Year: 2013
Master class
Three alumni have collectively amassed more than 6,000 continuing education hours. Can it really be done? The Texas Academy of General Dentistry has an award for occasions such as this. The Mastership — given when an academy member accrues 1,100 ... Read More
Filling a need
The Muslim Student Dental Association receives some welcome assistance. [...] Read More
North Texas Giving Day 2013
25 is the magic number for this year’s “Get Up and Give” initiative. Find out why. [...] Read More
Geriatrics and the future of dental education
Preliminary research findings reveal an interesting trend. [...] Read More
A day in their scrubs
Meet D4 Katie Tatum. Hometown: Richardson, Texas Dental school survival strategy: Work hard, play harder. Keep a balance in life, and don't sweat the small stuff. Most productive time of day: Outside of school, probably after 7 p.m. I usually ... Read More
Special delivery
Forget adjusting to the dreaded D1 year. These new students found time for their studies — and a worthy cause. When patients at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas are in need of life-saving transplants but live more than 50 ... Read More
No place like home
How this faculty member’s search for his family lineage landed him on German TV. It is summertime in Mecklenburg, Germany. Grain swathes the fields of farming towns Kladrum and Hof Grabow. In the center of the agricultural environs are the ... Read More
2013 Brauman-Bell Lectureship: What women — and their dentists — need to know
The 2013 Brauman-Bell Lectureship is scheduled for Oct. 24. Sign up now to join Dr. Gretchen Gibson, a faculty member in the Department of Geriatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, who will present “Managing Common Oral Health ... Read More
Comparison of minimally invasive and conventional flap surgery for treatment of intrabony periodontal defects: a pilot case controlled study
Citation: Steffer M, Harrel S, Rossmann J, Kerns D, Rivera-Hidalgo F, Abraham C, Al-Hashimi I, Solomon E, Cipher D. Comparison of minimally invasive and conventional flap surgery for treatment of intrabony periodontal defects: a pilot case controlled study. Journal of ... Read More
The oral surgeon who would be (rodeo) king
This cowboy and 1978 alumnus ropes, rides and cuts. One of Dr. Jerry Merrell’s first steer-roping ventures wasn’t exactly what you would call successful. It happened during this 1978 alumnus’ high school days in Quitaque, Texas, a farming town of ... Read More