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    Giving Back: Distinguished Alumnus a Pillar of His Community

    Dr. Ben W. Jernigan Jr. has been on the fast track most of his life. “I think I was born to be a dentist,” says Jernigan (’76), who grew up in the Atlanta area. “I’ve been very fulfilled my entire career. I’ve never regretted a single day.” That being the case, he was a prime candidate when DCG...

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    Wide Open: Endodontic Research has Countless Applications

    Drs. Franklin Tay and Fucong Tian have cumulatively traveled tens of thousands of miles to get where they are today, but the journey has been well worth the effort. Tay, chair of the Department of Endodontics, left Hong Kong 16 years ago to join the DCG faculty. Prior to that, he spent eight years...

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    A Heart for Service

    “I believe we are all leaders, if not leaders of people or projects, then of our own lives.” This is Dr. Scott T. Wallace’s summation of one of the most vital lessons he believes educators can impart to students. And he thinks the philosophy should be reinforced both in and out of the classroom. As...

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    A COLORFUL LIFE

    During the accident, the 60-year-old Nigerian motorcyclist’s spleen had ruptured, and he was bleeding to death. With the hospital administrator — and the only trained surgeon — out of town for a meeting, Allen...

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    The MED SQUAD

    On a small screen, a 30-second capsule flies by like a whirlwind. First-year medical student Irielle Duncan makes coffee, drives to campus, eats breakfast before class, shows a brief tour of a learning commons, walks...

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    Secret Lives: One Step Ahead

    Dr. Robert Kaltenbach is accustomed to moving seamlessly between different worlds. He joined the DCG faculty in 1976 not as a dentist, but as a psychologist, overseeing a program called Dental Practice Dynamics to teach...

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    Secret Lives: Pet Project

    Factoids: • Rats are brilliant and gregarious.• Guinea pigs are beautiful but unsuited for a loud household.• A tarantula lying belly up with its legs in the air should not be prodded. It is not dying, it is about to...

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    Secret Lives: Winging It

    ROBERT LONDON WAS a college freshman utterly uncertain of his career goals when his brother’s graduation from the U.S. Marine Corps Boot Camp offered the shot of motivation he was looking for. “I thought, holy cow, I’ve...

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    Secret Lives: Art Rahn

    Carving Out a Niche When Dr. Art Rahn embarked on a dental career, he realized that, in a sense, he’d been practicing his craft since childhood. True, he was a novice at working on teeth when he enrolled in dental...

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    In the Field: Through Another’s Eyes

    It’s 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. In a routine repeated nearly 2,000 times over 35 years, nonagenarian Naomi Monge sets the morning’s Augusta Chronicle in front of her on the desk and reaches for the phone. She dials a...

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