Texas A&M College of Dentistry

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  • Paul Hoffmann with the dental school, second from left, along with Dr. Barbara Stark Baxter, founder, and Stephanie Bohan, executive director, during the ribbon cutting on June 25.

    A grand opening celebration

    Community-based training for dental students expands at Agape Clinic as operations quadruple in size

  • Dental implants

    Going beyond esthetics with this technology, a part of the dental landscape for decades.

  • Linda Brock, program coordinator, stands in the clinic at the Center for Facial Pain and Sleep Medicine

    Our people

    Somewhere along the drive from Nebraska to Texas, the phone started ringing. Just a couple years prior, Linda Brock and her husband, Walter, had moved to Fullerton, Nebraska, to be closer to family following her mother’s death. Now it was ...

  • Dr. Ye Tian

    Second time’s a charm

    Attention on FAM20B reaches global scale with IADR award

  • The Class of 2006 poses for a photo in the dental school's Atrium .

    Class of 2006

    Several members of the Class of 2006 returned to Texas A&M University College of Dentistry on June 10 for a campus tour. The gathering offered the opportunity for alumni to catch up with classmates, learn from dental school staff and ...

  • Dr. Azhar Ilyas

    Young Scientist Award for Ilyas

    Accepting the position as a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Dr. Venu Varanasi, assistant professor in biomedical sciences at Texas A&M University College of Dentistry, has proven a fruitful venture for Dr. Azhar Ilyas. In late May, Ilyas, ...

  • 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 ...