Lasting Impressions | Summer 2016

NSU COLLEGE OF DENTAL MEDICINE x 3 “The day is surely coming…when we will be engaged in practicing preventive, rather than reparative, dentistry. When we will so understand the etiology and pathology of dental caries that we will be able to combat its destruc- tive effects.’’—G.V. Black, D.D.S., 1926 Audrey Levitt Galka, D.D.S., chair, Department of Cariology and Restorative Dentistry at NSU’s College of Dental Medicine (CDM), will be the first to tell you that days of “drill and fill” dentistry are numbered, and that G.V. Black, the father of modern dentistry, would be pleased to know that the day he spoke of in his famous The Department of Cariology and Restorative Dentistry is on the forefront of innovation. BY MICHELLE F. SOLOMON Cutting Edge