Better Oral Health for BU
Improved dental clinic opens on Comm Ave
The Boston University Dental Health Center, which serves faculty and staff throughout the University, celebrated its grand reopening with a ribbon-cutting yesterday. President Robert A. Brown, Executive Vice President Joseph Mercurio, and Goldman School of Dental Medicine Dean Jeffrey Hutter presided at the ceremony.
The updated clinic remains at 930 Commonwealth Ave., but has expanded to add patient treatment rooms equipped with digital radiography and intraoral photography and a full oral surgery suite. The new construction allows for a 54 percent increase in annual patient capacity, which the center’s administrators have anticipated by doubling the number of practitioners on staff.
“The positive impact that the new facility, technologies, and practitioners will have on patient care is commendable,” Brown said in a statement. “Providing excellent oral health care has always been central to the mission, and this new facility is an important way to ensure that BU continues to do so in the future.”
The center, which opened in 1991, is a multispecialty practice, employing dental professionals trained in orthodontics, periodontics, pediatric dentistry, implantology, oral surgery, endodontics, prosthodontics, and general dentistry. Discounts are available for Boston University and Boston Medical Center employees, and standard rates are often significantly lower than those of other local practitioners.
The facility was last updated in 2000; this year’s improvements were financed by Boston University with a $3.5 million capital investment, to be repaid by SDM. At the ceremony, Hutter credited Brown and Mercurio for supporting the project.
“The benefit to Boston University employees and students is very significant,” Mercurio said. “Boston University is proud to finance such a worthy initiative.”
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