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Columbia Fall/Winter 2017 DENTAL MEDICINE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY College of Dental Medicine FutureThe is Now CDM History: Endodontics • Global Citizenship • Graduation 2017 • “MaxFac” Clinic InThisIssue Fall/Winter 2017 Features Dentistry’s Revolution 14 By Merrill Douglas A new era in dentistry is underway with changes that include technology that remembers a patient’s optimal chair position, deep data mining that could show the most effective treatments, and wireless technology to assess student learning. Expanding the CDM Footprint 20 to East Africa, China, Guatemala, Departments Puerto Rico 1 Letters By Alexander Gelfand 2 Think Tank Successful global engagement requires a coherent strategy that uses research, the dental curriculum, 4 CDM News and service to emphasize sustainability, empowerment 11 Innovations of local communities, and mutual benefit. Current global projects at CDM and others in development 30 In Profile meet those criteria. 35 Alumni News and Notes 39 In Memoriam Columbia Dental Medicine at 100: 50 Years of Columbia Endodontics ON THE COVER: Kevin Francois’18 and By Martha T. Moore Lynda Torre, DDS, assistant professor of dental medicine at CUMC and group A celebration of 50 years of endodontics education, practice leader, pose in the new Center for Precision Dental Medicine, a key research, and patient care at CDM focuses on the component of the school’s initiatives to contributions of Joseph Leavitt and Irving Naidorf, who shape the future of dental medicine. spent close to a combined 100 years at Columbia. 26 Photograph by Jörg Meyer Columbia Letters DENTAL MEDICINE Editor Historical Questions (and Answers) the heart of his contributions to the field. Bonita Eaton Enochs I’ve been enjoying receiving and read- Interestingly enough, a Google search ing the CDM publications. However, I for “father of modern dentistry” results Editorial Assistant Avichai Assouline have a friendly note regarding a pos- in yet another name—Pierre Fauchard sible misprint. (1678-1761), a French physician, but Contributing Writers I received my MS in dental hygiene in “modern” may not apply to someone Avichai Assouline 1985. The RDH program was also still a few centuries removed from what we Jordan Davidson in existence; I’m not sure which year it consider today to be modern. Dr. Grif- Merrill Douglas Alexander Gelfand actually closed, maybe 1986? Page 24 fin is a member of the Pierre Fauchard Anne Harding of the CDM publication shows a cap- Academy, as are many CDM faculty. Andrea Kott tion dating the closing as 1982. Martha T. Moore Thank you for all of your wonderful Lauren Savage articles and photos; it was fun to remi- Not all feedback about Columbia Den- Alumni Section Editor nisce and take a stroll down memory lane. tal Medicine comes in the form of let- Melissa Welsh, Director of Alumni Relations Sherry Gateman Joyce, RDH, MS’85 ters. Beverly Rosenstein called to ask and Continuing Education Via email why the article on the history of the school (Fall/Winter 2016 issue) did not Proofreader Editor’s Note: Ms. Joyce and others mention pediatric dentistry and the pio- Zoila Noguerole who noticed the error are correct, as neering contributions of her late hus- Design and Art Direction we confirmed upon further research in band, Solomon N. Rosenstein. Space Eson Chan the CUMC Archives & Special Collec- limitations kept us from mentioning tions. Enrollment in the dental hygiene every individual contribution in the Columbia Dental Medicine is published for program dropped significantly when school’s 100 years, but we note here alumni, faculty, students, and other community colleges began offering den- some of the contributions Dr. Rosen- supporters of the College of Dental Medicine tal hygiene training at lower tuition. By stein, a 1930 graduate, made to CDM at Columbia University. 1987 enrollment had decreased to such and the dental profession: A faculty a level that the program was no longer member for more than 65 years, Dr. Christian S. Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent viable; it was phased out in 1988, with Rosenstein helped establish the pedi- Dean, College of Dental Medicine the last students graduating in 1990. atric dentistry division, then known as Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center pedodontics, in 1950 and served as its [email protected] third director. He was a pioneer in treat- I was a graduate of Northwestern Univer- ing patients with disabilities, authoring Anna Spinner sity Dental School (1963) and Columbia a textbook that set the standard for oral Director of Communications, University Dental School Department of health care of patients with neuromus- College of Dental Medicine Orthodontics (1968). The ad on Page cular disease. The postdoctoral pro- 9 of the Fall/Winter 2016 issue calls gram at Columbia was among the first Address correspondence to: William Gies the “founding father of to train dentists to treat the disabled. Columbia Dental Medicine 630 W. 168th St., Box 20 modern dentistry” but the Spring 1970 Dr. Rosenstein was among the first New York, NY 10032 issue of Desmos [the publication of the practitioners to call attention to the spe- 212-342-2964 Delta Sigma Delta international dental cial problems of children’s oral health, fraternity] calls G.V. Black “the father writing a seminal paper on infant baby- E-mail: [email protected] of modern dentistry.” Obviously two bottle tooth decay, and he was an early individuals cannot hold the same titles. It proponent of prevention long before the Like us on Facebook: ColumbiaCDM would be most appreciated if you could introduction of fluorides and other pre- clarify the distinctions. ventive techniques. He retired as profes- Follow our Linkedin Group: Robert E. Griffin, DDS sor emeritus in 1975. Columbia University College San Rafael, Calif. of Dental Medicine Editor’s Note: Dr. Griffin, another eagle- Send Letters to: Follow us on Twitter: @ColumbiaCDM eyed reader, is correct. Our ad should Editor, Columbia Dental Medicine 630 W. 168th St., Box 20 have described Dr. Gies as the father of New York, NY 10032 Find us online: modern dental education, as that gets to [email protected] Dental.columbia.edu Dental.columbia.edu/alumni Dental.columbia.edu/ce Fall/Winter 2017 Columbia Dental Medicine 1 A DISCUSSION ABOUT ThinkTank THE FUTURE OF OUR SCHOOL Carol Kunzel Jaffer Shariff and Joseph V. Errante PHOTOGRAPHS BY JÖRG MEYER Collaborations, New Ideas Our last issue included a one-on-one interview between a students across the school and mentors in student and me, but galvanizing the energy and ideas that CDM schools across CUMC, the greater university, and even internationally. needs to shape the future cannot come from one person. Our future will require collaborations among faculty, students, staff, LETTY MOSS-SALENTIJN, DDS, PHD (Professor of Dental and more, and far beyond our school, our field, our university, Medicine and Vice Dean for Curriculum Innovation and or even our continent, so we brought together a handful of Interprofessional Education): I believe that you must people to discuss subjects that can spark further conversations. cross disciplines, as you, Jaffer, and I have done. Your public health background and my work Jaffer Shariff, DDS, a periodontal postdoc, led our discussion. with engineers have established connections you His interdisciplinary approach and research represent the type could not make with a dental degree alone. of work that will make CDM a leader in the field. In our centennial year, I am espe- — Christian S. Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent DEAN STOHLER: cially aware that movement toward interdis- ciplinary collaborations will help us further JAFFER SHARIFF, DDS, MPH (Postdoc in Periodontics): realize the vision of our founder, William Gies, I see partnerships as key to my own work, and I who 100 years ago called our work the oral think collaboration is a great point to lead with. health specialty of medicine. Our work must My question is open to the group: How is your focus on the whole body. Our colleagues in own area affected by increasing collaboration? other disciplines—from public health to medi- cine to data science—have so much to add to CAROL KUNZEL, PHD (Director of Research): Research, understanding oral health in the context of by its nature, invites teamwork. In my years overall wellness. We cannot be so myopic by at CDM, I have been delighted to watch looking at just a handful of disease param- research collaborations develop, especially eters. Today, one-third of the patients we treat when our students seek out faculty mentors have multiple chronic conditions. outside the bounds of dental medicine. We Growing bodies of research, including work saw that in this year’s edition of the Jar- from our own researchers, show correlations vie Journal, which included research from between oral disease and many other condi- 2 Columbia Dental Medicine Fall/Winter 2017 tions. It’s exciting to think about the tre- well and across disciplines is not intuitive, DR. SALENTIJN: Overall, we are building an mendous number of new data points we’ll but it is essential. When working in a mul- educational institution that allows stu- gather in the new Center for Precision tiprofessional environment, students must dents to take hold of their own education. Dental Medicine. This opens up so many learn to think and speak across disciplines. doors for new research to understand not This is one of the many reasons I part- DR. SHARIFF: Thinking more broadly, what just connections between diseases and con- nered on a program that brought social are the other steps we need to take? How ditions, but also procedures and outcomes. work students to the clinic. [See article, can we make Columbia the best dental Page 9.] And I am delighted that we are school in the country or even the world? JOSEPH V.