Grants and Scholarships

• The grants have a Dental Forum requirement for reporting research findings within 2 years of the awarded grant.
• Results are to be published in a peer reviewed journal within 4 years of the grant award. Awardee is to provide an annual report to Grants Committee while publication is outstanding.
• The grant awards will be presented by the Chair(s) of Committee and Foundation President at the Dental Forum Awards Ceremony.

• The objective of the University Grant Program is to provide veterinary schools with funds to establish or enhance their dentistry curriculum, materials, and equipment, ensuring graduates are competent in diagnosing and treating oral diseases commonly encountered in companion animal practice.
• Grant amount: $15,000.00.
• The grant award will be recognized by the Chair(s) of the Outreach Committee and the Foundation President during the Veterinary Dental Forum Awards Ceremony.

Currently not available.

Pat Frost, graduated in 1979 from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Colorado State University. After completing a rotating small animal internship at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine from 1979-1980, Pat continued at UI CVM in the veterinary world’s first dentistry/surgery residency from 1980-1982. Pat wrote one of the first publications about veterinary dentistry, “A Compendium on Canine Dentistry” which was published for five editions. In 1989, Dr. Frost sat for and passed the first exam for a newly formed specialty college called the American Veterinary Dental College. In 1992, she co-authored a second landmark text, the well-known “Veterinary Dental Techniques,” which has had three editions and has been translated into Japanese, Italian and Spanish. Pat used her experience and knowledge to mentor others and provide in-house training at veterinary hospitals. From 1997-1998 she lectured nationally about small animal dentistry. She presented 910 seminars a year for veterinarians, veterinary assistant and technicians. For ten years Pat taught dentistry to veterinary students at Oregon State University and Washington State University. In 2009, she was the recipient of the prestigious Peter Emily Award. Her kindness, humor and love of veterinary dentistry were felt by so many in our small profession and until her untimely passing on July 19, 2016. It was just like Pat to take care of veterinary dentistry in generous bequeaths to the Foundation for Veterinary Dentistry.

Grant History

2017: with matching funds from the Foundation, 10 recipients were awarded.
Sam Babbitt, Ana Castejon-Gonzalez, Stephanie Goldschmidt, Lorraine Hiscox, Roxane MacLellan, Louise Marron, Danielle Mendelsohn, Hanny Retzkin, G.G. Comet Riggs, Paul Theuns

2018: with matching funds from the Foundation, 10 recipients were awarded.
Williana Basuki, Angelica Bebel, Ellen Domnick, Kevin Haggerty, Curt Ritchie, Christopher Sauve, Alice Sievers, Peter Strom, Paul Theuns, Ignacio Velazquez-Urgel

2019: 5 recipients were awarded.
Amy Thomson, Williana Basuki, Adriana Regalado, Margie Smith, David Menzies