Alberta Dental Association and College Annual Report
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Alberta Dental Association and College 2016 Annual Report 2 | Alberta Dental Association and College 2016 Annual Report Table of Contents MISSION AND GOALS .....................................................................................................4 HISTORY ...............................................................................................................................5 PRESIDENT’S REPORT .........................................................................................................6 PUBLIC MEMBER’S REPORT ..............................................................................................8 COUNCIL .............................................................................................................................9 NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS ............................................................................................10 STRUCTURE ........................................................................................................................12 HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT & GOVERNANCE ..........................................................13 REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL OF PRACTICE PERMITS ...........................................14 REGISTRATION STATISTICS .............................................................................................15 CONTINUING COMPETENCE ......................................................................................17 PRACTICE VISITS ...............................................................................................................17 COMPLAINTS RESOLUTION ..........................................................................................18 DENTAL FACILITIES ACCREDITATION........................................................................... 20 SEDATION ........................................................................................................................ 22 FACIAL ESTHETIC THERAPIES AND ADJUNCTIVE PROCEDURES ............................. 24 RADIATION HEALTH AND SAFETY ............................................................................... 26 DENTAL FEES .................................................................................................................... 28 DENTAL PREPAYMENT PLANS (DENTAL INSURANCE) .............................................. 30 GOVERNMENT-ASSISTED PROGRAMS .......................................................................31 COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND .............................................................................. 33 MOBILE DENTAL CLINIC PROGRAMS ......................................................................... 34 RECOGNITION AND AWARDS .................................................................................... 36 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS .............................................................................................. 43 Alberta Dental Association and College 2016 Annual Report | 3 MISSION GOALS The Alberta Dental Association and College provides Optimizing oral health services for all Albertans through leadership to the dental profession on professional governance leadership in the profession that ensures safe, regulations and member services, and provides the appropriate and ethical oral health care. public with information and services, to ensure that Albertans receive safe, appropriate, ethical and quality Effective and efficient resolution of problems regarding oral dental care as an integral part of general health. health services provided by dentists; with patients, dentists, government, industry, and other health professionals. VISION STATEMENT In cooperation with patients, dentists, government, industry, other dental organizations and health professionals, the Alber- Albertans recognize and regularly use dental services ta Dental Association and College supports effective resolution as key components of their primary health care. The of health-care delivery issues to ensure that the public does not dentist-patient relationship is seen as central to the receive unsafe, inappropriate or unethical oral health services. ongoing health of Albertans. Albertans trust their dentists, and view them as the leaders in the delivery Effective communication and collaborative relationships with of the most advanced, evidenced-based and caring dentists, the public, government, industry, other dental organi- dental services. Dental practices are considered a vital zations and health professionals. part of Alberta communities, and dentists are active contributors to community life. Promotion of excellence in the delivery of oral health services. The Alberta Dental Association and College upholds Positioning of dentists and dental services with all stakeholders the public trust of dentists, and preserves the integrity as trustworthy, competent, and responsive to personal well- of the relationship of dentists with government, other ness of Albertans. service care providers, supporters of dental services, the business community and the marketplace in general. Effective monitoring and support of continuing competence and capacity to practice of Alberta dentists. 4 | Alberta Dental Association and College 2016 Annual Report History From Sitting Bull to Self-Regulation known and a college degree not located, he claimed The Alberta Dental Association and College to have “Fifteen years of practical experience.” He was under the Health Professions Act in 2001 In 1883, Dr. Frederick Shaw and Dr. William Wilson forced to retire in the late 1800s due to eye trouble. He entered the practice of dentistry in the district of Alberta. joined the Calgary Post Office, dying on September In May 1999, the Alberta Legislative Assembly passed Both had served with the Northwest Mounted Police. 17, 1928. the Health Professions Act to regulate all 30 self- governing healthcare professions in Alberta. This new Dr. Frederick Shaw, born in Kentville, Nova Scotia in When the North West Territories Dental Association was law for regulated healthcare professionals required 1856, graduated from the New York Dental College in organized on July 1, 1889, six dentists were practicing in all healthcare professional colleges to follow common 1878. In 1879 he applied to the Northwest Mounted Alberta: W. Haydon, Cochrane; E.C. Holbrook, Calgary; rules to investigate complaints and set educational and Police for training and services. He made his way to the F.D. Shaw, Fort MacLeod; P.F. Size, Calgary; W. Wilson, practice standards for registered members. The Health West through the United States to Fort Breton and then Edmonton; and R.H. Zimmerman, Pincher Creek. Professions Act also increased public representation on to Fort Walsh in the Cypress Hills. While serving at Fort college councils and in disciplinary processes. Walsh, he provided dental treatment for Chief Sitting Bull, who required two teeth to be extracted to relieve The Alberta Dental Association Formed in In December 2001, the Alberta Dental Association was pain. This was some time after the Battle of Little Big Horn 1906 the first profession to be regulated under the Health in Montana which took place on June 25-26, 1876 Professions Act. The Alberta Dental Association became when Chief Sitting Bull was delivered to the American After receiving provincial status in 1905, the newly the Alberta Dental Association and College. authorities. formed Alberta Legislature proclaimed a new Dental Act on May 9, 1906. The first annual meeting of the Alberta Dental Association was held on July 9, 1906. Under the Health Professions Act, the Alberta Dental After several more years in the Northwest Mounted Association and College is the self-regulatory body for Police, Dr. Shaw obtained an honourable discharge in At the first meeting of the Alberta Dental Association dentists in the province of Alberta, and currently regulates 1884. He registered himself as a practising dentist in the over 2,500 dentists in Alberta. Northwest Territories and received certificate No. 1 in under the new Alberta Dental Association Act, July 1889 (the certificate was to practice dentistry and dental 9, 1906, in Banff, the first motion was to establish a surgery). On buckboard or saddle horse, he travelled university in the Province of Alberta. In 1916, the Alberta Self-regulation is the authority granted by statute (the to Calgary, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Fort Macleod Dental Association’s annual meeting was held in Banff, Health Professions Act) to the dentistry profession to and Pincher Creek. He eventually built a home on the and meetings with the University of Alberta resulted in protect the public through regulating the practice of its St. Mary’s River just north of Cardston. Dr. Shaw died in the inauguration of a dental program in the Medical members, and ensuring regulated dentists are qualified, Lethbridge in 1926. Faculty at the University of Alberta in the fall of that year. competent and ethical. Over the years, the Alberta Dental Association has The Program Development Committee functions under Dr. William “Tug” Wilson, born in Quebec, joined the been instrumental in the development of many different Northwest Mounted Police in Winnipeg in 1875, stating Section 27 of the Health Professions Act where ministerial government programs for Albertans in need of dental approval has been recieved to negotiate professional his previous occupation as “dentist.” In December of services. Other programs that have been developed 1883 he retired from the Northwest Mounted Police fees on behalf of some or all of the