S.News & World Report’s 2008 listing of top graduate schools in the country.

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – The IU School of Dentistry is set to launch the first accredited distance-learning program in Indiana for dental assisting, enabling students to complete the non-clinical classroom portion of the program anywhere they have access to a computer at anytime.

NICE, France – Today Anystream announced that the United Kingdom's prestigious King's College London Dental Institute has deployed their Apreso lecture capture solution to enable further enhancement of an expanding distance learning initiative. As the world's only automated lecture capture solution for higher education, Apreso supports King's efforts to provide high quality education to undergraduate and postgraduate dental students by reaching them beyond traditional classrooms through Web-based lectures available on demand.

VENICE, Florida – XCPT, LLC has signed an agreement with the University of Pennsylvania to place XCPT's Treatment Planning and Communication Software solution at the Penn School of Dental Medicine.

RESTON, Virginia – Sallie Mae, the nation's leading saving- and paying-for-college company, today introduced Sallie Mae DENTALoans^SM , a new comprehensive suite of dental loan products designed to assist students enrolled in dental school, studying a dental specialty, or dentists establishing a dental practice.