NDA JOURNAL Summer 2022 Volume 24, Issue 2 Official Magazine of the Nevada Dental Association and Component Societies A Peer Reviewed Journal
Nevada Dental Association 600 E. William Street, Ste 202 Carson City, NV 89701 PH 702-255-4211 FAX 702-255-3302 EMAIL [email protected] WEB www.nvda.org NDA Journal is published four times each year by the Nevada Dental Association and state component societies. All views expressed herein are published on the authority of the writer under whose name they appear and are not to be regarded as views of the publishers. We reserve the right to reduce, revise, or reject any manuscript submitted for publication. Materials: All articles, letters to the editor, photos, etc. should be sent to Daniel L. Orr II, DDS, via email to [email protected]. All chapter and committee reports and business communications should be sent to Michele Reeder, Executive Director, Nevada Dental Association, 600 E. William Street, #202, Carson City, NV 89701. Ph: 702-255-4211. Materials may be reproduced with written permission. Subscription: Members receive each publication as a membership benefit paid by membership dues. Non-members may subscribe to the Nevada Dental Association Journal for $50 annually. Advertising Policy: All advertising appearing in the NDA Journal and other Nevada dental publications must comply with the advertising standards of the Nevada Dental Association and its component societies. The publication of an advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement or approval by the publishers of the product or service being offered in the advertisement unless the advertisement specifically includes an authorized statement that such approval or endorsement has been granted. The publishers further reserve the right to cancel any and all contractual advertising agreements should an advertiser be engaged in litigation concerning their product or service, or should the product or service be in conflict with the standards of the NDA or its component societies. Advertising rates and specifications are available upon request. Contact Grandt Mansfield, LLM Publications, at 800-647-1511 ext 2226 or email [email protected]. Mailing: Send address changes to: 600 E. William Street, #202, Carson City, NV 89701. © 2022 Nevada Dental Association Editor Daniel L. Orr II, DDS, MS (anesth), PhD, JD, MD [email protected] Publisher LLM Publications 800-647-1511 www.llmpubs.com Design: Hope Sudol NDA JOURNAL SUMMER 2022 Editor’s Message Daniel L. Orr II, DDS, MS (anesth), PhD, JD, MD 2 Featured Articles Australian Doctors Have Been Warned 4 Now They Say, ‘Get a COVID Shot’ 5 Global COVID Declaration IV 7 SECURE Act 9 Reports NDA Executive Director Michele M. Reeder 14 NDA President Ed De Andrade, DDS 16 SNDS President Ronald J. Laux, DDS 19 NNDS Executive Director Lori Benvin 20 NNDS President Benjamin Brooks, DDS 21 Sections Event Calendars 22 Administrative Offices & NDA Committees 23 On the Cover NDA JOURNAL Paul Revere was deeply involved in the American Revolutionary War, as were many of his clients and patients, be they Tories or Patriots. In 1776, physician Joseph Warren commanded the battle at Breed’s Hill (often incorrectly called Bunker Hill). Dr. Warren was killed during the battle and subsequently the first documented case of a positive forensic identification in America occurred when silversmith/dentist Paul Revere recognized Dr. Warren’s prosthesis, a product of the Revere dental practice. Paul Revere is most famous for his midnight ride warning of the British invasion, which resulted in the American’s victory at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
NDA Journal 2 Dr. Orr practices Anesthesiology and OMS in Las Vegas, is an Adjunct Professor (Surgery) at UNLV SM and Touro University SM (Jurisprudence), Professor Emeritus at UNLV SDM, and a member of the CA Bar and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editor’s Message Daniel L. Orr II, DDS, MS (anesth), PhD, JD, MD [email protected] NDAJ Exclusive: Fool Me Once, Fool Me Again... Recently the ADA released a message about the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (ELSA) legislation which our organization, along with AAOMS, are working assiduously to pass. “The American Dental Association (ADA) is proud to announce that the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act (ELSA), H.R. 1916, the week of April 4. The ADA has been lobbying this issue for years alongside our colleagues at the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) as well as many other dental organizations. Most recently, this was one of the issues that dentists and students advocated for during Lobby Day 2022. ELSA would require all private group and individual health plans to cover medically necessary services resulting from a congenital anomaly or birth defect, including inpatient and outpatient care and reconstructive services and procedures, as well as adjunctive dental, orthodontic, or prosthodontic support. We need your help in urging your House member to vote yes. Please click here to send a message to your Representative, and please encourage other dentists you know to send messages as well. Thank you! The ADA will continue to advocate for the U.S. Senate to vote on ELSA and for the President to sign it into law.” How many dentists in the ADA deciphered that, as written, ELSA is a waste of time, a false hope? There are two words in the proposed legislation that sadly are very familiar to all dentists, especially OMS, 1
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 3 Editor’s Message whom interface with third-party carriers.The frightening phrase is: “medically necessary.” This insurance executive that created “medically necessary” in order to restrict dental remuneration should be in that profession’s hall of fame. Those two words have given carriers license to deny coverage for literally anything dentists do clinically for decades. Just for rhetorical argument’s sake, ask a benefit provider what “medically necessary” means; how it is defined? It is guaranteed that ultimately it is one of those terms that means what they say it means, on a claim by claim basis. There is no set in stone definition for dentists, or anyone else, to follow, otherwise dentists would weed out medically unnecessary claims all by themselves. A dentist does not even need to know about medicine, just being knowledgeable about dentistry qualifies one to make the “medically necessary” call. (Dentists understand that everything in clinical dentistry is medically necessary.) The NDAJ has often explored the injudicious use of words before, and how the effects of such cavalier use can be devastating. The Journal’s most recent example of the phenomenon was pointing out that of 01 September 2021 “vaccine” no longer means what it has for hundreds of years. The literature has also demonstrated many times why dentistry is always medically necessary. Honestly, this conversation about “medically necessary” in regards to dentistry would be better suited for inclusion into a fantasy like Alice in Wonderland rather than any kind of coherent discussion in legislative fora. Hopefully the inclusion of “medically necessary” in the proposed ELSA legislation is a typo. If not, someone 14:1, 3-4, Spring 2012. 5) Orr D, Do As I Say, Not As I Do, The Federal Shelf Life Extension Program, NV Dent Assn J, 18:4, 4-5, Winter 2016-2017. 6) Orr D, FDA Changes the Definition of Vanilla Ice Cream, NV Dent Assn J, 23:4, 2-6, Winter 2021-2022. 7) Orr D, Practice protection: the rubber dam and prevention of aspiration, Hygienic Dental Manufacturing Company Reports, 1977. 8) Orr D, A double-blind crossover comparison of topical anesthetics, J Am Dent Assoc, 98:2, 213-214, 1979. 9) Orr D, The broken needle, report of case, J Am Dent Assoc, 107:4, 603-604, 1983. 10) Orr, D, Controlling bacteremia, J Am Dent Assoc, 109:6, 876, 1984. 11) Orr D, Pericardial and subcutaneous air after maxillary surgery, Anesth Analg, 66:9, 921, 1987. Authors and Associate Editor wanted. The NDAJ would like to encourage all NDA Members to consider writing topics of interest to the NDAJ readership. In addition, the NDAJ is looking to identify an Associate Editor. This position would require a contributed writing each issue and also to assist the Editor in developing each issue. Thank you. The NDAJ is seeking help from the Membership to continue developing an Index of the NDAJ’s. We have one in Excel that has not been updated for several years. Please contact the Editor if you are interested in bringing things up to date. The Index Coordinator will receive a by-line and the Index will be published annually. Thank you. needs to call the ADA and AAOMS and tell them not to get fooled once again. 0 References 1) Graham M, ADA Press Release, ELSA, 31 MAR 2022. 2) Orr D, Dentistry is __________, NV Dent Assoc J, 10:4, 5-6, Winter 2008-2009. 3) Orr D, It’s not Novocain, it’s not an Allergy, and it’s not an Emergency! NV Dent Assn J, 11:3, 3-5, Fall 2009. 4) Orr D, It’s not Easy, it’s not Minor, and it’s not simple!, NV Dent Assn J, 6 2,3,4,5 7,8,9,10,11
NDA Journal 4 Featured Article Australian Doctors Have Been Warned They “Are Obliged To” Follow Public Health Messages By Medical Indemnity Protection Society* Doctors are now being warned they “must” follow public health messages even if those messages contradict independent peer reviewed research on what is best for patients. Doctors could face discipline for saying anything that contradicts “public health messaging,” even if what they are saying is “evidence-based.” They may also face investigations for “authoring papers” that health authorities do not approve of. Australian doctors can face disciplinary investigations for medical errors or other problems. In Australia, those investigations are called “notifications” by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Agency. Doctors were warned that to avoid APHRA notifications, they needed to “be very careful” not to contradict “public health messaging,” including in social media. But the warning went further. It also cautioned against “authoring papers” that contradicted the authorities’ favored views. 0 *The Medical Indemnity Protection Society provides professional liability insurance coverage for doctors. MIPS does not speak officially for government agencies.
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 5 Featured Article Health Officials Said Cigarettes, Heroin, and Asbestos Were Safe; Today They Say, ‘Get a COVID Shot’ By Aaron Poynton Millions of hardworking Americans are being pushed into the shadows of society by corporations that have aligned with the Biden administration’s proposed vaccine mandates. Workers are being forced to choose between their employment or sacrificing their religious convictions, free will, or well-being. Employers should not be so autocratic and hardline in their policies because, besides being inhumane and medically unnecessary, they could also end up being on the wrong side of history. History is replete with times government and medical authorities got serious health issues wrong, reversing course on things it once considered safe. Lead paint and pipes, asbestos, heroin, and cigarettes—these are just a few notable examples. In another example, the U.S. government was once the world’s biggest buyer of cigarettes. The U.S. Army’s chief medical officer, William Gorgas, pushed it to soldiers to sustain morale and discipline, calm nerves, boost alertness, foster camaraderie, and suppress hunger. Today, with the benefits of long-term studies, we know that cigarettes are a Group 1 carcinogenic, and the Centers for Disease Control states, “Tobacco smoke has at least 70 chemicals that cause cancer.” Likewise, the government once deemed asbestos safe, and the U.S. Patent Office even issued a patent for its use as an “Improved Compound for Roofing and Other Purposes.” Again, with the benefit of time, we know that asbestos causes mesothelioma, and those symptoms can take up to 40 years to appear. Today, the once-safe material that was promoted as “completely harmless…so safe, so effective, it actually is used to help filter the air in hospital operating rooms” (and cigarettes) is responsible for more than 255,000 deaths annually, 114 billion dollars in direct costs, and is the longest-running mass tort litigation in history. Drugs and vaccines are also imperfect. The CDC reports there have been numerous vaccine safety concerns and recalls, dating back to the Cutter Incident in 1955 when the polio vaccine caused 40,000 cases of polio, leaving 200 children with paralysis and killing ten. (Editor’s Note: Compounding the issue, the CDC changed its definition of vaccine 01 SEP 2021 to accommodate the novel experimental formulations for COVID, which did not fit the historical definition of vaccines.) Moreover, a Yale School of Medicine study found that nearly one-third of drugs approved between 2001 and 2010 had major safety issues years after they were made widely available to patients. It took a median of 4.2 years after approval for these safety concerns to surface, and issues were more common among drugs that were granted “accelerated approval” and those approved near the regulatory deadline. » 1 2 3 4 5
NDA Journal 6 Featured Article History shows that sometimes we get it wrong. Can you understand why a healthy 20-year-old woman looking to have a child, who has no comorbidities or naturally acquired immunity, may hesitate to get a COVID shot? What she sees is an mRNA therapy that is the first of its kind, rushed to market in record time and beating all previous vaccine development by years. (Editor’s Note: Vaccine is now defined as something that stimulates the immune system, like infections, trauma, etc. do, rather than “an agent that bestows immunity to a specific disease” as had been the case for hundreds of years previously.) Many Americans have a healthy distrust of Big Pharma and government—especially when vaccine makers are scoring record profits and duplicitous political leaders opined their own skepticism regarding the vaccine before holding office. Under the administration’s possibly illegal new requirements affecting employers with more than 100 employees, either vaccinations or regular testing are required. However, some employers are going even further. United Airlines is leading the pack in bullying its employees into getting the vaccine. In August, United told U.S. employees they will need to be fully vaccinated by October 25, and those who don’t bow to CEO Scott Kirby’s edict will be “terminated.” Even those few who receive exemptions, such as religious or medical exemptions, as required by law, will be put on unpaid leave. These one-size-fits-all company policies are logically inconsistent and medically unnecessary. For example, someone who received the COVID vaccine in December 2020 could still report to work at United, despite the vaccine’s waning effectiveness. Yet an unvaccinated person who had recently recovered from the disease and acquired natural immunity would be fired. This is despite the National Institutes of Health finding that more than 95 % of people who recovered from COVID19 had durable immune memories of the virus up to eight months after infection. A more recent study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease, and hospitalization than vaccine-induced immunity. Employers are eager to reach the end of COVID restrictions, like we all are, and they have a duty to provide a safe work environment. However, policies should be accommodating and respect the right of an individual to make his own health-care decisions—especially given the complicated and still-evolving nature of what we know about the virus and the vaccine. Those who choose not to get vaccinated must be free from corporate punishment, coercion, and harassment. If companies choose otherwise, all Americans—vaccinated and unvaccinated—should stand up to corporate tyranny. The COVID-19 pandemic has facilitated the largest American government and corporate power-grab of all time. The corporate vaccine mandates are simply the most recent manifestation of this destruction of liberty. 0 *Dr. Aaron Poynton is the founder and CEO of Omnipoynt Solutions, a government consulting firm. He is a former Army Officer turned business executive and entrepreneur in government technology markets. He holds a doctorate in Public Administration with a research focus on federalism. This article was originally published in the Federalist. References 1) Andreas P, The trump administration wants to shut down vaping? Over a century ago, the government urged soldiers to smoke. The Washington Post, 28 FEB 2020. 2) Blum A, Interview with Attorney Nathan Schachtman, 14 AUG 2020, https://csts.ua.edu/micronite/, accessed 09 May 2022. 3) Furuya S, Chimed-Ochir O, et.al., Global Asbestos Disaster, Int J Environ Res Public Health, MAY 2018, 15:5. 4) CDC, Common Vaccine Safety Questions and Concerns, https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/index.html, accessed 09 MAY 2022. 5) Downing N, Nilay D, et.al. Postmarket Safety Events Among Novel Therapeutics Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration Between 2001 and 2010, JAMA, 317(18):1854-1863, 2017. 6) Gazit S, Shlezinger R, et.al. Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections, MedRxiv, 25 AUG 2021, https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.212624 15v1, accessed 09 MAY 2022. » 6
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 7 Featured Article Global COVID Summit Declaration IV A Joint Statement, Representing 17,000 Physicians and Medical Scientists to End the National Emergency, Restore Scientific Integrity, and Address Crimes Against Humanity By Robert W. Malone, MD, MS* May 14, 2022 1 7,000 physicians and medical scientists declare that the state of medical emergency must be lifted, scientific integrity restored, and crimes against humanity addressed. We, united through our loyalty to the Hippocratic Oath, believe that the disastrous COVID-19 public health policies imposed on doctors and patients are the culmination of a corrupt medical alliance of pharmaceutical, insurance, and healthcare institutions. They have infiltrated our medical system at every level, and are protected and supported by a parallel alliance of conflicted big tech, media, academics, and government agencies who profited from this orchestrated catastrophe. This alliance has compromised the integrity of our most prestigious medical societies to which we belong, generating an illusion of scientific consensus by substituting truth with propaganda. This alliance continues to advance unscientific claims by censoring data, and intimidating and firing doctors and scientists for simply publishing actual clinical results or treating their patients with proven, life-saving methods. These decisions affected the innocent, who were forced to suffer health damage and death caused in part by intentionally withholding critical and time-sensitive treatments, or as a result of coerced genetic therapy injections, which are now known to be neither safe nor effective. The medical community has denied patients the fundamental human right to provide true informed consent for the experimental COVID-19 injections. Our patients are also blocked from obtaining the information necessary to understand risks and benefits of the experimental formulations, and their alternatives, due to widespread censorship and propaganda spread by governments, public health officials, and media. Patients continue to be subjected to forced lock downs which harm their health, careers, children’s education, and damage social and family bonds critical to civil society. This is not a coincidence. In the book entitled “COVID-19: The Great Reset,” leadership of this alliance has clearly stated their intention is to leverage COVID-19 as an “opportunity” to reset our entire global society, culture, political structures, and economy. »
NDA Journal 8 Featured Article Our Summit physicians and medical scientists represent a much larger global medical community who refuse to be compromised, and are united and willing to risk the wrath of the corrupt medical alliance to defend the health of their patients. The mission of the Global COVID Summit is to end this orchestrated crisis, which has been illegitimately imposed on the world, and to formally declare that the actions of this corrupt alliance constitute nothing less than crimes against humanity. We must restore the people’s trust in medicine, which begins with free and open dialogue between physicians and medical scientists. We must restore medical rights and patient autonomy. This includes the foundational principle of the sacred doctor-patient relationship. The social need for this is decades overdue, and therefore, we are compelled to take action. After two years of scientific research, millions of patients treated, hundreds of clinical trials performed and scientific data shared, we have demonstrated and documented our success in understanding and combating COVID-19. In considering the risks versus benefits of major policy decisions, our Summit has reached consensus on the following foundational principles: 1. We declare and the data confirm that the COVID-19 experimental genetic therapy injections must end. 2. We declare doctors should not be blocked from providing life-saving medical treatment. 3. We declare the state of national emergency, which facilitates corruption and extends the pandemic, should be immediately terminated. 4. We declare medical privacy should never again be violated, and all travel and social restrictions must cease. » 5. We declare masks are not and have never been effective protection against an airborne respiratory virus in the community setting. 6. We declare funding and research must be established for vaccination damage, death, and suffering. 7. We declare no opportunity should be denied, including education, career, military service, or medical treatment, over unwillingness to take an injection. 8. We declare that first amendment violations and medical censorship by government, technology, and media companies should cease, and the Bill of Rights be upheld. 9. We declare that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, Astra Zeneca, and their enablers, withheld and willfully omitted safety and effectiveness information from patients and physicians, and should be immediately indicted for fraud. 10. We declare government and medical agencies must be held accountable. 0 *Robert W. Malone MD, MS. creator of mRNA & DNA vaccines, scientist, physician, writer, podcaster, commentator and advocate. Believer in our fundamental freedom of free speech. Entire biography can be found at https://rwmalonemd. substack.com/about
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 9 Featured Article SECURE Act On March 29, the House of Representatives voted 414-5 in favor of the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2022. If passed by the Senate, and then signed into law by President Joe Biden, the act could represent a massive economic policy shift regarding retirement savings and investment. See: 2022 Changes to 401(k) Limits Roth IRAs The retirement savings legislation, also known as SECURE Act, expands on the original SECURE Act and includes provisions to boost the required minimum distribution (RMD) age from 72 to 75 over time, broaden automatic enrollment in retirement plans, and enhance 403(b) plans. The original Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act was passed into law by former President Donald Trump in December 2019. This legislation altered the existing retirement savings plan system in terms of RMD, contributions to traditional IRAs, 529 plan uses for student loans, and making annuities easier for 401(k) plan administrators to offer. The SECURE Act 2.0 expands on all of these provisions, including increasing the RMD age further to 73 in 2022, to 74 in 2029, and to 75 in 2032. It also requires 401(k) and 403(b) plans to automatically enroll participants when they become eligible, though employees may opt out of this coverage. The automatic enrollment amount starts at a minimum 3% of salary—but no more than 10%—followed by a 1% increase each year until it reaches said 10%. There is an exception to this requirement pertaining to small businesses with 10 or fewer employees, new businesses (those less than three years old), church plans, and governmental plans. The SECURE Act 2.0 also changes policies on catch-up limits concerning retirement plans (and indexes IRA catch-up limits to inflation beginning in 2023). Student loan repayments and employer matching of such as retirement contributions, small employer pension plan start-up credits, and » 1,2
NDA Journal 10 Featured Article collective investment trusts (CITs) in 403(b) plans. Further, the legislation opens up opportunities for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in variable annuities. 0 (Editor’s Note: This may be political posturing for the mid-terms. For the 92% of retirees totally dependent on Social Security to finance retirement, this bill offers little or no help. For the millions of Americans with retirement savings deficits auto- enrollment (forced participation in plain terms) resulting from findings of behavioral economics that working people (those not employed by the government) won’t save unless coerced, and catch-up provisions allocating non-existent surplus earnings to risk of principal investments won’t be of much help either. With inflation destroying even productive »
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 11 individuals’ surplus earnings and “stealth-taxing” productive individuals’ savings these measures are of little or no help. Education on how to add value so that an individual can earn more than they spend on lifestyle costs, and then providing planning that maximizes the efficiency, control, and safety of the conversion of individuals’ surplus earnings to guaranteed life income is the fundamental solution to Americans’ retirement savings deficits.) References 1) Hartman R, What is the SECURE Act?, USNews Money, 03 FEB 2021, https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/iras/articles/what-is-the- secure-act, accessed 20 MAY 2022. 2) Coumanakos E, SECURE Act Basics: What Everyone Should Know, Kiplinger, 24 MAR 2020, https://www.kiplinger.com/article/retirement/ t037-c032-s014-secure-act-basics-what-everyone-should-know.html, accessed 20 MAY 2022. Featured Article
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NDA Journal 14 NDA Executive Director’s Message Michele M. Reeder NDA Executive Director’s Summer Message Seasons come and seasons go. It is at this time of year when we transition from our current NDA President, Dr. Ed De Andrade, to our incoming President, Dr. Jason Doucette. It has been my sincere pleasure to work with Dr. De Andrade while getting to know him better. Stepping into an association presidency is full of promise for the future mixed with leadership skills that can test the best leaders amongst us. This role is so important to the NDA and to organized dentistry here in Nevada. Thank you, Dr. De Andrade, for your leadership this past year! Organized dentistry continues to evolve across the U.S. and the NDA is no different. I am struck by the promise of UNLV dental students who move so fast and who seem so much smarter than I was at their age. Some in my generation may feel differently, but I believe firmly that this generation is intelligent in ways we just do not understand. Sure, they learn differently now and are afforded different practice modalities coming out of dental school, but if they focus on people and the medicine, combined with their skills, they could revolutionize dentistry. The NDA is desperately trying to negotiate this post-pandemic world to ensure dentists are protected to practice dentistry here in Nevada. One of the key benefits of membership is advocacy where your voice can be heard loudly both in Nevada and in Washington DC. Many say that advocacy benefits all dentists, being a member or not. While this may be true, without membership dues, our voice becomes diminished until we have no voice at all and no representation. This past March, the NDA held the 2023 NDA Legislative Strategy Session where, using your survey responses, NDA volunteers, leaders, and our lobby team Tri-Strategies, developed our legislative priorities and explored bill sponsors to ensure success. We will share the details with members once these priorities are finalized. Another benefit which we do not talk about often is peer review. This one benefit can pay for itself. It is not of matter of it, but when you will have a patient complaint that could cost you money, potentially impact your license to practice, or could result in a notation in your file with the dental board that raises your malpractice
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 15 NDA Executive Director’s Message insurance. Peer Review affords you the opportunity to have your case reviewed by your peers potentially averting the complaint going to the dental board. Peer Review is offered to you at no cost and part of your membership. Do the math—this one benefit could be worth more than what you pay today in annual dues. So for those of you who have renewed your membership dues, we thank you. If you have not, we ask that you invest in your future and renew today at www.nvda.org. I am thrilled to announce that the NDA has hired a new Director of Member Services. Ms. Marianna Kacyra starts June and comes to us from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges where she grew their membership from 1,300 to 2,000 members during her tenure as their membership manager. She will be a huge asset to the NDA, and I know you will welcome her to the NDA family. She will be attending the June NDA Annual Summer meeting where she will have an opportunity to see many NDA leaders from across the state. Lastly, I want to thank SNDS, NNDS, and NENDS for their commitment to the NDA. Their leaders, volunteers, and staff help us support all of you. We hope you enjoy this summer with family and friends. We’ve got your back—go relax and enjoy. 0 One of the key benefits of membership is advocacy where your voice can be heard loudly both in Nevada and in Washington DC. Many say that advocacy benefits all dentists, being a member or not. While this may be true, without membership dues, our voice becomes diminished until we have no voice at all and no representation. c c
NDA Journal 16 Ed De Andrade, DDS NDA President’s Summer Message NDA President’s Message Oh boy how time flies. This will be my final article as the Nevada Dental Association President. As we transition from spring to summer, I want to remind everyone that our House of Delegates Summer meeting will be held in beautiful Lake Las Vegas June 16-18th. The NDA is excited to host both Dr. Brett Kessler, our 14th District Trustee and Dr. George Shepley, ADA PresidentElect, who will be attending this year’s House of Delegates meeting. This past year has been a year full of changes, from strict COVID-19 protocols to a return to a more normal existence. I couldn’t have done it without the support from our village. The Nevada Dental Association’s Executive Director Ms. Michele Reeder has been instrumental in helping me this past year as she herself has settled into her position. I also want to thank the NDA executive committee, for their guidance, the NNDS, the SNDS executive directors and the different sub committees who work very hard with membership and government affairs issues. This last year we have laid the groundwork for the 2023 Legislative session. I can assure you that we are in good hands under the leadership of incoming president Dr. Jason Doucette. We have been hard at work with finalizing regulations from the victories of the 2021 Legislative session and are setting ourselves up for a very successful 2023 Nevada Legislative agenda. I would like to thank Tri-Strategies, our lobby firm for their hard work and dedication to the Nevada Dental Association. I am very much looking forward to the Western States Presidents Conference, attended by presidents and president-elects. This year it will be held in Alaska. I understand that it is a very productive meeting and I’m looking forward to bringing back some insights to share with our Association. I want to point out some highlights of my presidency, Speaking at the white coat ceremonies for the UNLVSDM class of ’23 and ’24. I also spoke at the commencement exercises for the UNLVSDM class of ’21 and ’22. I really enjoyed that. The excitement of the newly graduated class with their entire future ahead of them, the future of our profession. Very exciting indeed. I would like to conclude with an ask, I ask that you get involved in organized dentistry, that you tell your colleagues about joining as well. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of being at the table when our profession is being discussed at the state level. When rules are being made about how we practice, how we run our businesses and where our profession is headed. It is up to you, me, all of us to get involved so that we make a difference. It really needs to be us, the dental community who decide what happens to our profession. I want to thank you, all of you, for the honor of representing you, the Nevada Dental Association this past year. Sincerely, Ed De Andrade 0
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Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 19 SNDS President’s Summer Message Ronald J. Laux, DDS SNDS President’s Message The spring has been busy as we transition to our new leadership team. Many thanks to Immediate Past-President Dr. Sheronda StriderBarraza for her skills as we had to replace our Executive Director, bring in the new ED, and deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Sean Worrix has been with us since January as the new ED replacing Ms. Monica Rexius, who moved to Idaho to pursue other endeavors. Dr. Christine Lemon joins the Executive Board as Secretary, Dr. Rick Schoen moves up to President-Elect and Dr. Michelle Farnoush continues as Treasurer. All are extremely dedicated to serve you and make organized dentistry work for the betterment of you and your patients. There are many changes planned for the 2022–2023 dental year. One big change is the switch to six membership meetings, three in the fall and three in the spring, up from the current number of four. Historically there were eight membership meetings per year, so the change to six should be doable. I encourage all members to attend these meetings. It is a good way to keep up on what is happening in the dental world, a chance to mingle with colleagues and friends, an opportunity to receive two hours of Continuing Education credits (along with a chance to learn something) and a relaxing, few hours out of the office. Check the SNDS website and read your emails from the Society for the dates of all meetings. Another change will be more activity of our New Dentist Committee. This is a great opportunity for our newer members, those in practice less than 10 years, to be heard and seen. The new dentists represent the future of our profession and your opinions matter. The diversity you bring should be celebrated and encouraged and I am here to support you. Whether it is a continuing education program, a social event or even a gripe session, I have your back. In addition, the Mentorship Program is being overhauled with much input from the NDA Membership Council. This will allow us to focus our efforts in specific directions, such as interactions with the students at UNLV School of Dental Medicine or to newer members seeking guidance from an experienced local practitioner. Some things that are not changing will be the summertime CE Café. Members can receive two credits of Continuing Education per session. These will take place on the last Wednesday of May, June, July, and August. Also, the SNDS Community Night extravaganza is scheduled for October 2022. Watch your email for notifications. And the SNDS continues to have a voice on the NDA Council on Government Affairs, your advocacy arm of organized dentistry. There has been a considerable increase in communication and cooperation with both the NDA and Northern Nevada Dental Society. I am in weekly contact with NDA Executive Director Michele Reeder and NNDS ED Lori Benvin has been a valuable asset in helping our ED Sean Worrix adapt to his new position. A better working relationship all around will mean we can do a better job for you, our members. I am bringing my years of experience in private practice, organized dentistry and dental education to serve you, the dentists of Nevada. I am dedicated to making a difference and creating a stronger, more diverse dental society where every member has a voice. Remember there is strength in numbers. And the future of dentistry depends on you. Please contact me with any questions or concerns you may have. I can be reached at [email protected] or 702-772-6072. 0 The diversity you bring should be celebrated and encouraged and I am here to support you.
NDA Journal 20 Lori Benvin [email protected] News from the Northern Nevada Dental Society NNDS Executive Director’s Message Welcome Newest NNDS Members As summer approaches, we welcome a few elected changes to our Executive Board and Committee members. First and foremost, I must thank our outgoing President Dr. Ben Brooks for an outstanding leadership year and his dedication to the Executive Board for the past several years. The NNDS has had many strong leaders, but you have been exceptional Dr. Ben, so THANK YOU! Achieving a milestone 20th year as the Executive Director of the NNDS, Dr. Brooks and Dr. Erin Anderson certainly humbled me along with the rest of the Exec. Board in a celebratory surprise in October, I will never forget this special evening. As Dr. Brooks becomes our Past President on June 1, please help us welcome Dr. Hannah Beus as NNDS President, Dr. Chris Galea as Vice President, Dr. K.C. Gilbert as Secretary/Treasurer and NDA Membership Council Chair, Dr. John McLennan as Member at Large and CE Chair, Dr. Ben Syndergaard as Member at Large, and newest Member at Large Dr. Aimee Abittan. Dr. Scott Sutter will remain our Chief Delegate and will take office as ADA Alt. Delegate in June as well. Dr. Whitney Bryant remains our dedicated stellar New Dentist Chair. Thank you to our committed delegation from the north too: Dr. Garrett Swanson, Dr. Aimee Abittan, Dr. Troy Savant, Dr. Amy Nygren, Dr. Kellie McGinley, Dr. Cody Besso, and newest delegate Dr. Deaudre LeCato. We know you all are a huge asset to our society and its members, and we thank you for joining the ranks for 2022/23. This September we are hosting a Leadership Retreat on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022 with our guest speaker Diaz Dixon followed by a cocktail reception. This is a free continuing education event for anyone interested in leadership including sharing ideas with our current leaders and with fellow colleagues. It will be an excellent opportunity to find out more about involvement in organized dentistry leadership, leadership in our community, and in your practice. We hope you will mark your calendars, check out ‘Events’ on our website, and watch for our invitation. This past weekend our non-profit program Healthy Smile Healthy Child (HSHC), a program of the Northern Nevada Dental Health Programs (NNDHP), held our 2nd Give Kids A Smile event for 2022 at TMCC dental clinic. Last year we started hosting three of these events per year originally at volunteer dental offices, but in 2022 Truckee Meadows Community College and their gracious Dental Assisting Academic Program Director Julie Muhle offered up their amazing dental clinic on the TMCC campus. This state-of-the-art facility is the home to the TMCC Dental Assisting program and the Dental Hygiene program. The students from both scholastic programs volunteer at our events along with volunteer dentists, UNR Pre-dent students, and staff volunteers. These events screen uninsured low-income children by appointment and children are then placed with one of our volunteer NNDHP providers for dental treatment. If a child is identified as only needing preventive care, the TMCC RDH program students will take those children for follow-up after our event. Our HSHC program is a yearround program existing since 1985 and places underserved children with our generous volunteer dentists and specialists. We THANK all the volunteers who come to these events, and we especially thank TMCC for this partnership and the volunteer dentists who treat these qualified children in their offices for needed dental care pro-bono. Please watch for more event information this summer and continuing education opportunities as we will kick off our 2022/23 year this September. You can go to our website at www.nn dental.org and watch for our electronic newsletters and other e-communication. Thank you for your continued support and your membership, we VALUE all of you and we want to be of value to all of you too.0 Deaudre LeCato, DMD–General Jared Link, DMD–General Scott Redlinger, DMD, MD– Oral Surgeon–Welcome Back!
Summer 2022 www.nvda.org 21 NNDS President’s Message Benjamin Brooks, DDS NNDS President’s Summer Message Greetings from Northern Nevada! We are winding up a great year of NNDS Dinner CE meetings, holiday parties, award nights, and more. It was our first full season of meetings and events since our COVID shutdown, and it’s wonderful to be back in motion. Huge welcome and thank you to our newly elected NNDS executive committee: Hannah Beus as President, Chris Galea as VP, K.C. Gilbert as Treasurer, John McClennan as CE chair, Aimee Abittan and Ben Syndergaard as Members-at Large. There are a whole different group of NDA representatives, ADA representatives, committee members, delegates and NNDHP committee members (too many to list) that also donate their time, looking out for our profession we should thank. First, get to know and thank our NDA executive director, Michele Reeder. And if you are interested in learning the behindthe-scenes of organized dentistry, please reach out to Lori Benvin, Michele Reeder or any representatives. This is our profession; we all help take care of us! Another thank you to Lori Benvin, executive director for the NNDS. Wrapping up 20 successful seasons watching over us and our society. She has been an immeasurable force for us, and really cares about us keep ing our society and the camaraderie that it brings to future generations. Hopefully everyone can get out and enjoy summer. Nowhere else does it like Nevada. Camp, swim, bike, sit in the AC, whatever makes you happy! Be mindful while doing it and focus on the now, because it won’t happen again. Eat lunch without your cell phone sometime and pay attention to eating lunch. It’s an interesting exercise. Enjoy these beautiful days! This time of year in Nevada is magical. We have a great series of CE meetings coming this fall in Northern Nevada. We kick off with our open house summer BBQ on August 18. Bring the family! Taco truck AND dessert truck! In September is the annual Joel Glover golf tournament. It is the 20th anniversary this year! Our first dinner CE of the next season in October is Dr. Joseph Cohen, “Non-Dental Tooth Pain.” It will be worth attending. Cheers, Dr. Benjamin R. Brooks 0 Be Mindful and focus on the now, because it wont happen again. Eat lunch without your cell phone sometime and pay attention to eating lunch. It’s an interesting exercise. Enjoy these beautiful days! This time of year in Nevada is magical.
NDA Journal 22 Northern Nevada D E N T A L S O C I E T Y NDA Calendar of Events 2022 June 6/1 Executive Committee Zoom 6:00pm 6/16–6/18 NDA Annual Summer Meeting Hilton Lake, Las Vegas TBD July 7/13 Executive Committee Zoom 6:00pm 7/17–7/18 State President Elect Conference Chicago TBD 7/18–7/19 Management Conference Chicago TBD 7/19–7/20 Conference on Membership Chicago TBD 7/28–7/30 Western States Conference Seward, Alaska TBD August 8/3 Executive Committee Zoom 6:00pm 8/26–8/28 14th District Caucus I Denver, Colorado TBD 2022 June 6/1 New NNDS Officers Take Office 6/7 Delegate Pre-Mtg. & NNDS Executive Committee 5605 Riggins Court, #101A, Reno 5:30pm 6/17–6/18 NDA Annual Summer Meeting Hilton Lake Las Vegas - www.nvda.org TBD 6/23 NNDS New Dentist Event Axe & Throw, Legends Mall, Sparks 5:30pm July 7/12 NNDS Executive Committee Meeting 5605 Riggins Court, #101A, Reno 6:00pm August 8/11 NNDS Executive Committee Meeting 5605 Riggins Court, #101A, Reno 6:00pm 8/18 NNDS Open House Picnic Bartley Ranch Park, Reno 5:30pm
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