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Academic Services Publication: McCann AL, Campbell PR, Schneiderman ED. A performance examination for assessing dental hygiene competencies. Journal of Dental Hygiene 75:291-304, 2001. Biomaterials Science Presentation: Phil Ford presented
"Research on Laser Welding Has Started at Baylor College of Dentistry" during the 5th Dental Laser Processing Forum at the Kyoto College of Dental Hygienists and Technicians in Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 1. Organized by
Selec Co. Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, the forum is held every six months at a different location in Japan. It provides dentists, researchers and dental technicians an opportunity to share information about different applications of laser
welding and procedures to use when working with dental lasers for welding titanium, cobalt-chromium, gold and other suitable dental alloys. The Department of Biomaterials Science bought a dental laser welder from Selec in fall
2001. Experiments are being planned to test various aspects of the welding of titanium alloys and several other dental alloys. In addition, the laser welder has been used in a few special cases in the fixed prosthodontics area of
the Department of Restorative Sciences. Biomedical Sciences Presentations:
Dr. Edward G. Miller presented "Citrus Limonoids: Increasing Importance to Human Health" at the International Conference and Exhibition on Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Portland, Ore., Nov. 28-Dec. 1. Co-authors are Dr. Samuel E. Taylor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Pharmacology, Dr. Bhimu Patil at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Citrus Center in Weslaco, Texas, and Dr. Shin Hasegawa at the U. S. Department of Agriculture in Albany, Calif.
Miller and Hasegawa also were co-authors on a second presentation given by Patil, which was titled "HPLC Analysis of Citrus Limonoids in the Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Microorganisms Culture Media Using Solid Phase Extraction."
Publication: Mooney MP, Smith TD, Losken HW, Opperman LA, Burrows AM, Dechant J, Kreithan AM, Kapucu R, Cooper GM, Ogle RC, Siegel M. Correction of coronal suture synostosis in rabbits with familial craniosynostosis using
suture and dura allografts. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 38:206-225, 2001. Other News: Miller attended the scientist meeting for the Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center Jan. 7-8 in College Station, Texas.
Clinical Services Presentations: Dr. Thomas K. Hasegawa Jr. presented "Ethical Issues of Informed Consent" to Baylor University Medical Center's oral surgery faculty and residents on Dec. 5. He presented the case-based
program, "Ethical Issues of Informed Consent in Dentistry," to the Oak Cliff Study Club in Dallas Jan. 17. Publication: Hasegawa TK, Matthews M, Stanford TW. Sensitive (ethical) issues for the periodontist.
Texas Dental Journal 119(1):85-87, 2002. Other News:
Marilyn Todd attended the North Texas Society for Healthcare Risk Management's annual seminar titled "Patient Safety: Prevention, Disclosure and Defense" in Fort Worth, Texas, Dec. 6. Dental Hygiene Presentations:
In January, several faculty members presented eat-and-learn luncheon topics at the Southwest Dental Conference in Dallas. Presenting were:
Two of the department's recent master's degree graduates also presented, including:
Tracy King, a current graduate student, presented "Dental Aerosols and the Potential Health Hazard to the Dental Hygienist." Diagnostic Sciences Presentations:
Dr. Byron W. Benson presented a continuing dental education course titled "Digital Radiography - Fact and Fiction: An Update for the Dental Practitioner." The full-day program took place at the Olin E. Teague Veterans Medical Center in Temple, Texas, Dec. 7.
He also presented a CE program during the Rear Admiral William Vaughn Memorial Naval Reserve Dental Seminar in Fort Worth, Texas, Jan. 20. The program was titled "Patient Selection Criteria in Dental Radiography."
The seminar was sponsored by the Naval Reserve Readiness Command South at NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base. Benson is a captain in the Naval Reserve. Drs. Neil L. Frederiksen and Hui Liang presented a lecture and participation
course, "Perfecting Radiographic Techniques," at the Southwest Dental Conference in January. Other News:
Benson participated in the Dentsply/Gendex Digital Imaging Advisory Council, which met at the Gendex manufacturing facilities in Des Plaines, Ill., Jan. 10. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Pharmacology Presentation: Dr. Uwe Frohberg presented "Facial Esthetic Surgery" in Duesseldorf, Germany, Dec. 17 and 19. Orthodontics Publications:
Buschang PH, Throckmorton GS, Chen P. Morphological and positional asymmetries of young children with functional unilateral posterior crossbite. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
November:513-520, 2001. Parkinson CE, Buschang PH, Behrents RG, Throckmorton GS, English JD. A new method of evaluating posterior occlusion and its relation to post-treatment occlusal changes. American Journal of Orthodontics
and Dentofacial Orthopedics November:503-512, 2001. Throckmorton GS, Buschang PH. Changes in the masticatory cycle following treatment of posterior unilateral crossbite in children.
American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics November:521-529, 2001. Periodontics Presentation:
Dr. Jacque Plemons presented "From Piercing to Periodontics: Oral Medicine in the New Millennium" at the Southwest Dental Conference in January. Publication: Dr. Terry Rees has written a chapter titled "AIDS and the
Periodontium" in the new ninth edition of Clinical Periodontology (Newman MG, Takei HH, Carranza FA, eds.), published by the W.B. Saunders Company of Philadelphia. Other News: Dr. William Hallmon attended a workshop, "Emergency Science in Clinical Periodontics," sponsored by the American Academy of Periodontology in Chicago Dec. 4-5. He is the reviewer for the AAP's section on Physical and Mechanical Local Anti-infective Approaches to Treating Periodontal Disease. Rees and Dr. Nancy Burkhart hosted an online lichen planus discussion session Dec. 19. The guest was Dr. Bernard McCartan, researcher and oral medicine consultant at Trinity College
Dublin in Ireland as well as a national director of specialist training in dentistry for Ireland. Rees and Burkhart also sent the first web-site newsletter to members online. Art Upton of the Office of Communications and
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