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  • 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 ...

  • Second Time’s a Charm

    After practicing dentistry for nearly 30 years, Dr. Stan Ashworth was ready to retire. Or so he thought. That was back in 1999. More than 12 years later, this 1971 alumnus celebrates his second retirement. But can he stay away ...

  • Donna Myers Ashley, Endodontics

    “Time really flies here, and that is good and bad, because I can’t believe I have already been here 30 years. My only regret is I wish I had started sooner.” - Donna Myers Ashley Around the time Donna Myers ...