Events
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Pregame Social Iowa vs Iowa State
Saturday, September 7, 2024 11:30am to 2:30pm
Join UI College of Dentistry faculty and staff for a Pregame Social Tailgate behind the Dental Science Building on Saturday, Sept. 7 at 11:30 a.m.
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2024 College of Dentistry Alumni Reunion
Friday, September 13 8:30am to Saturday, September 14, 2024 7:00pm
The College of Dentistry Alumni Reunion Weekend is scheduled for Sept. 13-14, 2024 for class years ending in 4s and 9s.
News
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Ganesan and Team Receive $75K Carver Trust COVID-19 Pilot Collaborative Award
Friday, June 4, 2021
Dr. Sukirth Ganesan, assistant professor in periodontics, and a team of researchers in the Carver College of Medicine were awarded a Carver Trust COVID-19 Pilot Collaborative Award. The grant, Unraveling the role of saliva in COVID- 19 pathogenesis using a comprehensive multi-omics approach, will involve a multi-arm, cross-sectional, case-control study with an integrated -omics approach to determine the microbial, metabolic, functional, and immune alterations in the saliva of COVID-19 patients.
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Bone Regeneration: Making a Fantasy a Reality
Friday, May 14, 2021
Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry are working to make bone regeneration a reality through novel tissue engineering strategies and cutting-edge science. Hongli Sun is one of several faculty members at the college leading the charge to develop novel bone regeneration strategies for particular conditions and diseases.
![David Johnsen, Tarek El Kerdani, and prosthodontics residents with the governor's declaration of Prosthodontics Week](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/styles/widescreen__1024_x_576/public/2021-10/Proclamation-group.jpg?h=3843ebe3&itok=-yQtdiAq)
The State of Iowa and the College of Dentistry Celebrate Prosthodontics Week
Friday, April 16, 2021
For the past six years, the Department of Prosthodontics has celebrated National Prosthodontics Awareness week by recruiting six low-income veterans to receive a free, complete set of dentures. To commemorate this annual event and in recognition of National Prosthodontics Awareness Week, Governor Kim Reynolds declared April 5-9 Iowa Prosthodontics Awareness Week.
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Personalizing Implant Therapy to Improve Outcomes
Friday, April 9, 2021
Personalized medicine meets the unique needs of each patient, and Christopher Barwacz’s research is focused on improving and optimizing implant therapy to meet the specific needs of each individual patient.
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78 %
of iowa dentists graduated from the University of Iowa college of Dentistry
![Graduating dental students](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/2021-08/graduates.jpg)
10 th
national ranking for research funding
![Pediatric Patient Smiles](/sites/dentistry.uiowa.edu/files/2021-08/SmileInChair2_0.jpg)
90 %
of incoming dental students chose Iowa because of the innovative curriculum