Army Dentistry Timeline

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Fort Polk Casing Colors (2025)
30 September 2025 – The Dental Health Activity at the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk cases its colors during a deactivation ceremony. The ceremony, which officially deactivates the...
30
September
2025
Fort Huachuca Casing Colors (2025)-2
10 September 2025 – The U.S. Army DENTAC Command at Fort Huachuca cases its colors and reorganizes as part of the Fort Huachuca Medical Activity. COL Stefan Olpinski, commander of Dental Health Command,...
10
September
2025
Fort Irwin Casing Colors (2025)-2
29 July 2025 – The Fort Irwin Dental Clinic Command cases its guidon in a deactivation ceremony. The final unit commander, LTC Lloyd Ancman, and the command’s first sergeant, MSG Francisco Roman,...
29
July
2025
DHCE Inactivation-071825
18 July 2025 – Dental Health Command Europe (DHCE) headquarters conducts its inactivation ceremony on Sembach Kaserne. BG Roger Giraud, commanding general of Medical Readiness Command, Europe, and...
18
July
2025
Fort Leavenworth Dental Clinic Command Deactivation (2025)
11 July 2025 – The U.S. Army Dental Clinic Command Fort Leavenworth, marks its official deactivation of the unit and honors its final commander, MAJ David Chen. The ceremony recognizes the unit’s...
11
July
2025
13 November 2024 – MAJ Matthew Firestone, CPT Brent Harney and CPT Bradley Thomson are recognized as recipients of the 2024 Bernier Dental Research Award. The competition is designed to recognize...
13
November
2024
21 April 2024 – CPT Aaron Colamarino receives the prestigious 2024 MG Patrick D. Sculley Award. The award is open to graduates (all specialties and all services) of the previous academic year from...
21
April
2024
20 March 2024 – The ADA awards its 2024 10 Under 10 Award to MAJ Martin J. Smallidge, an Army prosthodontist. The award recognizes young dentists in the United States who have demonstrated significant...
20
March
2024
Portable Dental
12 September 2023 – Dentists with the 257th Medical Company (Dental Area Support) at Fort Liberty, N.C., working with the U.S. Army Medical Test and Evaluation Activity and the U.S. Army Medical...
12
September
2023
Dental Systems
11 September 2023 – The Dental Operating System (DOS), Field Portable Dental System (FPDS) and Dental Filmless Imaging System (DFIS) are complete and ready for fielding. The DOS is easier to transport...
11
September
2023
23 May 2023 – The United States Army Dental and Trauma Research Detachment (USADTRD) is the largest military dental research organization in the Department of Defense and the only military research...
23
May
2023
17 May 2023 – Maj. Jae Lim, a board-certified comprehensive dentist and the officer-in-charge at the U.S. Army Dental Health Activity, Fort Cavazos, Texas, is named winner of the 2022–2023 Uniformed...
17
May
2023
24 March 2023 – The Association of Army Dentistry dedicates the Army Dentistry Monument at the Army Medical Department Museum at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The monument, which is privately funded,...
24
March
2023
1 February 2023 – Working with LTC Sloan McLoughlin, Deputy Commander, Army Dental Lab, MAJ Joseph Retrum develops a two-piece, site-specific zirconia device to support ridge augmentation in the...
01
February
2023
Twenty Ninth Chief
3 June 2022 – COL Stephen J. Tanner, Deputy Commander, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, is appointed the 29th Chief, U.S. Army Dental Corps.
03
June
2022
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