{"id":55000,"date":"2012-02-15T08:06:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=55000"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:41:53","slug":"dental-lab-offers-high-tech-teaching-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/02\/dental-lab-offers-high-tech-teaching-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Dental Lab Offers High-Tech Teaching Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNhvWGX-h7o&amp;feature=youtu.be&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>The Grasso Dental Simulation Lab has become an integral component of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sdm.uchc.edu\/\">UConn School of Dental Medicine<\/a>. It\u2019s equipped with the high-tech teaching tools that are necessary to educate tomorrow\u2019s dentists.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the lab\u2019s 52 work stations mimics the clinical setting the students will work in when they head \u201cupstairs\u201d to the Health Center\u2019s dental clinics, which serve patients from all over the region.<\/p>\n<p>The cutting-edge lab is named after Dr. Joseph E. Grasso, a pioneer in modern dental training and one of the founding faculty members of the School of Dental Medicine.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grasso Dental Simulation Lab is an important addition to UConn\u2019s nationally recognized dental school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":55001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-55000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 11:13:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55158,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55000\/revisions\/55158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/55001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55000"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=55000"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=55000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}