News from the School of Dental Medicine...
It's hard to keep track of all the progress we've been making the research in all our departments and the impact we've been having on our community, but you'll find our attempt to collect it all here. To help fill in what we've missed, you may want to visit the university news center, which produces and hosts the case daily news reports. You can find older stories and more School of Dental Medicine publications in the news archive.
Case Western Reserve University Receives $20.5 Million from Alumnus Donald Goodman and His Wife Ruth Weber Goodman
Case Western Reserve University has received a $20.5 million gift from Donald Goodman, DDS (DEN '45) and Ruth Weber Goodman. The Donald J. and Ruth Weber Goodman Philanthropic Fund will reside at the University and the Cleveland Foundation. Income will be used to support education and research programs at the schools of medicine and dental medicine. Read more...
Dental Researcher Works to Stop Bacteria From Harming Fetus
The best way to keep bacteria from doing any damage is to stop them before they start down their pathological road to destruction.
Yiping Han, associate professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, aims to understand how to block a common bacterium that’s harmless in a mother’s mouth but can turn deadly when it reaches an unborn child. She has received a five-year, $1.85 million grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health to fund the effort.
The bacterium, Fusobacterium nucleatum, becomes destructive once it leaves the mouth and enters the blood stream. Read more...
Dental Students, Faculty, Help More than 1,400 Dental Patients During Mission of Mercy Weekend
When patients started lining up at 1 a.m. in the morning to seek dental care at a Mission of Mercy free clinic in Parkersburg, W.V., this past weekend, Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine students and faculty had an eye-opening experience about the dental needs of people living in the Ohio River Valley.
The campus volunteers joined other volunteer professionals from the dental community and local colleges to help with the 1,400 patients in this rural West Virginia region. Read more...
Graduation is a Family Reunion for Dental Student
Graduation from the School of Dental Medicine at Case Western Reserve University on Sunday, May 17, is going to be a big family reunion for Yuan Tao, who has lived thousands of miles apart from her husband in California and four-year old daughter in China over the past four years. Read more...