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Dental school clinic to offer free exams and cleanings Jan. 9
The Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine’s student clinic will provide free dental cleanings, exams and X-rays from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 9, during the clinic’s annual Prophy Day for community service. The dental clinic is located at 2124 Cornell Road. The free service...
School of Dental Medicine resident Nikolay Levintov wins Outstanding Case Report award
Third-year oral and maxillofacial surgery resident Nikolay Levintov earned the Outstanding Case Report award from the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons at the fourth annual Resident Research Forum in Philadelphia on Nov. 20. He was awarded for his case report, titled “Aggressive T...
Dental medicine’s Thomas Montagnese gives international talks
Thomas Montagnese, assistant professor of endodontics in the School of Dental Medicine, gave multiple presentations around the world this year on minimal and moderate sedation techniques. He presented at: The annual meeting of the American Association of Endodontists in Seattle The Egyptian Dent...
School of Dental Medicine receives up to $4.6 million to reduce cavities in primary care settings
Pediatricians test their powers of persuasion to deliver more children to dentist Suchitra Nelson Convincing more parents and caregivers to take young children to the dentist begins with persuasive pediatricians—that’s the belief behind a new Case Western Reserve University research project testin...
Former Department of Endodontics Chair Jefferson Jones passes away
The year was 1967. Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Here in Cleveland, Carl Stokes became the first African-American elected mayor U.S. city. And at Case Western Reserve, Jefferson J. Jones, Ohio’s first African-American endodontist, ac...
Students treat senior patients in van equipped as dentist’s office
Students and faculty at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Dental Medicine are treating Cleveland-area seniors in a dentist’s office on wheels—a 38-foot van, in fact, renovated to provide full-service oral care. The “Lifelong Smiles” van—believed to be the first of its kind in Northeast Oh...
CWRU and Cleveland Clinic break ground on Health Education Campus; to open summer 2019
Designed by London’s Foster + Partners architects, building to offer state-of-the-art technology, innovative interprofessional education Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic broke ground Thursday on a four-story, 485,000-square-foot Health Education Campus (HEC) that its leaders vo...
Reunite with classmates and meet new alumni
This year, Case Western Reserve University will celebrate 23 classes whose graduation years end in zeros and fives, giving each class the chance to reunite. See a full list of reunion events at case.edu/alumni/homecoming/. Some reunion events include: Law School’s All Alumni Reception and Reunion...
School of Dental Medicine to offer free exams, x-rays
Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine is offering free dental exams and X-rays for first-time adult patients at the school’s Comprehensive Care Clinic on Wednesday, Sept. 30. Such basic dental services typically cost about $90. To be eligible for the free service, you must be a...
CWRU researchers find high blood sugar of diabetes can cause immune system malfunction
Case Western Reserve scientists show how sugar-derived molecules can weaken infection-fighting antimicrobial beta-defensin peptides Case Western Reserve University scientists may have uncovered a molecular mechanism that sets into motion the dangerous infection in the feet and hands that often occur...