Sir John Walsh Research Institute news & events

• Demise of dental amalgam outlined in Otago study
• Young Otago dentistry lecturers net international awards
• Possible world-first collaboration for Pharmacy and Dentistry students
• 30 new Professors for the University of Otago
• Free Otago clinic provides life-changing dental care for patients
• First female oral surgeon specialist for Pacific Islands
• Nineteen new Associate Professors for Health Sciences
• University of Otago welcomes new Professor of Oral Biology
• Uncovering clues in ancient dolphin teeth
• Translational Research Grant applications sought
• Slice of dental history in Samoa
• 2019 Sir John Walsh Research Institute Awards presented at SJWRI Research Day
  

• Celebrating our research excellence: SJWRI Research Day 2019
• Three awards for Health Sciences PVC
• Samoa able to expand dental services, thanks to University’s goodwill
• Dental redevelopment progresses
• SJWRI research supported by 2019 NZ Dental Research Foundation and Ministry of Health oral health funding
• Introducing Dr Ian Towle, our new Sir Thomas Kay Sidey Postdoctoral Fellow
• Familiarity and forward-thinking for new Faculty of Dentistry Dean
• Professor Murray Thomson wins 2019 Chaffer Medal
• Dentistry building gets Ministerial stamp of approval
• Dental research could mean big savings
• $1.2M Health Research Council project grant awarded to A/Prof Brian Monk of the SJWRI
• New Auckland dental base on target for February
• Dentistry faculty gives schools 150 mouthguards to celebrate University’s 150th birthday
• New building opened at national centre for dentistry
• Streamlining in the new national dentistry building
• Training in new dentistry building
• Busting barriers to dental care – Pasifika adolescents hold the answers
• New Auckland dental base on target
• Poetry-writing researcher’s ‘Microscopic Blues’ wins new digital microscope

Demise of dental amalgam outlined in Otago study

Wednesday, 19 February 2020

Fillings in your teeth? If both local and global trends are anything to go by, soon they won’t have anything to do with mercury.

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Young Otago dentistry lecturers net international awards

Friday, 14 February 2020

Two young University of Otago dentistry lecturers have won prestigious international emerging leaders awards.

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Possible world-first collaboration for Pharmacy and Dentistry students

Friday, 20 December 2019

For the first time University of Otago pharmacy and dentistry students have collaborated within a clinic setting to improve their training and improve patient care.

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Free Otago clinic provides life-changing dental care for patients

Monday, 9 December 2019

A University of Otago dental student who has organised a free community dental clinic for low socio-economic patients has been amazed at the life-changing effect the service has had on the patients.

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First female oral surgeon specialist for Pacific Islands

Friday, 6 December 2019

When Oripa Waqa returns to Fiji after graduation she will be the first female oral surgeon specialist in not only Fiji but in the wider Pacific Islands.

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