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February 9, 2016
Dental and dental hygiene students from the School of Dentistry at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio screened 700+ second-graders from Edgewood for a project called ‘Give Kids A Smile.’
February 7, 2016
Kids at Adams Elementary School got free dental checkups Friday. Metro Health and volunteers from the San Antonio District Dental Society, and SA Dental Hygienists Association made it all happen. The kids received free dental exams and preventative oral health services. Read the full story at KABB-TV
February 7, 2016
An influential Texas scientific panel recommended on Thursday that bite-mark analysis not be admissible as evidence in courts, a decision experts said could lead judicial systems in other states to exclude it, too. Read the full story at KFGO Radio
February 7, 2016
An influential Texas scientific panel recommended Feb. 12 that bite-mark analysis not be admissible as evidence in courts, a decision experts said could lead judicial systems in other states to exclude it, too. Read the full story at Yahoo News
February 7, 2016
Texas on Feb. 12 became the first state in the nation to recommend a ban on the use of bite mark analysis in criminal cases, a decision that could prompt change in courtrooms nationwide. Read the full story at The Dallas Morning News
February 7, 2016
A Texas commission recommended Feb. 12 that the state suspend the use of bite-mark evidence in criminal cases pending additional research, becoming the first agency in the nation to discredit a forensic technique that has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Read the full story at The Wall Street Journal