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SFDS News Dec07 MISSION STATEMENT The mission of the San Francisco Dental Society is to serve the needs of its members, advance the art and science of dentistry, and promote the improvement of the health of the public. Volume 60 • Number 6 • December 2007 • San Francisco Dental Society • Organized 1869 A few of this years’ big ticket items were a those. Your tripartite association is a boundary dispute between Sacramento major force in this country (particularly and San Joaquin’s dental societies, as part California), and though they depend on of a redefining of all component bound- your dues, they really need your mind aries; starting a practice management and your time. It is the best way to give resource center at CDA; and transferring back to your profession, preserve its sta- all administrative aspects of peer review tus, and help society. to CDA, from the hands of the local com- We make a living by what we get, but we ponents. These were all resolved. make a life by what we give. Winston To take a step back and retrospectively Churchill ❖ reflect on the past three days, it is fasci- nating how our association operates. IN THIS ISSUE... PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS Just six years ago I joined the SFDS Curtis Raff, DDS board of directors, and today I am On Your Behalf . 2 Editorial . 3 am writing this fresh after returning “If you are not Member’s Spotlight . 4 from this year’s CDA House of IDelegates (HOD) in Sacramento. In involved with Executive Potpourri . 5 my five years as a delegate, this was easi- 2007 CDA House of Delegates . .5 ly the most efficient House. Though organized dentistry, there is always a fair amount of healthy now is the time New Members . .7 debate, the House moved through the Campus Notes . .8-9 agenda at a pleasing pace and there was for that to change.” almost none of the gridlock, resulting Community Corner . .11 from debate going in circles, which I Important Numbers . .11 have seen in the past. President (and as of yesterday, also a Trustee). And I can tell you, it isn’t any- For those who are not familiar with SFDS 07 Committees' where near as much work as you think. Honor Roll . .12 Parliamentary Procedure and how your We have such an amazing staff at our association functions, the HOD is the SFDS and CDA buildings, that I do not Classifieds . .13 yearly meeting where delegates from feel I have compromised time with my Board Highlights . .14 local dental components vote on vari- family and solo private practice. ous Resolutions. You can think of Holiday Closure for CDA . .14 Resolutions as the laws of CDA and I think you know where I am going with CE Info . .15 directives for the following year. The this. If you are not involved with organ- ized dentistry, now is the time for that number of delegates we send is based And More! . on the number of SFDS members. This to change. We have committees that year we sent nine delegates, one alter- meet only a couple of times a year, thus nate, our Executive Director, and two if you are terrified of getting in over Trustees. your head, just start with one or two of ON YOUR BEHALF – SAN FRANCISCO DENTAL SOCIETY LEGISLATIVE UPDATE 2007OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS By Irene Hilton DDS, MPH, Member Legislative Committee President Curtis Raff, DDS (415) 564-7525 President-Elect Irene Hilton, DDS MPH (415) 657-1708 Immediate Past-President 2007 Legislative Claudia Masouredis, DDS MPH (415) 753-2777 Year-End Review Vice President Joseph Gabany, DMD MSD (415) 392-2086 he 2007 legislative year is over! a bureau for at least the final six months Secretary CDA was involved in many bills of 2008, because a non-urgency bill Yan Kalika, DMD MS and issues this year. Following is a enacted next year would not become (415) 752-0654 T list of bills that are important to dentists. effective until January 1, 2009. Keep Treasurer If you are interested in following CDA’s aware of this situation! David Ehsan, DDS MD efforts next year on bills of interest to (415) 395-9987 dentists or learning more about the leg- AB 895 (Aghazarian): – Dental Plan CDA Trustees islative process, become a member of the Coordination of Benefits: CDA mem- Donna B. Hurowitz, DDS (415) 391-7525 SFDS Legislative Committee. bers and their patients have seen increas- ing instances in which dental plans that Dan Davidson, DMD AB 534 (Peralta) - Separate Dental (415) 239-2740 are the secondary payers are using “non- Hygiene Committee Executive Director duplication” clauses & Dental Board Deborah A. Elam, MS and other similar (415)928-7337 Sunset Extension: “If you are policies to deny any Newsletter Editor After substantial additional reimburse- David Rothman, DDS compromise by all interested in… ment beyond what (415) 333-6811 parties including the primary plan has Directors CDA, SB 534 would Wayne Del Carlo, DDS learning more already paid. CDA have established a (415) 362-8725 sponsored AB 895, Gail Duffala, DDS separate Dental about the legislative which will require (415) 986-0382 Hygiene Committee Frank Grimaldi, DDS dental plans, when of California under process, become (415) 986-4556 they are secondary Hibret Hailu, DDS the jurisdiction of payers, to provide (415) 409-3368 the Dental Board a member of the reimbursement for Lauren Hebel, DMD and eliminated (415) 362-2167 the patient’s out-of- Natasha Lee, DDS COMDA. SB 534 was SFDS Legislative pocket costs under (415) 731-9311 unexpectedly vetoed the primary plan for Peter Lee, DDS MS by the governor in Committee.” (415) 681-8500 benefits covered by October. The bill also Carlos Nogueiro, DDS the secondary plan (415) 824-2713 contained the required "sunset" exten- and will require all dental plans to clearly Mahtab Sadrameli, DMD sion for the Dental Board. Since the bill (415) 751-5405 disclose their coordination of benefits has been vetoed, the board currently is Sima Salimi, DDS policies in the evidence of coverage docu- (415) 567-8170 scheduled to sunset on July 1, 2008. ments they provide enrollees. AB 895 was Lewis Specker, Jr., DDS Without the passage of new legislation signed by the governor and will take effect (415) 982-7443 to extend that date the board's func- Jan. 1, 2008. Staff tions will be transferred to a bureau Ronnica Merritt–Admin Asst/CE Programs Nicole Davis - Admin Asst within the Department of Consumer AB 834 (Hayashi) - Children’s Dental Affairs, unless: 1) a bill passes this year Disease Prevention Program (CDDPP) Well-Being Committee Enhancement: CDDPP is a school-based to extend the sunset date; or 2) an exten- Confidential assistance to professionals, dental disease prevention program that spouse and staff for drug and alcohol abuse. sion bill is passed next year, in which Call Dr. Bruce T. Hiura at 415.776.5855 case the Dental Board would convert to continued on page 10 San Francisco Dental Society • Page 2 EDITORIAL David Rothman, DDS Media Darlings The last few months have not of our profession and the high standards class sizes were decreased during the 80’s been good for news about dentists towards which we practice. In a scathing and 90’s because of high costs of educa- Tand their lives. Besides the portrayal of dentistry, in this time of tion, competition with medical schools humorous column in the Chronicle increased caries, the article discusses den- for space and the perceived future about the ADA meeting and the showing tists skimming only the cosmetic cases decrease in need of a dental workforce of tooth extractions on the big screen, the because of the higher returns and profit because of a future without caries, obvi- rest of the news has been dismal for our over treatment of the needier cases in ously very shortsighted. We didn’t see profession and the professionals involved. Society. Citing the deaths of children in bottled water, antifluoridationists, lack of An orthodontist is murdered in New York Mississippi and Maryland because of compliance, high sugar diets and poor during a child custody battle, a dentist is infections related to caries, long waits at dietary habits, amazing advertising, dis- murdered by a state trooper in posable incomes and lack of parenting on Pennsylvania because he is the estranged the horizon. Schools are once again husband of the trooper’s girlfriend, an “Dentists are increasing their class sizes and new East Bay oral surgeon goes to jail on tax schools are opening. As long as educa- evasion charges, a dentist in Florida respected and well tional costs are high and not fully sup- writes steroid prescriptions for a ported by the government, dentists will Cleveland Indian’s baseball player and a educated health care have a right to a good return on invest- northern California generalist gets arrest- ment as do other professionals including ed for breast massages on over 20 female professionals who attorneys, physicians and the M.B.A.’s. patients (some more than once) in order to realign their TMJs. Additionally, a provide needed The dental budget for federally funded movie titled Good Luck Chuck opens programs is between 2 and 4% of the total about a lonesome dentist looking for a services for the Medicaid healthcare expenditure. As relationship (sleeping standing man for caries is the #1 disease in children, it is those who care). Sadly, these could all be community…” but a mere pittance to throw at the den- story plots for Seinfeld or Curb your tists to treat all those in need. Overhead Enthusiasm if they weren’t all real.
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