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!
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