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In the Community
Going to extremes
Wanted: adventurous dental students seeking training opportunities in rural — and sometimes forbidding — locations. No roads lead into Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the U.S., an outpost on the frozen tundra that clings to the edge of the ...
On Campus
Sharper image
New radiology residency will feature interprofessional training with A&M College of Medicine. [...]
On Campus
An institution in her own right
Jan Steele has worked at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry longer than any other employee on record. The question on every colleague’s lips: What will the dental school do without her? Every periodontist who has completed the specialty’s ...
Healthy Living
Healthy teeth for kids
3 pointers every parent should know [...]
On Campus
Taylor completes academic leadership course
Dr. Reginald Taylor, director of predoctoral orthodontics, recently completed the Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program. Taylor was among 55 attendees from across the U.S. and abroad who attended this interprofessional program, which is geared toward department chairs and academic ...
In the Community
Operation Lone Star 2014
In the waning weeks of summer break, disaster loomed along the Texas-Mexico border. Sort of. A massive cohort of military, medical and volunteer personnel descended upon the Rio Grande Valley Aug. 4 to 8, where they responded to a simulated bioterrorism threat with a medical countermeasure dispensing operation. [...]
On Campus
A day in their scrubs
This fourth-year dental student shares her theory on what happens to all those delectable treats she receives from her most devoted patient.
Healthy Living
Adolescents most at risk with e-cigarettes, yet teen usage soars
Teenagers are among the fastest growing groups of electronic cigarette consumers in the U.S. They may also be the most vulnerable to the devices’ physical and psychological side effects, according to experts from Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry’s Tobacco Treatment Services.
Alumni Impact
Dental hygiene lunch date
Discussion during the annual dental hygiene luncheon focused on service. It’s something Caruth students and alumni understand well.
On Campus
Dr. Ronald Woody receives emeritus title
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents recently awarded Dr. Ronald Woody professor emeritus status for his contributions to the college’s restorative sciences department. Woody retired in 2013 after 30 years at the dental school, two decades of which ...
In the Community
Destination: Treasure Beach
As summer clinic drew to a close, nine dental students boarded a flight bound for Jamaica, where many of their patients were treated in dental chairs unlike any the students had ever seen. The dental chairs at the Hopewell clinic ...
In the Community
Closing a gap in oral health care
A partnership between Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry and one local nonprofit will result in free dental care for thousands of low-income residents in northwest Dallas. Elsa Helton was elated when she discovered that students from Texas A&M ...