Each year, millions of people in the U.S. get dental implants as a long-term, natural-looking fix for missing teeth. But ...

In the future, that could include more easily sharing patient medical or dental records between the two organizations, Hirsch said. “That’s where health care is heading,” he said.

The school of dentistry was opened in 1928 as the first of its kind in Japan, and currently TMDU is Japan’s only graduate school of medical and dental sciences. The university’s logo is in the shape ...