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A day in their scrubs
When second-year dental hygiene student Kelsey Mahoney isn’t coaching patients in the clinic, you can find her courtside. Hometown: Fort Worth, Texas Undergrad institution: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dental hygiene school survival strategy: If you get too far ahead ...
A better option
A partnership between Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry and Baylor Health Care System is shifting patients out of the emergency room for dental-related pain and into the care of fourth-year dental students. On Aug. 18, TAMBCD dental students ...
Videoscope-assisted minimally invasive periodontal surgery (V-MIS)
Citation: Harrel S, Abraham C, Rivera-Hidalgo F, Shulman J, Nunn M. Videoscope-assisted minimally invasive periodontal surgery (V-MIS). Journal of Clinical Periodontology 2014 September; 41(9):900-907.
Breaking the cycle
Tobacco cessation training helps dental students coach patients to quit. [...]
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 ...
Sharper image
New radiology residency will feature interprofessional training with A&M College of Medicine. [...]
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 teeth for kids
3 pointers every parent should know [...]
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 ...
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. [...]
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.
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.