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Dental World®
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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER, 2001
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PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY
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President’s Message |
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While serving as your President this year, I have been privileged to attend several international and domestic Pierre Fauchard Academy meetings. These visitations have reinforced my opinion that we do have true dental leaders in our Academy and capable people in our profession. This year has also reinforced the concept that we Fellows are indeed one. If we really love our profession, we must share with our fellow members, be with them, and experience with them. The real purpose of health professionals is to touch the lives of people in need.
Our Board of Trustees has reached several goals this year due to diligent efforts on the part of many people. I am particularly pleased with the increased efficiency in the Central Office in processing the dues. The dues are now recorded and deposited the day the check is received. |
These are some of the highlights of the activities with which I am particularly pleased. The Board of Trustees and Officers have proved again that they accept the responsibility and put in many productive hours of work for the benefit of PFA |
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Table of Contents- September/October 2001
Dentistry & Humane Genome
Doc Holliday, 150 Years Old
Meeting Schedule
Tour- France continued
Foundation News
Tour- Belgium/Luxembourg
FDI Congress
European Union
Section News
CALENDAR
Section News Continued
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The European Tour |
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During our Interim Board Meeting in Atlanta this year, an International Trustee outside the United States expressed the comment that some Fellows abroad look on the Academy as an American experience that they pay dues toward.
This year’s Academy President David Campbell has taken to heart those comments to reach out all over the Academy’s global family to touch our Fellows in Mexico, in Chile, in Italy, in Spain, in France, in Belgium, in Great Britain. The scheduled visit to settle a PFA situation in the Philippines had to be postponed due to political turmoil in that country. And yet to come, President Campbell will not only represent us at the FDI Congress in Malaysia, but he will meet with our Asian Section Chairs there in Kuala Lumpur. Our International family is being greeted directly in their home territories by our President, who seeks to know their concerns first-hand and how the Academy can be of service to them, to their communities, and to our profession. |
Italy
Dr. and Mrs. Campbell, on their own vacation this year, went to Italy and made time in their schedule to meet with our Italian PFA Section Chair Dr. Guido Bracchetti of Milan. Dr. Bracchetti responded by letter after the President’s visit, “Our conversation at dinner helped me a lot, and through your experience I could find many interesting ideas and new approaches to solve some of the problems I encountered as a Section Chair.” He went on to request help to apply for a Foundation grant for their Section with the Italian Academy of Prosthetic Dentistry (AIOP). |
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Spain
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Also during his vacation in Italy, President Campbell flew to Spain to help handle some questions that the Spanish delegation brought to him at the Paris FDI Meeting last Fall. There, the President met with Spain’s Section Chair Dr. Javier Garro Barrio and assisted in their formal induction of 21 new Fellows at the Torremangana Hotel in Cuenca, Spain. The investment ceremony was held for new Fellows Drs. Luis Caceres, Miguel Angel Calvo, Jose M de la Fuente, Raul Diez, Lino Esteve, Pedro Fernandez-Palacios, Juan Luis Ferrer, Jose Manuel Gandara, Maria Jose Garcia-Pola, Gregorio Gonzalo, Guillermo Machuca, Juan Martinez-Minana, Salvador Mora, Jose Maria Morales, Alejandro Padros, Jose Maria Ponce de Leon, Rafael Segura, Victor Manuel Salagaray, Mariano Sanchez-Biarge, Mariano Toro, and Fernando Antonio Torrella. Professor Garro closed the event with this admonishment, “Be competent in our profession, have respect for people, provide service to our patients, maintain a theoretical capacity, be constant in developing your knowledge, and, beyond any other aspect, be ethical.” President Campbell and Janet then flew back to Italy to resume their vacation. The Cuenca newspaper, in the Society column, printed several pictures and a half page of copy covering this PFA event. In his proactive role as President, Dr. Malcolm David Campbell has been on the move hoping to demonstrate that our Academy is an international one, that the non-U.S. Sections are an integral part of that internationality, and that our Academy is more than an address in Nevada.  Chair Javier Garro Barrio, President Campbell, and Secretary Forner |
In different cultures around the world, problems have come up to face our Section leaders. These are too complicated to relate on a case-by-case basis in our Dental World, but the Officers and the Academy staff work on them daily. President Campbell’s personal contact in this year’s outreach program has eased and corrected many of them. The Section Chairs are often amazed at the individual attention, which only tightens the bonds the Academy has tried to produce around the world. This is not to mention the requests we have received from various countries globally expressing interest in forming an Academy Section in their countries. All this resulted from our President’s contacts made at FDI last Fall. “It is not enough to say we are international, unless we prove it. We must demonstrate that the Academy is not just concerned with the two-thirds membership in the United States, but that we are committed to being involved in world dentistry. As our membership grows, as we expand, we are a presence in global dentistry. FDI recognizes this now. And more dental societies in various countries are starting to as well. Our Foundation has done that for us. “That is why our international officers need to be actively represented at FDI. Where else can we contact the world’s dental organizations and their leaders? We need to be there for our international Fellows at FDI, in their own countries, and attending regional conferences hosting a luncheon or cocktail party to bring us together. With the world’s economic situation we cannot expect them all to come to us. But we can send our officers to them. “We can no longer sit back and pontificate from our one or two Board Meetings a year. If we do not set the example of getting into the trenches with our international Fellows, then any criticism of being just an American experience is valid. “I have tried this year to dispel that criticism and expand our horizons. But this is only a beginning and must be built on each year to achieve the success our Academy deserves. We either take our place among the world’s leading dental organizations or forfeit it to another. This is a cross roads in our Academy’s history. Right now the field is wide open for us to establish the Pierre Fauchard Academy as the world’s leading premier dental honor organization. The only thing that can hold us back is our desire to do so.” |
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 Dr. Jacques Monnot, Elmer Best Award In 1979, he became the French Dental Union’s Representative to the Dental Liaison Committee for the European Union, a post he still holds today. He became President of that European Union Committee in 1997. |
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Dr. Jacques Monnot
FDI President Born 22 March 1933 in Belfort, France, during the Depression, then into the crucible of World War II, Jacques Monnot struggled through his times of the war, its aftermath, the rebuilding, the glory years of de Gaulle into the modern era to achieve the ultimate fame in world dentistry — President of the Federation Dentaire Internationale. But not just a President of FDI, he became the Centennial President, celebrating the 100 years of the World Dental Congress in the very city of Paris that gave birth to FDI by fellow countryman Dr. Charles Godon (1854-1923). Dr. Monnot entered the dental profession with his graduation from the Dental School of Nancy (France) in 1960. He started a dental practice in 1962 in Bart, France, where he continued to 1998—36 years! During this time, Dr. Monnot earned his Certificate of Higher Studies in General Biology at Besancon, France, in 1967. He married and began to raise his three children. In 1978, Dr. Monnot burst on the organized dental scene. He became President of the French Dental Union (CNSD), a position he held for 15 years. At the same time, he served as Board Member for the French Dental Association (ADF), which he continues to this day. He was selected in 1978 to be ADF’s Representative to FDI—a role he continued to serve until his election as FDI President on 28 October 1999. In 1978, he also served as a Member of the Advisory Committee for Dental Education in the European Union. |
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France
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With this in mind, President Campbell led a delegation of officers and staff to Paris, to our International Hall of Fame at the Headquarters of Le Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgiens-Dentistes.  Dr. Christian Ragu in the entranceway of his office On 20 June, International Trustee Pierre Marois and his wife Seba hosted an evening staff meeting at their home to coordinate the many dental events to be held in Paris. Attending were PFA Officers President David Campbell, Secretary/Treasurer Richard Kozal, Editor James Brophy, Hall of Fame Chairman Ray Klein (past PFA President), our traveling CE educator Dr. Ray Rawson (Nevada State Senator), French Section Chair Hubert Ouvrard, and German Section Chair Frank Braun. We then toured a modern Paris dental office of Dr. Christian Ragu. French Dental Ceremonies The next day we met back at Dr. Marois’ place to travel to Le Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgiens-Dentistes Headquarters where our International Wall of Fame was first established in the home city of Pierre Fauchard.  FDI President Jacques Monnot being greeted by Fellows upon arriving. Headquarters entrance with PFA Hall of Fame plaque on left and the Foundation sponsored mobile dental clinic bus on right In their meeting hall, just off the entrance foyer, members and guests had already filled the chairs with some standing along the walls. Many dignitaries were present including past Elmer Best Awardee Professor Robert Weill (1998) and Dr. Georges LeBreton (1998 Honorary Fellowship) and Charles Berenholc (2000 Honorary Fellowship).  Trustee Pierre Marois commences ceremonies |
International Trustee Pierre Marois introduced French PFA Section Chair Hubert Ouvrard who gave greetings.
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Dr. Claude Severin L’Academie Nationale de Chirurgie Dentaire President |
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In Paris, there is a winged angel atop a high pillar near the location of the Bastille that honors the month of July. This monument, in its own way, honors Bastille Day on July 14, and the many student revolutions that burst into flames during the heat of a Paris Summer. So also 8 July 1942, in the heat of World War II, delivered Claude Severin into Vire, France.
Claude earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1964 at Caen’s Teachers Institute, his postgraduate diploma in Physics in 1965, his PhD in science from Reims University in 1973, his DDS from Reims in 1980, and his PhD in dentistry from Reims in 1986—over a quarter of a century in upper level studies! Dr. Severin served as assistant Professor at the Reims University School of Science from 1964-1967. From 1967-1982, he was Lecturer in physics at Reims University. In 1977, he accepted a position on the faculty of the Reims University Dental School and rose to Professor in 1985—a position he still holds today. Starting in the Electron Microscopy laboratory at Reims, he presented papers on “Super conducting magnetic lenses in high voltage electron microscopy” and “Ironless super-conducting magnetic lenses.” From there he went to Paris in 1966 to join Professor Laberrigue at the College de France to work on his PhD. In 1976, when he formed an odontology research lab, Dr. Severin developed papers on composite materials, lasers in dentistry, and studies of the argon laser and the carbonic gas laser. He is author of more than 100 scientific papers and has given over 200 original lectures. As a foremost authority in laser use, Professor Severin will serve on the Scientific Council in 2002 in Yokohama, Japan. He was Editor-in-Chief in 1990 for Lasers in Dentistry. From 1990-1995, he served as co-publisher of the Journal de Biomateriaux Dentaires. In 1985, he became President of the Continuing Education Office for French Dental Surgeons (ONFOC), where he served until 1991. |
 Dr. Claude Severin, Member of Honor He was General Secretary of the College Francais des Biomateriaux Dentaires from 1989-1992 and President of the College Francais de Biologie Buccal from 1991-1992. |
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France continued
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Wall of Fame Dr. Marois then introduced Hall of Fame Chairman Ray Klein. Dr. Klein, past PFA President, gave the history of the International Hall of Fame and the life presentations for Drs. Robert B. Shira and George Hollenback. He and President Campbell then unveiled the Wall to reveal the plaques of those newly installed.All the presentations were translated for the 33-page program and distributed in both French and English to the guests. Videotapist Shirley Brophy made a video record of the proceedings, which resides in the PFA archives at our Nevada Museum and Central Office.  Professor Claude Severin receiving Member of Honor plaque |
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Table of Contents- September/October 2001
Dentistry & Humane Genome
Doc Holliday, 150 Years Old
Meeting Schedule
Tour- France continued
Foundation News
Tour- Belgium/Luxembourg
FDI Congress
European Union
Section News
CALENDAR
Section News Continued
go to Page 1 — Page 2 — Page3