It was on August 22, 1912 when President William Taft signed the bill authorizing Secretary of the Navy George Von Lengerke Meyer “to appoint not more than 30 acting assistant dental surgeons to be part of the Medical Department of the U.S. Navy.”
The primary responsibility of Navy dentists is to maintain high operational readiness and train for all contingencies. Dental Corps officers – and dental technicians with specialty training as dental assistant and dental hygienist – routinely deploy on a host of platform and to a wide variety of locales whether with Devil Dogs on a Marine expeditionary unit, haze gray underway aboard Navy fleet assets where they assume roles in triage and surgical support far beyond their dental responsibilities.
Did you know the Navy Dental Corps just might be a recruiter’s best
friend? Dentists have enabled the Navy to recruit Sailors and Marines
who would have otherwise been ineligible due to dental
treatment needs.
The approximately 1,300 active duty and reserve dentists are accomplished in 15 specialties which include such disciplines as comprehensive dentistry,
dental and biomedical research, dental public health, endodontics, forensic odontology, maxillofacial prosthetics, operative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial pathology, oral medicine and radiology, orofacial pain, orthodontics, pediatric dentistry, periodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and prosthodontics.
| Date Taken: | 08.22.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 08.22.2023 14:12 |
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| Location: | BREMERTON, WASHINGTON, US |
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