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Making a Difference in Oral Health Care (Dean's Message)

The Advantage... How the Oral Pathology Biopsy Service Gives Oral Health Providers, Patients, and Educators 'The Edge'

A service offered by the U-M School of Dentistry to oral health care professionals for more than 60 years has been enjoying a renewed surge of interest in recent years. Under the leadership of Drs. Kitrina Cordell (left) and Nisha D'Silva, dentists and specialists receive valuable information that helps their patients. In addition, dental, dental hygiene, and graduate students become more skilled at recognizing and more proficient in diagnosing a range of oral lesions, and the information is leveraged to enhance oral health care education at the School of Dentistry. The images behind Drs. Cordell and D'Silva are histologic images recently taken from the mouth of a patient showing possible oral cancer cells.

Making the Case for Change

Dental schools across the country, including Michigan's, must make fundamental changes to survive and prosper in the future, according to the Macy Group which presented the case for change to U-M School of Dentistry administrators, faculty, staff, and students as a part of the School's strategic self-assessment process.

Dental School Launches Mentoring Program

The U-M School of Dentistry recently launched a mentoring program that offers everyone - students, faculty, and staff - an opportunity for professional and personal growth and development.

Dentistry's Vital Role

Every year for 16 years, about one dozen members of the Norman Mette Foundation visit U-M to learn more about some of the innovative programs and clinical research activities taking place at both the School of Dentistry and the Medical School. This year, they have heard about some of those now underway at the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research.

Sindecuse Museum Artifacts Show Pioneering Role of Dentists

"As I look at the many artifacts we have in our museum...I'm amazed and impressed with how dentists helped to shape both the profession and society as we know it today," said Sindecuse Museum Curator Shannon O'Dell.

Two Familiar Faces Retiring

After careers at the U-M School of Dentistry that spanned more than 30 years, Dr. Jack Gobetti and chief photographer Per Kjeldsen are retiring.

Faculty Profile - Dr. Samuel Zwetchkenbaum

Singer and songwriter Paul Anka may have played a role, albeit a remote and indirect one, in influencing Sam Zwetchkenbaum to become a dentist. Playing a major role, however, was a study break he took while in college that, in retrospect, forever changed his life and, in the process, has improved the life of countless patients.

Alumnus Profile: Dr. Steven Geiermann

"I now 'treat' communities instead of individuals," says Dr. Steven Geiermann. "I bring people together from all walks of life to try to increase access to oral health care and reduce oral health care dispartiies."

Dental Students Help in Dominican Republic, Thailand

Some School of Dentistry students used their spring break to provide oral health care to the needy in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.

Graduation 2006

The Class of 2006 was advised at spring commencement "to live a life that matters" by Dr. Arthur Dugoni, one of the dental profession's most respected figures. Ceremonies were especially memorable for seven dental students who were hooded by a parent who also graduated from the School of Dentistry.