Comprehensive Oral Health

Comprehensive Oral Health

The Division of Comprehensive Oral Health works seamlessly across multiple specialties to ensure patients experience frictionless oral health care treatment. This collaborative team of oral health care professionals diagnoses and treats defects, restoring and promoting improved oral and overall health.

Expert faculty in dental hygiene, comprehensive dentistry, endodontics, operative dentistry and biomaterials, periodontics and prosthodontics lead the division.

The interdisciplinary team works closely with the GO Health Center, NC Missions of Mercy Clinics, NC Baptist Mobile Dental Unit, Wake County Smiles and more.

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Educational Programs

Supporting Endodontics

Funds Supporting Professorships

Endowed professorships allow the recruitment and retention of the very best clinicians, educators and researchers in the field of endodontics. Once endowed, they provide support for salary, research and other professional activities directed at fulfilling our mission.

The Olmsted Family Distinguished Professorship in Endodontics Fund (2309)

Graduate Education Funds

Graduate education funds are used to support specialty education in endodontics. One hundred percent of gifts to the graduate education fellowship funds is directed to support resident stipends and educational opportunities.

Division Funds

Division funds help enhance the division’s programs and resources, and the division as a whole.

Worth B. Gregory, Jr. Endodontics Resource Fund (2136)

Additional information on how to make gifts and pledges to any of these funds or fellowships can be obtained through the Dental Foundation of North Carolina or by contacting Mr. Paul Gardner, associate dean of advancement, at (919) 537-3258.

Supporting Operative Dentistry

Funds Supporting Professorships

Endowed professorships allow the recruitment and retention of the very best clinicians, educators and researchers in the field of operative dentistry. Once endowed, they provide support for salary, research and other professional activities directed at fulfilling our mission.

Hinman Restorative Dentistry Professorship (071424)

Division Funds

Division funds help enhance the division programs and resources, and the division as a whole.

Department of Operative Dentistry Fund (2042)
Clifford M. Sturdevant Clinical Research Endowment (2060)
Karl F. Leinfelder Biomaterials Research Endowment (2149)

Additional information on how to make gifts and pledges to any of these funds or fellowships can be obtained through the Dental Foundation of North Carolina or by contacting Mr. Paul Gardner, associate dean of advancement, at (919) 537-3258.

Supporting Peridontology

Funds Supporting Professorships

Endowed professorships allow the recruitment and retention of the very best clinicians, educators and researchers in the field of periodontology. Once endowed, they provide support for salary, research and other professional activities directed at fulfilling our mission.

Division Funds

Division funds help enhance the division programs and resources, and the division as a whole.

Department of Periodontology Fund (Unrestricted) (2065)
Periodontics Discretionary Fund (2164)
Periodontal Excellence Fund (2125)
Periodontology Patient Care Fund (2346)
Periodontic Clinic Renovation Fund (2175)
Periodontology Visiting Lecturer Fund (2162)

Additional information on how to make gifts and pledges to any of these funds or fellowships can be obtained through the Dental Foundation of North Carolina or by contacting Mr. Paul Gardner, associate dean of advancement, at (919) 537-3258.

Supporting Prosthodontics

Funds Supporting Professorships

Endowed professorships allow the recruitment and retention of the very best clinicians, educators and researchers in the field of prosthodontics. Once endowed, they provide support for salary, research and other professional activities directed at fulfilling our mission.

Stallings Distinguished Professorship Fund (202100)
Straumann Distinguished Professorship in Implant Dentistry (202067)

Additional information on how to make gifts and pledges to any of these funds or fellowships can be obtained through the Dental Foundation of North Carolina or by contacting Mr. Paul Gardner, associate dean of advancement, at (919) 537-3258.