PFA Dental World Newsletter — March/April • 2004

	Dental World^®PIERRE FAUCHARD ACADEMY President’s Message
	The purpose of the Academy, as an honor society, is the fostering of a greater support for, and the influencing of, the moving of dentistry to the highest level of professionalism as manifested by the practice of integrity and ethics. The Academy lends itself to accomplish this ideal by publicly honoring, in a significant and noteworthy manner, those who can be classified as role models for other practitioners and those who have distinguished themselves by their support of the ethical ideal. Recently, I had the opportunity and distinct pleasure to install 20 Fellows at the Georgia Section Meeting in Greensboro on February 7, and 38 Canadian Fellows at our annual Canadian Section Fellowship Breakfast in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 5. My congratulations to both Section Chair Karyn Stockwell of Kennesaw, Georgia, and to Canadian Trustee Barry Dolman of Montreal, on the quality of the new Fellows elected. Both Induction functions were superbly organized and masterfully executed. The new Fellows recently elected in Georgia and from the five Sections of Canada are typical of our membership base. They are on the executive committees of their State Associations or licensing authorities; they are State or		national Board Examiners; they are Governors to their provincial Boards of Governors, editors of State Journals, or State Delegates to their national dental organizations; they are dedicated academics who I saluted in my previous Message. Our Fellows are the organizers/chairpersons of your dental health month activities or the Chief of Staff at your children’s hospital dental department. I am extremely proud that you were mindful of them and took the time to acknowledge their accomplishments by nominating them for Academy Fellowship and recognition. In the words of President Theodore Roosevelt, “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marked by dust and sweat and blood; who strikes valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions and expends/spends himself in a worthy cause.” The Pierre Fauchard Academy proudly honors the men and women in the arena with Fellowship in our pre-eminent international honor society Dr. Kevin L. Roach President

Table of Contents - March/April • 2004

Presidents Message

AIDS Epidemic in Dentistry 3

2003-2004 Calendar

Central Office Report

PFA Dental Museum Gets Recognition

Foundation News

Foundation Update

Section News- International

Foundation Grant Information

Section News- United States

2003-2004 Foundation Grants

Dr. Shig Kishi E-book

AIDS Epidemic in Dentistry

AIDS Epidemic in Dentistry 2

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2004 Calendar

2-4 April

30 April-1 May

10-13 September

1-5 October

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 Dental Museum Gets Recognition

The Henderson (Nevada) View News initiated local interest in our museum with a 30 January 2004 article “Dental Museum captures history of profession and its technology.” It was an item off the front page under “Learning to be an Art.” The article describes the museum and many of its turn-of-the-century dental artifacts, noting that they “are reminiscent of the profession’s more painful times before nitrous oxide and novocaine.”

State Senator Dr. Ray Rawson is mentioned prominently along with our Secretary General Richard Kozal for the conception and initiation of our dental museum in Las Vegas. Fellow Ray Rawson had attended PFA on a European trip to Brussels, London, and Paris as a CE speaker on dental forensics, as he is also a county deputy coroner. In Paris, he was quite impressed with the Pierre Fauchard Museum at the Conseil National de l’Ordre des Chirurgien-Dentistes headquarters. This was the beginning of his support for “a Pierre Fauchard Museum as good as they have in Paris. And it has come along very nicely.”

The newspaper article mentioned the acquisition of the Dr. Henry Zeller turn-of-the-century complete dental office. The author also discussed our museum’s permanent location to be established in the new dental school at UNLV.

xDr. Kozal noted that so many items have been donated that PFA will be able to have their museum at both UNLV and at the Community College of Southern Nevada. There are

even enough items donated by our members to open another museum at the University of Nevada Dental Hygiene School in Reno.

Then on 4 February 2004, the Summerlin South View (Nevada) picked up the story under the title “Filling a Void” with photos calling it a “teaching museum.” “The museum illustrates the history of dentistry and serves as an educational tool for dental assistant and hygiene students who take classes at the college.”

Another article appeared in the Summerlin View News that week titled “CCSN Museum traces the roots of dentistry.” Writer Tiffannie Bond noted that the museum demonstrates what it was like “before running water” with spittoon and hand-made dental instruments. Senator Rawson noted that “Dentists were using things like this, and people would pass out from the pain. You go back 100 years ago, and you didn’t go to a dentist unless you had to because it hurt. There’s almost no pain like a toothache. We’ve come a long way in making that tolerable.”

All the articles gave the Pierre Fauchard Academy the credit for initiating this project to assist in the education of Nevada’s students in the dental profession as well as demonstrating to the public the evolution of dentistry in one short century.

This is a step beyond the many letters received at the Museum for the conducted tours like from the recent Explorers Post, the Boy Scouts, and the Junior Boxing Club that have come through our museum.

Foundation Update

Exciting Foundation Grants
by Foundation President Carl Lundgren

The isolated group of Mexican patients had walked for miles and waited in line quietly while enduring toothaches. There were no dental facilities in this remote area in the Sierra de San Francisco in the southern State of Baja California, 700 miles south of San Diego.
The Amigos de Los Californios is an all-volunteer, non-profit organization, which began in 1996 to provide care to this group. The volunteers make the two-day drive in their own vehicles to transport equipment and supplies donated by some San Diego area supply companies. Our Pierre Fauchard Academy Foundation just recently donated $10,000 to provide portable dental chairs and other supplies.

The 14 volunteers on the clinic staff are headed by PFA’s Southern California Section Fellow Dr. Roger Kingston of San Diego, an oral surgeon. The volunteers cover all expenses with personal funds. Seven annual trips have been made to serve a patient load of about 200 with duration of from 9 to 14 days. The equipment and conditions have been incredibly primitive so that funds are needed for Aseptico U.S. military field used equipment that is purchased at a special discount deal.

This program is just one of 18 that our Foundation supported last year. Over the last nine years, our Foundation has distributed a total of nearly $3 million in grants and scholarships. This year, 18 grant recipients received over $167,000. Scholarships of $1500 were awarded to an undergraduate dental student in each of the U.S. dental schools and one scholarship each in 18
countries that have PFA Sections. A suitable certificate accompanies each grant. The award goes to the student for leadership potential. The deans of the schools select the student recipients.
The PFA members have been very generous in their financial support to the Foundation’s programs. The support has varied from hundreds of small donations to the $5 million bequest from Dr. Fernando Brenes-Espinach of Costa Rica. He was a Trustee on the PFA Board. A substantial amount of our funds are donated by members from their dues statements. In order to keep funding available for these awards, the Foundation Board has recently been developing a “Memorial and Tribute Funds” Program. This effort will permit donors to ascertain what their donation money will be used for, if they wish.

Dr. Carl Lundgren

U.S. Foundation Scholars

The Foundation Board of Trustees approved one $1500 scholarship award to each of the U.S. dental schools and to 28 non-U.S. dental schools. The determination of the awards is made on the number of members in each Section. This is a list of the U.S. scholars that have been received to date.

• Allyn Mabson Thames III from the University of Alabama
• Charles McKean Allen, Jr. from Texas A&M University at Baylor
• Gabriel Ruiz of Boston University
• Amy Gimlen of UCLA
• Bao-Thy Nguyen of USC
• Norma Ramirez from Case Western Reserve University
• Narmatha Sinnarajah of Columbia University
• Gabriel Kennedy from the University of Connecticut
• Rebecca E. Greving of Creighton University
• Alexa Vitek from the University of Detroit-Mercy
• Maria Song of the University of Florida
• James B. Melvin from the Medical College of Georgia
• Adam Ortega of Harvard
• Reshma D. Dhake of University of Illinois-Chicago
• Theron C. Waisath from Southern Illinois University
• Caroline Derrow of Indiana University
• Michael Franzman from the University of Iowa
• Joseph Petrey from the University of Kentucky
• Andrea L. Carvalho of Loma Linda University
• Eric Macaluso of LSU
• Bryan Cropper of the University of Louisville
• Barrett Straub of Marquette University
• Brent J. Hansen of the University of Maryland
• Anitra Roberts of Meharry Medical College

• Erin Teague from the University of Michigan
• Timothy Osborn from the University of Minnesota
• Tiffany Priscilla Green from the University of Mississippi
• Kevin Cunningham from the University of Missouri- Kansas City
• Martin Killeen from the University of Nebraska
• Allison Loeb from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
• Thomas A. Kolodge of New York University
• Shreyas Patel of SUNY at Buffalo
• David A. Sherman of SUNY at Stony Brook
• John J. Sweeney at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Patrick B. Parsons from Ohio State University
• Adam S. Pitts from the University of Oklahoma
• Jessica Robertson of Oregon Health Sciences University
• Courtney Fitzpatrick from the University of the Pacific
• Andrea Woods from the University of Pennsylvania
• Matthew Kremser from the University of Pittsburgh
• Elgardo J. Toro-Quinones from the University of Puerto Rico
• Aaron P. Burleson of the Medical University of South Carolina
• Max Almodovar of Temple University
• Emily E. Sheppard from the University of Tennessee
• Tyrone Rodriguez of the University of Texas at Houston
• Jason Stamboulieh of the University of Texas at San Antonio
• Kris Togias from Tufts University
• Christopher Loveland of Virginia Commonwealth University
• Brian M. Almond from the University of Washington
• Scott Edmonds from the University of West Virginia

*No responses from the University of Colorado, Howard University, and Nova Southeastern University (Florida).