NEWS

ISSUE 43: SPRING/SUMMER 2024Dr. Kayleigh Eaves Temple, EditorPresident’s Letter By:  Dr. Madison MackSpringtime is a season of new beginnings and refocus, but as we set our goals for the rest of the year, we find ourselves in a dilemma of time. The year 2024 will...

ISSUE 42: FALL 2023Dr. Kayleigh Eaves Temple, EditorCommunity: a group of people who share common culture or heritage. The East Texas Dental Society has suffered several losses of longstanding pillars of our community in the recent past. The passing of Dr. Marvin...

ISSUE 41: SPRING 2023Dr. Kayleigh Eaves Temple, EditorPresident's Message In dentistry, long days are spent focused on all sorts of connections: we strive to insure margins connect flawlessly, interproximal connections are intact, occlusal connections balanced,...

ISSUE 37: FALL/WINTER 2022/23Dr. Kayleigh Eaves Temple, EditorConnect President's Message As your incoming president of East Texas Dental Society, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce myself. Following graduation from Texas A&M University’s Baylor...

By: Executive Director - Andréa Sanderson Since I accepted the position of Executive Director for your esteemed society, I have worked hard to create a more efficient registration process. Now that we have created multiple options for attending our meetings - in...

ISSUE 36: SPRING/SUMMER 2022Dr. Kayleigh Eaves Temple, EditorYour new digital ETDS newsletter. As the costs of products, goods, and services continue to rise, we as a board looked at our budget to consider where we could cut expenditures. The cost of printing our...

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By: Dr. Wade Barker DDS, MD - Southern Surgical Arts Odontogenic infections are a common challenge in private practice. Many Texans do not have access to routine dental care and present to the general dentist, oral surgery practice or even hospital emergency...

Our colleague, Dr. Robert “Bob” Burnett, passed away on Feb. 2, 2021 from Covid pneumonia.  For those that knew Bob you realize we lost a good one.  For those that did not know Bob he was an excellent dentist that took pride in his work and how he treated people both...

By: Kayleigh Temple 2020 was the year of unexpected changes.  2021 is turning out to be somewhat similar with a massive snowstorm resulting in office closures, power outages, and a week of winter wonderland.  I think we can all agree that unexpected moments of free...