PFA Dental World Newsletter — January/February • 2004

	Dental World^®PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY President’s Message: To Teach Is to Learn Twice
	Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn, or as one of my professors, Dr. David Kenny, would remark when introducing a new procedure, “See one, do one, teach one.” Our Academy is named for the person many regard as the first dental professor, Pierre Fauchard, who is commonly described as the Father of Modern Dentistry. His work, Le Chirurgien Dentiste au Traite des Dents, was published in 1728. It became the first widely accepted, scientifically oriented book on dentistry. The two volumes are credited with raising dentistry to the status of a profession: dental anatomy and anomalies of tooth form, an understanding of the possibility of correcting orthodontic malformation, treatment of carious lesions, prosthetic replacements, treatment of periodontal disease, and the benefits of removing calculus and debris from the teeth. Fauchard included numerous case histories in his textbook and described the treatment for a variety of oral ills including abscesses, cysts, and tumors. He advocated the retention of deciduous teeth until their normal loss with the eruption of the permanent teeth even as he sought to explain the reasons for the loss of root structure in the primary dentition. Two hundred seventy-six years after the publication of Fauchard’s work, the dental profession is well-established and well-respected everywhere in our modern world; however, the foundation for its success—a viable system of dental education—is being eroded. Everyone is familiar with contemporary articles in dental publications describing “a faulty catastrophe” and asking, “Where have all the educators gone?” The Journal of Dental Education, September 2002, is an example with an excellent article on “meeting the demand for dental school faculty: trends, challenges, and responses.” It states: ADEA’s 2001-2002 survey of vacant budgeted faculty positions reports the fifty-four dental schools responding to the survey reported 344 vacant budgeted positions, a decrease of four percent from 2000 to 2001. Seventy-nine percent of these vacancies are for full-time positions. Approximately one out of four dental schools have ten or more vacancies. Of just over 1,000 faculty separations during 2001-2002, fifty-three percent were reported to be individuals leaving to enter private practice.		Some of our Canadian academics are lured south of the border for salaries paid in U.S. dollars and generous endowments of research fund at some American universities, but in a similar fashion, Canadian faculties have imported deans from Australia and South Africa. Data from my home country suggests that one in six funded full-time dental faculty positions is vacant. Why? Lets get to the bottom line here—offering a salary competitive with that of private practice is the cardinal factor in recruiting new faculty. Our academic confreres make innumerable personal sacrifices—something few of us are willing to do. Pierre Fauchard, as our first professor, laid the foundation for dentistry’s growth and success. However, as Dr. Burton Conrad, a fellow past president of the Canadian Dental Association says, “No professors, no profession.” This is our most important current challenge. What can we as PFA Fellows do to alleviate the problem? Well, we could offer our services to demonstrate at the school, increase our financial contributions to our faculty as loyal alumni, or perhaps as active members of our dental alumni association, we could investigate methods to compensate professors in other ways. Comprehensive insurance packages (health, travel, life, malpractice, liability, etc.), retirement saving contributions, free tuition for children, and other benefits might help offset the financial reasons for migrating to private practice. As PFA President, I challenge all Fellows to do their part to help alleviate this very alarming situation. At the same time, I salute Professors Bentley, Boyd, Carlsson, Dugoni, Gallen, Levit, McAlpine, Miller, Mascola, Sakuda, Watson, Zarb, and their fellow academics, who, in their dedication to our students, live by the motto, “In the race for quality, there is no finish line.” Dr. Kevin L. Roach President

Table of Contents - January/February • 2004

Presidents Message

PFA Foundation Board Meeting

2003-2004 Calendar

Dr. Higue Honored

PFA Annual MTG: Committee Reports

77th PFA Gold Medal Awards

PFA Annual MTG con't: - Reports 2

Foundation News

PFA Annual MTG con't: - Reports 3

Section News- International

PFA Annual MTG con't: - Reports 4

Section News- United States

Dental World

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2004 Calendar

5 March

6 March

10-13 March

2-4 April

30 April-1 May

10-13 September

1-5 October

Canadian Fellowship Induction Breakfast, Vancouver, B.C.

Academy Executive Committee Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada

IADR 82nd Annual Session, Honolulu

Foundation Interim Meeting, Chicago

Spanish Section Meeting, Cordoba, Spain

92nd FDI World Congress, New Delhi, India

145th Annual ADA Session, Orlando, Florida
PFA Academy and Foundation Meetings

(Have your PFA Event date put here. E-mail Editor Brophy at PFADWJMB@aol.com)

PFA Annual Board Meeting

San Francisco, California, 24-26 October 2003

The Academy Board Meeting

President’s Report
President Gary Lowder welcomed all those in attendance, followed by Immediate Past President Scott Welch giving the Invocation for the Meeting.

President Lowder noted that a great deal had occurred in the Academy since the last meeting in New Orleans, which had been filled with many opportunities for the growth and stability of our organization as a world-renowned dental group.

Unfortunately, two of his official duties required representing us at the funerals of Foundation President-emeritus Dr. Robert B. Shira and Foundation Executive Director Shigeo Ryan Kishi.

Other duties involved reorganizing the Brazilian Section, with the guidance of Trustee Bernardo Levit, appointing Dr. Henrique Teitelbaum as the new Section Chair; attending the outstanding First Annual Georgia Section Convocation, and the continuing education meeting organized by Section Chair Karyn Stockwell. The President’s wife, Louan Lowder, gave a half-day seminar on the ladder of success, and the President’s Award was presented to ADA President T. Howard Jones of Georgia.

The Executive Meeting was held in Salt Lake City to review the progress of the Academy and its business and to hold a planning session for upcoming events.

President Lowder then attended the Canadian Section Meeting in Jasper, Canada, in conjunction with the Canadian Dental Association’s Annual Meeting. President-elect Kevin Roach and his wife Anne also attended the important event.

Grant proposals were submitted by the President to the Foundation by their June 1 deadline for the coming year to support the PFA Museum, our publications, and updating our Web site.

The President and the Editor then attended PFA Meetings in London with Section Chair Rash Patel and past Chair Raja Rayan to discuss the growth of the Academy in the United Kingdom. In Paris, we met with International Trustee Pierre Marois and French Section Chair Hubert Ouvrard, placed the Hall of Fame plaque for Dr. Gerald Leatherman of the United Kingdom on the Wall of Fame at its primary venue at the headquarters of Le Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgien Dentistes, and toured the Foundation’s grant-supported mobile dental clinic in action on site. In Berlin, President Lowder, Trustee Marois, and Chair Frank Braun awarded the Elmer S. Best Award to Dr. Gunnar Carlsson of Sweden, inducted a new Fellow into the German Section, and met with past Best recipient Herr Wolfgang Hasse at his home.

By July, the Constitution and Bylaws had been completed under the direction of Vice President Mike Perpich and sent out to all the Trustees in preparation for the San Francisco Meeting.

Dr. Lowder noted that his intent in accepting the PFA presidency was to maintain a steady course of progress, stability, and continued growth of the Academy with the help of the Board and Fellows on the various committees. And with their help this concluding year had been quite successful.

Drs. Bob Ibsen and George Higue

Secretary/Treasurer’s Report

Secretary Richard Kozal (now to be called Secretary General with the new Bylaws change) noted that a complete cleanup of all the files on the Academy’s database had been accomplished. The membership must realize that this is a fluid state of affairs from day-to-day with new information being added and removed. Our publisher’s database has also received a copy to adjust our subscription costs.

Our PFA Web site is in the same flux of daily change with new additions and upgrading older ones. It is constantly being reworked to facilitate easier visitors’ access to obtain information and to add new pages, while also updating the membership rolls. Additional Web links to other dental organizations facilitates visiting their pages without leaving our site.

Assistant Secretary Judith Kozal has been working with our publisher, Elsevier Science, to iron out the past difficulties. Our Editor reports that those have been few this year.

Section statements for 2004 are being readied for mailing. The 2004 Dues will be $100 and are sent to a lock box for immediate deposition and accounting. The one-time initiation fee has been increased to $150, which became necessary to offset the costs of generating the new Fellows materials and mailing costs.

The Central Office has prepared 24 Outstanding Dentist of the Year plaques for the Sections requesting them and three outgoing Section Chair Service plaques.

Requests for Fellowship Certificates, ribbons, and keys for Induction Ceremonies have been prepared and sent out.

Eighty-three letters to the dental school deans were sent out to the United States, Canada, Australia, and Ireland for student certificate presentations. Seventy-seven were prepared for the various institutions and received by them for their Awards Day presentations.

This year, 115 Fellows were eligible for Life Membership and were notified. The other 1304 Life Members were sent requests for a Foundation donation.

Quarterly conference call meetings are held regularly with the Executive Committee and with the Budget & Finance Committee to review the current financial progress of the Academy.

The Annual Illinois Corporate Report was filed on time with appropriate fees paid. The Nevada Foreign Corporate Report was filed on time as well and, as required by law, published in the Las Vegas Review Journal.

The Annual Financial Review was performed by an outside auditing firm and completed in March. The report stated that the Academy’s books were in proper order and favorable. The final 2003 delinquent notices were sent to 190 U.S. Fellows with a good response. In October, we sent out the final notices to the International members.

The PFA Dental History Museum continues to grow supported by the Foundation. Den-Mat, whose President Dr. Bob Ibsen, has donated $15,000 for the purchase of an entire “turn of the century” antique dental museum that will be placed in the new UNLV dental school in 2004.

The Central Office has asked that requests and materials not be sent by Registered Mail as it requires a person to be available to sign for the letter and that is not always possible. Two trips are made to the post office daily to gather the mail. Electronic mail is fine.

Treasurer’s Report

All bills submitted have been paid to 1 October 2003. Elsevier’s current balance for our Dental World/Dental Abstracts will be completely paid by the end of the year.

The Academy has collected funds for the Foundation from the dues statement. These were forwarded to the Foundation in March and again at the end of the year.

Elsevier has received the addition of 310 new Fellows to our subscription rolls.

The Academy Accountant Dan Jonker continues to refine our system for a simpler reporting and understanding of the Academy’s finances. He is always available for any suggestions or comments.

The Annual independent review completed in March (as required by the Constitution & Bylaws) has been forwarded to the entire Board and to the Executive Committee of the Foundation.

Also attached to their report were the financial statements of the Academy for review and comments by the Board.

Budget & Finance Committee

Chairman Kevin Roach presented a draft of the 2004 budget, which was discussed and passed. This was worked on by the Budget & Finances Committee and presented to the Board for adjustments and approval.

The newly designed expense voucher was also approved by the Board.

Dan Jonker, the Academy accountant, submitted a report detailing that we are on an accrual basis of accounting, which means that income and expenses are recorded in the year they are earned for income, or in the year they apply to for expenses— regardless of the year they are received or paid. The financial figures are reviewed quarterly by conference call with the Executive Committee and the Budget & Finance Committee for review. Any questions are resolved at that time or further documentation is provided. Necessary corrections are made at that time. All the bank accounts are reconciled to agree with the book figures. Neither the outside review by John D. Kopczyk nor the internal review by Daniel R. Jonker is designed to specifically uncover regularities. They make various tests of the financial figures. Neither accountant feels that an expensive audit is necessary for the Academy under our current review requirements. Both provided the Board with extensive reports of their reviews, and both contained all the financial transactions of the Academy, concluding with the same statement that everything was in proper order.

Strategic Long-Range
Planning Committee

The PFA long-range plan developed by Dr. Howard Mark was reviewed and sent to committee for constant updating and suggested execution. Vice President Howard Mark will chair the committee to study the strengths, weaknesses, threats, barriers, etc, with the Board exercising due diligence to go over the committee input and guidelines by January 15th for consideration by the Executive Committee in March.
Legal Counsel Report

The Academy attorney, Jonathan T. Howe, noted in his report that “volunteer board members are held to no less a fiduciary responsibility than those who serve on the boards of for-profit, publicly traded companies.” In the era of “Enronizing” everything, it is important for Board members to understand their roles. The Central Office distributed copies of the “Duties and Responsibilities” of the Board Trustees, as approved by the Executive Committee. In that list of responsibilities it is noted that Board Meetings are to conduct the current and necessary business of the Academy and are not intended to review all administrative procedures and policies unless a change or modification is vital. Then that item is placed on the Meeting Agenda under new business.

Attorney Howe went on to state that the PFA Board of Trustees is primarily charged with the responsibility of policymaking and overall supervision of the Academy’s affairs. It is the administrative, governing, and legislative body of this Academy.

Publications Committee

Editor James Brophy and Trustee Bernardo Levit reported on the new addition to our available publications that are currently in stock.

“The Life and Times of Pierre Fauchard,” originally written in French by the late Andre Besombes, had been translated into English by past PFA President George Higue. This work describes the events that surrounded the acknowledged founder of modern dentistry and what is known of his life.

“Legacy,” compiled by the late Editor Cliff Loader and the late Foundation Executive Director Shig Kishi, both past PFA Presidents, is a collection of dental philosophies and perspectives by many of our profession’s recognized leaders.

“The 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the Japanese PFA Section” is available in both Japanese and English through Mrs. Tomiko Nakayama, whose husband, Mitch Nakayama of the Hakusui Trading Company, had a great effect on establishing this vibrant Section in Japan.

The e-book of “How It Evolved” by Dr. Richard Glenner is supplied on a CD. This work describes the evolutionary history of dentistry.

Trustee Dr. Bernardo Levit has added the newest addition in the e-book category in memory of the late Dr. Shig Kishi on a CD available from the Central Office for $40 plus postage. The work is entitled, “A Comprehensive Approach for the Treatment of Halitosis.” The proceeds from the first 300 sold will go directly to the Foundation in Dr. Shig Kishi’s Memorial Fund.