UFCD is focused on carefully balancing risk with our obligations to serve the public, ensure safety for everyone in the dental care setting, and to support our teaching missions across all programs.

The UF College of Dentistry mourns the loss of a much-loved and well-respected colleague.

"I cover my face in gratitude to our first responders, and ask that everyone in our community join me." - Dean A Isabel Garcia, DDS, MPH

All UF College of Dentistry centers are providing emergency care only. The college has also launched a teledentistry service for patients.

Congratulations to the college's nine 2019-20 Superior Accomplishment Award winners.

Heft was a professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and director of the Claude D. Pepper Center for Oral Health in Aging.

Dr. Annikka Frostad-Thomas is a 2019 Richard C. Pugh Achievement Award recipient after scoring in the top three percent on the ABPD Qualifying Examination.

UF Health Dentistry – Wildlight began serving patients on February 3 at the college's newest clinic in Nassau County, north of Jacksonville.

The Volpe Award was established by the AAP in 2013 to address the retention of top periodontal basic science researchers and educators early in their careers.

Robert Burne is stepping down as oral biology chair on January 1, 2020; Mary Ellen Davey to serve as interim chair.