University of Michigan - School of Dentistry

COVER STORY

Community Research, Community Service...the Detroit Dental Health Project & the U–M School of Dentistry

FEATURES

» Dental Scholar Begins Work to Establish 1st Dental School in Liberia

Third-year dental student and Dental Scholar Nejay Ananaba has taken the first steps to realize a lifelong dream of establishing the first dental school in her native country of Liberia.

» Students, Residents, Faculty, Staff "Give Kids a Smile"

» From Football to Dentistry

Dental Students Ross Ryan and David Schoonover hope to join the list of former U-M football players who have earned a dental degree or specialty degree.

In recent months, students and faculty from the School of Dentistry have used their expertise to help in other countries. Read about dental students David Lipton and Katrina Baeverstad who were in Honduras as a part of U-M's Honduras Medical Relief program, and Dr. Sam Zwetchkenbaum who traveled to Kenya and Uganda as a part of Operation Smile.

» Faculty Profile – Dennis Lopatin; Senior Associate Dean

Growing up in the Chicago are, he initially planned to go into industrial research and work for a pharmaceutical company. But when fog cancelled a flight that was to take him to a job interview, Dennis Lopatin was later offered a postdoctoral fellowship and began pursuing a new career path that eventually led to Ann Arbor.

» Turning "Stuff" into Art

In recent years, Dr. Eugene Buatti has been applying the skills he used as a dentist to create sculptures from an eclectic list of objects that include pliers, chains, hooks, wood, and even baseball bats.

» Alumna Profile – Dr. Joanne Dawley

A phone call from one dentist and comments from another led to a career that Dr. Joanne Dawley didn't imagine when she was studying for her dental degree at U-M. This spring, she became the first African American woman to serve as president of the Michigan Dental Association.