Spring 2024 Magazine: Six Decades of Transformative Excellence
The UCLA School of Dentistry's Spring 2024 magazine celebrates its 60th anniversary and the four pillars of excellence on which the School was founded: Education, patient care, public service, and research.
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In this issue:
- A Parallel Existence
- Dean Krebsbach's message
- Dean Krebsbach's message
- Through the Decades of a Diamond Anniversary (p. 2-3)
- Snapshots from the past 60 years, plus an interactive timeline.
- Snapshots from the past 60 years, plus an interactive timeline.
- Wonder Women: From the Margins to the Majority (p. 4-7)
- Meet two alumnae – and one to be – from different eras of the profession’s gender evolution.
- Meet two alumnae – and one to be – from different eras of the profession’s gender evolution.
- Building a Smile, and So Much More (p. 8-11)
- Cleft lip and palate patient nears the end of a nearly two-decade journey in the care of UCLA Dentistry oral surgeons and orthodontic residents.
- Cleft lip and palate patient nears the end of a nearly two-decade journey in the care of UCLA Dentistry oral surgeons and orthodontic residents.
- Test Your UCLA School of Dentistry Knowledge (p. 12-13)
- Only the most brilliant Bruins can answer all ten of these questions correctly. Are you one of them?
- Only the most brilliant Bruins can answer all ten of these questions correctly. Are you one of them?
- Bugs as Drugs (p. 14-17)
- Harnessing the therapeutic properties of nisin, an antibacterial peptide, Dr. Yvonne Hernandez-Kapila is making groundbreaking discoveries across oral cancer, periodontal disease, and beyond.
- Harnessing the therapeutic properties of nisin, an antibacterial peptide, Dr. Yvonne Hernandez-Kapila is making groundbreaking discoveries across oral cancer, periodontal disease, and beyond.
- A MINDFUL Approach to Compassionate Community Care (p. 18-21)
- UCLA Dentistry students are receiving uncommon training experiences through a new initiative, bringing much-needed oral health services to residents of long-term care facilities.
- UCLA Dentistry students are receiving uncommon training experiences through a new initiative, bringing much-needed oral health services to residents of long-term care facilities.
- One Final Send-Off (p. 22)
- Recent faculty and staff retirements
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