UNC School of Dentistry - Impressions Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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The fourth building has now been completed in the quadrangle between the old dental building and the Dental Research Center. This additional facility provides faculty offices, student lounges, student locker rooms and space for badly needed seminar rooms. Since it has been completed and occupied, the first floor of the old building may be renovated for oral diagnosis and oral surgery. The third floor of the old building has been completely redesigned for a student clinical laboratory, faculty offices for the Department of Endodontics, expansion and modernization of the Orthodontic Department, and lecture hall expansion. In recent years, through the work of Dean Raymond P. White and the present Dean Ben D. Barker, the school has continued to grow and to change along with the field of Dentistry. Following the Fall 1982 dedica- tion of the top two floors of the new wing, the school has begun quite a facelift with new dental operatories in DAU clinic, the Removable Prosthodontic clinic, and the Periodontics Clinic. I n addition there are new units in the Pedodontics clinic and major renovations in the Jr. -Sr. laboratory, of Lecture Hall B, the Main Clinic reception area, the Institutional and Professional Relations Offices, the LRC Laboratory, the Administrative offices and seminar rooms and, most recently, renovation in the Removable Prosthodontics Pedodontics reception area, the women ' s staff locker room and the screening clinic. A renovation of the main clinic equipment is in the works for the summer of 1984. Prior to the publication of this yearbook in 1984, the only student publication in the school of Dentistry was the Bits and Burs newspaper. The School of Dentistry, voted number one in the nation for two consecutive years in the early 70 ' s, has achieved international acclaim and probably possesses more diver- sified programs for undergraduate, graduate, dental hygiene, dental auxiliary teacher education, dental assistant education, dental research, and extramural programs than any other school of dentistry in the world. Acknowledgements: portions of this text are from the 1969 dedication bulletin of the Dental Education Building and from the summer 1975 edition of the Dental Alumni Association Newsletter. Photo credits: Institutional and Professional Relations, the Learning Resources Center and the Impressions staff. A bird ' s eye view of the campus prior to the construction of the Facult Lab and Office Buildir 6

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fter the new School of Dentistry wing was dedicated and occupied in 1967, space as absorbed quickly and within a year walls were being built to utilize the lacious waiting room areas for faculty and student needs. In 1969, a new undergraduate curriculum was introduced which differed eatly from the traditional curriculum, followed previously by this school and ost schools. Modification and evaluation continues, all of which is an effort to iprove instruction and educational opportunity. The old dental clinic was completely modernized in 1972 through gifts from private donors and the old pedodontic-periodontic wing has been redesigned as a modern 19 chair endodontic clinic, the most complete endodonic clinical facility known anywhere. The dental hygiene clinic in the early 70 ' s. 5

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Table of Contents Administration 9 Departments 15 Students 41 General Staff 73 Organizations and Activities 81