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Sydney Clevenger

Sydney Clevenger is communications coordinator for the OHSU School of Dentistry and editor of the School Alumni Association's nearly seventy-five-year-old newsletter, Caementum. She has been writing about healthcare, science, and technology for more than twenty years. She is also the author of Swifty's Big Flight, a children's book published under the pseudonym Lee Jackson.

Author's Entries

  • John Kuratli (1897-1961)

    There were many pioneers of the gold-casting technique in dentistry, but one of the most proficient early Oregon experts was John J. Kuratli Jr. Gold casting is the process of making a crown to cap an unhealthy tooth or a bridge to span the gap created by missing teeth. In …

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