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ACPMessenger THE NEWS SOURCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PROSTHODONTISTS IN THIS ISSUE House of delegates set for landmark meeting The ACP House of Delegates will convene reviewed and approved all of the proposed in Scottsdale during the Annual Session ACP Bylaws revisions. Both Eide and to discuss and vote on several critical Goedert will participate in the Sections resolutions that will impact the operation of Meeting portion of the HOD session on Prosthodontics in the College in the year ahead. The Wednesday morning. the News Governance Task Force Committee led by All Delegates and Alternates are strongly Hit show season Dr. Jonathan Wiens, ACP Treasurer, and the encouraged to participate in the HOD finale mentions GTFC Advisory Panel have worked diligently meeting this year including the Reference prosthodontics to prepare the governance bylaws revisions Committee break-out sessions from 10 a.m. PAGE 3 that if approved, would change the ACP to Noon on Wednesday. Discussions and governance structure. Delegate check-in and questions will be addressed in these individual breakfast will kick-off at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, October 31, with meetings, with an assigned designee from among the group the meeting called to order promptly at 7:30 a.m. reporting back to the House in the afternoon with any Mr. Kermit Eide, the ACP corporate governance consultant suggestions for revisions. from Tecker & Associates, and Ms. Paula Goedert, ACP legal Plan to be in Scottsdale and come prepared participate in this counsel from the firm of Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, have landmark meeting of the HOD. See HOD Landmark Meeting on Page 7 President’s Dinner Preview all that’s in store for Annual Member conducts prosthodontic research that protects U.S. soldiers Session, Scottsdale By Pamela Krueger, MS, ACPEF Director PAGE 7 “. the most common reason Soldiers could not be deployed to Desert Shield/Storm was dental disease . .” - LTG Blanck, commencement speech, Hood College, Frederick, MD, 31 July 1998 Two separate studies found that soldiers deployed to Operation ACP member Col. Geoffrey A Thompson, Chief, Dental Enduring Freedom1 suffered 137 dental emergencies per 1,000 Biomaterials Branch at the U.S. Army Dental Research soldiers per year and that soldiers deployed to Prince Sultan Air Detachment in Great Lakes, Ill., along with a team of scientists Base and Baghdad International Airport for Operation Iraqi led by Dr. Kai Leung from the Microbiology Branch, are working Freedom2 experienced 153 and 145 dental emergencies per 1,000 soldiers per year. In both studies, dental caries were the most Science & Technology common cause of dental emergencies. A study of U.S. Army den- Prosthodontists must tal emergency rates in Bosnia3 found 156 dental emergencies per Mean Commercial Lab Expenses become early adopters thousand soldiers per year. This report concluded that “dental Private Practices, Per Independent Dentist, Prosthodontists & General Dentists, 1991 to 2003 (Nominal Only) of digital dentistry emergencies continue to be a threat to overall readiness in 80,000 deployed environments.” PAGE 9 Prosthodontist Dental emergencies are not a new risk for soldiers. “Trench 60,000 General Dentist mouth,” a description of severe gingivitis among soldiers fighting in World War I, affected the same percentage of fighting men $ 40,000 and women then as it does today simply because combat inter- 20,000 feres with the time or capacity necessary to maintain proper oral DID YOU KNOW? hygiene. The statistics show that at any point fifteen percent of 0 our armed forces are not able to fulfill their duties and have to be 19921998 2001 2004 Source: ADA, Annual Expenses of Operating a Private Practice, 1991-2003; American College of The Last Word evacuated and moved across dangerous territory to seek treat- Prosthodontists, 2005 Survey of Prosthodontists. Collaboration is key for ment because of dental emergencies. The majority of these emergencies are related to plaque-induced oral infections. dental lab technicians American College of Prosthodontists PRESORTED 211 E Chicago Avenue, Suite 1000 FIRST CLASS MAIL and prosthodontists U.S. POSTAGE Chicago, IL 60611 PAGE 14 1 Dunn, WJ Dental Emergency Rates at an expeditionary medical support facility PAID supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, Military Medicine May 2004 PERMIT 624 2 Dunn, WJ., Langsten, RE., Flores, S., Fandell, JE Dental emergency rates at two expedi- LONG PRAIRIE, MN tionary medical support facilities supporting operations enduring and Iraqi Freedom. Military medicine 2004, vol. 169, no7, pp. 510-514 [5 page(s) (article) VOLUME 38, ISSUE 3 3 Chaffin, J., King, JE., Fretwell, LD. US Army dental emergency rates in Bosnia SUMMER 2007 See Prosthodontic Research on Page 4 practice and patient care concerns with him. Particularly as Thanks and More they relate to our aging patient population and the ability to meet their needs in the coming decades. These are the most You cannot begin to imagine all of the things that pass before vulnerable of our patients. He was blown away to hear the facts… your eyes serving in this position. Pretty much every minute of who knows what may come. the day has something that is ongoing or new that needs to be For those of you that missed it, after making an episode of addressed. This includes all of the ongoing initiatives, action plan Jeopardy last year, prosthodontists made the season finale of items, membership issues, dental specialty issues, professional Grey’s Anatomy on May 17! And it was more than just a mention. issues; public, practice and educational issues, as well as Our recent call for individuals interested in serving as program expanding our influence within the profession and with our directors resulted in 41 responses. Far more than we ever corporate partners. imagined. As part of this, the need for mentoring of all of OUR President’s Message President’s Part of what you see in this position is the vigilance of our Stephen D. Campbell, faculty and future program directors became clear. We will begin members. We are an observant group, and you pass on all types D.D.S., M.MSC. to examine opportunities to work with these individuals to best of things that require examination, analysis, responses… both to prepare them for their role in an increasingly complex educational you, our members and the entities that you have identified. environment. We have also been in contact with several schools This is an important part of what we do, as the ACP is the that have expressed interest in initiating new Prosthodontic advocate for the specialty… and each of our members. This Programs. includes all types of issues including advertising, individuals Our program directors met on May 11-12, thanks to the misrepresenting themselves, state boards, denturism, etc. For generous support of the ACPEF. We had more program example, one of our members recently identified that there were professional dental products and unlicensed services being directors present than ever before… providing an opportunity to offered on eBay. This included home denture kits and much, meet in a focused environment and to spend time with them, to much more. Following a careful examination of the issue, we get their feedback, to work with them. It also provided an immediately contacted the ADA legal counsel and requested opportunity to review OUR accreditation standards to make support in addressing our concern. The ADA responded that certain they reflect the current and future environment of they were also concerned, and that they would contact eBay in an Prosthodontic practice - oral cancer, implant therapy, the science effort to resolve this issue appropriately for the protection of our and technology, etc. The goal was to help create a more forward patients. The ACP has also contacted eBay. looking set of standards that would help define the specialty, and As another example, while walking one of the exhibit floors position the specialty to assume a leadership role in education, we happened to notice that a dental company had adopted a practice and within the professional community. We succeeded representation/facsimile of our very familiar ACP logo. We have and a framework for our future has been established. responded appropriately. I am most honored that you have trusted me with representing This is an exciting time for OUR specialty. We recently had an all of you, and regret that there are only 24 hours in the day, 7 opportunity to meet with the former Governor of New York days in the week, and 365 days in the year. I am so excited about George Pataki. He is still a likely Presidential candidate. We had our present and our future. an opportunity to share the details of our current educational, Thank you for this most incredible opportunity! Prosthodontics in the news ACP Members Only section: How to Login More than 20 million viewers All ACP members must create a new username and password to access the Members Login learned about the prosthodontic area for the first time on the new Web site. Click on the blue Members Login button from specialty in the season finale of any page of www.prosthodontics.org. Grey’s Anatomy on ABC in May. Season 3, Episode 25: Then, click: Didn’t We Almost Have it All featured the discharge of a Find Me — to locate your record in the ACP membership database recurring character Rebecca from Seattle Grace Hospital. 1 Rebecca, who was recovering from a severe accident that Populate the required fields — e-mail address, first name, last name and zip code happened when she was aboard a ferry crossing the harbor, 2 tells one of her doctors, Alex, that she and her baby have been discharged. 3 Click on your e-mail address in results “My body’s been signed off on by plastics, cardio, orthopedics, neuro and OB.

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