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Associate Professor and Chair
UTHSC College of Dentistry
UCLA School of Dentistry
Clarice Law, DMD, MS is Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Community Oral Health at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry. Dr Law received her DMD from Harvard School of Dental Medicine and completed specialty training in Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics at UCLA School of Dentistry. As a full-time faculty member at UCLA, she taught both Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics to dental students and residents. She is relatively new to UTHSC and to the mid-South and is looking forward to influencing comprehensive oral health in a new environment. Her clinical teaching responsibilities and service to professional organizations have historically focused on interceptive orthodontics and predoctoral education in pediatric dentistry. Most notable are contributions to the growth and development and orthodontics sections of The Handbook of Pediatric Dentistry, Practical Reviews in Pediatric Dentistry, and Pediatric Dentistry: Infancy to Adolescence. On the other hand, as the daughter of a psychologist, she has always been interested in human behavior and has made it a focus of scholarly activity. She has authored articles on behavior guidance for the CDA Journal and Pediatric Dentistry and thought she was getting quite proficient in non-pharmacological behavior guidance until her own children were born, refocusing her research on the influence of contemporary parenting on pediatric behavior guidance in the dental setting. Beyond raising two teenagers, Dr Law is married to filmmaker Ian Eyre.