There has been much written and discussed about the decline of volunteerism in the world. The Fellows of the PFA are a testament to the fact that despite the decline, truly the best and brightest are still volunteering. As you know, volunteering adds valuable meaning to life. The PFA has programs and grants, but it is the volunteers who provide the strength of our programs. While the PFA is now the largest dental philanthropic organization in the world, we must admit that money alone does not make the difference. What makes the difference is our involvement!
The Foundation and the volunteers of the PFA work together to provide dental care for the poor and disadvantaged in various parts of the world. In this rapidly shrinking world, they are our neighbors in need. We must encourage our dental schools and Section Chairs to submit grant proposals for projects that aid in the delivery of dental care and education. We have the framework in place to help. Now is the time to act! We have a great profession and for us to be worthy, we must give back. “To whom much is given, much is expected.”
We need to not only be volunteers ourselves, but we must help our young dentists realize what a great profession we enjoy. If we expect them to be a positive influence in the dental community, we must help them understand the meaning of professionalism. The PFA has a mentor program working well in many Sections. In these programs, Fellows volunteer time and energy to help these soon-to-be-doctors. Dental students need someone with whom they can discuss their concerns, or just chat. They need a friend in dentistry ... someone to join for dinner, go to a sports event, go to your office and home, share your professional knowledge. All of this takes time. But money will not buy the quality of caring you can provide.
You do not have to travel to far-off places to help other people. There is usually a need right here at home. It does take time and effort, but you can, with the help of PFA, contribute to the health of your community, one patient at a time. It may not be a dramatic involvement, except to the person receiving your skill and care. We can profoundly influence the lives of many needy people. After all, the dental profession has not only the privilege but also the responsibility to help others.
Quoting from Elizabeth Kubler Ross: “People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out. But when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.”
Dr. Malcom David Campbell
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| For many of us, the introduction to Dr. George Hollenback was to use his instruments in dental school as freshmen, particularly the Hollenback Carver. We knew that there was more to that name than just some instruments. Dr. Hollenback’s entire life was devoted to metallurgical research and reporting his findings to the dental profession through more than 110 scientific papers. He was head of USC’s Fixed Prosthodontics Department, and he was concerned about every aspect of casting metals. The Academy honored his memory at our 26th Memorial Lecture in New Orleans in 1994 when essayist USC Professor James Vernetti (1999 PFA Gold Medal recipient) gave the presentation of Dr. Hollenback’s life to some 200 international guests. Dr. Vernetti did a great justice in his presentation. Born on a Coldwater, Kansas, farm in 1886, Dr. Hollenback was indeed a “self-made man”; he was taught at home by his mother before starting formal schooling. A toothache treated by an itinerant dentist got him thinking about dentistry. So in 1905, he applied to the Kansas City Dental College (now the University of Missouri at Kansas City). Two years later, he was licensed to practice in Kansas; but having contracted tuberculosis, he moved to Montana in 1909. For the next decade, he practice there before moving to Los Angeles, where he continued a private practice until 1955. While in Los Angeles, his services were sought by many Hollywood personalities such as Katherine Hepburn, Clark Gable, Howard Hughes, Olivia de Haviland, and William Powell. (Katherine Hepburn flew in for Dr. Hollenback’s 1973 funeral.) Howard Hughes was so impressed with Dr. Hollenback’s work in metals for dentistry that he put his engineers at the Hughes Aircraft Company at his disposal. And Hughes then financed him in establishing a research laboratory called the George Hollenback Research Association of Encino, California. Dr. Hollenback developed instruments, tested materials, and published articles about his work. Give thanks to his work for the instrument that does not break in a patient’s mouth. In 1967, at the age of 81, Dr. Hollenback donated his entire laboratory to the University of the Pacific in San Francisco, where it is today. But his generosity to UOP was not limited to donating his life’s work. He gave the school more than $400,000 in contributions, bought the 1400-skull collection of Dr. Spencer Atkinson ($85,000), and presented the University with an entire library of applied anatomy texts. |
Besides his fame as dentist and researcher, he was successful financially. He was a very generous man. And he loved automobiles. In the 1930s, Dr. Hollenback standardized the criteria for manipulating amalgam and influenced dental manufacturers to improve their product. His publications stopped the “palming of amalgam” method, which introduced mercury into the dentist’s finger joints. In his masters thesis for Northwestern University (1945) under Dr. Eugene Skinner, he resolved the coefficient of gold and gold alloy shrinkage. His work was accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Standards and other worldwide agencies. He developed the technique of vacuum mixing of dental stones and investments, proved the principle of hydroscopic expansion of investments, and the standard of instrumentation/carving of waxes, amalgams, and gold foils. He invented the “Harvey Sterilizer,” designed the pneumatic mallet for gold foil condensation, and tested dental instruments. Dr. Hollenback had served as Chairman of Fixed Prosthetics at USC from 1920 to 1923, and Professor of Dental Materials in 1949. He was visiting Professor at UOP and head of dental materials in 1962. He was Associate Professor at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry from 1957 to 1960 and then Professor of Restorative Dentistry from 1960 to 1966. In 1959, he was Assistant Professor of Operative Dentistry at Loyola University’s Chicago College of Dental Surgery and later was to become Associate Professor there in 1962. Dr. Hollenback was much honored by the profession. In 1963, he was presented the Wilmer Souder Award by the Dental Materials Group of the International Association for Dental Research. In 1964, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from UOP. He received Fellowships in OKU (1926), ACD (1930), ICD (1967), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1954). In 1931, he was Dentist of the Year for the University of Kansas and Alumnus of the Year in 1963 for the University of Missouri. Somewhere in this busy life he was President of the Montana State Dental Society. In 1975, the Academy of Operative Dentistry established the Hollenback Memorial Prize. George McDonald Hollenback was an extraordinarily gifted researcher and philanthropist. And he truly deserves the PFA recognition as a member of the International Dental Hall of Fame. |
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| Our web site has been updated to include some new features, important information, and links to other related sites. The Academy of General Dentistry recently put out an article entitled, “Prying Reality from Hype in New Technology” in which they noted that, among their membership, the use of computers has risen to 85% in 2000 from 51% in 1997 and 25% in 1995. They related that the dental community has been slow to embrace the new technology because of the initial investment to get started. As a practitioner myself for more than a quarter of a century, I have seen that my older staff are not familiar with the office computer and avoid it. With the younger dental assistants coming on that have been trained in computerese since grammar school, the transition has been rewarding and productive to the dental office. Under then President Shig Ryan Kishi, your Academy adopted his far-sighted vision into the future on the upswing of the technology. “In for a penny, in for a pound” is an old English saying, which means if you make the commitment, go all the way. And President Kishi went first class, establishing a “state of the art” Web site that has served us well in distributing information and saving money. The most important feature to the Academy budget has been the Online Fellowship Directory, which contains the most current listing of active and life members in your Section. In the past, the Academy had to plan funding such a directory every year, then every other year, then every three years, and finally every five years due to the rising cost. The printing and mailing costs were in the thousands of dollars. The six months it took from start to “in your hands” made it 15% out of date by then. And there always was the debate about taking advertisements and whether that meant product endorsement. Now the Directory is up to the minute at your disposal. Members were always inquiring about what the Academy does. Brochures were printed and handed out and lost. But now anyone can visit the Web site and get a history, browse through all the Awards that are presented along with a list of their recipients, discover the officers and trustees, and download PFA forms. All the back issues of Dental World can be found at this place. In visiting many non-U.S. countries, I have seen a great many members get their most recent copy of Dental World off the Internet before it reaches them by mail. In a sleepy border town in the Central American jungles, I walked into the modern dental office of Bertram and Ivan Moldauer, who punched up Dental World on their computer even before the magazine found its way to them. The history of the Foundation, with all its projects and grant programs, is there. No need to write anyone and wait for a reply. There it all exists for your 24/7 demand. A calendar of events is kept up-to-date for immediate referral. If your Section wishes to post their dates there, you are welcome. Download the Meeting Form, fill it out, and e-mail it back for posting. Then the entire world can attend your function. |
No more snail mail delays waiting to hear back from the Central Office in the deserts of Nevada. Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, every day of the year, you can e-mail our Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal or Judy at RKozal@aol.com and get a reply overnight (if they are not attending a PFA function elsewhere). Our publications are listed, and the books The Life and Times of Pierre Fauchard and Dental Legacy can be purchased right there. A PFA Online Catalogue of Academy items can be purchased with the PFA logos on them. And you can pay for them by using your PFA credit card, an application for which is there as well, supplied by MBNA. Every time you use that card, PFA receives a small stipend. The more you put all your purchases on the PFA card, the more you help support your Academy. The International Online Dental Hall of Fame has a list of our recipients and the location sites of the main venue in Paris and the U.S. venue in Baltimore. The PFA Museum at the Community College of Southern Nevada is featured, with displays of dental artifacts. Your old artifacts are welcomed by curator Richard Kozal.
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13th European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry, Bordeaux, France-- 25th European Prosthodontic Conference, Prague, Czech Republic 89th FDI World Congress, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia PFA Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, Missouri PFA Academy/Foundation Annual Meetings, Kansas City, Missouri ADA 142rd Annual Meeting, Kansa City, Missouri 15th Congress of the IADR, Blantyre, Malawi |
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ADA 143rd Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana FDI 90th Annual World Congress, Vienna, Austria |
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ADA 144rd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA FDI 91st Annual Meeting, Sydney, Australia |
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| (The following is a brief summary of the October 2000 Foundation Board Meeting Minutes.) There were a few fine-tuning changes reported out of the Chicago Foundation Board Meeting that you may need to be aware of. Section grant applications for Section projects that have “fast track” approval have the added stipulations that such projects “are conducted by a significant number of Fellows” and that such projects are “in the control” of the applying Academy Section. Another change is that the Humanitarian Award grant permits recipients to use the additional $5000 “in any manner that they choose that aids their program.” A $10,000 budget line item was provided for which permits the Board to act on immediate funding of special projects that come before it which have missed the earlier deadline. In such cases, time constraints demand attention immediately as the project will not be available for next year’s consideration under the Foundation deadlines. But funding requires unanimous consent by the Foundation Board. |
When a vacancy occurs on the Foundation Board, the top name on that list will be appointed. So an Academy President who has sat on the Foundation Board for two years as Trustee may find himself off the Board as an immediate past President and on a waiting list. Other options were discussed and debated, but this accommodation was arrived at for the time being. A larger Foundation Board might prove to be unwieldy and would certainly be more expensive in meeting costs. The Board painstakingly reviewed 32 grants that passed the established guidelines. The approved grants were The Thousand Smiles Foundation (Dr. James Vernetti); Rhode Island Section’s Smokeless Tobacco (Dr. M. Christine Benoit); Roybal-Allard Children’s Dental Center of Los Angeles; Bridge the Gap (Trustee Robert Friedman); Dentists on Wheels (National Board of French Dental Surgeons); Union Gospel Mission Dental Clinic (St. Paul District Dental Society); St. Martin de Porres Dental Center of Topeka, Kansas; Kindness in Action Service Society of Alberta, Canada, to provide dental services in Honduras; the University of Maryland, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery; Dental Hall of Fame in Canada (Trustee Kevin Roach); Kidlink in North Carolina; Maryland Foundation of Dentistry for the Handicapped; Changing Lives of Utah, to provide for services in rural Mexico; Minneapolis District Dental Society, to provide dental care for the homeless; Indigent Dental Care Clinic (Tennessee Section); UCLA’s Venice Dental Center; Northern Nevada Dental Health Program (Northern Nevada Dental Society); Good Shepherd Mission Clinic (University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry); an Oral Health Curriculum for Children (Texas A & M University Health Sciences Center Research Foundation); and the New Orleans Musician’s Clinic (LSU) for a total amount of $134,548 in grants. The Academy applied for $40,000 in grants to fund an international continuing education course, the PFA Web site, the Hall of Fame, and the Mentorship Program. The Foundation agreed to continue holding one meeting per year. Their next Board Meeting will be in Kansas City, 13-14 October 2001. |
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| Brazil Chair Professor Lucy Dalva Lopes presented the Foundation Scholarship Award to Dulce Catarnio de Souza of Curso Odontologio Guerillios University with Dean Nello Francisco Romani and PFA Section Secretary/Treasurer Renato Geromel last December during their 10th Anniversary PFA Awards Dinner.  -R, Dean Nello Francisco Romani, recipient Dulce Catarnio de Souza, Chair Lucy Dalva Lopes, France French Dental Bus The French Dental Bus “Dentists on Wheels” is a not for profit organization sponsored by the French Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgiens Dentistes. The mobile dental clinic serves the poor Paris suburbs throughout the year and is staffed by volunteer dentists. PFA International Trustee Pierre Marois presented the $10,000 Foundation check to l’Ordre President Andrè Robert at a ceremony this January with the entire Board of Trustees present.  L-R, Drs. Couzinou,Bouteille, Cherpion, PFA Trustee Pierre Marois, l’Ordre President Andrè Robert, Mahe, Regard  L-R, The French Dental Bus with Drs. Ray Klein, Andrè Robert, Fred Halik, and Pierre Marois outside l’Ordre headquarters last June |
Last November, our International Trustee Pierre Marois assisted France Section Chairman Hubert Ouvrard along with dental school Deans Marie-Laure Boy-Lefevre from the University of Paris 7 and Pierre Lafforgue of University of Lille to present University of Lille dental student Guillaume Honore our Foundation Scholarship Award. Fellows and Professors Patrick Missika and Philippe Monsenego attended to laud our scholarship winner. Guillaume Honore receiving congratulations from Dean Pierre Lafforgue with Trustee Pierre Marois, Chair Hubert Ouvrard, and Dean Marie-Laure Boy-Lefevre attending United Kingdom Professor Monty Duggal of the University of Leeds Dental Institute presented the Foundation Scholarship Awards to dental students Vanessa Lee and Mark Tullet. Both students will be taking their elective research projects in Chitrakoot, India, as part of a wider community-based program sponsored by the Leeds Dental Institute and SEWA International, a United Kingdom charity. This will give them the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of dentistry in a developing country.  Scholarship recipients Mark Tullet and Vanesaa Lee (center) receive awards
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United States Connecticut Bridging the Gap, a PFA Section-sponsored, Foundation-funded project, was initiated by 35 members of the Fairfield County PFA. These dentists donate their services, along with a dental lab that reduces its fees, to treat individuals with psychiatric disabilities with dentures and prostheses to “bridge the gap to a better life.” The Bridge House of Bridgeport is a nonclinical setting, serving about 300 people a year who are making the transition from institutional care to independent living. They represent about 5% of the population who have the more severe, persistent forms of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolarism. In addition to their attempts to overcome medical handicaps, the medication they take affects their teeth and gums, relates Bridge House Executive Director Victoria Furey. They tend to lose their teeth. Because they have disabilities, they are often poor and cannot afford expensive dental work. “Their access to professional care is appallingly limited,” she goes on. “The loss of their teeth makes them tremendously self-conscious, particularly when they go for a job interview.” In steps International Trustee Robert Friedman, who secured Foundation funding for the New Haven Special Olympics games to make some 2500 mouth guards for the athletes several years ago. Dr. Friedman noted that bad smiles make for introverted personalities. But give them back their smiles and their personalities blossom. People notice a smile first. So Dr. Friedman conceived of a program to treat these patients to return their smiles to them by enlisting the PFA Fellows and a local dental lab to do dentures and prostheses for these individuals. He and Fellow Pablo Cuevas applied for a Foundation grant to fund the project and were additionally awarded the Foundation’s Humanitarian Award for another $5000. Fellow Mary Hamill of Norwalk states that she enjoys treating appreciative people who are trying to turn their lives around. “And if you give them a boost, I cannot think of anything nicer,” she notes. This improves their self-esteem to get that job. Fellow Brian Duchan of Westport added that it gives him back his smile to help these people. Director Victoria Furey noted that you cannot put a price tag on giving a smile back. “Dr. Friedman is an angel.” And so says the Fairfield Citizen of January 19th. The Bridging the Gap project was also reported in the Connecticut State Dental Association’s The Communicator newsletter for February. Indiana Chairman Ray Maddox, IU Assistant Professor, presented the Foundation Scholarship Award to University of Indiana senior dental student Yazdan Alami last January in Dean Lawrence Goldblatt’s Office with Student Affairs Associate Dean Margot Van Dis. The IUSD Alumni Bulletin announced the presentation.  L-R, Associate Dean Margot Van Dis, Chair Ray Maddox, recipient Yazdan Alami, and Dean Lawrence Goldblatt Massachusetts In the Winter issue of Tufts Dental magazine, PFA is listed under “Friends of the J. Murray Gavel Center” for gift giving along with Fellow Norm Becker. The Center is associated with the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. The PFA Foundation is also listed in the magazine under its own title “Pierre Fauchard Scholarship/Foundations.” |
Ohio Dean Jerold Goldberg of Case Western Reserve School of Dentistry presented the Foundation Scholarship to dental student Nhu Quynh Tran.  L-R, Award recipient Nhu Quynh Tran with Dean Jerold Goldberg Minnesota In the January issue of the Minneapolis District Dental Society newsletter Brush-Up, the Foundation grant to the Sharing and Caring Hands Dental Clinic in Minneapolis was reported. This shelter provides a host of services to some 20,000 people each month and is run entirely on private donations. The Minneapolis District Dental Society provides the dental services there and will be using the grant to purchase a Cavitron unit and surgical handpieces. Nevada The Nevada Dental Journal, Winter issue, highlighted the Foundation in a page-long article for their grant to the Northern Nevada Dental Health Program, which promotes dental access and treatment for children in rural northern Nevada. The NNDHP partnered with the United Way to form the Pediatric Dental Care Program (PDCP) to provide pro bono dental treatment to eligible children 16 years of age and younger. So far, the group has generated $1.2 million in services over the last 10 years. Texas Director of Student Affairs Moira Allen of the Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas calls our attention to the Dallas Morning News article of 23 January, which reports that dental school senior Curt Cain received the Foundation scholarship.  Scholarship recipient Curt Cain receiving award from Dean James Cole Wisconsin Chairman Glenn Maihofer presented the Foundation Scholarship Award to Marquette University senior dental student Jorge Parajon in Dean William Lobb’s office.  L-R, Chair Glenn Maihofer, recipient Jorge Parajon, and Dean William Lobb |
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| The History of the PFA Foundation by President Robert Shira |
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| In 1985, the Board of Trustees of the PFA Academy authorized the establishment of a Foundation that would support the programs of the Academy and develop funds to support a Grant/Project Program that would benefit the dental profession. These funds were to come from donations of the PFA members, bequests, planned giving, memorials, and honor contributions as well as grants from other professional and private sources. Dr. Clifford Loader, a past PFA President, with legal assistance, developed the Constitution and ByLaws for the Foundation, which was incorporated under the laws of the State of California. This was accomplished on 23 May 1986. These legal documents established that the Foundation would be a separate corporation governed by a Board of Directors consisting of past PFA Presidents who were willing and able to serve. The ByLaws were subsequently revised to permit the Academy President and the Academy President-elect to serve as Foundation Trustees. The revision also provided that the Foundation Board of Trustees be no larger than 14 members, including the Academy President and Academy President-elect. Later, an Executive Director was authorized and a committee structure was established, which consisted of an Executive Committee, the Budget and Finance Committee, the Grants Committee, and the Constitution and ByLaws Committee. A detailed protocol for the submission of grants and projects was detailed to insure a complete evaluation of each request. This process provided for the development of recommendations for approval, deferment, or rejection of submitted requests for presentation to the Foundation Trustees. The full Board of Trustees would make the final decision. The goals and guidelines for the Grants/Projects Programs were drawn up to cover the type of grant requests and project applications that the Foundation would consider for funding. An information brochure covering this information was developed for distribution to individuals and organizations seeking funding. Publicity in many forms, |