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A gift that changed a life
Jessie Strauch-Steele’s story begins with a devastating auto accident in New Mexico. The year was 1969, she was 18, and she had just broken every bone in her face and lost eight upper teeth after being thrown through the car ...
Seventeen is a magic number
Ask Dr. Ritu Rao ’03 about the inspiration for her Bizzy Tooth Mommy blog, and she may say it comes at nap time. Not hers. Her kids’. That’s because this busy mom and practicing dentist knows how to snag time ...
Hygiene graduate spawns family legacy
Jean Riddle Moore, member of the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene’s first graduating class, is a woman with stories even more remarkable than her distinctive moniker. The 1957 graduate, now 80 years old, is revered by the Mount Pleasant, Texas, ...
A dental tradition
Dr. Kelly Martinez Owen ’12, a resident in orthodontics, comes from a long line of Hispanic dentists. Her mother, Dr. Sylvia N. Martinez, is a dentist, and her grandfather, Dr. R.A. Navarro, was a dentist. That’s why receiving the $5,000 ...
NIH grants fund TMJ research
A&M Baylor College of Dentistry’s Department of Biomedical Sciences has landed a $1.5 million National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research R01 grant for its study on estrogen and temporomandibular joint pain. Co-principal investigator Dr. Larry Bellinger, Regents Professor and ...
Dechow heads biomedical sciences
On Oct. 1, 2012, Dr. Paul C. Dechow became the new chair of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at A&M Baylor College of Dentistry. Dechow has served the department as vice chair since 2009 and was director of the graduate ...
New name, new alliance
As the calendar flipped to January 2013, exterior signage pronounced our dental school’s new name: Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry. A new licensing agreement signed by Baylor University and The Texas A&M University System in December 2012 prompted ...
The dental ‘bus’ stops here
A special RV rolled into Dallas in March 2012 with a new hometown and a new mission to deliver dental care and prevention. This 39-foot Airstream is anything but a recreational vehicle. A former mobile medical unit operated by the ...
A sign of caring
In high school, Chris Cramer experienced life on the outside when he visited a cafeteria as the only hearing person among a group of 150 young people at Texas School for the Deaf in Austin, Texas. “I was the different ...
Pay it forward
Great Expectations: Mentoring Professionalism
The face of inspiration
Billy Crawford takes a long, hard look in the mirror and smiles beneath the “Tom Selleck” mustache that rests above the upper lip of his new face. It’s mid-December 2012, and he has been without facial features for two and ...
Progress notes – Dr. Eric Solomon
Future of dental workforce, education inextricably linked In these Q-and-A sessions, we take a closer look at pressing topics within the dental profession and what they mean to Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry. From TAMHSC-BCD initiatives ...