The University of Manitoba officially launched the Niznick Overdenture Program today, which will provide dentistry students the unique opportunity to pioneer a new dental implant technology and program while they install new teeth in the mouths of 35 homeless people. The Faculty of Dentistry has partnered with Siloam Mission’s health centre to offer complete dental […]

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The University of Manitoba will officially launch the Niznick Overdenture Program today. The $500,000-project will see University of Manitoba dental students pioneer a new technology and program that will give dental implants to 35 homeless people.
The U of M has partnered with Siloam Mission’s health centre to offer complete dental implants to the 35 […]

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For the second consecutive year, students at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Dentistry have earned outstanding results in national board examinations.
Once again, results from the National Dental Examining Board (NDEB) showed that Manitoba dental students scored well above the national average in both the written examination and the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), a […]

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Hundreds of children at close to 20 inner-city schools in Winnipeg will continue to receive proper and thorough oral health care thanks to Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba, in conjunction with the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Manitoba.
On December 2, the Manitoba charity confirmed the renewal of their sponsorship of the Variety […]

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A major funding announcement involving a children’s charity and the University of Manitoba will occur tomorrow, December 2, at 10 am.
The event will highlight Variety, the Children’s Charity of Manitoba’s renewed funding commitment to the Variety Children’s Dental Outreach Program at the Faculty of Dentistry on the University of Manitoba’s Bannatyne Campus.
Made possible through the […]

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Manitoba Health has announced $500,000 in funding (over five years) to the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry toward development of a groundbreaking online curriculum to educate non-dental healthcare providers about oral health.
Diseases and conditions of the oral cavity can have a profound and pervasive impact on overall health, especially in high-risk populations where access to […]

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The Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Manitoba, through the record-setting support of an alumnus, is pleased to announce the launch of a unique dental implant program targeting underserved populations.
Dr. Gerald Niznick [DMD/66] has donated $500,000 to the Faculty of Dentistry to develop and launch a novel denture program that will demonstrate how modern, […]

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