LLU School of Dentistry - Dentalgram, Feb 2000 -Building program

Building program labor pains officially over!
Christy K. Robinson

The old ark's a-moverin', a-moverin.'

Big, welcome changes are happening around Prince Hall. With the opening of the two new clinic spaces in early February, the Hutto-Patterson pediatric dental clinic and the Bernard Byrd oral and maxillofacial surgery center, and the expansion of clinic and student laboratory space, many denizens of Prince Hall will be moving around.

The pediatric dentistry clinic moves on Sunday, February 6, in order to begin seeing patients on February 7. Their vacated clinic suite will accommodate the advanced prosthodontics clinic, for which it was originally designed. It will be very convenient to be just around the corner from implant dentistry suites, says Michelle Rice, prosthodontics/implant supervisor.


Mechanical floor plan		Measure twice, cut once. Construction workers double check plans for placement of colored floor tiles in the clinic lobby.

When "GANR," as insiders call the dental anesthesiology program and the Center for Dental Surgery, moves to its new site in the east addition, the oral surgery department will move a few doors west and take over the lobby, office, and operating suites.

That move will free up the current oral surgery lobby and office for an expansion of clinic administration office space. Dr. Paul Richardson, Debbie Tuttle, and Marie Worcester, now located in Room 1149, will be ensconced close to all the activities of clinic administration.

So what about 1149? Continuing education and dental alumni staff will move to the outer rooms.

It all begins the first week of February. Let's get a-moverin.'

Peds clinic construction Loooong truck

Just two weeks before the ribbon-cutting ceremony, cabinets and flooring were still being installed in the clinic. By opening day, everything was shiny and beautiful. Skillful parking allowed dental units to be unloaded at the Prince Hall receiving dock. Next time you navigate around a parked Ford Excursion, remember this guy and count yourself blessed.