dental medicine

June 3, 2024

Going the distance

Linda Edgar, who applied to the UW School of Dentistry after 15 years as a school teacher, is now the president of the American Dental Association.


May 28, 2023

A gleaming partnership

The UW School of Dentistry partnered with Shoreline Community College to increase the number of dental hygienists.


February 28, 2017

Esther Wilkins Tufts

Esther M. Wilkins (1916-2016)

The founder of the School of Dentistry’s dental hygiene program, known as the godmother of modern dental hygiene, died Dec. 12 in Boston.


June 1, 1994

Floss-free life?

Dental researchers at the UW reported that an experimental vaccine protects monkeys from gum disease.