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Dr. Despoina Bompalaki, Class of 2014
Dr. Despoina Bompolaki received the Dr. Robert Staffanou Memorial Prosthodontic Award. The honor, which includes a plaque and a cash award, is given annually to a third-year graduate prosthodontic resident to defray the costs of the American Board of Prosthodontics ...
Follow-up oral care: the new normal for childhood cancer survivors
Today, because of advances in treatment, more than eight out of 10 children treated for cancer survive at least five years, most into adulthood. However, the same treatments that help these children survive can also cause immediate and late-term health ...
Mandibular growth comparisons of Class I and Class II division 1 skeletofacial patterns
Orthodontists are concerned with the study and treatment of malocclusions — improper bites — that may be a result of tooth irregularity or disproportionate upper and lower jaw relationships. An understanding of facial growth and development, as well as bone ...
Reliability and applicability of 3-D measurements of posterior teeth
To obtain an accurate diagnosis, orthodontists who treat malocclusions — improper bites — rely on precise measurements, often including 3-D imaging techniques. These measurements provide information that is necessary to determine an effective treatment plan. In this study, conducted in ...
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 [...]