Check out the latest Buffalo School of Dental Medicine Newsletter. It includes links to some great resources!
SDM News
Tooth Cavities Linked to Lower Risk of Head, Neck Cancer in Study
Recently, WIVB-TV Health reporter, Peter Ostrow, aired a report featuring a UB study showing individuals who had more cavities were less likely to have some head and neck cancers. The tv report features Frank Scannapieco, DMD, PhD, chair of oral biology, discussing the research.
Additional articles appeared on appeared on–line with Consumer Healthday, U.S. News and World Report, CBS News, Newsday, MediLexicon, WebMD, Philadelphia Inquirer and England’s Daily Mail.
UB receives $1.2 million grant to train future oral health researchers
The Department of Oral Biology in the School of Dental Medicine has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Grant to allow PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to engage in critical oral health research in areas such as salivary gland physiology and oral infectious diseases.
The National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant will provide $1.2 million from July 2013 through June 2018.
UB put the teeth in dental care for low-income families
The severity of the community’s dental health problem has come to light during Clean Sweep events, which are attended by the University at Buffalo’s Smile Team, an outreach of the School of Dental Medicine.
Three-year grant targets dental training for nursing students
The School of Nursing has been awarded a $1,120,953 Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Advanced Nursing Education Training Grant to enable nurse practitioners to work with dental students in interdisciplinary teams, sharing educational and practice experiences that improve oral and systemic care.
Nasal spray anesthesia may work as well as injections for dental procedures, study shows.
One of the most dreaded experiences at the dentist’s office is an injection into the tissues of the mouth to numb an area requiring a painful dental procedure.
But thanks to recent research at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, these injections may be a thing of the past – at least for some procedures.
Sebastian G. Ciancio, DDS, UB Distinguished Service Professor, chair of periodontics and endodontics, director of the Center of Dental Studies and his research team recently published the results of a study in the Journal of Dental Research examining the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of nasal anesthesia spray to produce numbness of maxillary teeth (the upper teeth).
