{"id":1477,"date":"2025-12-08T16:19:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:07:06","slug":"news-from-the-department-of-preventive-dental-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/news-from-the-department-of-preventive-dental-science\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the department of preventive dental science and graduate pediatric dentistry program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A department of preventive dental science holiday lunch recently took place. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-1.jpg\" alt=\"15 people are seated around tables with plates of food in front of them. Three other people are standing. \" class=\"wp-image-1465\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dr. Keri Discepolo<\/strong>, clinical associate professor of pediatric dentistry; director, advanced education program in pediatric dentistry; and chair, department of pediatric dentistry at Boston University, visited the UM dental college in September. She gave a lecture to staff and post-graduates in the department of preventive dental science. The talk was titled &#8216;Special considerations for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities undergoing general anesthesia.&#8217; <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-8.jpg\" alt=\"13 people pose for a photo. \" class=\"wp-image-1481\" width=\"640\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-8.jpg 640w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-8-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-8-600x225.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 2, <strong>Dr. Billy Wiltshire<\/strong>, department head of preventative dental science; division head of orthodontics; and program director of graduate orthodontics, (left) and <strong>Dr. Jim Ksionzyk<\/strong>, acting program director, pediatric dentistry graduate program, (right) welcomed new pediatric dental specialty residents, <strong>Dr. Navnoor Mann<\/strong> and <strong>Dr. Esra Karakaya<\/strong>, on the first day of their 36 month full-time program.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-14.jpg\" alt=\"Four people pose for photo. A sign above them reads &quot;Children's Dental Clinic. Clinique dentaire pour enfants.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-1490\" width=\"480\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-14.jpg 640w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-14-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/12\/Dentistry-newsletter-14-600x506.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A department of preventive dental science holiday lunch recently took place. Dr. Keri Discepolo, clinical associate professor of pediatric dentistry; director, advanced education program in pediatric dentistry; and chair, department of pediatric dentistry at Boston University, visited the UM dental college in September. She gave a lecture to staff and post-graduates in the department of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/dentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}