Sir John Walsh Research Institute news & events

• 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
• New Zealand dentists pick up the pieces when ‘dental tourism’ goes bad
• University of Otago researchers unravel knowledge in dolphin teeth to provide environmental insights
• Innovative health and wellbeing hub opens
• Nano-scale science helps prize-winning Otago scientist make a big impact
• 2018 SJWRI PhD Scholarship and Sir Thomas Sidey Postdoctoral Fellowship rounds now open
• Faculty of Dentistry starting early next year
• Recycling project with a difference launched in Dentistry
• Dental build brings work to local trades
• Otago outreach project educates children about “hidden sugars”
• Otago researchers recognised at Research Honours Dinner
• 'Killer' toothaches likely cause misery for captive orca
• Otago researchers’ achievements recognised at 2017 NZ Research Honours Dinner
• SJWRI Awards for 2017 presented at Research Day
• Report from SJWRI Research Day 2017, Tuesday 5 September
• Dentistry projects ramps up - staff and students moving
• All Black name for a crane
• Huge crane on its way
• Two-time 3MT winner loves challenge of event
• SJWRI oral health research supported by the NZ Dental Association and Ministry of Health in their 2017 funding rounds
• Registration is now open for SJWRI Research Day 2017
• SJWRI Three Minute Thesis competition showcases our postgraduate research

Dental decant a complex affair

Thursday, 7 June 2018

Just finding new spaces for everyone took about 18 months – decanting the Faculty of Dentistry to overhaul the Walsh Building is not a task for the faint-hearted.

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Raising the roof

Wednesday, 6 June 2018

The roof is on the new Faculty of Dentistry building – where patients will be treated – and the floors have been poured on all four levels.

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Otago study shows “giant” problem looms for ageing New Zealanders

Monday, 14 May 2018

Urgent attention needs to be paid to frail older New Zealanders’ oral health, a University of Otago study has highlighted.

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Child poverty casts long shadow on oral health care: Otago dental expert

Monday, 7 May 2018

Child poverty and its detrimental impact on dental health care casts a long shadow and affects oral health into adulthood, University of Otago Associate Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry, Jonathan Broadbent says.

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New Zealand dentists pick up the pieces when ‘dental tourism’ goes bad

Thursday, 12 April 2018

New Zealand dentists are increasingly having to provide remedial treatment where things have gone wrong for “dental tourists” who travel abroad for dental work.

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