Promise of Personalized Dental Medicine Embraces Team Approach (UConn Today)
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“There only a handful of academic health centers in the United States where dental students receive the same basic science curriculum experience as medical students, and at UConn this includes equivalent training in genetics and genomics,” said Dr. R. Lamont MacNeil, dean of the UConn School of Dental Medicine. “Even more important is the fact that this curriculum not only explains the biological concepts but also addresses the significant legal and ethical issues relative to the use of genomic information in health care. The challenge nationally is to deliver this level of education across all schools of dental medicine. We are fortunate to be a leader in this regard, but a lot more has to be done to move this from the classroom to a functional level in practice. We are not at that stage yet, but the groundwork is there when that time arrives.”
