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Live Distance CE Course: Dental Trauma Preparedness: Equipping Your Office for Effective Emergency Management & Beyond the Handpiece: How Digital Treatment Planning Is Reshaping Dental Education promotional image

Live Distance CE Course: Dental Trauma Preparedness: Equipping Your Office for Effective Emergency Management & Beyond the Handpiece: How Digital Treatment Planning Is Reshaping Dental Education

Friday, March 13, 2026 8:30am to 12:30pm
Virtual
Join us on Friday, March 13th for a 4-hour live distance CE course featuring "Dental Trauma Preparedness: Equipping Your Office for Effective Emergency Management" and "Beyond the Handpiece: How Digital Treatment Planning Is Reshaping Dental Education." The course offers 4 CE credit hours for a registration cost of $99.
Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom) promotional image

Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators (Zoom)

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Hardin Open Workshops: Open Access: Policies, Publishers, and Predators
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PCD CE Day

Friday, April 17, 2026 (all day)
Old Capitol Museum
Join the Department of Preventative and Community Dentistry for the annual PCD CE Day on April 17th, 2026!
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News

Treatment Planning and Documentation Award winner Alanna Bram poses with Dr. Steven Means.

Family Dentistry hosts annual awards presentation

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
The Department of Family Dentistry hosted its 2025 awards banquet on Thursday, May 22. The awards recognize the hard work and dedication of D4 students.
 L to R - Cory Borsheim (spouse of the late Dr. Paula Weistroffer), Dr. Georgia Johnson, Dr. Shopping Zhang, Dean Stanford, Keshav Wagle, Sam Alen, Dr. Siva Prakasam, Dr. Carlos Garaicoa, Tony Smothers

Periodontics hosts 2025 Awards Luncheon

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
On Wednesday, May 21, the Department of Periodontics held its annual awards luncheon in W220. Dr. Siva Prakasam, DEO, hosted the event with awards presented to D2 and D4 students.
Students volunteer at His Hands Dental Clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

38 students volunteer at His Hands Dental Clinic

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Dental students from all years plus one resident volunteered their time at His Hands Dental Clinic in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, providing dental care to over 60 patients in 2024-25.
Iowa orthodontics at the AAO annual meeting in April.

Department of Orthodontics earns second place at AAO Resident Case Competition

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
The Department of Orthodontics achieved second place in the highly competitive American Association of Orthodontics (AAO) Resident Case Competition at the AAO’s annual meeting last month in Philadelphia.
Students studying outdoors at Iowa Memorial Union

78 %

of iowa dentists graduated from the University of Iowa college of Dentistry
Graduating dental students

10 th

national ranking for research funding
Pediatric Patient Smiles

90 %

of incoming dental students chose Iowa because of the innovative curriculum