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State-of-the-Art Dental Faculty Practice Site Opens on Haven Avenue
All practitioners are faculty members of College of Dental Medicine, provide comprehensive care to CUMC faculty, staff
A worker puts finishing touches on sign outside dental facility.
A worker puts finishing touches on sign outside dental facility.
With the opening this month of the new Medical Center Faculty Practice at 100 Haven Avenue, patients can now visit their dentists in a sleek, modern, beautifully designed facility where nearly all dental needs can be met in one location.
   The new 2,700-square-foot facility is part of Columbia University Dental Associates, the umbrella organization for all College of Dental Medicine (CDM) practice sites.
   The Haven Avenue facility replaces the one formerly housed on the ground floor of an apartment building on 165th Street and Ft. Washington Avenue. That space, though close to CUMC and NYPH, was cramped and out of date. CDM took over that space for the medical center’s faculty practice 10 years ago.
   “The new facility represents a significant investment of time and money on the part of the College of Dental Medicine,” says Stephen Marshall, D.D.S., M.P.H., associate professor of clinical dentistry and associate dean for extramural programs, who oversees CDM’s faculty practices. “We want to offer our patients the very best in contemporary dentistry, practiced by the very best general dentists and specialists.” Dr. Marshall credits Murray Schwartz, D.D.S., clinical professor, periodontics, with leading the design and construction effort for CDM to make this practice a reality.
   The new practice is significantly larger than the old one – it has eight treatment rooms as opposed to the five in the Ft. Washington space, an on-site lab and sterilization area, and all new equipment, including digital X-ray machines. The practice currently has about 6,000 annual patient visits and hopes to increase that number to 10,000. About 90 percent of patients are CUMC and NYPH faculty and staff.
One of eight new treatment rooms overlooking the Hudson River.
One of eight new treatment rooms overlooking the Hudson River.
   “Now, there is ample room for the practice to grow and for even more medical center employees to have access to dental care by CDM faculty,” Dr. Marshall says.
   The faculty dental practice system was created to allow patients to be cared for by CDM faculty, who provide high-caliber dental services across the spectrum of oral health care, from basic cleanings and restorations to implants and full mouth rehabilitations. The practices consist of general dentists, endodontists, periodontists, oral surgeons, prosthodontists, pediatric dentists, and orthodontists. Each faculty practice emphasizes collaboration among its dentists and specialists, enabling coordinated care in a single location. Most practice faculty teach full time and practice part-time.
   “As members of an academic dental center, faculty practice dentists bring a level of knowledge and sophistication to the practice of dentistry that is unique,” says Ira Lamster, D.D.S., dean of CDM. “Our patients benefit greatly from the expertise our dentists bring to their respective fields.”

—Anna Sobkowski

dental facility sign The College of Dental Medicine Faculty
Practice Sites

Medical Center Faculty Practice
 100 Haven Ave.
212-342-0107

The Oral & Maxillofacial
Surgery Associates
630 W. 168th St.
212-305-4552

Morningside Practices (two locations)
 1244 Amsterdam Ave.
212-961-1266
430 W. 116th St.
212-662-4887

Midtown Practice
 16 E. 60th St.
212-326-8520

For a listing and description of the dentists who practice at each site and for more information about all the dental faculty practice sites, visit: www.cudentalassociates.com

College of Dental Medicine Treats Hundreds of Children during "Give Kids a Smile Day"
Columbia dentist Richard Diamond examines a young student.
Columbia dentist Richard Diamond examines a young student as Patricia Hong CDM'10 takes notes. Also looking on is Carlos Marin, a representative from Henry Schein, a worldwide distributor of dental supplies and a national sponsor of Give Kids a Smile Day.
Children from the New York area received free screenings and treatments from College of Dental Medicine faculty and students Feb. 1 as part of national Give Kids a Smile Day. CDM dentists were among the nearly 50,000 dental professionals and volunteers who provided free educational, preventive and restorative dental services to children from low-income families at 2,000 locations nationwide that day. An estimated 4 million to 5 million children in America have dental problems so severe they have trouble eating, sleeping and learning. The U.S. Surgeon General has called dental disease a silent epidemic. The oral screening took place at P.S. 79 on Jumel Avenue in Washington Heights. The New York event is part of Columbia’s Community DentCare program, which provides comprehensive dental care for children, adults and senior citizens in need at six school-based clinics and a mobile dental center in the Washington Heights/ Inwood and Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan.

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