Army Dentistry Timeline

2024 Bernier Dental Research Award Recipients

13 November 13 2024 – MAJ Matthew Firestone, CPT Brent Harney and CPT Bradley Thomson have been recognized as recipients of the 2024 Bernier Dental Research Award. The competition is designed to...

November

2024

Army Periodontist Receives the 2024 MG Patrick D. Sculley Award

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...

April

2024

American Dental Association Recognizes Army Dentist

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...

March

2024

257th Field Tests Dental Equipment

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...

September

2023

Three Dental Systems Are Ready for Fielding

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...

September

2023

USADTRD Conducts Craniomaxillofacial Injury Research

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...

May

2023

MAJ Lim Wins Uniformed Services University Research Award

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...

May

2023

The Association of Army Dentistry Dedicates Monument

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,...

March

2023

Army Dental Lab Helps Develop New Device for Ridge Augmentation

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...

February

2023

Twenty-Ninth Chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps

3 June 2022 – COL Stephen J. Tanner, Deputy Commander, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, is appointed the 29th Chief, U.S. Army Dental Corps.

June

2022

Army Periodontist Wins Prestigious Research Award

October 2019 – CPT(P) Daniel Phillips wins the Uniformed Services University’s 2019-2020 Postgraduate Dental College (PDC) Tri-service Research Competition. He is the first Army investigator in fifteen...

October

2019

New DIMA/MOBDES Chief

2019 – COL Adam Rich becomes Dental DIMA/MOBDES (Drilling Individual Mobilization Augmentee/Mobile Dental Service) Chief.

January

2019

Twenty-Eighth Chief of the U.S. Army Dental Corps

1 September 2018 – COL Shan K. Bagby, becomes the first African American Army Dental Officer to be promoted to brigadier general and is appointed as the 28th Chief of the Army Dental Corps. (1 September...

September

2018

Dental Sleep Medicine Pilot Program Begins

7 September 2017 – A pilot dental sleep medicine program using an oral appliance, rather than a CPAP device, begins at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty), Fort Sam Houston, Fort Bliss, Tripler Army Medical...

September

2017

Research Detachment Cases Its Colors

1 October 2015 – The Dental and Trauma Research Detachment (DTRD) cases its colors and becomes a directorate of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

October

2015