ADA News Archive

The Board of Trustees approved the 2011-12 ADA council, committee and commission chairs at its September meeting.

Concord, N.C.—The ADA’s Give Kids A Smile program—and its sponsors 3M ESPE Dental and Henry Schein Cares—raced into high gear Oct. 15 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, hosting a five-hour children’s dental event before the Bank of America 500 race and bringing the GKAS message to one of the nation’s largest spectator sport fan bases, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, or NASCAR.

Sacramento, Calif.—The state Carcinogen Identification Committee will not add fluoride to its list of known carcinogens under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986—better known as Proposition 65.

Las Vegas—Drs. Gary Klasser and Prabu Raman sat side by side on a stage in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, but the two dentists could not have been farther apart.

Big help: This year’s Committee on Local Arrangements got a helping hand from Scarlett Cozine, age 4, who poses here Oct. 12 with her proud grandfather, Dr. Rick Thiriot, Henderson Nev., at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Manufacturers display their wares during Annual Session in Las Vegas at the ADA World Marketplace Exhibition Oct. 10-12.

More than 27,000 dentists, dental team members, exhibitors, students, guests and others attended the Las Vegas meeting last month.

Washington—Members of an ADA-supported business coalition “strongly urge” the Senate to support House-passed legislation and repeal a 3 percent withholding tax scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2013. The Senate was expected to take up repeal legislation early in November.

Washington—A broad-based coalition of dental and other health care advocates applauded Department of Health and Human Services “recognition” of oral health as a leading indicator of the overall health of the U.S. population and access to care as a chief objective for Healthy People 2020.

Washington—The ADA and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry urged the Health Resources and Services Administration to reject a federal advisory panel’s dental workforce recommendations in a draft health personnel report to Congress.

Lansing, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder, in a special health care message Sept. 14, praised the profession’s oral health initiatives as important to the health of Michigan residents and urged state and federal funding hikes to expand and sustain them. 

Washington—The American Dental Association joined 76 general industry and trade organizations in urging Congress to extend bonus depreciation and small business expensing tax provisions.

Since leaving office in 2009 after four years as U.S. secretary of state under President George W. Bush, the pace of life has slowed a bit for Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D

The PRASAD Children’s Dental Health Program, which has served more than 62,381 children in New York’s Sullivan and Ulster counties since 1996, has launched a new mobile clinic to treat children at local schools who might otherwise have transportation issues that limit access to dental care.

Charlotte, N.C.—The volunteer dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants at the North Carolina Dental Society’s Mission of Mercy program pulled an all-nighter Aug. 19.

Las Vegas—Every year, the ADA Board of Trustees recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the art and science of dentistry by making them honorary members.

Washington—The Medical Musical Group Symphony Orchestra and Chorale seeks participants. MMG will perform twin “Healing for the Nations” concerts in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 9 and 15.

Sports drinks and sodas may taste good but they can wreak havoc on teeth.

Princeton, N.J.—A national program that has fostered diversity among U.S. medical school faculty for the past 25 years will now do the same for dental school faculty.

The ADA Council on Scientific Affairs has approved for circulation for review and comment a proposed revision to ANSI/ADA Specification No. 125-2009 for Manual Interdental Brushes.

Sun Valley, Idaho—It's of Dr. Jack Mooney's opinion that you not wait.