Research Issue - Harvard School of Dental Medicine

communit y health fo cusCommunity Health FocusHarvard Dental Center Holds Open HouseHundreds of people visited the Dental Center in November to tour the facilities.On November 29, the Harvard Dental Centershowcased its Faculty Group Practice with a lunchtimeopen house for Longwood Medical Area personnel.More than 200 employees from HarvardMedical School and the Harvard School of PublicHealth toured the facilities with HSDM facultyguides. The beautiful state-of-the-art Faculty GroupPractice boasts 27 treatment rooms, a new radiologysuite, and a comfortable reception area.Among those at the Dental Center during theopen house (waiting for his dental appointment)was a grateful Morris Fry, who has been a patientat the Center since 1973. “I’d go nowhere else buthere,” says Fry, a former Harvard employee. “I’vegotten consistently top-rate dental care, first inthe Teaching Practices, then in the Faculty GroupPractice. My first dentist here was Ray Williams[PD ’73, former head of the HSDM Department ofPeriodontology, currently dean of the Stony BrookUniversity School of Medicine]. Now my dentist isDr. Gallucci, who is a dental wizard. He’s the best.Everyone here has saved my teeth. I still have mostof my teeth because of them.”This open house was the second held by the DentalCenter in 2010; HSDM plans additional events toshowcase the Center in 2011.HTop: Kevin Guze, DMSc ’10, an HSDM instructorin oral medicine, infection, and immunity, leadsa tour of the Harvard Dental Center during theNovember open house.Right: German Gallucci (left), an HSDM lecturer inrestorative dentistry and director of the AdvancedGraduate Education Program in Implantology,poses in the Harvard Dental Center with patientMorris Fry, who calls Gallucci “a dental wizard.”17