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Precious, David S.
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1944-2015
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David Stanley Precious was a leader in the field of dental surgery and specialized in cleft palate/cleft lip surgeries. He was a professor in Dalhousie's Faculty of Dentistry, chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Sciences from 1985-2004, and Dean of Dentistry from 2003-2008. Born in Ottawa on 23 April 1944, he earned a BSc (1961) and Doctorate in Dental Surgery (1969) at Dalhousie before doing his residency at McMaster University.program and finished in 1972. During his career he worked and taught in Vietnam, Brazil, Tunisia and India. He was the president of the Nova Scotia Dental Association, president of medical staff at the Victoria General Hospital, National Chief Examiner for the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, president of the Canadian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He received the Order of Canada in 2007, the Humanitarian award from the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Canadian Dental Association Medal of Honour, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, and two honorary degrees from Laval and Dalhousie (2013). The Dalhousie University Medal in Dentistry was renamed in his honour in 2012. He died on 3 February 2015.
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Dalhousie University. Faculty of Dentistry (1908 -)
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Dates of relationship
2003-2008
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David S. Precious was Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry from 2003-2008.