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Delta Dental foundation donates $1M to UCSF dental school

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The Delta Dental Community Care Foundation has donated $1 million to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry to establish at least two scholarships for students with financial hardships.

February 5, 2020

UCSF dental school gets $10M from alumnus

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

An alumnus of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry has donated $10 million, the largest gift in the school's history, to his alma mater.

January 30, 2020

Billing practices at UNLV dental school under scrutiny

By Melissa Busch

Billing irregularities may have led to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Dental Medicine overbilling patients and insurance companies by thousands of dollars, according to a January 23 article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

January 29, 2020

VR firm to create dental procedure training modules

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The Australian-based virtual reality (VR) software company Vection Technologies has signed a $500,000 deal to create dental procedure training modules for students and dentists.

January 9, 2020

Budget hole puts a Wash. dental hygiene program at risk

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Shoreline Community College in Washington may shutter its popular dental hygiene program to cover a $2 million budget shortfall. A dip in student enrollments at the school has led to a decrease in revenue, according to news reports.

January 2, 2020

Ore. school gets $2M for dental therapist pilot project

By Melissa Busch

The Pacific University School of Dental Hygiene Studies in Oregon has received $2 million in funding for a pilot project to determine the feasibility of adding dental therapists to dental care teams and the best way to train them.

January 2, 2020

NJ bill will give $250K to special needs dental clinic

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

If signed into law in New Jersey, a new bill will provide $250,000 in funding to the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine, which offers a dental clinic that provides care to special needs patients in the region.

December 22, 2019

Temple Univ. alum gives 'substantial gift' to dental school

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

An alumnus of the Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry at Temple University has donated a "substantial gift" to the program.

December 18, 2019

Genco posthumously named NAI fellow

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has posthumously named as a fellow Robert Genco, DDS, PhD, a distinguished professor of oral biology, periodontics, and microbiology at the State University of New York.

December 17, 2019

Naval dental school failed to read 1,800 CBCT scans

By Melissa Busch

Radiologists at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's Naval Postgraduate Dental School in Bethesda, MD, failed to examine about 2,000 dental cone-beam CT (CBCT) scans during a seven-year period, resulting in at least one treatment delay, according to news reports.

November 26, 2019

Pitt commits to opioid-free pain management

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) School of Dental Medicine has established opioid-free pain management guidelines for most procedures performed at its clinics. It is the first educational institution in the U.S. to take such action, according to the school.

November 20, 2019

Dentsply Sirona installs simulators at UMKC dental school

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Dentsply Sirona has delivered 109 new student simulator units and two instructor units to the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Dentistry. This is the first installation of the units in the U.S.

November 18, 2019

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