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On Saturday, April 26, 2025, many of Trinity College Dublin's Dental Science students had the great privilege to participate in Teddy Bear Hospital (TBH). TBH is an annual, full-day event coordinated and hosted by Trinity College Dublin's Paediatric Society, whereby young school children are able to interact with students studying various health science professions, such as medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, and dentistry.

Congratulations to all of our auditors who conducted audits in the past year and presented their findings to colleagues at the DDUH Clinical Audit Presentation Afternoon on Thursday 1 May.

We hosted a small celebration in recognition of our long serving members of Staff on Wednesday, 30 April 2025.

Delighted to report that Kamila Marcinczak, Louis Madden and Peter Suresh were all 'highly commended' as runners up in their relative categories following their poster presentations at the BAOS Annual Scientific Conference last week. This is a huge achievement given the extremely high standard of competition, including those in specialty training, specialist and consultant roles.  

This week, a paper written in 2023 by former staff Dr David McReynolds & Dr James O'Connor-Moneley; as well as Dublin Dental Hospital alumni, Dr Ahmed Sultan and Dr Advan Moorthy has received recognition and certification from publishing house Wiley as one of the Top 10 Most-Cited Articles in the Journal of Prosthodontics that year, according to Clarivate Analytics.

5th Year DDUH undergraduate dental student Charlee Holden was the winner of the Irish Endodontic Society Undergraduate Essay Prize for 2024-25.

Due to the weather reports and the government recommendations of the red status warning for storm Éowyn the DDUH will be closed on January 24th 2025.

The Health Research Board has published their annual Health Research in Action publication, showcasing successful HRB funded research. This year’s publication features a section on oral microbiome research carried out in DDUH on patients with potentially malignant disease, led by Profs Gary Moran and Claire Healy: https://www.hrb.ie/publication/health-research-in-action/

Trinity College School of Dental Science is inviting applications to the Professional (Higher) Diploma in Orthodontic Therapy, to commence on Monday, 25th of August 2025 for a 12-month full-time course.