Spring 2024 Magazine: Six Decades of Transformative Excellence

Click here to view and download the UCLA School of Dentistry's Spring 2024 Magazine (PDF file)

In this issue:

• A Parallel Existence
  • Dean Krebsbach's message
     
• Through the Decades of a Diamond Anniversary (p. 2-3)
  • 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.
     
• 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.
     
• 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?
     
• 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.
     
• 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.
     
• One Final Send-Off (p. 22)
  • Recent faculty and staff retirements