The University of Tennessee (UT) Board of Trustees has approved a request from the UT Health Science Center (UTHSC) to name the new dental building under construction on the Memphis campus the Delta Dental of Tennessee Building.
“We are nonstop hands on and we at the end of the day, we’re making a better smile,” said Heath Phillips, a fourth-year University of Tennessee dental student. Phillips and other students are serving dental patients at Healing Hands Health Center. The clinic provides care to individuals without insurance.
The University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center (UTHSC) College of Dentistry says it has successfully created highly effective biologic filtration masks using a 3-D printer in its Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. “We were having difficulty obtaining the proper PPE (personal protective equipment) N95 mask,” said Jeffrey Brooks, DMD, executive associate dean and associate… Read More
The masks will be used by the College of Dentistry faculty and residents who operate an emergency dental clinic at UT and serve children’s dental needs at LeBonheur.
Some Memphis kids are smiling wide after getting a free dental check-up thanks to the UT Health Science Center. More than 150 students at Freedom Prep Academy received the free check-up Thursday. It’s part of the national “Give Kids a Smile Day.” Also: Fox 13:https://tennessee.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d896b38de9dd8fd3c043073b3&id=e0304bbc40&e=ebe2aa88fa
Sometimes, it can be difficult for dental clinics to accommodate patients with special needs. “You have to have a dental room that will accommodate them,” said Dr. James Ragain, dean of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Dentistry. “Some are not equipped to do that.” Fortunately, a new, 68,000-square-foot addition to… Read More
In the east quadrant what used to be a wide breezeway at the front of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital is a new dental clinic just for children. When the hospital and University of Tennessee Health Science Center officials formally open it Wednesday afternoon, they will cut a ribbon of floss, a symbol perhaps of the strings… Read More
In a world of rising opioid addiction, vaping and oral cancers, 2019 is the year of oral health, says Rear Admiral Timothy Ricks, both the chief dental officer of the U.S. Public Health Service and the nation’s assistant surgeon general.
