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THE MILES
Soles hit the
pavement to
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Heart and sole
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Winning for this group of volunteers

was about dollars, not finish-line
dashes, as they worked to raise
thousands through a runathon to
Masterful connections
benefit patients who cant afford their
These senior-level administrators at
dental care.
health care institutions spanning the

Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex have
one accomplishment in common:
a graduate degree from the Caruth
School of Dental Hygiene.
ON THE COVER
A community volunteer
adds finish-line touches
as Miles for Smiles
volunteers prepare for
the annual runathon on a
Saturday morning in June.
The Baylor Dental Journal is published by the Office of Advancement,Communications & Alumni
Relations; Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry; 3302 Gaston Avenue; Dallas, Texas
75246; 214.828.8214. This issue was printed December 2015. Production of the Baylor Dental Journal
is supported by a grant to TAMBCD from the Baylor Oral Health Foundation. Financial support
to defray printing and mailing expenses is provided by the Baylor College of Dentistry Alumni
Association. TAMBCD serves people of all ages regardless of socioeconomic level, race, color, sex,
religion, disability or national origin.
DEPARTMENTS
F E AT U R E S
2. Message From the Dean
3. Campus Connection
6.
24.
Spotlight
In Touch With Alumni
28. Giving
32. Impressions
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Legendary measures
Dr. Bill Hanson has commanded the pipe
organ at commencements for decades
longer than his own dental career. This
dedicated 1961 alumnus follows his heart
Brigitte Sims, Art Upton

Photographers Gabe Chmielewski, Steven Doll, Tim Stephenson
Executive Director, Advancement, Communications & Alumni Relations Susan Mitchell Jackson
EDITORS NOTE
For the sake of space and readability in this
publication, Texas A&M University Baylor College
of Dentistry will be referred to as Texas A&M Baylor
College of Dentistry, A&M Baylor College of
Dentistry or TAMBCD after page 3.
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MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
nyone who is a part of Texas A&M University Baylor College

of Dentistry knows this is a family, and that was illustrated in vivid
detail Aug. 17, the first day of classes for the fall semester. About
11 a.m., with patients seated for appointments and lectures
underway, a potential emergency prompted an immediate evacuation of the main

building. With that began an unprecedented exodus for hundreds of people
Dr. Lawrence E. Wolinsky
patients caught in midtreatment, students and faculty who left behind loupes and laptops, staff
members who exited without keys, purses or other belongings.
In the wake of this complete upheaval, the college community
pulled together, pitching in to escort patients from the building
and stabilizing those in the middle of care. A core group of
administrators and fourth-year dental student volunteers cleaned up
hastily abandoned operatories after students, staff and faculty were
sent home for the remainder of the day while police conducted a
thorough investigation.I was grateful but not surprised to see this
teamwork and relieved no threat was found.
On another Monday morning, this time in early October, our
TAMBCD familial pride was in full effect again as our dental school
family welcomed new Texas A&M University President Michael
Young to campus, where he met with small focus groups of faculty,
students and staff; toured the Sim Lab and clinics; and greeted
individuals at a noon reception. I was delighted for the chance to
show him what TAMBCD is all about, and President Young told me
prior to leaving that he was very impressed with the school, its
accomplishments and, most importantly, its people.
This didnt surprise me one bit.
Texas A&M University and the A&M System
appreciate our rich history, our current successes
and our transformational aspirations. This is why
they advocated for our quest for a new facility.
As you read in news reports earlier this year,
TAMBCDs longstanding wish-list request of
the Texas Legislature was granted in the 2015
session when legislators authorized $72 million
in tuition revenue bonds toward a new clinical
building. Discussions continue on a myriad of
details as we explore ways to achieve
maximum potential for an expanded campus,
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which will allow us to fulfill our mission more efficiently and

effectively. Well keep you informed as the plans for our new
campus unfold. We will need your assistance to ensure the new
facilities are the states finest.
Ive boasted and bragged about our faculty, staff, student and
alumnis professional success and loyalty to the school. Now we will
have tangible opportunities to demonstrate our pride in lasting and
meaningful ways. Yes, $72 million is a lot of money, but it alone is
not enough to build a new dental school facility. Alumni support
will be more critical than ever.
I am honored to witness the professionalism and selfless service
of the students and alumni of Texas A&M Baylor College of
Dentistry. For more than four years now as dean I have experienced
our school familys amazing teamwork, which renders us capable of
converting any challenge into an opportunity. Your leadership and
integrity promise a bright future for our dental school, our
profession and those we so capably serve.
Texas A&M
President Michael
Young (center)
meets with TAMBCD
students.
C A M P US CON N ECTION
$5.4 million HRSA grant
boosts interprofessional
training, collaboration
Dentistry
Total Body
Health Care
S P A R T O F T H E F O C U S on
patient-centered care, the creation of

health homes, addressing the total
needs of underserved patients and their
families, is an emphasis of new health care
delivery models.
Texas A&M University Baylor College of
Dentistry is responding to this trend by
expanding its predoctoral and postdoctoral
training with $5.4 million in funding from
the Health Resources and Services
Administration of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services.
Through collaboration among TAMBCD,
Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dallasarea health care institutions and community
partners, TAMBCD will amp up its interprofessional training to help integrate
dentistry into the broader health care
delivery system.
The funding is composed of two awards,
each lasting five years: $3.7 million for
TAMBCDs postdoctoral training and $1.7
million for the predoctoral component.
Of the 38 awards given nationwide, the
dental school is one of only five institutions
to receive both predoctoral and postdoctoral
funding.
For dental students, community-based
clinical training already is serving a vulnerable
population with vital oral health care.
We know that the need is huge, says
Judy Rorrie, executive director of North
Dallas Shared Ministries, one nonprofit that
cares for patients with the help of TAMBCD
students. The facility will be impacted in a
CommunityBased Training
Dental, Medical
& Physician
Assistant
Students
Interprofessional
Experiences
TAMBCD
Social
Workers
Nutritionists
Area
Community
Partners
Dental
Public
Health
HRSA
big way by the HRSA funding.

The $1.7 million, an extension of a
previous HRSA grant, will increase
interprofessional experiences at the
community-training site. Through
collaboration with UT Southwestern
Medical School, dental students will work
closely with nutritionists, family medicine
residents, medical students, physician
assistant students and social workers.
Whereas in the past dental students may
have taken a patients blood pressure and
heart rate during appointments, theyll now
measure body mass index and assist with
diabetes and cholesterol screenings.
Students wont, strictly speaking, just
be doing dentistry when they are out there,
says Dr. Daniel Jones, chair of public health
sciences and principal investigator for the
predoctoral grant. The ultimate goal at
North Dallas Shared Ministries encompasses
the patient-centered medical home: One-
stop shopping, where you can see the

dentist, the social worker and case managers
to connect people with the right resources.
For postdoctoral students, a newly
revamped graduate program is an option for
advanced study in dental public health.
TAMBCD has offered such a graduate
program for 14 years but, until now, both a
masters in public health and a dental degree
have been prerequisites.
As part of collaboration with the Texas
A&M Health Science Center School of
Public Health, TAMBCD will now offer a
masters degree in public health as part of
the redesigned residency program in dental
public health. The new program has one
important distinction: an interprofessional
emphasis, which negates the need for an
existing public health degree to enroll. The
program also will be made available to a
select number of pediatric dentistry
residents who want to combine the M.P.H.
degree with their residencies.
Existing pediatric dentistry residents
who opt not to pursue a masters degree in
public health will benefit from the changes,
too. The grant will gradually expand their
clinical rotations to all of the colleges
community-based training centers, beginning
with North Dallas Shared Ministries.
Dr. Andreea Voinea-Griffin, co-principal
investigator and research assistant professor
in public health sciences, says the changes
will affect didactic as well as clinical
components of the curriculum, with an
emphasis on emerging health care technologies such as teledentistry.
We are training practitioners for the
future, bridging the gap between medicine
and dentistry, instead of the way dentistry
is done today, says Griffin.
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CAMPUS CONNECTION
Commencement
brings ADA president
to campus
C A M P U S T O U R and reception
introduced Texas A&M Baylor College of

Dentistry to Dr. Maxine Feinberg, then
American Dental Association president, who
arrived to deliver the commencement address
May 27.
So much of what will be a part of our
everyday lives in the future hasnt even
been dreamed of yet, reflected Feinberg in
her address to graduates at Dallas Morton H. Meyerson
Symphony Center.
This is a profession that doesnt stand still. Quite the
contrary, it rewards people who work hard to make a
difference, to improve outcomes for their patients and who
arent satisfied by the status quo.
We are already seeing fundamental changes in the way
we do things, said Feinberg in reference to the integration of
medicine and dentistry, with dentists screening for high blood
pressure and diabetes.
Dr. Maxine Feinberg (right) visits with Dr. Barbara Miller at a campus reception.
SO M UC H of what will be a part of our

everyday lives in the future hasnt even
been dreamed of yet.

Dr. Maxine Feinberg
I believe we are on the verge of another renaissance.

I dont know whats next, but I know you will drive the
revolution, she told TAMBCD graduates.
C L O S E E NC O U N T E R S OF T HE TA MB C D K IND
A SUMMER SPENT on the research bench led to top honors for third-year dental student Esther Oluwo, whose inside
perspective on color stability of endodontic materials placed first during a National Dental Association student competition
in July. b Once was not enough for 2015 Teachers of the Year Dr. Kay Mash, associate professor in restorative sciences, and
Kathy Muzzin, professor in dental hygiene, who received the same student-selected honor together in 2009. b Plano dentist
and TAMBCD alum Dr. Lee Fitzgeralds big heart was the focus of an August USA Today story for providing multiple dental implants free of charge
to Harvor Davis, a once-homeless man who now works to help feed the homeless himself. b In matters of friends and followers,
Facebook fueled the masters thesis topic for Leigh Ann Wyatt, assistant professor in dental hygiene, who analyzed its use between
dental hygiene faculty and current undergraduate students and shared insights as a presenter at the American Dental Education
Association annual meeting. b Media interviews with Finland radio, German news, British television and science magazine writers followed
anaplastologist and assistant professor Suzanne Vermas talk on 3-D navigational surgery for facial prosthetic reconstruction at the 2015 annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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CAMPUS CONNECTION
Program welcomes
international students
A LL A S WA S T H E DE S TIN ATION
in June for 15 Saudi Arabian dental students

who participated in a four-week International
Dental Student Summer Enrichment Program
at Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry.
Their dental school, Princess Nourah bint
Abdulrahman University College of Dentistry
in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, opened in 2012 as
one of 15 colleges within an all-female
university that is home to more than
50,000 students.
The school features state-of-the-art
clinics, labs and dental simulators but is still
building its patient pool, something that
takes time. An established patient base and
diverse array of cases is one of the factors
that sparked PNU leaders interest in
pursuing an international partnership with
TAMBCD. Not surprisingly, clinic
observation was a highlight for participants.
I remember the first day in the oral
diagnosis clinic. I was amazed by the amount
of different cases I saw, says Mehdiya
Haider, a fourth-year dental student at PNU.
Every day during rotations I

learned something new; all
the doctors had their own
techniques, and they loved
sharing them with us. Its a
deviation from Haiders
typical patient base; she, like
her classmates, treats mostly
fellow PNU students.
Participants received
lecture and hands-on
instruction ranging from ethics to onlay
casting, crown and bridge preparation, and
mouthguard fabrication. The program
represents two years of planning between
TAMBCD and PNU, with preparations
already in the works for next year, says Dr.
Loulou Moore, associate professor in
restorative sciences and director of the
summer enrichment program. There may
be potential to develop a faculty exchange
program with visiting professorships.
Dr. Hoda Abdellatif, vice dean of
students affairs at the Saudi Arabian school as
well as an adjunct professor at TAMBCD,
helped facilitate planning.
Such a program will expose the PNU
students to learn from the differences in
Dental students from Saudi Arabia visit with Dr. Loulou

Moore during their monthlong program in Dallas.
clinical care, dental education and culture

at the TAMBCD institution, and it will also
create a student network between PNU and
TAMBCD dental students, says Abdellatif.
This is hopefully the starting point for
further collaboration.
The exchange program also offers the
chance for dental students to see how disease
patterns vary in different areas of the world,
says Dr. Ebtissam Al-Madi, dean of PNU
College of Dentistry.
Tolean Jundieh, who is in her third year in
PNUs five-year curriculum, says, We are
one world now; and there is globalization in
all levels, even in dentistry.
A S S O C I AT ION OF F OR ME R S T U DE N T S S U P P OR T S C L INIC E NH A NC E ME N T
THIRD- AND FOURTH-YEAR DENTAL STUDENTS now have the benefit of Isolite systems in TAMBCD clinics. b
These transparent, disposable mouthpieces prop open the patients mouth, protect soft tissues and block
the throat, minimizing the chance that debris will be swallowed during a procedure. The systems also
include attachments to provide hands-free suction and illumination. b Theyve helped us be more
efficient in the clinic, said Dr. Rebecca Chang 15 of the isolation systems, purchased as part of a $54,000
contribution from the Texas A&M Association of Former Students. In a dental school setting working
without a dental assistant, they make a huge difference. b Patients benefit as well. Besides a much better
operating field for the care provider, these isolation systems offer a more comfortable and safe environment
for the patient, says Dr. Stephen Griffin, associate dean for clinical affairs.
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SPOTLIGHT
$1.8 million grant funds preliminary

tooth regeneration study
H E N I T C O M E S T O regenerative medicine within
dentistry, studies aimed toward whole tooth regeneration stand to

revolutionize the future of dental treatment. However, researchers
have challenges to solve along the way.
With tooth regeneration, the problem is not in the crown, its
in the root, says Dr. Jerry Feng, professor of biomedical sciences
at Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry. You can easily make a
crown, but you cant easily make a root.
Thats because, contrary to prior belief, formation of the tooth
root, composed of dentin, is different than in the crown, which
forms prior to the root and is composed of dentin and enamel.
The biology is more complex than what we used to believe,
says Feng.
In July, funding began on a $1.8 million grant from the
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research that will allow
Feng and other TAMBCD researchers to further study the mechanisms
involved in tooth root formation, which until now has been
infrequently studied and not well understood.
This has applications not only in science, in filling that
knowledge gap, but also for future regeneration of the whole
tooth, Feng says.
While a bio-tooth could provide an alternative to dental
implants and restorations for problems ranging from dental
trauma to periodontal disease, Feng explains that these potential
uses wont occur anytime soon.
To regenerate the
whole tooth, we have a
long way to go years,
if not decades, says Feng.
For this project,
TAMBCD researchers
will use transgenic and
conditional knockout
mouse models to
investigate the role of
osterix, a gene vital in
Dr. Jerry Feng
skeletal formation but
still a mystery in terms of its function in tooth biology.
Preliminary studies in mouse models have already shown that
while deletion of osterix has no impact on tooth crown or even
the pulp chamber, which houses the tooths nerves, blood vessels
and connective tissues, lack of osterix causes the tooth root to
become stunted, thin and even fracture, signaling the need for its
presence in tooth root formation.
In addition to osterix, the research will include a closer look at
other factors impacting tooth root formation. With help from Dr.
Stephen E. Harris, a professor in periodontics and research
scientist at the School of Dentistry at University of Texas Health
Science Center San Antonio, theyll compare the expression
pattern of every gene in the tooth root versus the tooth crown
through RNA- and next-generation DNA sequencing.
T HE Q U E S T F O R S A L I VA T O PA S S T HI S T E S T
A test tube and a bit of saliva from research
cancer salivary biomarkers, which can be used as
developed for oral cancer in the future. The
participants is just the starting point for Dr.
indicators of disease or other health conditions.
importance is evident, as approximately 45,780
Yi-Shing Lisa Chengs study of saliva as a
b Chengs work is part of global efforts to develop
people in the U.S. will be newly diagnosed with
diagnostic tool for oral cancer. b The associate
a saliva test as an oral-cancer screening tool. A
oral and oropharyngeal cancer in 2015, according
professor in diagnostic sciences and her team
focus for efforts at Texas A&M Baylor College of
to the American Cancer Society. b Early
are continuing their research with the addition
Dentistry is reducing the risk of false positive
detection of any form of cancer is always good,
of a $199,999 grant this May from the Cancer
results. b In particular, the researchers are
says Cheng. However, we have to make sure that
Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. b A
investigating patients with oral lichen planus and
any biomarkers we use as indicators for the
National Institutes of Health $381,000 award in
gum disease to rule out the biomarkers of these
presence of cancer are really reliable, which
2009 jump-started the study to find reliable oral
noncancerous oral conditions from any saliva test
means that they must not indicate that cancer is
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Center for Craniofacial

Research and Diagnosis:
same home, new vision
I T H A N E Y E O N translating
discoveries from research lab to patient, the

reinvigorated Center for Craniofacial Research
and Diagnosis at Texas A&M Baylor College of
Dentistry is the home for the integration of
basic and clinical research within the college
and its affiliated health centers.
We want to try to bridge this wealth of
information from the clinical areas with
cutting-edge basic scientific discoveries, says
Dr. Thomas Diekwisch, center director and
chair of the Department of Periodontics, who
rejoined the TAMBCD faculty in December
2014. It is a challenging task to connect basic
scientists and clinicians because they speak
different languages and operate differently.
By having a research base that links closely
with clinical questions they will be able
to connect.
Bringing together TAMBCD researchers
and clinicians, the center will promote
partnerships with practicing Dallas-area
periodontists, Texas A&Ms Dwight Look
Dr. Thomas Diekwisch
College of Engineering, Texas A&M Institute

for Biosciences and Technology, IBTs Center
for Epigenetics and Disease Prevention, and
local craniofacial centers.
TAMBCDs craniofacial center, created
around 1990, originally focused on data
collection and case studies on craniofacial
growth and development as the foundation
for clinical orthodontics.
Today, Diekwisch explains, its five broad
translational research areas aim to combat
craniofacial disease and offer new diagnostic
and treatment options:
> TISSUE REGENERATION, stem cells, biomineralization regenerating gums,
whole teeth and other craniofacial
structures such as craniofacial bone
> EPIGENETICS of disease investigating
the influences of genetic control by
factors other than the DNA sequence,

specifically relating to periodontal disease
causes, novel diagnostic tools for oral
cancer detection and factors prompting
birth defects, especially in South Texas
> FACIAL DEVELOPMENT, malformation,
reconstruction studying factors in
craniofacial growth and development,
determining which genes and gene
families are involved in craniofacial
malformations and developing possible
treatment options and cures
> PERIODONTICS and periodontal disease,
stomatology collaborating to study
inflammation and develop novel
therapeutic strategies and materials to
prevent periodontal implant failures,
detect oral cancers early and treat lichen
planus, stomatitis and other oral diseases
> TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT, tissue
engineering, pain building on
TAMBCDs existing craniofacial
pain research
Diekwisch, a dentist and scientist, served
more than a decade as professor and director
of University of Illinois at Chicago College
of Dentistrys Brodie Laboratory for
Craniofacial Genetics and Allan G. Brodie
Endowed Chair.
present when it is not,
models that compare
health complications associated with false
because a high rate of
salivary biomarkers of
positive results. b Cheng and her team
false positives would lead
oral cancer patients with
including Research Assistant Lee Jordan, Drs.
to unnecessary stress
those of completely
Terry Rees, Jacqueline Plemons, Emet
for patients and
healthy individuals.
Schneiderman and David Kang at TAMBCD and
a waste of medical
b The TAMBCD research
others at Baylor Research Institute, Baylor
is conducted one test
University Medical Center and the University of
tube at a time, and its an
Toledo in Ohio have identified promising
resources. b By
identifying and ruling out
Dr. Yi-Shing Lisa Cheng and Lee Jordan
biomarkers of noncancerous conditions from
effort that could save patients thousands of
candidate salivary biomarkers but continue with
those of oral cancer, Chengs research differs from
dollars, not to mention the mental strife and
testing to validate initial results.
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Natural products: Be a label reader
R U S H I N G W I T H T O O T H P A S T E containing grapefruit
seed and licorice root extracts or gargling with a mouthwash

derived from cinnamon bark and aloe may sound idyllic, but going
natural isnt necessarily better if you havent done your research,
say faculty at Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry.
There are a lot of great choices; however, read the ingredients,
says Cherri Kading, dental hygiene assistant professor and
TAMBCD director of clinical operations. All natural doesnt
always mean good for you.
Lisa Mallonee, associate professor in dental hygiene and a
registered dietitian, says she is drawn to all-natural products but
agrees that consumers must do their research.
In addition to looking for the time-tested American Dental
Association Seal of Acceptance on the packaging, check the
items ingredients.You want to see essential oils known to pack a
powerful antimicrobial punch, Kading says. Menthol, eucalyptol,
thymol and methyl salicylate wintergreen oil are commonly
used in rinses to freshen breath while preventing gingivitis.
Then theres echinacea, calendula, sage oil, grapefruit seed and
licorice root extracts, and vegetable glycerin, which is made from
vegetable oil as opposed to animal fat.
Beware of ingredients such as aloe and goldenseal oil that can
act as a double-edged sword.
Aloe vera is used to promote wound healing, says Kading.
But it can be associated with diarrhea, kidney dysfunction and
a risk for drug interactions. Goldenseal, while known for its
antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, is discouraged
for pregnant patients. And be especially careful before providing
herbal ingredients for childrens use.

Mallonee adds that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
doesnt regulate natural products, so any given tube of toothpaste
could contain more or less of the stated ingredients. When
considering natural oral health products, it pays to know what is in
the product, she says, and be aware of side effects.
Be careful of any ingredients that may interact with
medications or specific health conditions, says Mallonee. Be a
label reader.
PROS AND CONS OF A FEW COMMONLY USED NATURAL INGREDIENTS
Licorice root extract: used as a breath freshener and also effective as an

antimicrobial, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Listed as likely
safe when consumed in food, but consuming 30 grams or more daily for
several weeks can lead to medication reactions, low potassium levels, high
blood pressure, paralysis and more.
Cinnamon: used to flavor food and products. Consuming small amounts is
safe for most people, but amounts exceeding 6 grams a day for more than
six weeks can cause allergic reactions.
Lavender: smell and aromatherapy; used to flavor food and products. It is
likely safe in small amounts and possibly safe for medicinal use, but it can
cause skin irritation, constipation, headache and increased appetite.
OF NO T E
It affects nearly 30 million people in the U.S. and is the seventh leading cause of death in this country. Diabetes and
the way health care teamwork can control this critical concern was the focus of discussion at the Center of Excellence
conference at A&M Baylor College of Dentistry Oct. 17. A panel of dentists, physicians, social workers and community
partners engaged with attendees in exploring collaborative opportunities to stem the diseases tide. In Canada, 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup
action saw second-year dental student Alina Garciamendez-Rowold competing as a defender for Mexicos national soccer team.
Somehow able to balance weekend training in Mexico with intensive academics during the school year, Garciamendez departed
for the tournament in mid-May after completing her last exam. Wearing the No. 4 jersey, she and her team competed until a
June 17 loss to France.
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Saving cracked teeth

through early diagnosis
C R A C K E D T O O T H may begin
without warning as a tiny fissure on the

chewing surface and begin its advance
toward the pulp undetected. It may lurk in
silence even as repeated stress causes the
crack to advance downward toward the
nerve and blood vessels at the tooths center.
In other situations, a small crack can
become a problem in an instant when a
person bites down on something. Symptoms
such as intermittent pain when chewing,
sensitivity to hot and cold temperatures, and
unpredictable stints of discomfort often
prompt a patient to seek dental help.
In some respects, the root of the
problem is positive: An observed uptick in
cracked teeth cases is due largely to the
increasing lifespan of the American
population and the fact many people are
keeping their teeth longer.
Cracked teeth seem to be a result of
repetitive stress injury, and so the longer
teeth are in use, the more likely they will
become cracked. This is a modern epidemic
and something we have never before as a
profession had to deal with, says Dr. Robert
Roda 93 (Endo) of Scottsdale, Arizona,

immediate past president of the American
Association of Endodontists.
At Texas A&M Baylor College of
Dentistry, dental students and endodontic
residents receive intensive education on
early detection methods, says Dr. Gerald N.
Glickman, professor and chair of the
Department of Endodontics and director of
its graduate program.
Earlier detection and protection of
teeth from the less severe cracks will keep
them from propagating further, thus
preventing tooth loss, Glickman says.
When cracks in the teeth are not
detected early, endodontists have
their work cut out for them.
Endodontists are the
specialists in dental diagnosis, but
sometimes cracked teeth will
thwart even our best efforts,
Roda says. The response of the
pulp to a crack is sometimes very
difficult to localize, and great care
has to be exercised not to treat
the wrong tooth.
Cracks can be hidden under
fillings or other restorations, and
they even occur on root surfaces
under the gum line.
The use of cone-beam computed

tomography a variation of traditional CT
systems that uses a cone-shaped X-ray beam
to produce 3-D patient images has aided
endodontists in diagnosis, but even that tool
just allows them to infer the presence of
a crack.
Patients can take the offensive against
this oral health concern by avoiding
chewing on hard objects, being fitted
for a retainer if they clench their jaw or
grind their teeth, wearing a mouthguard
during contact sports, and preventing
dental decay.
If its statistical and trending, its on the radar of Dr. Eric Solomon, professor in public health sciences, who recently
authored article No. 4 of a four-part series, The Future of Dentistry, in Dental Economics. Solomon is a longtime director of
institutional research for the college. Dr. Claude Williams, who retired in 2013 after 40 years at
A&M Baylor College of Dentistry, received the National Dental Associations Trailblazer Award the groups highest
honor July 24. The first African-American faculty member at the dental school and the first African-American
orthodontist in the southwest, Williams fostered opportunities for underrepresented minorities to enter the dental
profession and helped increase access to care for dentally underserved communities.
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In 1955,
Caruth School of Dental Hygienes first class of 32 students began a journey that
would lead to their distinction as the first dental hygiene graduates in the state of Texas.
Six decades later,
clinical care is still a primary educational focus, but the dental hygiene program has evolved in the years since
its founding expanding to a bachelors degree from a two-year certificate program, adding advanced degree
options and laying the foundation for diverse career paths in the profession and beyond.
As emphasis on
interprofessional care helps bridge the health professions, several Caruth alumni are among those forging new
territory, fulfilling leadership roles in hospital clinics and senior-level administration positions for some of DallasFort Worths pre-eminent health care institutions.
These dental hygiene masters graduates, all unique individuals,
possess commonalities that enhance their success: emphasis on teamwork, a dental-centered knowledge base and
a compassionate approach to patient care acquired during their time at Texas A&M University Baylor College of
Dentistry.
Meet some of these movers and shakers.
Masterful
Connections
I A N N A P R A C H Y L received exciting
always ask them, What do you need, and how can I help you
news in 2006: After six years as clinical
get there?
manager of dental services at Childrens
Its that mindset that has taken Prachyl from Dallas to a
Medical Center Dallas, she was getting a
different leadership role in Fort Worth with John Peter Smith
promotion. It was a move that would take
Health Network, where as senior vice president of community
her away from the dental hygiene realm to become director of
health, she oversees dozens of clinics dental, medical,
ambulatory services.
outpatient, school-based and specialty across Tarrant County.
When I was first introduced to some of the surgeons as their
Prachyl visits one location in Arlington on a Wednesday in
director, one of them said, I dont want a nurse to be director of
early July. A vacant grocery market and pet store were
my clinic. Prachyls supervisor had a brusque response for him:
transformed into this glistening patient-centered medical home
Thats great, shes not a nurse; shes a dental hygienist.
concept: an interprofessional mix of dentistry, primary care,
I will never forget him saying that that day, Prachyl recalls.
optometry, womens health, neurology, behavioral health
But on a serious note, Part of developing a good relationship with
and more. Eligibility counselors are on hand to assist with
a practitioner is never saying no. Its tell me more, she says. I
financial counseling or guidance.
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DIANNA PR ACHYL 94, 00

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF COMMUNIT Y HEALTH
JPS HE ALTH NET WORK IN TARR ANT COUNT Y
OV ER SEE S: 41 CO M MUNI T Y C L INI C SI T E S,
INCLUDING SIX DENTAL CLINIC S
S TACY P E T I T R E D D E N 10
PR AC TICE ADMINISTR ATOR
Its the best way to ensure at-risk populations get the care
they need, Prachyl says of the Arlington center, which serves
CHILDRENS HEALTH DALL AS

OVERSEES: DENTAL AND ORTHODONTIC CLINIC S
more than 80,000 patients each year.

Operating this center well along with the 40 other
community clinic sites under Prachyls purview requires a
delicate dance in understanding the needs of dentists and
physicians while being ever mindful of the patient experience.
As the safety-net hospital system in Tarrant County, JPS
Network has 1 million patient encounters per year, many
dealing with psychosocial needs in addition to medical
concerns. It offers the opportunity for constant expansion in
terms of patient care. The only challenge is time: There just
simply isnt enough of it. A team approach helps.
We are used to working with teams, Prachyl says of
dental hygienists. Thats another important concept when
you move into the larger health care realm. I am one person,
so I have to have a whole lot of people moving in the same
direction to meet the needs of our patients, providers
and community.
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ts 11 a.m., and this particular Tuesday is an anomaly.
There are just two patients left at the Acton Center

for Pediatric Dentistry at Childrens Health, a bright,
winding space featuring curved walls dotted with
cutout stars, triangles and circles. It was teeming with activity

just an hour earlier.
On average, up to 45 pediatric patients come through these
03, 06 and Prachyl. The understanding of health care
doors a day, 80 percent of whom are dealing with a medical
administration gleaned from a dental hygiene masters degree,
complexity or developmental disorder. The Childrens Medical
something all of them possess, is an added bonus.
Center Dallas affiliation and proximity offers extra

security against unexpected emergencies during appointments,
and the clinic is one of the only dental resources available to
this patient population. Residents from TAMBCDs pediatric
dentistry graduate program treat patients, and the pediatric
dentistry department chair is the director of the dental service.
Attending faculty from the department are always present.
The orthodontic clinic at the hospital specializes in assisting
patients with craniofacial issues such as cleft lip and palate.
TAMBCD has a presence there as well; a craniofacial team
member serves on the orthodontic faculty.
At the center of it all is Stacy Petit Redden. In her role as
practice administrator of the dental and orthodontic clinics,
Redden relies on her dental-specific knowledge for staff and
patient interaction.
Its a different language, Redden explains. If you dont
have the background of being in a clinic or working with teeth
in general, you wont understand what people are talking about.
It also helps me when I have that conversation with
parents who are confused or upset about something. A lot of
MARIA ANDERSON 94, 01
times they dont want to hear from my staff; they want to talk
DENTAL CLINIC MANAGER
to the manager. Its having that knowledge, that background.
TE X AS SCOT TISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
The expertise also means the administrator can talk to

pediatric dentistry residents in a language they understand.
Regents Professor and former pediatric dentistry chair Dr. N.
Sue Seale 70,72 (Pedo) first recognized the need decades ago
when she championed the idea of an administrative track
within the masters program then being developed by Caruth
dental hygiene faculty.
Redden exemplifies a longstanding connection between
OVER SEES: OUTPATIENT DENTAL CLINIC
isitors to The Ranch the outpatient

dental clinic at Scottish Rite, a pediatric
orthopedic hospital in Dallas follow a
winding lasso painted on the floor to reach
their dental chairs. The distinct sensation they are in a movie

theater rather than a clinic or hospital might have something
TAMBCD and Childrens Health. Two previous directors also
to do with the popcorn machine in the lobby, a permanent
have ties to the Caruth School of Dental Hygiene: Joy Parker
fixture at Scottish Rite.
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he first thing the kids ask is, Can I have
Applying
popcorn? says Snehal Patel, a hygienist in the

clinic and a member of Maria Andersons team.
Marias background
Yes, shell respond, but you have to promise
me that youll wait 30 minutes before you start eating it
to this clinic has
because we just put fluoride varnish on your teeth.
made a lot of other
For the past 10 years, Anderson has overseen the clinic,
departments here at
where 2,000 patients come through the doors each year.

These youngsters have orthopedic conditions and are often
the hospital aware of
not mobile or verbal.
what we do and how
All of the patients are seen by a primary care service at the
the services we
hospital where Anderson, the liaison between their physicians

and her team, ensures that the patients medical conditions
provide integrate with
are not compromised during dental treatment.
what they are doing.
TAMBCD pediatric dentistry residents provide the dental
care at Scottish Rite. In addition to a full-time staff of two

hygienists and two dental assistants, dental hygiene students
Dr. Susan McGuire
Dr. Susan McGuire, assistant director of the dental clinic
from across the metroplex rotate through the clinic.
at Scottish Rite and assistant professor in pediatric dentistry at
Anderson and her team provide instruction to these students
TAMBCD, has worked with Anderson for five years.
on treating patients with complex conditions.
Applying Marias background to this clinic has made a lot
The training helps students become more comfortable
of other departments here at the hospital aware of what we do
caring for pediatric patients with special needs, which means
and how the services we provide integrate with what they are
a larger referral base for Scottish Rite patients as they age out
doing, says McGuire. Anderson encourages them to be
of the hospitals care.
proactive, reminding surgical teams to have patients receive
Hygienists are well suited for this role, Anderson says, and
its not just because of clinical training and self-discipline.
We have a compassionate side in that we tend to like that
personal relationship and one-on-one, she says.
dental clearance from the outset of care, rather than waiting

until right before surgery.
Maria is definitely an advocate for the dental service,
McGuire says, and how even in young children, dental health
and their systemic health go hand in hand.
We are used to working with teams. Thats

another important concept when you move into the
larger health care realm.
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n the mid-1990s, Dr. Janice DeWald 95 (MS)

noticed a concerning trend. She had recently been
appointed as director and chair of the Caruth
School of Dental Hygiene, a vantage point that

heightened her awareness of an educator shortage in the
field. She needed only a bit of simple math to realize the
extent of the problem: There were just seven programs
in the country offering masters degrees in dental hygiene
at the time, and not one of them was in Texas.
With wholehearted encouragement from Dr. N. Sue
Seale 70, 72 (Pedo), then professor and chair of
pediatric dentistry, who knew advanced education could
also equip dental-savvy administrators to direct hospitalbased dental clinics, DeWald sprung to action. After
developing a rationale for a graduate dental hygiene
program and collaborating with faculty to develop a
Leah Spittle (right) instructs dental hygiene student Mary

Ashley Taber.
Coursework such as contemporary health care issues,
curriculum, Caruth accepted its first graduate-level class
assessment and health policy are still taught, giving
in 1997. Students could choose from one of two tracks:
dental hygiene graduate students a groundwork to pursue
education or administration.
teaching or administration.
Fast forward to 2011: Dental school administrators,
Nine A&M Baylor College of Dentistry students are
in collaboration with Texas A&M Health Science Center,
enrolled in the revamped graduate program, and
began looking at opportunities to form a new graduate
Leah Spittle 11 is one of three who pursued the dental
program one that encompassed all health disciplines to
hygiene practicum.
reflect new patient care models. The new curriculum,
I went into it thinking the degree was mostly going
Master of Science in Education for Healthcare
to coincide with my field. I was surprised in a positive
Professionals, means dental hygiene graduate students
way that it didnt, says Spittle, who after several years in
complete their core graduate courses with students from
private practice decided to pursue her masters in order
all TAMHSC components, including dentistry, medicine,
to teach.
nursing, pharmacy and public health, with practicums

focusing on their chosen profession.
While the original dental hygiene graduate degree has
One of our classes was taught by a nurse. Another

was taught by a pediatric physician. I expected to be in
my same dentistry bubble, but I was excited that I had to
folded into this new program the last dental hygiene
expand my knowledge and understanding of other health
graduate degree was awarded in May 2015 many of its
care fields. This helped to open my mind to how others
original elements remain.
see things.
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STU D ENTS TRAV ERS E
a Dallas park, crisscrossing the grass
to attach balloons to event signs and tents. As the June heat rises,
participants visit registration tables, secure shoelaces and pin
runners numbers to their shirts.
Dental student Mehrad Sadeghpour makes a last-minute stop to
the disc jockeys table, check-in booth and snack stations. All
volunteers are in place. Miles for Smiles is about to begin.
HEART
Miles for Smiles began when predental students at the

University of Texas at Dallas learned of a need for resources
to assist TAMBCD patients. Several years, hundreds of
volunteers and thousands of dollars later, the Social Services
Dental Care Fund is stronger as a result of this grass-roots
effort. The fund is critical because it enables patients to
continue dental care despite encountering financial adversity
in the midst of their treatment plans.
Miles for Smiles leverages the sustained effort of
undergraduate students in predental clubs throughout the
Dallas/Fort Worth area. For months, these students nurture
relationships with potential donors, leading to sponsorships
and monetary contributions.
Numbers illustrate the impact, with more than 100
volunteers contributing to this years event, and 325
registered participants running 475 miles to help raise
$10,000, which was later matched two for one by an
anonymous donor.
O ON E KNOW S B E T T ER than
this third-year dental student the
effort and time involved in planning
the annual fundraiser. Sadeghpour
helped found the event in 2009 as an
undergraduate student and served
as this years indefatigable organizer.
Every year the money raised benefits
the Social Services Dental Care Fund
at Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry, but
its the first year the runathon has functioned as an official
TAMBCD event.
The best thing that happened with Miles for Smiles this
year was bringing the event to TAMBCD, he says in reference
to its previous location 17 miles away. The whole idea is to
have a sustainable event that becomes a lasting tradition.
This is a cause everybody can stand behind.
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Dental students didnt just contribute to mileage. They

also provided patient screenings onsite in the colleges mobile
dental unit.
We wanted to make this into a North Texas event,
not just a UTD one, Sadeghpour says. Most people here
know about Miles for Smiles now, and they didnt before.
Establishing awareness of the event and what its for was our
key goal. We pushed to bring it to the dental school so we
could have everyone involved. Coming together like this is a
win-win for everybody.
TD Predental Association
fundraising coordinator David Park led a
14-person Miles for Smiles committee on his
campus. They met with Sadeghpour several
times. So did students from the University of
Texas at Arlington, University of North Texas,
Southern Methodist University and Texas Christian University.
Our goal is to make it bigger every year, says Park
of the UTD groups efforts to ensure Miles for Smiles
success. Three-time volunteer Rohan Rana, now a UTD
graduate student, concurs. This is a one-of-a-kind event,
he says.
UTD predental students teamed up to visit more than
100 dental offices over several months to raise awareness of
Miles for Smiles. They contacted corporations for donations,
made signs, created a database to track contacts and
follow-up activities, and maintained an active Facebook group
to coordinate volunteers.
Some of the several hundred Miles for Smiles participants and volunteers
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ebra Hoagland has been an A&M

Baylor College of Dentistry patient since 1995. As
a single mom then raising two children on $750 a
month, she needed a financial boost to complete
several thousand dollars worth of dental care. The
social services fund was made available to her,
and she has since contributed the full amount she received so
those dollars can be funneled toward helping others.
I have had a great experience here, Hoagland says. My
son is a patient here, too. I cant say enough good things about
TAMBCD and have referred everybody under the sun.
The good report she gets at her dental checkups
continues to make her smile. I am so proud that I continue
to get that after all these years now, she says. I have had no
work done anywhere else. I just tell people, If you
want something done right, get it done at Baylor College
of Dentistry.
Director of Social Services Leeanna Bartlett knows well
how the social services fund which began in 1982 with
$1,411 in private donations fills a void for those who lose a
job, live below the poverty threshold, encounter unexpected
medical bills or face some other financial emergency.
Demand is so great the assistance often seems like a drop in
the bucket.
The need among patients is huge, Bartlett says. If an
expected filling turns into the need for a root canal and a
crown, you potentially increase the cost tenfold. This fund helps
people not have to choose between new tires and dental care.
More than 325 runathon

participants led to
$10,000 raised to help
patients, an amount
later tripled by an
anonymous donor.
Helping patients complete their care also benefits the

dental students assigned to treat them as part of their clinical
requirements, Bartlett says.
hird-year dental student

Sammy Mahmoud was an undergraduate student
at UTD when he contacted Bartlett several years
ago to explain the vision for the runathon. That
was before Miles for Smiles was, well, Miles
for Smiles.
The name actually came to me in the shower
because I was thinking about it all the time, he says. I am so
excited to have it move down to Baylor. That was my dream.
Miles for Smiles helps everybody: people who cant afford
Jonah Johnson, son of Dr. Phillip Johnson '15
their care, students who need patients, community members

who need education about dental care.
When University of North Texas senior Leslie Powell
learned about Miles for Smiles at a UNT Predental
Association meeting this spring, she joined the planning
committee and started pursuing potential sponsors.
Dental care for the underserved is what really makes
my heart happy, says Powell, who has participated alongside
dental volunteers at multiple outreach events. She recently
met a patient who was in so much pain she couldnt chew, yet
she hadnt been able to visit a dentist in seven years.
I want to help as much as I can, she says. I dont know
why people wouldnt want to do this.
Predental student Tania Ramezani
Volunteers create a festive atmosphere.
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Legendary
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One dentist sh a r es his music a l

gift w ith gr a duates
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The organ console at the Meyerson provides Dr. Bill Hanson the best seat in the house.
n 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected
president, minimum wage was $1 an hour and

tuition at Dallas dental school cost $750
per year.
At Texas A&M University Baylor College of
Dentistry, every man in the Dental Class of 1960
there were no women filed into graduation at First
Baptist Church in Dallas to the dramatic pipe-organ sounds of
Dr. Bill Hanson 61, then a junior dental student.
This event marked the dawn of a 55-year span in which
Hansons gifted hands guided the footsteps of thousands
at A&M Baylor College of Dentistrys most treasured rite
of passage.
This May, the faces tickled by mortarboard tassels
looked decidedly different from those five decades ago.
More than half of the 2015 class is female, and 46 percent of
graduates are underrepresented minorities. Dallas Meyerson
Symphony Center has replaced a church sanctuary as the
commencement venue, and the dental school is no longer
affiliated with the Baptist church or Baylor University.
One commonality remains: Hanson, 84, who has
provided the musical foundation for commencement
ceremonies even longer than the 35 years he practiced
dentistry in Dallas. Seated at an organ console, dwarfed by
hundreds of soaring brass pipes, Hansons success is measured
in emotional impact; an experience forever instilled in the
minds of graduates and their guests.
Keys for life

Like a recurring symphonic theme, the pipe organ unites
more than seven decades of living for Hanson, all the way back
to his hometown of Cambridge, Wisconsin.
His parents were Norwegian, like many residents of this
small farming town, where his father was a rural mail carrier.
Hanson's mom played piano, as did all of her children, and
sang for weddings and funerals at church. The couple had
Lutheran and Methodist ties, but those congregations held all
services in Norwegian, so the family joined the Presbyterian
church in order to worship in English, even though Hanson's
parents were bilingual. This connection led Hanson to his piano
teacher, who was a bridge group friend of his mother's.
Her house was a mile outside of town, and students tickled
the ivories to a backdrop of Lake Ripleys blue-green waters
sparkling outside her window.
A lot of kids took piano lessons in those days, Hanson
recalls. What teenagers today would want to go to an old
grannys house? She always had milk and cookies.
This same teacher recognized his talent and arranged for
Hanson to study with an organ instructor, prompting him to
take the bus 20 miles into Madison, Wisconsin, each Saturday
for lessons.
He also played trumpet in high school and years later
learned the string bass; this orchestra experience taught him
where instrumental solos appeared in a particular piece of
music, knowledge that equipped him to adapt organ stops to
those selections.
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Dr. Bill Hanson in his

Air Force years, circa 1952
n a recent
w e e k d a y , he demonstrated his
technique on a theater organ installed
along one wall in the wood-paneled
family room of his Dallas home.
Giant sound emanates from speakers
concealed behind fabric at one end of the vaulted ceiling.
Hanson actually carved a 10-by-12 room out of attic space
exclusively to house those seven immense speakers, complete
with an access door from the garage. He put in the flooring,
walls and ceiling himself in the 1980s. A second smaller organ
at his home, located in the living room, will go with me to the
old folks home, he declares.
Its amazing what they can do now with digital organ
technology, Hanson comments while peering at enlarged sheet
music through a pair of lighted eyeglasses with magnifying
lenses. Macular degeneration is taking its toll on Hansons
eyesight, but its not enough to keep him away from his music.
Up close he displays frenetic activity while navigating an
instrument featuring several keyboards for the hands, wooden
keys for the feet and dozens, even hundreds, of stops that can
recreate the sound of almost any instrument.
He learned early in life that his musical skills brought
ancillary benefits.
As young as 12 or 13, he played a theater organ in town
every Saturday, later parlaying his keyboard ability to dance
bands during his teens and 20s.
Being a pianist able to play pop music in high school is a
real chick magnet, he volunteers. I never had trouble getting
a date.
Clearly, music has been a chief outlet for Hanson for decades,
but his gifted hands have flourished in other pursuits as well.
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Wat e r m e l on a n d bl u e s k i e s
After three years of college at the University of WisconsinMadison, Hanson entered the Air Force upon the advice of his
brother, a decorated World War II B17 crew member who had
survived being shot down over Germany. As a musician who
spoke a foreign language and could type, Hanson was assigned
to the chaplain section, but he soon applied and was accepted
for pilot training.
While stationed in Greenville, Mississippi, on July 5, 1952,
he followed his commanders orders to take foreign cadets to
a watermelon party at the Baptist church. There he spied a
redheaded girl sitting on the church steps, and it was love at
first sight of Jean, who has been his wife for 62 years.
You dont think things happen for a reason? he muses.
Hanson flew B29 bombers in Korea, then B47s afterward,
and eventually was stationed in Roswell, New Mexico, when
his dream of becoming a dentist resurfaced.
Ten years earlier, a high school assignment had sold him.
I knew I would be a dentist, he says. It dawned on me that
with dentistry I could still do my music.
He told Dr. J.C. Whitaker 55, who was also in Roswell
with the Air Force, that he had been accepted to Marquette
dental school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to which Whitaker
responded, You dont want to go back up there with all those
Yankees. He arranged a meeting for Hanson with Dean Harry
McCarthy at A&M Baylor College of Dentistry.
Hanson arrived in uniform and
received a personal tour of the
school from the dean, who told
him when he got out of the service
and finished organic chemistry,
the school would have a place for
him. Finish he did passing an
intensive summer school course
with the eminent Dr. Harold Jeske
of Southern Methodist University.
After dental school, Hanson
practiced dentistry in Dallas,
first at the Medical Arts Building The newlyweds in 1954
downtown and later on Walnut
Hill Lane across from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.
The Hanson family in 1968, from left: Jean, Pam, Bill, Vicky and Valerie
Liturgical beauty
Through the years of schoolbooks, flying, dentistry, and
now retirement, church music has been a constant.
I know my talent was given to me, and I had to expand
on it, Hanson says, alluding to his faith in a God who endows
each individual with unique gifts.
After playing for the Presbyterian church in Cambridge in
high school, during college he spent Sundays behind the organ
and directing the choir at a large Lutheran church near
Madison. While in dental school, he spent each Thursday
morning accompanying the Baylor Chorus during mandatory
chapel services.
Even during his private-practice career, Hanson served as
organist at Dallas First Baptist Church for 15 years and later
at Prestonwood Baptist Church for eight years. He
accompanied youth choirs from First Baptist on trips to Great
Britain, Mexico, Japan, China, Singapore and Thailand.
Hansons musical gifts have led to other memorable
A practice session at the Hanson home in Dallas
adventures: performing in Dallas with famous American

popular music pianist Roger Williams and participating in a
comedy routine takeoff on Victor Borge featuring one snipped
necktie and several flying sheet-music pages. He even played
during concerts in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris and Royal
Albert Hall in London.
Flash forward to the present, the organs force has
lessened in many churches these days as congregations trend
toward more contemporary worship music. Observing that
fewer people are studying the instrument, Hanson exalts the
wonderful music that can be achieved with a great church
organ, the origins of which date back centuries.
The organs influence remains, as does Hanson, who is still
at the keyboards. While he is retiring from commencement
duty and wont play for the dental school in 2016, he smiles,
confident that someones fingers will dance across the stops,
creating memorable moments for future graduates.
Fanfare
for mul a
Dr. Bill Hanson at the Meyerson Symphony Centers

Lay Family Organ
v e r t h e y e a r s you figure out what works and

what doesnt, Dr. Bill Hanson explains of the accompaniment
for commencement processionals, which can last as long as 20
minutes. For one thing, I have all of that music memorized. I dont just
open the music and play it. I ease into three different songs in the same
key, not one song played over and over again.
He has the power to jar peoples teeth with a musical blast if he
chooses, but instead Hanson harnesses the organs potential to evoke a
mood through judicious selection of stops and orchestration.
I wrote a fanfare that I use between the faculty and student
processionals so I can build into the big sound of the organ when the
students enter, he explains.
When I play the ending I try to do that as the last student is
entering the row, then I go into a big chord change for 15 seconds as an
exclamation point at the end of the song.
Whether literal or symbolic, that sonorous finale heralds a beautiful
beginning for a new class of graduates.
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I N T O U C H with A L U M N I
All in a days work
R . L E E K A V A N A G H 0 2 is one
busy dentist. In addition to private practice

he occupies his days with beekeeping,
tending cattle, gardening and serving as
Alumni Association president for Texas A&M
Baylor College of Dentistry.
An hour each morning and two hours
each night are required for Kavanagh and his
wife, Lela also his office manager just
to tend to all the creatures at their College
Station, Texas, ranch home.
The fresh eggs need to be retrieved daily
from the hen house. The cattle, dogs, cats,
chickens, pet rabbit and deer mouse require
feeding, while the beehives by the dirt
driveway demand attention. To maintain the
hives, Kavanagh covers head to toe in a white
beekeeping suit and carries a smoker that
calms the bees while he harvests the honey.
Milking the three female Jersey cows
isnt even part of the daily regimen because
they dont yet produce milk.
Until the barn gets built, these girls
enjoy luxe accommodations: a screenedin, air-conditioned patio connected to the
kitchen. From their vantage point on the
living room sofa, the Kavanaghs can opt to
watch the evening news or simply pull up
the blinds to see their bovine friends just

outside the window, hooves pampered on a
cushion of hay nearly half a foot thick.
Even that doesnt always keep the cows
out of the house.
One time I closed this door, but it
wasnt latched, says Kavanagh, jiggling the
doorknob. He walked into the kitchen
and there was Bumblebee, their alpha
female, standing casually at the kitchen
counter, her liquid brown eyes taking in
the surroundings.
Kavanagh bought his dental practice
in July 2009 with a handshake deal in the
office. Patient transitions werent part of the
arrangement because the retiring dentists
niche focused on temporomandibular

joint disorders.
The practices College Station locale
comes with a unique challenge: Every three
years it loses 70 percent of its patient base,
composed primarily of Texas A&M students
and military personnel.
With the Kavanaghs approachable
manner, they dont have any trouble with
the fluctuation. As one class of students
leaves, members spread the word to the
next, negating the need for advertising.
We try to make it feel more like a
home than a dental office, Lela explains.
We have a lot of patients who move away
but come back just to see him.
Dr. Lee Kavanagh
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD MEMBERS
Ms. Abi Adeyeye 17
Dr. Sarah Allen 10
Dr. Bun Baker 71
Ms. Tiffany Bergstrom 14
Ms. Shelly Burleson 12
Dr. Chad Capps 08
Dr. Danielle Geshay 13
Dr. Ty Hinze 05
Dr. Greg LoPour 95
Dr. Hershall Leinneweber 71
(Honorary Member)
PRESIDENT
Dr. H. Lee Kavanagh 02
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Ms. Laurie Inglis 02
SECRETARY-TREASURER
Dr. Joe J. Simmons III 98
IMMEDIATE PAST
PRESIDENT
Dr. Celeste Latham 97
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CL ASS GIFT 2015

Dr. Eduardo R. Lorenzana 96
Dr. Jordan Luna 14
Dr. Danette McNew 88
Dr. Anthony Mendez 04
Dr. Rafael Perez 97
Dr. William Phillips 97
Dr. Dena Robinson 99
Dr. Julie Stelly 87
Ms. Kathryn Watson 16
In a move that benefits patients and

future students simultaneously, the
Class of 2015 collected donations from
class members that resulted in a $3,350
gift to Texas A&M Baylor College of
Dentistrys Social Services Dental Care
Just the beginning for Kachepa
O R D R . G I V E N K A C H E P A 1 5 , graduation from
Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry represented exceptional

determination. Beyond a capstone, though, the achievement is one
monumental stepping stone between continents. Kachepa aspires
to return to Zambia to provide desperately needed dental care in
his homeland.
Born in Kalingalinga, Zambia, and orphaned by age 8, Kachepa
lived with an aunt who cared for him and his six siblings along
with her own six children in a two-room mud brick house without
electricity or running water. At age 11, he auditioned successfully
for the Zambian Acappella Boys Choir, believing the organizers
promises that money raised through the choirs performances in
the U.S. would lead to financial assistance for his family in Zambia
and an American education for himself.
Instead Kachepa became a victim of human trafficking.
The boys were forced to endure a grueling performance
schedule with inadequate food or sleep, often singing several
concerts daily in churches, schools and shopping malls. When they
werent performing, they were forced to dig a swimming pool
for their captor. The boys spoke no English when they arrived and
were unable to free themselves.
Eventually rescued after federal investigators became
suspicious of the charity, Kachepa was placed with foster parents,
Sandy and Deetz Shepherd of Colleyville, Texas, when he was 14.
He finally was able to contact his family in Zambia and return
for a visit, but most importantly, he was able to get the American
education he was promised many years before. Despite language
difficulties and underdeveloped study skills at the outset, he willed
himself to persevere.
Fund. b Leeanna Bartlett, director of
complete treatment on
social services, explains that financial
these assigned patients,
assistance granted through the fund
thus fulfilling curriculum
allows selected patients to remain in
requirements. b The
treatment when unexpected expenses
gift included matching
might otherwise cause them to cease
funds from an
care. This enables dental students to
anonymous donor.
Dr. Given Kachepa
In my compound there has never been a single dentist,

he explains. What a change it would be if I were able to bring
something new to a community that so desperately needs it. It
will be difficult work, but just like anything thats ever been built
in this world, it has to start somewhere. Thats my goal.
Kachepas experiences have led to news reports with
CNN, NPR and, most recently, The Dallas Morning News, which
published a feature story in June following his dental school
graduation. The interviews have allowed him to lend his voice to
help other trafficking victims reclaim their lives.
Kachepa will get his first taste of a long-held goal when
he travels on a mission trip to Zambia in summer 2016 with
TAMBCD students and faculty. Baylor Universitys Louise
Herrington School of Nursing sends volunteers to a school-based
medical clinic there and asked TAMBCD to help address an
extreme shortage of dental care. Kachepa is eager to share the
benefit of oral health with this population. Ultimately, he plans
to establish a dental clinic in Zambia. His thoughts turn to the
contrast between where he is now and where he started.
Thankfully God has brought me this far and continues to
carry me every single day of my life, he says.
With Leeanna
Bartlett, second
from left, Class of
2015 officers,
from left, are:
Drs. Collin Burns,
Katelyn Kennedy
and Armin
Aliefendic.
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Beloved registrar remembered
N D E R S T A N D I N G T H E C H A R A C T E R of Betty Scott,
registrar at Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry for 32 years,

only entails a visit with alumni who knew her through the decades.
Their relationships with Scott began as applicants to the college
and many continued long after they graduated.
Take, for instance, Dr. Scott Waugh 74. After applying to
the dental school and learning he was the first alternate, Waugh
received his draft notice for the Vietnam War.
While he was told he would be accepted into the following
years dental class if he only reapplied, military orders required he
serve in the meantime.
Ms. Scott sent a postcard to me every month I was in
Vietnam, says Waugh. Just little things: Whats the weather like?
We cant wait for you to get here. Little comments but so nice
and so caring.
At the time, of course, he wasnt even a dental student yet.
That was way above and beyond her job description, says
Waugh, 2014 Distinguished Alumnus. That is the way Ms. Scott
was with many of us. Her job was not a job. It was her passion. She
loved her students.
On Sept. 26, Waugh shared comments such as these during
a memorial service in Mesquite, Texas, for the TAMBCD Hall of
Fame member, who died Sept. 19. Scott retired in 1992, and her
legacy was cemented in 2001 with the creation of the Betty
J. Scott Scholarship Fund. The first scholarship was awarded in
2011 after 10 years of funding, which began with a contribution
from Dr. William Forrest 62.
In a 2002 Baylor Dental Journal article, Forrest explains his
reasoning for establishing the fund.
This is my way of giving a rose to a very gentle lady whose
life has been one of service to her fellow man; not just to her
family and friends, but to her church and community as well, and
especially to the Baylor dental family, he says. Many graduates
have asserted that they would not be where they are today had it
not been for Betty.
To make a contribution to the Betty Scott Scholarship Fund,
contact Baylor Oral Health Foundation at 214.821.7500.
C ARUTH SCHOOL TURNS 60, CELEBR ATES IN S T YLE
to celebrate the dental hygiene programs anniversary as well as
Betty Scott
milestones of their own. O Patricia Wessendorff Londeree, Caruths

founding director, spoke of the early days trials and triumphs and
expressed her pride in the accomplishments of the current director,
Dr. Janice DeWald 95 (MS). Also present was JoAnne Allen 57, a
member of Caruths first graduating class. Keynote speaker and 1965
Caruth graduate Kathleen ONeill-Smith discussed the significance
of being 60 and celebrated her 50-year reunion along with 12 of her
classmates. O The Caruth School was established through a $30,000
Patricia Wessendorff Londeree, Dr. Janice DeWald and JoAnne Allen
Celebrating 60 was the theme for the annual Caruth School of Dental
gift from W.W. Caruth Jr. to the college to provide equipment for the new
dental hygiene program. The program became one of about 20 in the
Hygiene luncheon held Aug. 7 at the Omni Dallas Hotel during the
nation when it admitted its first class of 32 students in 1955. O The
Southwest Dental Conference. Nearly 70 Caruth alumni and friends
luncheon planning committee included DeWald, ONeill-Smith, Lana
gathered in an elegant circular room with floor-to-ceiling windows
Crawford 68, Laurie Inglis 02, Glenna Johns 65 and Karen Lanier 72.
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IN TOUCH WITH ALUMNI

Dental Class of 1965
Dental Hygiene Class of 1965
B R I D G I N G the Y E A R S
Reunion classes celebrated the bonds of friendship at
gatherings throughout the year. For information on planning
your own class reunion, contact the alumni office at
214.828.8202 or deborah.clark@bcd.tamhsc.edu.
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G I V I N G
Envisioning new clinical center at TAMBCD
R O F A C I A L P A I N and sleep-disordered breathing can

significantly affect a patients quality of life, and dentists are on the
front lines in treating these often-related conditions. Progress
continues on a clinical center for pain and sleep at Texas A&M Baylor
College of Dentistry.
Its almost like we have a new profession, says Dr. Keith
Thornton 69, owner of SleepWell Solutions, a Dallas dental practice
dedicated to sleep-related breathing disorders. Were treating not
only the teeth and their position and how they work, but the
function of the area with eating and swallowing, speaking and
breathing. All of those things are critically important; its about the
whole system.
Since fall 2013, Dr. Steven Bender 86, president of the
American Academy of Orofacial Pain, has spent several mornings a
month on campus treating patients with head, face and
temporomandibular joint pain. Plans are in the works for him to join
the TAMBCD faculty full time in 2016 to head up the clinical center.
My hope is that the addition of this clinical center at the school
will provide easier access for patients with these disorders, says
Bender. Most patients and their health providers do not know where
to turn when traditional therapies for facial pain dont seem to work.
The center will encompass both TMD and sleep-related breathing
conditions because the two often have a cause-and-effect relationship.
A lot of abnormal muscle activity at night, whether you call it
bruxism or clenching, is due to a collapsible airway, says Thornton.
All of a sudden we are finding that

if you treat the airway, the TMD
goes away.
Thornton recently donated $50,000
to the dental school toward the
establishment of the pain and sleep
center, which initially will be housed in
the colleges Center for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics.
Since a June 2014 ruling by the Texas State Board of Dental
Examiners permitting dentists to diagnose and treat sleep-related
breathing disorders, TAMBCD has been on the forefront of ensuring
dentists have training in this growing discipline. In fall 2014,
TAMBCD and the two UT Health Science Center dental schools
created a standardized, statewide course for dentists to learn how to
treat sleep-related breathing disorders, most commonly with oral
appliances. TAMBCDs pain and sleep program builds upon such
offerings to expose dental students and residents to this discipline and
its related areas of research.
Once the center is up and running, the college will seek
accreditation from the American Dental Association in order to
provide advanced training, says TAMBCD dean Dr. Lawrence
Wolinsky. The most important item on the agenda right now:
offering this crucial service to more of the dental schools patient base.
There is a significant portion of the general population seeking
care for orofacial pain disorders, i.e., TMD, headache disorders
related to TMD and sleep disorders, says Wolinsky. I think the
dental community sees a need for a place to refer their patients,
and TAMBCD is a good fit. We have a team of specialists in one
place here.
C ARUTH SC HOOL OF DEN TA L H YGIEN E

GR ADUATE ENDOWS SCHOL A RSHIP
Vancouver and ultimately settled in
Not long after earning her degree, Patsy Whalley, a 1966 Caruth
full time until 2000. D I decided I wanted to
School of Dental Hygiene graduate, decided it might be nice to live
be licensed in all 50 states, but then you had
and work in California. It meant becoming licensed in that state,
to do each one individually, says the
but that didnt daunt her. She already had passed the board exam
University Place, Washington, resident, who
in Texas and soon would tackle exams in British Columbia and
spends winter months in Hawaii. Of course,
Washington. D Two no-show patients on exam day nearly derailed

her plans. Thankfully, a dental student who had just seated a
Washington state in 1975, practicing there
Patsy Whalley
this is back when license fees were $25. I

wanted to be able to practice wherever I
patient agreed to loan her that patient for a thorough cleaning
went. D Washingtons exam entailed some extracurricular
before the scheduled procedure. Whalley, who passed the
preparation, Whalley explains, because it required dental
licensure exam but never found work in California, practiced in
hygienists to administer an injection and fill a tooth, two things
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G I V I N G
Cole professorship funding complete
O M P U T E R - A I D E D D E S I G N and manufacturing,
commonly referred to as CAD/CAM, has transformed the

accessibility of efficient, precise dental restorations.
Now that funding is complete for theJames S. Cole
Professorship a$500,000 endowment established in honor
of Dean Emeritus James S. Cole 75 TAMBCD can begin
incorporating this technology into its preclinical curriculum. The
improvements arent limited to CAD/CAM; funds from the
professorship are earmarked in perpetuity for technology updates
and instructional innovations at the college.
This is a fitting tribute to Dr. Cole, says Dr. Lawrence
Wolinsky, dean. He paved the way for the introduction of and
constant updates to technology during his tenure at TAMBCD.
Susan Mitchell Jackson, executive director of advancement,
communications and alumni relations; Dr. Robert Walker 47; and
Robert Bigham, Baylor Oral Health Foundation president and
treasurer, launched the fundraising in 2011 in anticipation of
Coles retirement from the dental school in August of that year.
The fund was established to support projects similar to the ones
Cole had undertaken at the outset of his TAMBCD career, which
began shortly after graduation.
Cole taught classes at the college during the day, and evenings
and spare time were spent programming the colleges first clinical
information management system.
While Cole admits that the initial version may be rudimentary
Dr. Lawrence Wolinsky and Dr. James S. Cole
compared to Axium, the dental schools current records system,

electronic patient and student records were nearly unheard of in
dental schools in the late 70s. At the time, Cole certainly
didnt foresee his efforts would provide inspiration for an endowed
professorship, but he is well aware of its future benefit.
You can plan in advance the projects you want to accomplish
and put those plans in motion, he says. If you know that you will
continue to have funds available, then you can realistically believe
you can bring them tofruitionand that they are not just
pipe dreams.
Wolinsky, who with Dr. Frank Higginbottom 71 identified the
need for the CAD/CAM technology, says advancement efforts
stand to have a snowball effect as a result of the professorship.
My hope is that the completion of the Cole professorship will
encourage other departments to seek opportunities to fund
endowed professorships and endowed chairs, he says.
not required of Texas hygienists. D The amazing thing to me is,
full-time dental hygiene students at TAMBCD. She hopes the scholarship,
we had such good anatomy classes that when I took the board in
established earlier this year, will find its way to individuals such as
Washington, my brother a dentist and fellow 1966 graduate
dental assistants who want to continue their education by pursuing
sent me a pamphlet on how to give an injection. I practiced on
dental hygiene. D With a graduation milestone on the horizon, Whalley
myself and successfully passed the exam, she says. D Still
looks forward to reconnecting with her classmates next fall for a 50th
licensed, Whalley worked on a temporary basis through last year.
reunion in Dallas. D We had a great time in school, and a few of us get
Her most recent professional contribution is financial in nature:
together every 10 years, Whalley says. I remember when we were
donating $25,000 to Texas A&M Baylor College of Dentistry
nearing the end of our time at Caruth, our director Dr. Ruth Swords
through the Texas A&M Foundation to fund the Patricia Kantz
walked into the room and said, Look around. Youll never see all these
Whalley, RDH, Class of 1966 Endowed Scholarship. D I just felt
people together again, knowing we would go our separate ways. I hope
that the college had done a lot for me, and I wanted to give back,
we have a good turnout for our reunion.
she says of the decision to provide need-based scholarships to
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GIVING
G I V I N G
Gift Report
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY BAYLOR
COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY is grateful for
the financial support it receives from
loyal and diverse constituencies.
These gifts represent the tangible
and lasting means of assuring that
the colleges quest for excellence
will continue.
This gift report includes
donations to Texas A&M Baylor
College of Dentistry, Baylor Oral
Health Foundation and Baylor College
of Dentistry Alumni Association in
calendar year 2014.
Not included in these listings
are competitively awarded grants
and contracts managed through the
Texas A&M Research Foundation.
Every effort has been made to
make each list complete and accurate, but inevitably some errors
or omissions may have occurred. We
would appreciate receiving corrections, comments or questions.
Please direct any concerns to
the colleges Office of Advancement,
Communications & Alumni Relations
at 214.828.8214. You also may
contact this office for information on
ways to continue your support of the
college and its mission.
We heartily thank our alumni,
faculty, staff, students, friends
and members of the corporate and
foundation communities for their
generosity and commitment to
the college.
TEXAS A&M BAYLOR COLLEGE OF

DENTISTRY CONTRIBUTORS
$1,000,000 or more
Baylor Oral Health Foundation
$100,000$999,999
Biomet 3i
$500$999
Alliance of the Dallas County Dental
Society
ASI Medical, Inc.
Ms. Mary E. Ausmus-Laursen
Avalon Biomed, Inc.
Mrs. Leeanna Bartlett
Colgate Speakers Bureau
Global Surgical Corp.
Obtura Spartan Endodontics
Probusiness Systems, Inc.
Ms. Anita Tipping-Wheeler
Treloar & Heisel, Inc.
Ultimate Dental
$250$499
Dr. Sterling Schow
Up to $249
Dr. Luis Campana
Ms. Lori L. Dees
Dr. Jacob Geller
Ms. Heloisa Holden
Mr. Pierre Le
Dr. Frank H. Moore
Dr. Partha Mukherji
Dr. Bettye Whiteaker-Hurt
In-Kind Contributions
3M Unitek
American Orthodontics
Biomet 3i
Johnson & Johnson
Opal Orthodontics
OraPharma
Ormco
Ortho Organizers
Ms. Gail Parrigin-Clark
Dr. David M. Phillips
Dr. Reginald Taylor
Preventive Technologies, Inc.
Straumann USA
Ultradent Products, Inc.
Gifts In Honor Of:
Dr. Jesse T. Bullard
Dr. Peter Buschang
Dr. Richard F. Ceen
Dr. James S. Cole 75
Dr. Timothy Huckabee 87
Dr. Linda C. Niessen
Dr. Terry D. Rees 68
Dr. N. Sue Seale 70
Dr. Gary Solomon 76
$25,000$99,999
Nobel Biocare USA, Inc.
$10,000$24,999
Baylor College of Dentistry
Alumni Association
DENTSPLY Implants
Hoblitzelle Foundation
Dr. Don N. and Cindy Le
$5,000$9,999
DENTSPLY International
KLS - Martin L.P.
Dr. Linda C. Niessen
North Texas Endodontic Associates
Southwestern Society of
Orthodontists
$1,000$4,999
American Association of Endodontists
Foundation
American Dental Partners Foundation

Delta Dental Insurance Company
Dental School Class of 2014
Dentca, Inc.
GC America, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline Corp.
North Texas Hispanic Dental
Association
The P&G Company
United Concordia
UT Dallas Pre-Dental Association
Gifts In Memory Of:

Dr. Leo Alexander 56
Mrs. Eddie Anderton
Dr. William H. Binnie
Dr. David Charles Hildebrand 69
Mrs. Mamie B. Jannette
Dr. Kermit E. Keeley 63
Dr. E. Earl Moore 57
Dr. Robert S. Staffanou
Dr. William Windrum 56
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BAYLOR ORAL HEALTH

FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTORS
THE MISSION OF THE BAYLOR ORAL
HEALTH FOUNDATION is to provide
A&M Baylor College of Dentistry
with funds and support to sustain
its institutional pre-eminence
through excellence in students,
faculty, research and outreach.
BOHF does this by managing
and raising private dollars for
world-class faculty, leading-edge
research, academic programs
and scholarships.
Private support helps the college go beyond the limits of state
and federal funding to provide innovative and high quality programs
for thousands of students and
patients touched by TAMBCD.
The fiscal-year 2014-2015
foundation directors were:
Mr. Bill E. Carter, Chairman
Mr. W. Mike Baggett, Vice Chairman
Mr. Carl B. Schieffer, Secretary
Mr. Neal W. Adams
Mr. Stanley E. Allred
Dr. Patricia L. Blanton
Dr. James S. Cole
Dr. Frank K. Eggleston
Mr. Gary D. Elliston
Dr. Kathy Hamilton
Mr. Larry J. Haynes
Ms. Michelle S. Hickox
Mr. Terry Kelley
Mr. John B. McWhorter
Mr. John D. Solana
Dr. W. Scott Waugh
The following gifts reflect giving
to the foundation in calendar year
2014. They were donated to benefit
one of these endowments and funds
held at BOHF:
Endowments
The Peter H. Buschang Professorship
The Richard F. Ceen Endowment
The James S. Cole Professorship
Robert E. Gaylord Endowed Chair
Tom Matthews Endowed Lectureship
Orts Endowed Scholarship
Periodontic Resident Endowment
Fund
The Terry Rees Fellowship in
Stomatology/Periodontics
Betty Scott Scholarship
The N. Sue Seale Professorship in
Pediatric Dentistry
Funds
BCD Alumni Association Fund
William H. Binnie Oral Pathology Fund
Jesse T. Bullard Lectureship
Kimberly Campbell Research Fund
Gaylord Chair Support Fund
Graduate Endodontics Fund
Graduate Prosthodontics Fund
Just One Moore Smile Fund
Tom Matthews Lectureship Fund
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Fund
Ortho Support Fund
Pediatric Dentistry Support Fund
Perio Alumni Fund
Robert Staffanou Scholarship Fund
Patricia Clendenin Wessendorff
Caruth School Fund
$25,000 or more
Pediatric Dentistry Class of 2001
Straumann USA
$10,000 to 24,999
American Association of Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgeons
KLS Martin, LP
Dr. John R. Valant
$5,000$9,999
Brasseler USA Dental
Dr. Kimberly Coblentz
Dr. Jennifer Criss
Ivoclar Vivadent
Dr. Sonia Louca
Dr. Michael M. Perry
Dr. Paul Rubin
Dr. Deven V. Shroff
Dr. Clay Spencer
Paul P. Taylor Association of
Pediatric Dentists
Dr. Jon Wheeler
$1,000$4,999
Dr. Ibtisam Al-Hashimi
Mr. Stan Allred
Dr. Deanna Miller Aronoff
Dr. Jessie Banks
Dr. Larry Bellinger
Dr. Charles Berry
Biomet 3i
Dr. Jesse Bullard
Dr. Jose A. Cangas
Dr. Julie David-Talaiver
DenMat Holdings
DENTSPLY IH, Inc.
GAC International
Geistlich Pharma North America, Inc.
G. Hartzell & Son
Ms. Michelle Hickox
Dr. Brian Hochstein
Dr. Dean Hudson
Dr. Phil Hunke
Dr. Jeff James
Johnson & Johnson, Inc.
Dr. John D. Kempton
Dr. Kimberly T. Lough
Dr. Danielle Goldstein Masserman
Dr. Jim Moore, Jr. and family
The Murrell Foundation
Nobel Biocare
Osteogenics Biomedical
Dr. Judith Ragsdale
Dr. Adam C. Spencer
Mrs. Ruth Staffanou
Dr. Cory Stephens
Straumann USA
Texas Academy of Pediatric
Dentistry
Texas Association of Orthodontists
Dr. Gil Triplett
Ms. Lanelle Watkins
Whip Mix Corporation
Dr. Lawrence Wolinsky
$500$999
Dr. Terry B. Adams
Ms. Moira Allen
Dr. J. C. Boley
Dr. Barbara J. Brin
Dr. Preeti Mahajan Chopra
Dr. Roland S. Davies
Dr. Neil A. Dean
Dr. Refugio Gonzales
Dr. Kenneth Hamlett, Jr.
Dr. Alan Jensen
Dr. Ernestine S. Lacy
Dr. Candace Light
Dr. Michael J. Maccaro
Dr. Allen Myers
Dr. Michael Pickard
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Poole
Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.

Dr. Brian P. Savage
Dr. Jordan L. Schweitzer
Dr. Edward Shinedling
Dr. Thomas G. Wilson, Jr.
Woodhill Dental Specialties
$250$499
Dr. George Q. Adams
Dr. Joseph C. Ainsworth
Dr. Moody Alexander
Dr. Chad Allen
Dr. Raymond Barbre
Dr. Ralph A. Brock, II
Dr. Cooper Callaway
Dr. Barrie and Mr. Tom Choate
Dr. Troy L. Christensen
Dr. L. Frederick Church, Jr.
Dr. James Cole
Dr. Monte Collins
Dr. Linda Crawford
Crest - Oral B
Dr. Stephanie Crise
Dr. Robert Croft
Dr. Carly Cunningham
Dr. Lauren Davis
Dr. Noel P. Dragon, Jr.
Dr. Bryan Elvebak
Dr. Aaron Engels
Dr. Robert W. Gallagher
Dr. Mark S. Geller
Dr. & Mrs. Jeffery S. Genecov
Dr. John A. Gerling
Dr. Gayle Glenn
Dr. Hilton Goldreich
Dr. Kimberly Gronberg
Dr. Somer R. Heim
Dr. David Hoffman
Dr. James Dean Jensen
Dr. Jeffrey Johnson
Dr. Seuss Kassisieh
Dr. Mark LaHaye
Dr. Zarmin Lalani Walji
Dr. Casey Lepley
Dr. Jeremy Lustig
Dr. Barbara Miller
Dr. Bart Miller
Dr. Maryam Mojdehi
Dr. Laurie R. Parks
Dr. Tom Phelan
Dr. Michael Plunk
Dr. Julia Prewitt
Dr. Alan V. Reed
Dr. Bruce Reeder
Dr. Sheri Reuland
Dr. Raenie Roberts
Dr. Kirk D. Satrom
Dr. Emet Schneiderman
Dr. Stephen Shepard
Dr. Douglas A. Singleton
Dr. Amerian Sones
Dr. Clay Spencer
Dr. Tom Stark
Dr. Marvin G. Stephens, Jr.
Dr. Adesegun Tewogbade
Dr. Kim Travers
Dr. Harold S. Westerholm, II
Dr. Franklin M. Wheelock
Dr. Elaine Whitney
Dr. Andrew Young
$100$249
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Dr. Douglas M. Anderson
Mrs. Helen Ayers and family
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Ball, Jr.
Mr. Charles Bennett
Mr. Robert J. Bigham, Jr.
Dr. James V. Burnett
Dr. Yi-Shing Lisa Cheng
Mr. John Clark
Dr. Janice DeWald
GIVING
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Dr. Jessica Downs
Dr. Chad Eardley
Dr. Jonathan Evans
Dr. Yiyu Fang
Mrs. Betty Ferraro, RDH
Dr. Michael Fesler
Mr. John Freeman
Dr. Kim Freeman
Mr. & Mrs. Floyd L. Freeman
Dr. George T. Frost
Dr. Mark S. Geller
Dr. Gayle Glenn
Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hamilton
Dr. Scott Hamilton
Ms. Donna Hanner
Dr. Andrew C. Hodges
Mrs. Sylvia W. Huckabee
Dr. Ralph D. Jackson, Jr.
Ms. Susan Mitchell Jackson
Dr. Barry James
Dr. & Mrs. Bob James
Dr. Harry M. Jannette
Dr. Steve Karbowski
Dr. Stephan A. Kellam
Dr. Harvey Kessler
Dr. Collin Kraus
Ms. Patricia Wessendorff Londeree
Dr. Adam Martin
Dr. Frank R. Miller
Dr. Maryam Mojdehi
Ms. Juanna Moore
Dr. Partha Mukherji
Dr. Preeti Naik
Dr. Karen Neat
Ms. Marilyn Roberts Nonaka, RDH
Ms. Gina Oltrogge
Dr. Dan C. Peavy
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Dr. Murray R. Ray
Dr. & Mrs. George A. Richards
Dr. Lee M. Romine
Ms. Debbie Ruff
Mrs. Jeanne Rumley, RDH
Ms. Jo Spears
Dr. Adam C. Spencer
Dr. Clark A. Spencer
Ms. Myra Spurgin
Dr. Cory Stephens
Dr. Frank Stitch, III
Mr. & Mrs. Roger L. Turner
Dr. Charles Weathers
Dr. Larry W. White
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Mr. & Mrs. Woody Brownlee
Dr. Jefferson Burks, Jr.
Mr. Ray Covington
Ms. Carolyn Cox
Ms. Jennifer Crow
Ms. Lori Dees
Ms. Kay Egbert
Mr. Eric Fox, RDH
Ms. Jennifer Fuentes
Ms. Alexandra Garcia, RDH
Mrs. Betty Hagins
Mr. & Mrs. Ricky Kidd
Ms. Karen Lanier
Dr. Carrie Lindsey
Dr. Chia-Ming Lee
Ms. Gail Parrigin-Clark
Ms. Linda Piper
Dr. & Mrs. Hugh Z. Pruett
Ms. Sharada Ramasubramanian
Dr. George Richards
Ms. Jeanne Santa Cruz
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Scott
Ms. Brigitte Wallaert Sims
Dr. Feng Tao

Mr. & Mrs. Boyd Vaughn
Dr. James D. Wester
Mrs. Nancy Anthony
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTORS
EACH ALUMNUS OF THE COLLEGE is
encouraged to contribute to the BCD
Alumni Association Fund, which is
managed by the Baylor Oral Health
Foundation. BCDAA donations fund
scholarships, programs, networking/
career opportunities and awards to
benefit current and future alumni.
The following gifts were gratefully
received by the BCD Alumni
Association in 2014.
Deans Club - $1,000 and up
Class of 1968
Dr. Michael C. Bell 78
Dr. Franklin R. Boyles 72
Dr. Barrie B. Choate 84
Dr. Stacy V. Cole 77
Dr. Thomas Brad Crump 97
Dr. John A. Daniel 87
Dr. Frank L. Higginbottom 71
Dr. Kay Lee 02
Dr. Greg LoPour 95
Dr. Julie Marie Longoria 08
Dr. Byron M. McKnight 81
Dr. Maryam Mojdehi 97
Dr. Minh-Khoi Nguyen 06
Dr. Dena G. Robinson 99
Dr. Julie H. Stelly 87
Dr. Fred J. Voorhees 77
Dr. Danny D. Watts 75
Scholars Club - $500$999
Dr. George Acquaye 96
Dr. Mary Kay Becher 97
Dr. Richard W. Boyd, Jr. 76
Dr. Neill P. Clayton 66
Dr. Diane J. Flint 86
Dr. David B. Gregory 75
Dr. Kenneth M. Hamlett, Jr. 74
Dr. Tommy Harrison 79
Dr. Larry D. Herwig 84
Dr. Brian L. Hochstein 92
Dr. Demetra C. Jones 98
Dr. Eugene M. Kouri 61
Dr. Ernestine S. Lacy 04
Dr. Joy K. Lunan 80
Dr. David H. McCarley 81
Dr. Danette C. McNew-Hovenden 88
Dr. Allen R. Myers 68
Dr. Phong Nguyen 09
Dr. LaVan R. Parker, III 94
Dr. Robert L. Reames, Jr. 69
Dr. Donald H. Roberts, Jr. 74
Dr. Kirk E. Scott 96
Dr. Kevin L. Seidler 78
Dr. Ty Shafer 03
Dr. Mark A. Smith 94
Dr. Michael A. Spilotro 94
Dr. Audrey Lynn Stansbury 09
Dr. Corbett K. Stephens 01
Dr. Marvin G. Stephens, Jr. 71
Dr. Eugene D. Stevenson, Jr. 88
Dr. Christopher L. Tye 88
Dr. Don A. Woodworth 83
McCarthys Club - $250$499
Dr. Rebecca A. Aduddell 96
Dr. Zoel G. Allen, II 95
Dr. Craig R. Baginski 85
Dr. Robert A. Baker 75

Dr. Jeffrey W. Ball 80
Dr. Todd Baumann 02
Dr. Bradly T. Beckel 98
Dr. Robert A. Bettis, Jr. 64
Dr. Monica Boehmer 89
Dr. George I. Bridges 68
Dr. Burt C. Bryan 79
Dr. Chris S. Cartwright 78
Dr. Sue Chhay 98
Dr. Robert J. Christian 69
Dr. Jon Clemetson 02
Dr. Gregory T. Cohlmia 74
Dr. James S. Cole 75
Dr. Carly Cunningham 04
Dr. Russell Cunningham 02
Dr. Jodi Danna 95
Dr. Paul G. Davis, Jr. 83
Dr. Buddy Dickinson 54
Dr. Dee Ann G. Dockins 84
Dr. Philipp M. Dunn 87
Dr. Donald R. Eckersley 83
Ms. Betty N. Ferraro 68
Dr. Sean E. Fitzgerald 09
Dr. Elbert A. Franklin 79
Dr. Howard Frysh 90
Dr. John N. Glennon 88
Dr. Marshal D. Goldberg 80
Dr. Randall L. Griffith 77
Dr. Sandi L. Hamm 88
Ms. Donna F. Hanner 59
Dr. Richard Haught 67
Dr. David K. Hunter 89
Dr. Quyen Tu Huynh 09
Dr. James R. Kersten 69
Dr. Karen A. Knight 88
Dr. Sarah Kong 05
Dr. Wesley A. Lasater 70
Dr. Celeste E. Latham 97
Dr. William T. Lee, Jr. 67
Dr. Dan D. Leonard 75
Dr. Steven A. Levy 68
Dr. William R. Liggett 68
Dr. Sammy Lim 02
Dr. Eduardo R. Lorenzana 96
Dr. Frank H. Moore, Jr. 69
Dr. Anna Brasher Moreau 04
Dr. Davis W. Morgan 89
Dr. Scott Anthony Myser 08
Dr. Jimmy W. Novak 75
Dr. Dao Pham 01
Dr. Kevin E. Porter 92
Dr. Thomas J. Powers, VI 83
Dr. David W. Price 81
Dr. Harlan L. Raley 51
Ms. Cassie L. Randers 02
Dr. Thomas B. Randers, Jr. 05
Dr. Murray R. Ray 68
Mrs. Kay F. Rickets 58
Mrs. Jeanne Rumley 62
Dr. Carina L. Schwartz-Dabney 93
Dr. John W. Scott 51
Dr. Sue Seale 70
Dr. Ronald T. Sherwood 79
Dr. Carmen P. Smith 96
Dr. Johnny C. Smith 81
Ms. Janice L. Snyder 75
Dr. Tuan Anh Tran 98
Dr. Carlos Vela, Jr. 74
Dr. Robert G. Vittetoe 73
Ms. Elizabeth D. Voorhees 80
Ms. Patricia Whalley 66
Dr. Valerie D. Washington 87
Dr. Ronald H. Watkins 68
Dr. Scott Waugh 74
Dr. Ronald D. Weaks 71
Dr. Thomas M. Weil 65
Mrs. Patricia C. Wessendorff 58
Dr. James E. Williams 83
Dr. Andy Wilson 95
Dr. Graham Wilson 66
Dr. Ronald L. Winder 73
Dr. Debrah J. Worsham 85
Century Club - $150$249

Ms. Alicia M. Alexander 13
Dr. Dean N. Armstrong 78
Dr. Cary B. Askins 72
Dr. Pamela J. Asseff 93
Dr. John D. Barrett 77
Dr. Harold A. Black 81
Dr. Patricia L. Blanton 74
Dr. Lars O. Bouma 94
Dr. John W. Boutz 71
Dr. Keith W. Brewster 84
Dr. Leonard L. Brewster 59
Dr. David N. Brown 76
Dr. Patricia L. Buksa-Valdivia 87
Dr. James E. Burkholder 81
Dr. James V. Burnett 48
Dr. Thomas D. Calabria 84
Dr. Chad J. Capps 08
Dr. Omel G. Cardenas 00
Dr. Dave S. Carpenter 83
Dr. James R. Carroll, Jr. 74
Dr. Donald F. Cohen 74
Dr. Ray Cohlmia 59
Dr. ReAnn Marie Cornell 09
Dr. Gerald D. Cox 78
Dr. Stephen L. Crane 73
Dr. Herbert F. Cross, Jr. 75
Dr. Delaine Daniels 97
Dr. Terry A. Darden 63
Dr. Roland S. Davies 75
Dr. Odilon P. Delcambre 47
Dr. Mark A. Dougherty 87
Dr. Valerie A. Drake-Ernst 99
Dr. Jason Lee Espinoza 14
Dr. George F. Forney, Jr. 59
Mr. John Freeman
Dr. W. Jay Garard, Jr. 77
Dr. William H. Gerlach 87
Dr. Mary B. Ginderske-Criswell 67
Dr. James B. Goates 76
Dr. James L. Greenwood, Jr. 87
Dr. Stephanie L. Grogan-Payne 96
Dr. Clayton M. Hamilton 86
Dr. Milvern R. Harrell 69
Ms. Nancy B. Hawkins 70
Dr. C. Robert Henry, Jr. 72
Dr. James B. Herrington 86
Dr. Nathan E. Hodges 00
Dr. Kirk C. Hooper 84
Mrs. Sylvia W. Huckabee
Dr. Bob C. Hunsucker 89
Dr. James D. Jensen, Jr. 84
Dr. Thomas S. Jeter 71
Dr. Patricia Kimes 07
Dr. Nolan J. Laborde 08
Dr. Miranda C. Lacy 98
Dr. Thad Langford 74
Dr. Peter V. Lecca 90
Dr. Robert E. Buddy Lee, III 69
Dr. John E. Leonard 56
Dr. Scott A. Logan 84
Dr. Steve Karbowski
Dr. S. Ramsey Koschak 79
Dr. Stanley D. Lowrance 81
Dr. Kent B. MaCaulay 74
Dr. Patrick Migliore 77
Dr. Amp W. Miller, III 73
Dr. Charles W. Miller 80
Dr. Donna G. Miller 85
Dr. Frank R. Miller 61
Dr. J. Christian Miller 84
Dr. Loren M. Miller 84
Dr. V. Terry Miller 85
Dr. Laura L. Mitchell 06
Dr. Michael W. Moffitt 72
Dr. Pamela A. Moore 96
Dr. Robert E. Morgan, Jr. 78
Dr. Joe Mike Murphy 77
Dr. Cal Nunnally 01
Dr. Carol E. Owens 71
Dr. Summer Cathlin Owens 10
Dr. Gayle A. Owens 71
Dr. Shannon Owens 02
Fall/Winter 2015 |
Dr. William Tom Parker 72

Dr. Robert J. Pavelka 98
Dr. Daniel C. Peavy, Jr. 62
Dr. Gary W. Penn 78
Dr. Chris Perkins 90
Dr. Richard E. Phelan 78
Dr. Todd Phelan 04
Dr. William R. Phillips, III 97
Ms. Anna L. Phillips 95
Dr. Michael Pickard 06
Dr. Robert C. Pickering 94
Dr. Jacqueline M. Plemons 86
Dr. Martha E. Proctor 86
Dr. Hal H. Ramsey 61
Dr. Michael J. Reed 81
Dr. Terry D. Rees 68
Dr. Jerry V. Roach 71
Dr. Matthew Bryson Roberts 07
Dr. Thomas Ray Rogers 79
Dr. Brian Salome 02
Dr. Roger B. Salome 69
Dr. Jill Sentlingar 04
Dr. Cindy Sheppard 83
Dr. Ernest E. Sheppard 83
Dr. Walton V. Shofner 52
Dr. Charles T. Simms, Jr. 74
Dr. James M. Solomon 96
Dr. Chester E. Spencer, Jr. 67
Dr. Scott A. Stein 87
Dr. Claude R. Stephens, Jr. 81
Dr. Larry R. Stewart 79
Dr. Russell V. Stover 84
Dr. Michael L. Stuart 86
Dr. Paul E. Stubbs 70
Dr. Brian R. Summers 87
Dr. Stevens T. Ta 99
Dr. Kimberly H. Travers 96
Dr. Albert M. Tate, Jr. 67
Dr. Chi V. Trieu 99
Dr. David H. Utzinger 63
Dr. Marisol Vargas 09
Dr. William C. Vargo 85
Dr. Paul D. Wallace 83
Dr. Mark N. Waters 81
Dr. Bettye Whiteaker-Hurt 68
Dr. Stephen T. White 72
Dr. Steven Widner 86
Dr. Patrick B. Wilcox 83
Dr. Jon W. Williamson 88
Dr. John B. Wise 87
Dr. Joe H. Yarbro 77
Supporters - Up to $149
Ms. Mary Ellen Ausmus-Laursen 68
Dr. Abhishek Bhaumik 13
Dr. Janice P. DeWald 95
Dr. Karen Foster 02
Dr. Allison Fowler 13
Mr. Eric Fox 05
Ms. Alexandra Garcia 97
Ms. Deborah A. Gorham 78
Ms. Julia Dianne Hawk 67
Dr. R. Don James 68
Dr. Robert P. Kennedy, Jr. 63
Dr. Elizabeth L. Laborde 08
Ms. Karen A. Lanier 72
Ms. Marilyn R. Nonaka 76
Dr. J. Frank Roark 43
Ms. Suzanne Sellers 63
Dr. Dennis E. Stansbury 74
Dr. John R. Swanson, II 51
Dr. Janet L. Vaughan 73
Dr. Jeffrey S. Woodson 67
I M P RI M PER ESS SSI O IN SO N S
This Impressions page captures a moment in time in the rich history of our Dallas dental school. The people of Texas A&M University Baylor College
of Dentistry have called the school by various names: State Dental College from 1905 to 1918, Baylor University College of Dentistry from 1918
to 1971 and Baylor College of Dentistry from 1971 to 1996, when the name became longer to reflect the affiliation with the Texas A&M University
System and, later, its health science center. In 2013, a new name reflected an alliance with Texas A&M University. Through the ebb and flow of
history, the dental school has been nurtured by people who reaped its benefits and perpetuated its legacy. Enjoy this glimpse into the mirror of time.
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Sixty years of first days
Editors Note: The Caruth School of Dental Hygiene accepted its first class in fall
1955. Through decades of educational innovations and new degree offerings,
one thing hasnt changed: the annual entrance of a new class. Dr. Ruth Swords
61 (pictured with a student in 1964-65) served as director from 1962 to 1982,
mentoring students and championing expansion of the educational program to a
bachelors degree. Of note, she was the only woman in her dental class, and the
dental hygiene school had no male students until fall 1993. The 2015 first-year
dental hygiene class includes four men.
1965 Baylor Burr yearbook

Caruth School of Dental Hygiene section excerpt:
ut the days of wondering were short, for we plunged headlong into a

time of discovery. There was the mesiobuccal cusp, the figure-eight
bandage, the distorted image of ones X-ray partners mouth. Out of
the melted carving wax, frayed gauze and ten million retakes came
something other than frustration: the feeling of accomplishment, the budding of selfconfidence. We sought and we found.
The second trimester was oriented by the rustle of new uniforms, freshly
starched for our first day in clinic, and the pungent scent of formaldehyde and fix.
We discovered perio and pedo and how to curette the disto-lingual of the upper first
molar. Then we discovered ourselves as a class as we moved bag and baggage into
Wilma Bass Memorial Hall. But the fields of discovery extended beyond dentistry
into the New Testament, public speaking and visual education. We began to realize
the importance of related subjects which broadened our horizons as we related our
discoveries to our chosen profession.
The third trimester was a time of application. We went from prophy-technique
to our first patient, from roentgenology class to our first full-mouth radiographic
survey, from lab and the text to the clinic. We streaked plates and organisms grew,
we mixed amalgams and from this teeth were filled. From out of many discoveries
came a tangible reality the knowledge of how things are done. And out of this came
the most valuable discovery of our freshman year: We learned how it felt to be
able to help.
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