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Bubbles that clean teeth
Adapted from the University of Birmingham web site Research into the science behind ultrasonic scalers, used by dental professionals to remove built up plaque, has identified that the formation of...
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Setting Sun
This is our last week in the old building – the sun sets on a glorious career. So many patients, staff and students have passed through the building. Lots of stories and memories. Time to reflect but...
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Dental School World Rankings
Sent on behalf of Professor Philip Lumley Good morning everybody I am delighted to be able to tell you that Dentistry has risen from 41st to 17th QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 on the...
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Promotion, Promotion
The School of Dentistry is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr Will Palin to Professor and Dr Mel Grant to Senior Lecturer. Professor Palin was previously Reader in Biomaterials at the School of...
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Joey and the Bug Disco
Dr Joey Shepherd, Lecturer in Oral Microbiology from the University of Sheffield gave a talk at our Science Lunchtime Seminar entitled ‘Bug Disco: Effects of acoustic vibration and ultrasound on...
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Success for Upen Patel
Upen Patel successfully defended his PhD thesis on “KiloHertz ultrasound as a potential therapy for dental repair”, subject to minor corrections. Here is the successful Dr Patel with his external...
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Iain Chapple – Head of School
Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that we have appointed Professor Iain Chapple as the new Head of School of Dentistry with effect from 1st July 2016. Iain is currently Head of Periodontology...
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Well done Owen Addison
Many congratulations to Owen Addison on receiving the Young Investigator award in the Distinguished Scientist awards for 2016 . The award was presented to Owen at the International Association for...
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Microbe Mouth
On Tuesday 5th July Rachel Sammons and Melissa Grant headed down to London for the ‘Into the Orifice’ launch event for the Science Gallery London’s Mouthy season. Working with artist Anna Dumitriu, the...
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Vistors
We have had numerous visitors since the building opening and whenever they arrive, a tour of the building is part of the package. Tours generally start on the top floor and work their way through the...
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Big Brum Buz
Have you been on an open top bus tour of Birmingham? No? Well it is well worth doing and it is lots of fun. After the end of the U21 Health Science conference, many delegates took advantage of the...
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Researching at Ohio State
Isabel Lopez-Oliva who is undertaking a PhD reports on her visit to Ohio State University. “I had the pleasure to spend 3 weeks in June in Ohio State University in Dr Purnima Kumar’s lab where we...
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@ the V & A
Ingenious and Fearless Companions at the V&A Following on from their successful ‘Ingenious and Fearless Companions’ exhibition at Birmingham Open Media (BOM) earlier in the year the High Altitude...
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Endodontic Lecture
We were fortunate to have Luc van der Sluis visit from Gronigen with a team of biofilm researchers visit the School. He was the guest of Phil Tomson and whilst Luc has visited Birmingham on a number...
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Sci-Phy 4 Health
The School of Dentistry was pleased to host the doctoral students from the Sci-Phy (Physical Sciences for Health) doctoral training centre which is funded by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical...
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Erasmus+ Research
Dr Rui Albuquerque in Oral Medicine hosted European visitors to Birmingham as part of an Erasmus+ project on smoking cessation. The full title of the project is Smoking Cessation advice : Healthcare...
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Let’s go to San Francisco
There was a great turn out by dental researchers at the International Association for Dental Research which was held in San Francisco in 22nd to 25th September. The School of Dentistry , the University...
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Dentistry at the Research Gala
The ‘Festival of graduate research’ (28 March 2017) Fiars Albaaj – Final year PhD student at the School of Dentistry 31/03/2017 This Festival was held in the Birmingham medical school In the Wolfson...
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Gay Smith’s Milestone
Gay Smith who is the lead research technician at the School reached an important milestone as birthdays go. Here are some pictures from the School’s surprise party together with the research...
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China in his hands
Professor Paul Cooper visited China as part of the University of Birmingham Research Leaders Academic Delegation. It was a busy week for Paul with visits to several institutions. At the start the...
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