Dental World®		MARCH / APRIL, 2001
	PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY
	President’s Message

	To quote from Rainer Maria Rilke, “And now let us welcome the year full of things that have never been.” To paraphrase this, let us welcome the new century, full of things that have never been. Our new graduates have problems concerning how to practice dentistry. They have money problems. Many have large debts and school loans to pay. They have concerns about practice. Do they work for someone? And I do mean work, as in “Do as you are told,” even if you do not agree with the diagnosis or treatment plan. This is a continuation of school where students take information, take techniques, and take what is available. After graduation, many new dentists take what the practice owner gives them. They take what the insurance company gives them. It all adds up to teaching the new dentists to be takers! Let us ask them to give something back to the community which they are a part. Help them to learn the joy that comes from giving to others. Help them, through service to others and service to the community, learn the attitude that will make them absolutely wonderful practitioners. They will learn what is important in life ... giving to others, not whether your car costs more than someone else’s, or your house is better than anyone else’s. That is the kind of value and virtue we need to put in the hearts of our new dentists. Let the new dentist be part of the solution! Your Academy has recognized the “taker” problem. For many years we have been active in offering help. The Academy presents, with no strings attached, one senior in each of our 54 dental schools and 28 international schools a check for $1,500. This year we gave $121,500 to dental students around the world. We, PFA members, have successfully done what other organizations have either talked about, or tried to do in a limited way. We began the Mentoring Program many years ago. We encourage our Section Chairs to work with the dental schools and to arrange for mentors and students to meet with the intent that students will have a friend in dentistry. This experienced friend becomes a person in whom the student can confide, a friend who maintains an ethical practice, and a person with whom they can talk about problems in dentistry in an ethical way. Our Foundation is responsible for many programs. We have programs all over the world providing care for the poorest of the poor in the Dominican Republic and in Brazil. We provide a mobile dental clinic in Paris, the availability of cleft palate surgery in Vietnam, and a multimedia center in Costa Rica to name a few. The Academy is spreading the meaning of what it means to be a dental professional serving the world. The Academy has become a major figure in world dentistry.		I will have the honor of representing our Academy at the FDI Congress, which is the World Dental Parliament. The ADA, ADI, and the PFA are the only U.S. organizational representatives. Our Academy provides leadership. In fact, last year every candidate for the office of ADA President-Elect was a PFA Fellow. We are an organization with a membership of 7,700 Fellows from 65 countries. I am proud to say that our PFA Foundation is now the world’s largest international dental philanthropic organization. Our Foundation uses your contributions to help serve people. Our overhead is low, with only one paid employee—a part-time Executive Director. The Board of Trustees is made up of volunteers who are the past Presidents of the Academy. The Dental Hall of Fame in Paris, with branches in Baltimore and in Toronto, was created to honor the great leaders of dentistry. By honoring our past, we bring meaning and awareness of our profession to the world. Many in our profession have little knowledge concerning the great contributions to patient health provided by these outstanding leaders. I thank you all for what you have done. To be a PFA Fellow makes one, in addition to being a fine dentist, a giver, not a taker. By giving and supporting the Academy, you should be proud of the help you have provided worldwide. In a five-year period we have awarded grants in excess of $1.5 million. In the near future, we expect to present a unique Continuing Education course. This is a concept that I believe has never been experienced before. We hope to be able to present this course to our Fellows at no charge! I am hopeful that the Foundation will be able to expand our programs, increase the funds for the student scholarships and increase the number of students who receive these scholarships. I want to thank you all for your help and support. We could never have succeeded without the caliber of people you make available with your membership. Many of you who have contributed so much would have helped people anyway, but under PFA we magnify your ability to bring greater service to the world. In many organizations today the emphasis is on, “What do I get out of it?” In PFA, I am happy to say that the great majority asks, “What can I do to help?” We are givers. I thank you for that. Malcolm David Campbell, DDS President

	Belgium II
	A rainy Thanksgiving morning did not dissuade the entourage from accompanying Marite Dahan through the churches of Ghent (Gent) and Brugge northwest of Brussels. The highlight of our tour was to actually see the famous paintings Het Lamb (Mystical Lamb), icons painted by the great Flemish masters the van Eyck brothers (1432) in St. Bavo’s Cathedral in Gent. For the U.S. Fellows, this was the city where our Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812 with Britain, was drawn up and signed. We then hurried back to Bruxelles (Brussels) to prepare for the Belgium/Luxembourg Section Installation Ceremony and Awards Dinner. Professor Dahan had again outdone himself in arranging the ceremonies to be held at La Maison du Cygne (the Restaurant of the Swan) on the Grand Plaza of old Brussels. The several hundred-year-old restaurant greeted dignitaries from all over Europe, including our own New Hampshire Chair David Stahl and his wife, Bonnie. The room was covered with original paintings from Flemish master Brueghel. Professor de Boever receiving plaque from President Campbell Professor Dr. de Boever from the University of Ghent presented a brief course on TMJ Dysfunction. This followed Professor Dahan’s all-day PFA scientific seminar at the Park Hotel on Dysfunctional Occlusion. After dinner, President Campbell gave a few remarks thanking Chairman Jose Dahan and Marite for their hospitality. “In a world of takers, we bring the joy of helping people. We, professionals, understand the value of service to our communities on all levels.” Dr. Dahan then presented Professor de Boever to President Campbell for bestowment of PFA International Honorary Fellowship. Our President went on to stress how our many PFA Sections worldwide bring together fellow professionals to continue Pierre Fauchard’s life work in sharing knowledge as Professors Dahan and de Bouver did today. But the Academy is more than that. We recognize and honor those in our profession who have gone beyond this in dedicating their lives to dentistry.		And so we honor Drs. Raymonde Duque and de Bouver for their outstanding works here in Belgium. But the Academy is more than that. We establish Fellowship among the professionals with events, such as this dinner, to promote networking, to make contacts, and most importantly, to establish friendships and social exchanges. “As President, I cannot feel the warmth of your hand in a letter. I cannot share a conversation with you in a Dental World column. But being here with you this evening makes the world smaller for us all. The magic of this moment will last in our memories. And that is what PFA is all about.” Chairman Jose Dahan and President Campbell with new Fellows Chair Jose Dahan and President David Campbell inducted four new Fellows into the Academy. The highlight of the ceremony was the singing of the Belgium Section Induction Song by the new Fellows. L-R, Fellow Frederic Bonnard holds his laugh while new Fellows sing their induction song Midnight came again too soon. But President David and Janet agreed that it had been an excellent way to celebrate our Thanksgiving.

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	Belgium III
	Belgium III A sunny Friday shone on International President Campbell and Editor Brophy tramping through the mud at Waterloo Battlefield as they tried to understand the crucible that was 1815 Europe, which brought almost a half million men to these farm fields that June of long ago. Tens of thousands were never to leave as old Europe gave birth to a new continent, which included Belgium a dozen years later. As we envisioned the carnage that was visited on this place in the heat of clashing armies, we contrasted it with our mission of bringing healing to the dental world. Editor Brophy and Marite Dahan overlooking Waterloo Battlefield We asked Marite Dahan, our guide, why this great battlefield was not marked with more monuments and memorials. She replied, “If we did that for every battlefield in Europe, we would have no land left to live on!” We, healers by nature, givers in our dental profession, as we trod the mud of Waterloo, came to understand that our PFA role in world history becomes more important as the Academy provides an alternative to covering Europe, and the planet, with battlefields. President Campbell pondered that the Academy and the Foundation are bringing dental assistance to meet the needs of a shrinking world. We honor those who serve the health of the public. We bring world Fellowship to practicing dentists, researchers, teachers, and the profession’s leaders to encourage their efforts. This reaching out to other cultures to help them, regardless of past conflicts, can also affect a change in attitudes toward one another. Our international officers can reinforce that message of healing and peace in visiting our global Fellows like no other international organization does.		Touching each other, one person at a time, has a ripple effect wherever we go. We need to do more touching, to bring more Fellowship, and to tame an angry world with our gentleness of healing. The night before President Campbell had talked about the joy of service to our communities. For the PFA, the entire world is our community. Editor Brophy responded with a quote from Daniel Burnham, the architect of the Chicago waterfront, “Make no small plans.” Friday evening’s dinner was at the original Leon’s of Belgium, in a section of the city that was really hopping. President Campbell, Chair Dahan, and Editor Brophy spent the evening in discussion about the Foundation’s grants. Dr. Dahan’s Section has developed a WEPE (West-East Professional Exchange program) in which they would sponsor an exchange of dentists between western and eastern Europe. Besides cementing relations across the former Iron Curtain, Dr. Dahan noted that it would elevate the level of dental practice in the former Eastern Bloc countries that have been kept in a technological darkness for decades. L-R, Janet and David Campbell with Jose and Marite Dahan saying good-bye at Leon’s This intercountry mentorship, one dentist at a time, takes the PFA role to a higher state. This fulfills the PFA mission in sharing knowledge as did our namesake. This is the ripple effect that changes the world so there might be no more Waterloos or Iron Curtains. This is the potential PFA has to help the world. And our leaders are making no small plans.

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	PARIS
	Sunday morning, our entourage trained to the City of Lights to prepare for the FDI World Congress. European Trustee for Region I, Pierre Marois, and his lovely wife, Seba, received us in their home within the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Dr. & Mrs. Marois hosted a huge cocktail party to bring together PFA and the ADA attending the Congress. French Chair Hubert Ouvrard, Fellow Juan Serrano, and Iowa Fellow (and FDI officer) Kathryn Kell mixed with all the top ADA Officers. L-R, President Campbell, French Chair Hubert Ouvrard, Europe Trustee and host Pierre Marois, and Christian Ragu After the party, Dr. Marois gave us a tour of a modern French dental office run by Drs. Christian and Pierre Ragu. Then it was off to dinner on the Champs Élysées at the famous Fouquet’s Barrière where our Trustee and his wife hosted some 60 guests to welcome ADA President Robert Anderton and PFA President David Campbell as guests of honor, along with many past ADA Presidents and current officers.		L-R, ADA officers Jack Harris, President Robert Anderton, PFA Trustee Pierre Marois, and past ADA President Tim Rose touring French dental office L-R, ADA President Robert Anderton, Janet and David Campbell, hosts Seba and Pierre Marois, Jack Harris at Fouquet’s dinner Sitting at the head table with our host, President Campbell made many invaluable contacts with the ADA. The stellar evening’s festivities ended too soon as we left the world’s most grande boulevard to head around the Arc de Triomphe to our hotel by the Palais des Congrès where the FDI Meetings were to start the next day.

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	Table of Contents - MARCH / APRIL, 2001
	Presidents Message		FDI
	First Tour, Belgium I, Belgium II		Japan Dental Association Friday-Sunday
	Belgium III		Central Office Reports
	PARIS		Foundation News
	FDI World Congress		CALENDAR
	General Assembly A		Section News
	ADA Reception		Section News continued
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