University Dental School and Hospital, Cork

13/10/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Sami Al-Kayyal, a 5th-year BDS student at CUDSH, on winning the 2026 IADR Irish Division Undergraduate Research Poster Prize 🏆

A fantastic achievement and a proud moment for the school. Well done, Sami.

05/10/2026

Congratulations to Dr Claire Curtin, Specialist in Special Care Dentistry having successfully defended her PhD thesis today.

Claire’s research was “Oral Health Status and Care Provision in Dependent Older Adults: A Mixed-Methods Study in an Irish Setting”.

Claire was supervised by Professor Martina Hayes, Dr Frank Burke and Professor Gerry McKenna. Her examiners were Dr Cristiane Da Mata (UCC), Professor Georgios Tsakos (University College London) and Professor Paul Brocklehurst (Public Health Wales)

01/10/2026

Celebrating the achievements of our BDS 4 students, who were recognised with awards at the recent Pledge Ceremony in the Aula Maxima, UCC.

Congratulations to all our award recipients on this well-deserved recognition

01/10/2026

A proud moment for our BDS 3 students as they take part in the Pledge Ceremony in the Aula Maxima, UCC.

08/09/2026

A new exhibition, Etched, by UCC dental student and artist Adelina Billur, will open in the Jennings Gallery at 6:15pm on Thursday, 17 September 2026.

Join us for the exhibition opening in the Jennings Gallery, Brookfield Health Sciences Complex, UCC, and be among the first to experience this exciting new exhibition.

Find out more at:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/jennings-gallery/newexhibition/

09/07/2026

Congratulations to Professor Chris Lynch, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Dentistry on the Journal’s success in the recent Impact Factor rankings which were released in June 2026.

The new Impact Factor for Journal of Dentistry has increased to 5.8, up from 5.5 last year.

The Journal of Dentistry is ranked 10th out of 165 journals on an international level, this means the Journal of Dentistry is in the top 6% of dental journals internationally when ranked by Impact Factor.

Professor Lynch has served as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Dentistry since 2011. The Journal is one of the leading international scientific dental journals. In 2025, just over 4,000 new manuscripts were submitted to the Journal from authors and researchers all over the world.

30/06/2026

Professor Declan Millett recognised with Fellowship ad hominem from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Congratulations to Professor Declan Millett who was conferred with FDSRCSEd ad hominem on Friday, 26th June, 2026.

The award of Fellowship ad hominem was made to Declan in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the profession, and to Orthodontics in particular. The Fellowship ad hominem is made at the discretion of the College Council and is one of the highest awards the College can bestow

Declan is pictured with Professor Grant McIntyre, Dean of the Dental Faculty RCSEd and Professor Clare McNaught, President, RCSEd.

29/06/2026

Well done to Dr Éabha Cronin who presented her work at the BAOMS Annual Scientific Meeting held at the International Convention Centre in Belfast from 24-26 June and to her supervisor, Dr Laura O’Sullivan.

Éabha's project is a national cross-sectional study evaluating trends among registered oral surgeons with respect to treatment planning for the high-risk mandibular third molar, with a particular focus on selection of cone beam CT imaging versus coronectomy.

11/06/2026