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Visit us at imaginationdental.com Call toll free 1.888.884.4102 PDTThe Magazine of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY TODAY Welcome Policy Center 6 A Message from Your President 38 Dental Quality Alliance 9 A Message from Your CEO 39 Evidence-Based Dentistry 40 DentaQuest Grant Legislative and Regulatory Update 12 Federal News Education 13 State News 50 AAPD CE Courses 15 Litch’s Law Log 52 AAPD Meetings & Sponsored CE 16 Public Policy Advocacy Conference 52 District/State Unit Organization 18 PAC Corner Meetings & CE Courses 53 GSRA Governance 53 Joint Academic Day FRONT 14 Request for BOT Nominations 14 Governance Materials Online Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children 54 President’s Message AAPD Launches Annual Session 55 Access to Care Grants 44 Monster-FreeOFFICIAL Mouths 56 Annual Session H MONSTMovementER BUS 24 News OUT TER 25 Keynote Address & Opening M Ceremony Opportunities Social & Networking 26 64 Seeking Pediatric Dentist 2014 Annual Session Sponsors 28 74 Faculty Positions 75 Practice for Sale BACK Membership 76 Office Space 32 Welcome New Members 76 Recruitment/Practice Transitions 33 Member Benefit Spotlight 34 Member News Columns 37 www.aapd.org A Year in Review 42 Insurance 30 48 Media Mix With AAPD President Warren A. 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Brill AAPD President A Spin on Pediatric Dentistry My friend George, our colleague George, a child’s best friend George—no one called him George. To everyone who knew him it was “Spin,” Spin Rich- That included full fee for service, Medicaid, special ardson, who left us on Nov. 15, 2013, after a long and brave health care needs patients and those adolescents who fight against a terrible disease. Remembering Spin’s legacy needed help in transitioning from a pediatric dentist to a is a perfect way for me to reflect upon my tenure as AAPD general dentist. president and how we see ourselves. Spin did not limit his interest in helping children to those Many nice words have been written about Spin, and I in his chair. He was active in both the Vermont Dental As- will repeat some of them and add my own. I do this because sociation and the Vermont Academy of Pediatric Dentistry we can all learn something from Spin which can be para- on the state level and nationally, served as the trustee for the phrased from a well-known passage from Genesis, “I am my then-AAPD District I. brother’s keeper. I am the children’s keeper.” Like many of you, Spin did not limit his activities to I assume you are asking yourself, “Many worthy col- dentistry. He was active in his church and community. He leagues have passed on, why is Warren singling out Spin voiced his opinions at town meetings, the state legislature Richardson for this editorial?” The answer is simple: Spin and in the halls of Congress. He personally looked after was a close friend who embodied all that is good about what retired nuns and visited them at their convents in both the we do, why we do it, how we do it and for whom we do it. U. S. Northeast and in Canada. We can all learn from that. Retirement and illness did not stop him from advocating The answer to the query of “Why do we do it?” is easy: for children on Medicaid in Montpelier, the state capital, or We do it for the children—all the children. in Washington, D.C. He visited so frequently that he was known immediately and his views actively solicited. Spin got his bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame and graduated from the dental school at Georgetown University. Pardon the pun, but Spin put his money where his It is no surprise that he matriculated at two institutions of mouth was by never turning away a child in need and by higher learning that consider morality and ethics a crucial having a large Medicaid patient population. This spread to part of their students’ lives. No matter how irreverent he all of his partners at all of their offices. sounded, Spin was a virtuous person who carried a Higher To be more specific, Spin was a legislative pain in the Being with him at all times. butt—and I mean that in the best sense. As I said, on his This inherent characteristic was central to how he led own time, while he was still in active practice, semi-retired, his personal and professional life. Spin did his pediatric fully retired and even when afflicted with his disease, he dentistry residency at Boston Children’s Hospital and then visited the state capital to attend hearings, met with state moved to Burlington, Vermont. He founded what became legislators, insurance company executives and Vermont’s a very successful, multi-disciplinary, multi-office practice United States Senators (both in Washington and at home) to named Timberlane Dental Group. The patients come to advocate for children. Timberlane Dental from all over Vermont and neighboring And he did this especially for those who were at distinct states for comprehensive pediatric dental, orthodontic and disadvantages when it came to access to care to dental general dental care. services. To Spin, a child was a child and whether her fam- All patients. ily drove a Cadillac or a Yugo, that child deserved the best future possible. 6 May PDT 2014 | A Message from your President Now I don’t want you to think that he was a saint or a dip- I would like to end these remarks by telling you of a memorial lomat—Spin would not want that.