School of Dental Medicine

A new review by researchers at Penn Dental Medicine examines how fermented plant-based foods interact with the microbes that live in the mouth and gut, providing a roadmap for developing fermented foods into nutrition strategies to support health.

Vaccinations have traditionally been administered in primary care settings or pharmacies. However, for about a decade, some states have authorized dentists to administer vaccines, and many others did so during the COVID-19 pandemic. The effectiveness of this approach has led some countries and states to expand or consider expanding the role of dental providers in delivering routine vaccines, including those against COVID-19 and the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in providing vaccine education.

A multidisciplinary team of Penn researchers has developed a platform that delivers a combination of cancer-fighting therapies to treat oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Graduates from all 12 Schools are taking their degrees and expertise and heading out into the world as graduate students, postdocs, residents, entrepreneurs, startup execs, policy workers, and more, with the interdisciplinary groundwork of a Penn degree in tow.

 In the fourth and final installment of the series, “Chapters of Change” highlights another transformational moment in Penn’s past when the evolution of life sciences research sparked the University to commit to investing in new research facilities and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Penn Dental Medicine’s new educational video resources are designed to enhance the medical-dental integration efforts at the School’s community care center at PHMC Public Health Campus on Cedar in West Philadelphia, and to educate patients and caregivers of persons with disabilities.

Research led by Penn Dental’s Henry Daniell shows that antiviral and antibacterial chewing gums reduce the levels of three microbes linked to worse outcomes in oral cancers, paving the way for more effective and affordable therapies.

A roundup of the latest awards and honors for several faculty members and one student in six Schools.

A monthlong series of talks, workshops, symposia, and more highlights how recent advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping robotics, health, education, and public life, all the while keeping human values at the center.

Researchers from the lab of Geelsu Hwang at Penn Dental Medicine have developed a type of nanocarrier that can encapsulate large molecules, protect them from degradation, and release them, intact, for more targeted forms of drug delivery.