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• 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
• Exceptional staff recognised at awards ceremony
• Otago researcher contributes piece to the puzzle of baleen whales’ evolution
• History-making donation secures future of Auckland dental facility
• University of Otago receives largest donation ever of $10 million from alumnus
• Māori health professional graduand numbers soar to new heights
• High unmet need for dental care among Syrian refugees, Otago research shows
• New admissions test announced for future healthcare students
• SJWRI Awards for 2018 presented at Research Day
• SJWRI Research Day 2018 celebrates our research excellence
• Otago to build new dental facility in Manukau
  
• University of Otago to build new dental teaching facility in South Auckland
• SJWRI research supported by 2018 NZ Dental Research Foundation and Ministry of Health oral health funding
• Otago scientists have challenging but rewarding role in repatriation mission
• Dental decant a complex affair
• Raising the roof
• Children, students embrace Teddy Bear Hospital
• Otago study shows “giant” problem looms for ageing New Zealanders
• Child poverty casts long shadow on oral health care: Otago dental expert

Busting barriers to dental care – Pasifika adolescents hold the answers

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Sitting at the forefront of inequalities in oral health care, Pasifika youth are well placed to provide solutions to the problem, a unique University of Otago study has found.

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New Auckland dental base on target

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Construction of the University’s dental teaching facility and patient treatment clinic in South Auckland is proceeding well, with structural steel now being ordered, Campus Development Division Director David Perry says.

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Poetry-writing researcher’s ‘Microscopic Blues’ wins new digital microscope

Wednesday, 3 April 2019

It’s not just the fact Dr Dawn Coates has won the Faculty of Dentistry a new microscope, it’s the way she won which has faculty staff buzzing.

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Exceptional staff recognised at awards ceremony

Friday, 1 February 2019

The University’s first award ceremony for 2019 was held last week, recognising exceptional performance by staff and, for the first time, excellence in health and safety.

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Otago researcher contributes piece to the puzzle of baleen whales’ evolution

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

An Otago researcher has added another piece to the puzzle of the evolution of modern baleen whales with a world-first study examining the teeth and enamel of baleen whales’ ancestors.

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