“The hardest part for us has been helping her brush,” says Adriana’s mother. Adriana is 3 years old now, and she’s at the UIC College of
About 50 students from St. Malachy School visited the College of Dentistry Feb. 8 for its Give Kids a Smile Day.
The annual event brings together students and faculty from the college with schools around Chicago to promote oral health education and provide free preventive exams to underserved communities. This is the 16th year the College of Dentistry has hosted the Give Kids A Smile event to improve education
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant of over $1 million over five years obtained in 2017 will enable third-year DMD and DMD Advanced Standing students of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry to go out on rotations to community clinics for the first time.
“The D-3s go out on rotation in the spring semester and the AS-3s in
A UIC professor and associate dean has been appointed as co-chair of the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education.
The forum is an ongoing activity of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that seeks to advance education for health professionals by bringing together stakeholders from multiple nations and professions in workshops and forums each year. As co-chair,
Seeing baby teeth first appear is an exciting time in a child’s early years. Your child’s first teeth give them new ways to eat, speak, and smile. This milestone is also a time to begin thinking about how to care for your child’s teeth.
Believe it or not, tooth decay can begin as soon as your baby’s teeth first appear. This is why it is so important to start your child out with good oral hygiene habits that
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry Periodontics Resident Dr. Elizabeth Kaminsky was named an Albert Schweitzer Fellow for the 2017-18 year.
Dr. Kaminsky earned her fellowship through the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program, a chapter of the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, and through the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group, an independent policy center that conducts
