Operation Smile celebrated June as National Safety Month by highlighting the ways in which its dedicated volunteers continue to provide safe surgical care for patients with oral cleft conditions worldwide.

With no end in sight for the global COVID-19 pandemic, hospitals are evaluating the impact of severely restricting or barring visitors all together. In January 2020, more than 90% of hospitals prevented any visitors or severely limited them…

Many Americans have lamented the COVID-19-related travel restrictions that have prevented visitors from a variety of countries from traveling to the United States. On July 26, the White House announced that these restrictions will remain in…

Carroll Ann Trotman, BDS, MA, MS, has been named dean of The Ohio State University (OHS) College of Dentistry.

While Los Angeles County has gone back to an indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status, most other regions are following the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation that only unvaccinated…

With the easily transmissible Delta variant and large populations of unvaccinated residents, Florida hospitals are seeing the highest admission rates due to COVID-19 than ever before during the pandemic. Public health officials had hoped to…

After a period of decreasing cases and growing hope for the end of the global pandemic, the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 is now spreading quickly across the globe, including the United States. Officials from the US Centers for Disease…

As detailed in an article appearing in the Journal of Dental Research, “The Human Salivary Proteome Wiki: A Community-Driven Research Platform,” a new public portal has been launched that provides access to a dynamic database on proteins…

In order to better understand how stress affects childhood development, an interdisciplinary team studied the timing of first permanent molar eruption. Investigators from the University of Pennsylvania’s (Penn) School of Dental Medicine and…

Younger adult dental patients are taking medications that could affect their long-term oral health, according to a study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University of Dentistry.