SDDSNY Bulletin July/August 2021

• NYCHealthDepartment approached SDDS to do a CE webinar addressing dentistry and COVID and give a review, lessons learned and where we will go from here. DOH will send Dr. Demas and Bernie the description and then will invite other components in the city. May extend to the rest of the state if information is not NYC specific • Contacted all residency programs except Wyckoff and VA for residency visits • Need sponsors for the house of delegates social functions • We may be going to live meetings in the fall, but Dyker Beach may or may not be avail- able to us for a live membership meeting. May consider Gargiulos if we do not hear from Dyker Beach soon NYSDA REPORTS: Council on Dental Practice — Dr. John Demas (emailed): • Dr. Demas was elected as chair for another year Council on Peer Review and QA — Dr. Man Sing Cheung (emailed): • Issue of a mandated vaccination for the participants • It was voted unanimously that the employee dentist and the owner dentist must be a member of NYSDA for the Peer Review Committee to hear the case. This will now go on to the state level for approval Council on Dental Benefit Plans — Dr. Alyson Buchalter (emailed): • Medicare Advantage Plan requested money from a dentist because the dentist had opted out of Medicare. Medicare will no longer be paying doctors that have opted out of Medi- care Advantage plans • Dr. Buchalter was elected to serve as chair for another year NYSDA Medicaid Subcommittee — Dr. Steve Backer (emailed) NYSDA Trustee —Dr. Mitchell Mindlin: • Advocacy Day included the lieutenant gover- nor, senate majority leader and the chair of the health committee • NYSDA will have a new risk management course targeting residents in a few months • NYSDA received a PPP loan and unsure if it will be a forgiven loan and is being set aside until finances are assessed • New York State Department of Education has never endorsed us for COVID-19 testing and vaccinating. The governor’s order was only in state of emergency. It is currently still out of scope of practice • A request has been made to update NYS COVID guidelines to coincide with CDC guidelines. NYS requires you to wait 15 minutes between patients and CDC is under the discretion of the provider • ADA Advocacy Day included a bill that will increase COVID relief and make PRF grants tax-exempt. Also, a bill for tax credits for PPE and another for insurance companies to pay for birth defects. Many dentists and students spoke on a bill to permit students to recalcu- late and refinance student loan debt SDDS REPORTS: Greater New York Dental Meeting — Drs. Oshrain/ James Doundoulakis: • New York is fully opening but how will larger venues entertain people at programs i.e., sporting events, exhibit halls. Gover- nor is not making a form commitment or comments. • Committee is getting educational program ready. Will resemble half of the program we had in 2019 and trying to increase the number of workshops • Please register now for the Meeting • Dr. Oshrain encouraged everyone to register now for the meeting and although currently it is only half in size there is flexibility to add more programming Richmond County Dental Society — Dr. Sandra Scibetta: • Meeting May 11 • Dr. Peroni a PGY-2 at Staten Island Hospi- tal has joined the RCDS Board of Trustees Publications Committee —Dr. Howard Lieb: • Final touches on the website were made by Veronica and Christine and website will go live shortly Awards Committee —Dr. Craig Ratner: • Met to review Loan Forgiveness Application scoring summary • Awards Committee is recommending to award 24 awards of $10,000 each • Resolution was adopted to award 24 awards of $10,000 each for the Loan Forgiveness HOD Local Arrangements Committee — Dr. Paul Albicocco: • HODpostponed to Aug 12–15 at theWestin • End of June as a determination of an in-person or virtual meeting • Contracts were made in case we do not have an in-person meeting that we would not be liable • Changes have been made to allow social distancing • Golf outing at the Richmond County Country Club on Thursday, Aug 12 • August 13 will begin HOD • Need volunteers for registration desk hours of 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. • Friday night cocktail at the rooftop of the Hyatt • NYSDA dinner aboard the boat on Satur- day evening UNFINISHED BUSINESS: None NEW BUSINESS: None GOOD &WELFARE: • Dr. Segelnick co-published in the Clinical Advances of Periodontics, entitled “AModi- fiedTechnique of Tacking Acellular Dermal Matrix to Increase Keratinized Mucosa around Dental Implants as an Alternative to a Free Gingival Graft: A Case Report.” ADJOURNMENT: 8:05 p.m. WWW.SDDSNY.ORG 13