BCDA award recipients 2019
Among the many recipients this year were UBC Dentistry alumni

College of Dental Surgeons of BC awards 2019
UBC Dentistry salutes all the CDSBC 2019 award winners

Grad pros student ACP award winner
Dr. Walaa Ahmed, graduate prosthodontics student, placed third in the John J. Sharry Research Competition

Donald M. Brunette receives the 2018 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Research in Prosthodontics and Implants
Brunette has conducted exceptional research over a broad spectrum of important topics in cell biology, biomaterials, implantology, periodontology and oral malodor

Imaging scientist at UBC Dentistry awarded grant to collaborate with German engineer
Dr. Gethin Owen will collaborate on a project to better understand the structure/function toughening mechanism of the dentoenamel junction

Graduation 2018 Awards Recipients
Find out who they are...

Dentistry Teaching Awards for 2017 – 2018
Congratulations to these outstanding teachers. . .

UBC graduate orthodontics student wins resident scholar award at AAO annual session
Grad ortho student Dr. Kathleen Martin garnered a second place win in the Charley Schultz Resident Scholar Award program

Highly regarded Volpe Prize goes to a UBC doctoral student again
Graduate student Dr. Jiarui Bi won the prestigious Volpe Prize for the best clinical research in periodontology by students in dentistry

Two DMD students honoured for leadership; one wins top UBC award
Kerri-Lyn Chong and Dustin Trudeau were honoured at the UBC President’s 14th Annual Student Leadership Recognition Reception

Alumni Reception at the Ontario Dental Conference 2019
(May 10) Meet Dr. Mary MacDougall, Dean of UBC Dentistry following the Ontario Dental Association Annual Spring Meeting

Oral Health Month April 2019
(Apr 11, 16, 24, 30 | evenings) Learn about the fascinating topic of genetics in a CDE presentation by Dean MacDougall in four Lower Mainland locations

Annual Alumni Reception 2019
(Mar 8 | 5:30-730 pm) All UBC Dentistry alumni are invited to join us at the Annual Alumni Reception at the PDC

Summer Student Practitioner Program Annual Networking Event
(Mar 8 | 7-8 am) Calling all current and future mentors: join us for a one-hour breakfast, mentor recognition, and conversation with third-year UBC dental students as they explore the possibilities of working with you this summer

DMD Student and Young Alumni Pub Night
(Mar 7 | 6-7:30 pm) Graduates from the years of 2014 to 2018 are invited to the annual young alumni and student networking event

UBC Dentistry at PDC 2019
(Mar 7 - 9 | days and evenings) Check out all the events and places to join UBC Dentistry during the conference period

‘Magical’ Properties of Gingival Fibroblasts: Hope for Healing Skin Wounds and Reducing Scars
Dr. Lari Häkkinen has devised an oral-based cell therapy that exploits the unique, potentially regenerative properties of gingival fibroblasts to improve skin wound healing.

Dental Hygiene Education at UBC— Commemorating 50 Years
This year, 2018, marks a golden milestone. Come celebrate with us—the Faculty, the university and the province—as we honour the history and aspire for the future of dental hygiene education at UBC

Revival—The Patterson Dental Learning Centre at UBC
The Sutherland Clinic, a much loved but somewhat neglected facility on the ground floor of the John B. Macdonald Building, has been revived. Thanks to many stakeholders in the profession and one of the largest gifts to UBC Dentistry to date, the clinic has been brought back to life to once again host study clubs.

BOLD forensic identification training
Over the years the UBC BOLD lab has provided forensic identification training to various military organizations. . .

Rings of Success: Imaging Scientists at the Core of the CHTP
UBC’s Centre for High-Throughput Phenogenomics (CHTP), under the aegis of UBC Dentistry, is home to not only a comprehensive suite of imaging technologies, but also a team of expert imaging scientists. Here is a look at how some recent studies benefited from their expertise.

At the Intersection of Medicine and Dentistry—UBC Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology (OMOP) Specialty
Learn the depth and breadth of the OMOP specialty and how it plays a critical role in early diagnosis of oral lesions. Dr. Eli Whitney provides a succinct snapshot of UBC's OMOP program: who is involved, what they do, with whom, for whom and where they do it.

The Booming ‘Grey Wave’—UBC Dentistry at the Educational Forefront of Geriatric Oral Care
UBC Dentistry recently restructured and enhanced its dental geriatric content. For the first time, our country has more seniors than people under the age of 15, according to a 2016 Statistics Canada census.

Interprofessional Education at UBC—Strengthening Collaboration Among Health and Human Services Professions
Faintly flickering as a concept in the 1960s, interprofessional education (IPE) today blinks loud and clear on the radar screens of health-related entities—professionally and academically, nationally and globally.

Dentistry as Science and Art—And a Quest to Decipher Genetic Influences on Craniofacial Conditions
What could be more central to a child’s or an adult’s identity than the distinctive features and contours of his or her face?

Dental hygiene students welcomed in Vietnam a second time
Watch a video and read a poster about their rotation to Vietnam