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have joint appointments elsewhere in theCollege), 17 graduate students, 2 technicians, and 20 clinical and clerical staff.
Collectively, the clinics of this department manage approximately 14-16% of all patients treated at BCD. Chairman of the Department is Dr. R. Gilbert Triplett.
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Components of the department include:
- The Center for Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, which was dedicated in 2001, providing an exciting new presence in the North Texas region to assist in the reconstruction of acquired and
congenital defects of oral and facial deformities - one of 3 such centers in the US.
- The Professional Services Clinic is the Faculty's intramural private practice clinic. The clinic offers a full range of oral and maxillofacial surgery services on an inpatient and outpatient basis. The Board-certified faculty concurrently function as members of the Medical Staff of Baylor University Medical Center, whose grounds the Baylor College of Dentistry shares. Faculty patients thus can be admitted to the hospital for more complex procedures.
- The Predoctoral (Undergraduate) and Graduate (Residents') clinics provide patient care by dental students and OMS residents under faculty supervision, at reduced fees.
- The Pharmacology Division teaches pharmacology, pain and anxiety control, sedation and local anesthesia administration, consultations on drug-related matters, and performs scientific research in areas pertaining to drugs and drug usage.
- Anesthesia Services -- The department arranges for contracted general anesthesia services for patients having dental or medical procedures done at Baylor College of Dentistry. Other departments, such as Pediatric Dentistry and Advanced Education in General Dentistry, also utilize the OMS/P operating rooms and anesthesia services.
- The teaching program is involved in teaching dental, dental hygiene, graduate and post- graduate students in the areas of oral
and maxillofacial surgery, pharmacology, pain and anxiety control, management of medical emergencies, management of medically compromised patients. The faculty are prominently involved nationally
in establishing competency-based objectives for dentistry in all of these teaching areas, and many OMS/P faculty are involved at a national level in evaluating competency in dental students and
dentists.
- Most full-time and several part-time OMS/P faculty conduct important clinical and basic research in many areas of surgical
science, including studies on bone morphogenetic proteins, the effects of estrogen receptors, salivary function, implantology, intraoral distraction osteogenesis, professional stress and suicide,
patient information writing, and many others. BCD contains excellent facilities and affiliations for these clinical and laboratory investigations. Faculty mentor both pre- and postdoctoral
students in research, leading to student presentations and publications at the local, state, regional, and national levels.
- Faculty members involve themselves in the community through continuing education course offerings, consultantships, and
committee memberships at local, state, national and inter- national levels.
- Members of the OMS/P faculty coordinate and manage the BCD American Heart Association Basic Life Support (CPR) Training Center,
one of approximately 20 such centers in Dallas authorized to teach under the AHA umbrella.
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About Baylor College of Dentistry
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Baylor College of Dentistry (BCD) is located proximate to downtown Dallas, Texas, at the corner of Gaston Avenue and
Hall Street, on a corner of the Baylor University Medical Center campus. The College was founded in 1905. Originally, BCD and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston were affilitated with Baylor
University in Waco, Texas, but in 1976 both the medical and dental schools separated from Baylor and became independent institutions. BCD operated as such until 1996, when the College became part of
the Texas A&M University System and became one of nine health care institutions forming the new Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, based in College Station, Texas. Because of
its unique location near downtown Dallas, and its wealth of clinical material, the College enjoys a reputation of being one of the top dental schools in the United States. Baylor graduates are highly
sought after by other institutions because of their reputation for clinical excellence and the extent of their clinic experience during training.
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About Baylor University Medical Center
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Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) was founded in 1903 as the 25 bed Good Samaritan Hospital and was originally
located onJunius St. BUMC is the flagship facility of the Baylor Health Care (BHC) System which encompasses 10 smaller, suburban hospitals and several clinics throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth
Metroplex area. It has been repeatedly recognized at national and international levels as one of the premier hospital systems in the United States. BUMC is the 6th largest hospital and one of the
largest not-for-profit hospitals in the United States, with about 1000 beds (2,700 system-wide). It is the 2nd most active organ transplantation center in the nation and is one of the three Level 1
trauma centers in the Dallas Emergency Medical Services system. The BUMC Emergency Room treated 72,600 patients in 2000. The BHC System also includes the prominent presence of the Tom Landry Sports
and Fitness Center, which is a leading center for research, training, and medical treatment of amateur and professional athletes from around the world in its state-of-the-art facility. There are
presently about 770 physicians and dentists on the BUMC Medical Staff (2,143 system-wide).
For more information about Baylor University Medical Center, go to:
Baylor University Medical Center website
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About Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
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For more information about TAMUS Health Science Center, located at 301 Tarrow St., College Station, Texas 77840-7896,
go to:
Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
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