Mary Danusis Cooper, R.D.H MSEd

Mary has been an instructor in the Dental Hygiene Program at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne since 1979. She remained in private practice until 1987 at which time she accepted a full-time position in the program. She still remains active in clinical practice as a volunteer at Matthew 25 Health/Dental Clinic--a clinic for the indigent in Fort Wayne.

As a tenured Full Professor, her responsibilities include teaching Preventive Dentistry, Nutrition, Oral Anatomy/Histology, Clinic Seminar, Preclinical and Senior Hygiene Seminar. Mary’s experience in clinical practice and as an instructor provided her the expertise to design a root planing instrument marketed by Nordent Manufacturing, Inc.

She has published several articles on topics applicable to practicing dental hygienists and book reviews in the Journal of Dental Hygiene, Contemporary Oral Hygiene, Journal of Practical Hygiene and RDH. In addition, she has written two book chapters on nutrition and ethics and jurisprudence--for the dental hygiene review text, Saunders Review of Dental Hygiene. Mary also edited a dental hygiene review book for Prentice Hall’s Complete Review of Dental Hygiene. She has co-authored Essentials of Dental Hygiene: Preclinical Skills and Essentials of Dental Hygiene: Clinical Skills with Lauri Wiechmann. She also co-authored a dental nutrition CD-ROM for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins entitled Nutrition and Dentistry.

Student Comments:

"Greate information, wonderfull presentation, great speaker. Good stories that
related perfectly to our subject. I really feel the info presented was relevant
and pertinent to our passing the boards."
Jill Van Velse
"Very humorous and well presented.."
Lisa Mueller
Marquette University
"I really enjoyed her way to describe things. She really Knew her stuff. Thank you for
a good overview. I loved her stories..."
Michell Ivory
Columbus State CC
"Very informative information that I learned 3 Years ago and couldn't remember."
Tory Ferstermann
Allegany College of MD
"She covered a lot but in a short period of time. Gave us everything we needed
to know! Thank you. Great sense of humor!"
Jamie Marsella
UNE
"...Super-Duper-Cooper!!!"
Patti Allen
IUSD

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