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  • Runners run through a tunnel created by people interlocking their hands.

    Going the distance

    There was a little something for everyone at the 2016 Miles for Smiles Runathon held June 11 at Exall Park in Dallas. In its eighth year, the partnership among Texas A&M University College of Dentistry students, predental students from several Dallas-Fort ...

  • TAMBCD volunteers for Dental Home Day 2016 in San Antonio

    Volunteerism supersedes ceremony for these grads

    Commencement week is typically filled with a flurry of activity, visitors and awards ceremonies. For 11 graduates of the pediatric dentistry residency program at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, the last week in May took on an entirely different ...

  • Left to right: Dr. Peter Buschang, Dr. Lauren Van Gemert and Dr. Phillip Campbell with Van Gemert's research poster

    AAO honors for orthodontic resident

    Dr. Lauren Van Gemert, a 2016 graduate of the orthodontic residency program at the dental school, received national honors from the American Association of Orthodontists for research conducted during her advanced education. Van Gemert received second place in the Charley ...

  • Miles for Smiles Runathon illustration depicting a tooth and toothbrush crossing a finish line.

    Runathon with a twist

    Lace up those running shoes, and get ready to … dance. On June 11, for the first time ever, the Miles for Smiles Runathon at Exall Park will offer participants an additional way to get moving for oral health. In ...

  • Dr. Larry Tadlock

    Dr. Larry Tadlock, Class of 1984

    Dr. Larry Tadlock, an alumnus and program director in orthodontics, was installed May 3 as secretary-treasurer of the American Board of Orthodontics. Tadlock, who earned his dental degree in 1984 from what was then Baylor College of Dentistry and his ...

  • Moira Allen’s passion for footwear isn’t exactly a secret. A mere glance in her office reveals some subtle giveaways: shoe stickers on her file cabinet, a tape dispenser shaped like a shoe and — during the holidays — a stocking hung on her office door with care, glittery heel and all. In all those years of wearing heels, Allen — whose late husband had to convert a linen closet just to store the collection — can’t recall one mishap, stumble or fall. Her feet never get sore. And kitten heels; forget it. “I don’t like little teeny, tiny heels,” Allen says. “But I wonderfully love a good pair of shoes.”

    Big shoes to fill

    The music swells inside the Meyerson Symphony Center, and the graduates file in, filling the back entryways. They’re poised for their procession down the aisle, but for the moment, they remain rooted to their posts. At the front of this ...

  • Dr. Reginald Taylor congratulates a student duriung commencement.

    Progress notes

    In the crimson-and-black regalia of Harvard School of Dental Medicine, his alma mater, Dr. Reginald Taylor can be seen situated behind the podium with the graduation stage party. In his 16 years as a faculty member in orthodontics at Texas ...

  • A student smiles during commencement exercises.

    What can you do to make a difference?

    The atmosphere inside the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center was charged with anticipation the evening of May 26. Prior to commencement exercises for Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, family and friends filled the foyer of the Dallas performance ...

  • Dr. Nancy Burkhart

    AAOM Fellow status for periodontics faculty member

    Dr. Nancy Burkhart, adjunct associate professor in periodontics, was recently awarded status as an affiliate fellow of the American Academy of Oral Medicine. Burkhart, the founder and co-host of the International Oral Lichen Planus Support Group, along with Dr. Terry ...

  • Teachers of the Year 2016

    The 2016 recipients of the Dental and Dental Hygiene Teacher of the Year awards include a three-time honoree and a biochemist passionate about taking the “pain” out of a subject matter often considered a challenging rite of passage in the ...

  •  A day in their scrubs

    There was a time when Ines Quintanilla’s dream of becoming a pediatric dentist nearly escaped him. The first in his immediate and extended family to attend college, he was riding high on the wave of academic achievement upon admission to ...

  • Dr. Sterling Schow

    Smiles we remember

    If there is one thing in common among all three decades’ worth of residents who studied under Dr. Sterling “Bob” Schow, it’s consistency. “Out of the 30 years of people he trained, I could walk into an OR with anyone ...