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Image of tiny EMTs pushing a broken tooth on a stretcher.

Dental Emergencies Years in the Making

Today’s broken tooth was endangered by clenching and grinding. Pandemic stress most likely made it worse

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine Professor Cheen Loo stands by a mural in Boston's Chinatown.

For Some Immigrant Parents, a New Way to Think About Baby Teeth

Tufts’ pediatric dentists emphasize the importance of early dental care

Rodrick Wiggins stands outside Tufts School of Dental Medicine.

One Dental Student vs. One Billion Plastic Toothbrushes

A quest to recycle, and to make dentistry more eco-friendly

Russell Smith, D22

School: School of Dental Medicine

Degree: Doctor of Dental Medicine

Home: Geographically, South Carolina, but, really, it’s the places, people, and memories that you take with you wherever you go

Romina Agharokh Aznavaleh, D22

School: School of Dental Medicine

Degree: Doctor of Dental Medicine

Home: If I have the people who love and support me around me, it doesn’t matter where I am.

School: School of Dental Medicine

Degree: Doctor of Dental Medicine

Home: Ever more northward! Barbados is where I’m from, and that will always be home, but Boston has become home for me, too—and next, I’m going to Maine.

Anshelle Tucker, D22

School: School of Dental Medicine

Degree: Doctor of Dental Medicine

Home: Where the heart is, and my heart is in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Historian Erika Lee to Deliver Commencement Address for Class of 2022

An award-winning author focusing on immigration, Lee, J91, is among six honorary degree recipients, part of a commencement week that includes a celebration for Class of 2020 graduates

A young girl with a toothache rubs her face.

For Kids, Toothaches Become Another Kind of Pandemic Pain

Pediatric dentists seeing more cavities and infections after COVID interrupts routine checkups