Army Dentistry Timeline

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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
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...
01
October
2019
BG Bagby (2018)
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...
01
September
2018
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...
07
September
2017
DTRD
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.
01
October
2015
The High Caries Risk Program, which was initially implemented in 2010, is fully fielded. The program provides education and intervention through nutritional assessment, application of fluoride varnishes...
15
June
2015
MG Rob Temple
14 May 2014 – COL Thomas “Rob” Tempel, Jr., is promoted to major general and is appointed the 27th Chief of the Army Dental Corps and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Regional Medical Command – Cen...
14
May
2014
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