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Five UCLA School of Dentistry faculty members have been selected as fellows by the American College of Dentists (ACD). The quintet – Drs. Beatriz Bezerra, Esteban Bonilla, Ting-Ling Chang, Yusuke Hamada, and Alireza Moshaverinia – were formally conferred as fellows during the ACD Annual Session in New Orleans on Oct. 18.

Martin Jarmond, M.B.A., M.A., the Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics at UCLA, will deliver the UCLA School of Dentistry’s 2024 commencement address on Sunday, June 2, at 10 a.m. in Royce Hall.

Holistic support of the UCLA dental student experience is at the core of the new Integrative Mind-Body Wellness Initiative (IMBWI).

The UCLA School of Dentistry will have a robust presence at the world’s biggest annual gathering of dental, orofacial, and craniofacial researchers, taking place this week in New Orleans.

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In addition to fillings, extractions, and bridges, there’s been plenty of romance fluttering through the halls of CHS over the past 60 years!

In advance of Valentine's Day, we put out the call to Bruin alums and students, asking for your UCLA School of Dentistry love stories. From Class of 1977 alums approaching their golden anniversary to a couple who found each other on the first day of D1 orientation last September, thanks for sharing your heartwarming tales of matches made in heaven … and scrubs.

February is Black History Month! In celebration, the UCLA School of Dentistry's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee has created an interactive timeline of Black contributions to oral health care, from early practitioners like Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman and Dr. Ida Gray Nelson Rollins, to Dr. Jeanne Craig Sinkford – the first female dental school dean in the U.S. – to some notable accomplishments here in Westwood.

On Wednesday, Jan. 17, the annual UCLA School of Dentistry Board of Counselors' Leadership Institute (BOCLI) welcomes its 2024 student cohort.

A pair of UCLA School of Dentistry faculty members served as guest editors of the California Dental Association Journal's Dental Student Research Highlight 2023, which includes a pair of peer-reviewed publications authored by members of the Bruin scholarly community.

A five-year clinical trial led by UCLA School of Dentistry researchers and colleagues at UC San Francisco aims to test whether nisin, an antimicrobial molecule found in cheese, can be used to treat oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC).