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Archie Jones, D.D.S., M.B.A.

Dental School
Periodontics
210-567-3576
jonesa@uthscsa.edu

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Dr. Jones received his B.A. in biology at the University of Kansas in 1970, and his Doctor of Dental Surgery (with distinction) at the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1973. He completed a two-year residency in general dentistry at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Waco, Texas, in 1976. He received his certificate in Periodontics from UT Health San Antonio in 1980.

Dr. Jones began his dental school teaching career during his residency in periodontics. He joined UT Health San Antonio faculty and taught surgical and non-surgical periodontics in the predoctoral division. In 1988, he became the course director for the DS III Periodontics lecture course and continued that responsibility until 2011. Also in 1988, he became course director of the DS III periodontics clinic course and he continued that responsibility until 2003 when a curriculum reorganization took effect merging that course into General Dentistry. In 2009, he became the director of the predoctoral division of the Department of Periodontics with oversight of all five Periodontics courses.

In 2009-10, he was the course director for four of those courses. He has particular interests in curriculum development and organization, clinical and classroom teaching and development of novel teaching methods. He has participated in research activities since early in my career at the Health Science Center using both human clinical and animal model study designs. His time commitment to research has increased in the last few years as he has expanded his interests in dental implants and periodontal regenerative surgical procedures. His service activities have been related to education, curriculum development and continuing education.

Education

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Appointments

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9/2011 - Present Professor with Tenure and Director Predoctoral Division University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Expertise

Publications

Teaching

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Date Description Institution # Students
8/2013 - Present Membership on Supervising Committee UTHSCSA Dental School
8/2012 - Present Membership on Supervising Committee UTHSCSA Dental School
10/2011 - Present Patho-biology I The University of Texas Health Science Center 15 students
2 one-hour lecture presentations.
3/2011 - Present General Dentistry Seminar The University of Texas Health Science Center 110 students
Preparation course for the Western Regional Examination Board Exam which is taken by most graduating DS IV students.
7/2010 - Present UTHSCSA
8/2009 - Present Periodontics The University of Texas Health Science Center 99 students
Pre-clinical Lab Designer/Instructor (Fall Semester) and Clinical Faculty as part of Introduction to Dentistry (INTD 6088) (Spring Semester)
7/2009 - Present Periodontics The University of Texas Health Science Center 99 students
Course Director - This course is comprised of 32 hours of lecture/classroom discussion and 16 hours of preclinical laboratory exercises per student. These hours are all scheduled in the fall semester. As course director, I give all of the lectures. I also coordinate and teach all of the preclinical exercises. Lecture presentations are accompanied by a set of written questions to which the students must react, record an answer and turn in these responses at the end of class. This questioning process augments the active learning aspects of the course. The questions are used to assess student understanding as the course progresses. Also, I use these questions to link periodontal concepts to basic science concepts presented elsewhere in the curriculum. I have incorporated the audience response system into this course as an additional active learning initiative.
The preclinical lab sessions are organized in four 4?hour blocks which must be repeated 5 times each to accommodate the class size of approximately 100 students. These blocks are rotations which are part of Introduction to Dentistry INTD 6088. Each preclinical lab session is part lecture, which I present, and classroom instruction followed by an approximately 3 hour clinical experience in the clinic environment. The third session was moved from the clinic to the simulator labs last year after acquisition of some ?periodontally diseased? anatomic models. This provided the students with more advanced diagnostic and periodontal instrumentation experience as opposed to having a periodontally healthy sophomore student patient. The final preclinical session is an OSCE-type examination which is a competency examination that must be completed successfully.
5/2009 - Present International Dentist Education Program (IDEP) 10 students
Course director for the "Review of Periodontics" component of this pre-matriculation course for non-U.S. trained dentists seeking a U.S. DDS degree. I developed course materials, lectures (3 hours), and pre-clinical laboratory experiences (9 hours) intended to summarize our UTHSCSA freshman and sophomore periodontics courses and thus allow these students to enter into the third year of our dental school curriculum.
1/2009 - Present SELC 8023 Wonderful World of Periodontics 75 students
Course Director - This selective course is designed to acquaint pre-doctoral students with a variety of sophisticated periodontal surgical procedures with many different objectives. Having a basic understanding of these procedures and their objectives provides pre-doctoral students with a basis for improving communications with their patients related to periodontal treatment options. Surgical procedures and their outcomes are presented by current periodontics post-doctoral specialty students during four one-hour lunch period discussions.
1/2009 - Present Periodontics I The University of Texas Health Science Center 98 students
Course Director - This course is comprised of 26 hours of classroom lecture and exam hours and 16 hours of pre-clinical laboratory exercises per student. The classroom lecture and preclinical laboratory hours of this course are all scheduled in the spring semester. As course director, I give all of the lectures except when I must be out of town, etc. Classroom discussions include a set of questions on paper which the students must complete and turn in. These questions are interspersed throughout the lecture and the students are required to react to them and engage in more active learning. I also have incorporated the use of the audience response system (the ?clickers?) in this course to augment active learning. For the three written exams given in the lecture portion of the course, I use a combined multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank set of questions so there is an aspect of the exams that must be hand graded which I do.
I coordinate and teach all of the preclinical laboratory hours (80 hours). The 4-hour preclinical blocks are scheduled as part of Introduction to Dentistry 5030. These sessions are part lecture and classroom instruction (approximately 1 hour) with periodontal instrumentation as the focus. The greater part of the 4 hours is spent in the clinic cubicles where the students obtain some of their first actual clinical experience. I present these preclinical lectures and classroom instruction. Since the students rotate through this experience in groups of twenty, the 4-hour blocks must each be repeated 5 times to accommodate the class size of approximately 100 students. The final block is an OSCE-type exam which covers clinical skills including infection control, periodontal instrumentation and radiographic interpretation. This is a competency examination which must be passed.

I have redesigned several key aspects of this course since becoming course director.
8/2006 - Present Implantology The University of Texas Health Science Center 84 students
7/2004 - Present Periodontics The University of Texas Health Science Center 85 students
This course was restructured in 2004 to be a Dental National Board review course. I currently present a one hour lecture which is a review of three topics: 1) Periodontal Maintenance, 2) Wound Healing and 3) Periodontal Medicine. This presentation was videorecorded for future viewer access.
8/2003 - Present Implantology The University of Texas Health Science Center 94 students
Lecture topic: Surgical Placement of Dental Implants
8/2002 - Present Implantology The University of Texas Health Science Center 81 students
Course Director - Junior Implantology is a one-semester lecture course with emphasis on treatment planning, implant surgical procedures and restorative applications. Course directorship involves coordination of lecture presentations, presentation of lectures, preparation of examinations, and coordination of content with Prosthodontics and General Dentistry.
1/2000 - Present Periodontics The University of Texas Health Science Center 32 students
Lecture and demonstration of the Florida Probe automated periodontal probing system presented to dental hygiene students.
1/1997 - Present Pre-Doctoral Student Supervision UTHSCSA
8/1990 - Present Implantology The University of Texas Health Science Center 105 students
My lecture commitment in PERI 7059 has varied from 1 hour in the early years to as many as 7 hours after I become course director. My lecture topics in this course have included: 1) Implant Treatment Planning, 2) Maxillary Sinus Bone Augmentation, 3) Radiographic Imaging Techniques in Implant Therapy, 4) Implant Maintenance, 5) Socket Grafting/Ridge Preservation, and 6) Abutment Selection.
8/1988 - Present Periodontics The University of Texas Health Science Center 90 students
My lecture commitment in Junior Periodontics (PERI 7081) has varied from 3 to 8 hours per year. My lecture topics have included: 1) "I had no idea you guys did all that.", 2) Review of Scaling and Root Planing, 3) Reevaulation and the Periodontal Surgical Decision, 4) Periodontal Treatment Planning, 5) Mucogingival Problems, 6) Furcation Management, 7) Osseous Surgery, 8) Perio-Prosthodontic Interactions and 9) Periodontal Regeneration.
8/1982 - Present Periodontics II The University of Texas Health Science Center
Periodontics lecture presentation(s)to dental hygiene II students. My lecture topics in this course have included: Wound Healing, Occlusion, New Diagnostic Methodologies, Contributing Factors in Periodontal Disease and Automated Periodontal Probing.
8/1981 - Present UTHSCSA Clinic
Consultative service includes being on call for Periodontics and Implantology consultations in any of the patient care clinics in the Dental School. These consults are most often for specialty diagnostic assistance, periodontal case treatment planning, implant treatment planning, and emergency treatment situations.

Grants

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