Recent Posts
Dental Health Check
Ready or not, health insurance changes are headed your way. [...]
The student loan issue
As summer heated up, so did the discord surrounding student loan interest rates. Now we hear from this D3 who placed himself squarely in the middle of the debate. [...]
Former life of a webmaster
Fog and the Vox Phantom [...]
Several sports dentistry honors for McNew
Dr. Danette McNew attended the Academy for Sports Dentistry 31st Annual Symposium in Philadelphia, where she received the fellowship award and was installed to the academy’s board of directors. The academy, an international association with more than 600 members, comprises ...
Biomedical sciences recent publications
Liu S-Y, Xu H, Kontogiorgos ED, Misner K, Whittington P, Buschang PH, Dechow PC, Opperman LA. Recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 stimulates bone formation during inter-frontal suture expansion in rabbits. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics 2013; 144:210-217. Ruso ...
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 ...
Filling a need
The Muslim Student Dental Association receives some welcome assistance. [...]
North Texas Giving Day 2013
25 is the magic number for this year’s “Get Up and Give” initiative. Find out why. [...]
Geriatrics and the future of dental education
Preliminary research findings reveal an interesting trend. [...]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...