This 2011 ADA News article, “A dentist and a physicist: Retired Army dentist-colonel force behind development of U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine”, covers Colonel Dr. Robert Vandre's career, from PhD student to dentistry to directing the Army’s Combat Casualty Care Research and founding the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) in 2008.
“As the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq heated up, the military was able to use many of the inventions and treatments from this research. Those treatments, coupled with other important items such as improved body armor and better-trained medics, allowed the military to cut the battlefield death rate by almost 50 percent.”
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