Fourth-year DDS students are volunteering at the local Yonge Street Mission Evergreen Dental Clinic to help vulnerable populations.

Professor Daniel Haas, former dean of the Faculty of Dentistry, has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.

A $1.2-million gift from the Canerector Foundation to the Faculty of Dentistry will support the research of professor Laurent Bozec into better diagnostic methods for a rare disease.

Marco Magalhaes is using a $130,000 Cancer Research Society operating grant to investigate oral precancer.

Bobby Chagger 9T6, Norma Chou 7T4, and Joel Rosenbloom, assistant professor, teaching stream, and director of student life at the Faculty, are this year’s Dentistry recipients.

Two DDS4 students recently spent two weeks with Joel Rosenbloom teaching dental students at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia as part of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration.

Three students from Okayama University Dental School in Japan have begun a five-week exchange program at the Faculty of Dentistry.

National Pain Awareness Week is coming up on November 3 to 9. The best place to discover more about the complexities of pain during this week — and beyond — is the University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain (UTCSP).

The Faculty of Dentistry is conducting first of its kind research in Canada on a developmental tooth defect affecting about one in five children worldwide.

Professor Chris McCulloch recently received a 5-year CIHR grant for $750,000 to examine how a certain type of high prevalence gum disease, periodontitis, causes site-specific destruction of periodontal tissues.