"I like the location and the city the school was located in. It is very easy to get overwhelmed during dental school, so time management is the best way to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
Payton Keller
D4, Texas A&M College of Dentistry
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Third-year Resident Earns Prichard Award
Dr. Sarah Kelly is the 2022 recipient of the coveted Prichard Award. A third-year resident in the Department of Periodontics at Texas A&M College of Dentistry, Kelly says, “I am thankful to have my co-residents and faculty members cheering me on and am thrilled to bring this award back to Texas A&M.”
Transformational educators
Highly accomplished clinicians, researchers and distinguished scholars are instrumental in producing graduates who are amply prepared for the realities of an evolving health care landscape. Get to know the dedicated faculty who support our mission.
Jacqueline Plemons
Jacqueline Plemons, DDS, MS, CERT, says she was first drawn to oral medicine while working with a group of oral cancer survivors when she was a resident here in the late ’80s. Because those patients’ conditions fell somewhere between oral and medical health, they often struggled to find the specialized care they needed.
Read more about Dr. Plemons’ workAmerian Sones
“Head and neck cancer is so devastating because it affects how we present ourselves to the world—our face and smile, our ability to speak, drink, enjoy our favorite foods, display our emotions, and present to our friends and family,” Amerian Sones, BS, DMD, MS, says. “Restoring these important personal characteristics is why intraoral and extraoral rehabilitation is so important and appreciated by patients.”
Read more about Dr. Sones’ workLavern Holyfield
The new faculty orientation seminars and the Faculty Mentoring and Career Development Program allow me to help faculty members learn the resources that are available to them, understand what is expected of them. It is rewarding to know that I play a role in guiding them along their paths as academicians, says Lavern Holyfield, BA, DDS.
Read more about Dr. Holyfield’s work
Jacqueline Plemons
Jacqueline Plemons, DDS, MS, CERT, says she was first drawn to oral medicine while working with a group of oral cancer survivors when she was a resident here in the late '80s. Because those patients' conditions fell somewhere between oral and medical health, they often struggled to find the specialized care they needed.
Read more about Dr. Plemons’ work
Amerian Sones
"Head and neck cancer is so devastating because it affects how we present ourselves to the world—our face and smile, our ability to speak, drink, enjoy our favorite foods, display our emotions, and present to our friends and family," Amerian Sones, BS, DMD, MS, says. "Restoring these important personal characteristics is why intraoral and extraoral rehabilitation is so important and appreciated by patients."
Read more about Dr. Sones’ work
Lavern Holyfield
"The faculty orientation seminars and the Faculty Mentoring and Career Development Program allow me to help faculty members learn the resources that are available to them, understand what is expected of them. It is rewarding to know that I play a role in guiding them along their paths as academicians", says Lavern Holyfield, BA, DDS.
Read more about Dr. Holyfield’s workGiving to Alumni Association
The college has graduated more than 9,000 dentists and dental hygienists since its founding in 1905. Our alumni are among the best and most sought after clinicians, educators and researchers throughout the world.
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