PCDA Oct 06 Newsltr - Pinellas County Dental Association

EXECUTIVE BOARD 2013-2014
Glen E. Jones, DMD
President and Delegate
New Contact Information
P.O. Box 1833
Brandon, FL 33509
smilepinellas@gmail.com
P: (727) 342-0374
F: (727) 342-6842
Susan E. Hudak Boss, DMD
President-Elect and Delegate
Alberto M. Bird, DMD
Vice President and Alternate Delegate
Sandra A. Worman, DDS
Council Chair-At-Large and Alternate Delegate
I. Rita Hurst, DMD
Council Chairs-At-Large
Kenneth W. Grundset, DDS
Executive Treasurer
Edward B. Busch, DMD
Immediate Past President and Alternate Delegate
Kelsey M. Tidler
Executive Secretary
October 2013
Mark Your Calendar
2013-2014
View the online PCDA Master Calendar here
Nov. 13, 2013 PCDA/UPCDA Joint Meeting
Useful Orthodontic Tools When
Planning Restorative Cases
William Layman, DMD
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE!
Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park
Dec. 4, 2013
Medical Errors in Dentistry
William Robinson, DDS, The Club at TI
Hygienists invited!
Jan. 29, 2014 Legislative Reception, The Club at TI
Feb. 5, 2014
Domestic Violence
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office
The Club at TI
Hygienists invited!
Mar. 5, 2014
Advances in DNA Technology to
Diagnose Dental Diseases
Debra Zafiroppulos, RDH, The Club at TI
Apr. 9, 2014
Vendor Fair
Sponsored by Benco, The Club at TI
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES:
PCDA/UPCDA Joint Meeting
Useful Orthodontic
Tools When Planning
Restorative Cases
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Have you been looking at that model on your desk just a bit too long? Dr.
Layman will discuss how the orthodontist can help you deal with short
clinical crowns, periodontally involved anterior tooth movement prior to
implants, missing lateral incisor cases, molar/incisor intrusion and anterior
open bite cases treated non-surgically.
Social begins at 6:00 pm • Business begins at 7:00 pm
• PLEASE NOTE THE LOCATION CHANGE •
Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park
950 Lake Carillon Dr., St. Petersburg, FL 33716
Meeting is sponsored in part by
Divas in Dentistry Networking Event
Neiman Marcus, Tampa • Nov. 9, 2013
WCDDA’s Annual Meeting
St. Petersburg Hilton Bayfront • Jan. 17, 2014
Give Kids A Smile®
Feb. 17, 2014
FLA-MOM, FDA Mission of Mercy
Florida State Fairgrounds • Mar. 28 - 29, 2014
www.flamom.floridadental.org
Dentists’ Day on the Hill
Tallahassee, FL • Apr. 2, 2014
Pension Services
Regions Bank
VISTA PAY
Attendees are required to RSVP with Kelsey Tidler at
smilepinellas@gmail.com or (727) 342-0374 by
Friday, November 8, 2013.
DESK
PRESIDENT
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Wow! What a great year we’re having and we’re only a
few months into it. The board and I are more energized
than ever to continue my quest to make the PCDA the best
it can be! Dr. Matt Dennis’ presentation on
“Anticoagulation Therapy in Dentistry” was one of the
best clinically applicable lectures I’ve heard in a long
time. It alone was worth the price of our yearly dues.
Although I’m pleased with our recent efforts to attract
new members, I want to do more to add to our
membership roster. Unfortunately, 45% of practicing
dentists in South Pinellas County are not part of organized
dentistry. This number is unbelievable and inexcusably
high. Do nearly half of all dentists in our area not
understand the importance of a unified voice when it
comes to protecting our profession, especially in this time
of health care reform and increased government
regulation? Let’s reach out to this uninformed population
and expose them to the benefits of organized dentistry.
Make the call to the new dentist down the street and
extend an invitation to the next meeting. Specialists, use
your marketing skills to tout the advantages of being a
PCDA member when wooing a potential new referral.
Like I’ve said before, if we’re not the ones interested in
protecting our profession, then who is? We need to ramp
up our efforts to get this 45% number down to zero!
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Come and bring a potential new
member to our joint meeting with
UPCDA on Wednesday, November
13th at 6:00 pm. Please note the
change in venue! This meeting
will be held at the Hilton St.
Petersburg, Carillon Park. Dr.
William Layman will present
“Useful Orthodontic Tools when
Planning Restorative Cases”. A
presentation no one should miss. Don’t forget to RSVP. You
can simply hit REPLY to this email. Include your name and
the potential new member you’ll be bringing.
I’m proud to announce the service-oriented side of our
PCDA is shining brighter than I can remember in recent
years! We were able to award another PTEC scholarship
just this month thanks to our member’s generous support.
The PCDA Mission is thriving and will be extending
services at the PTEC campus soon. The planning for
GKAS has started and is looking very promising for an
increase in participation this year. The Florida Mission of
Mercy (MOM) Program planning is in full swing and will
need our support. Remember to sign up ASAP on their
website www.flamom.floridadental.org. They need over
300 dentists and more than 1,000 support volunteers to
treat over 1,600 patients on March 28-29, 2014! This will
be one for the record books.
As always, your board and I are available to you. Email or
call me if you have any questions, concerns or comments.
Glen
727-515-7885
glenjones@mac.com
Do you have a colleague or a friend who is not a member of PCDA? Invite them
to our next meeting on November 13th at The Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park or have them
contact Kelsey at smilepinellas@gmail.com or Dr. Susan Hudak Boss at hudakboss@juno.com
at for more information about attending meetings or becoming member.
IMPORTANT WEBSITES
PCDA Nominations
www.smilepinellas.com
The Pinellas County Dental Association is currently
accepting nominations for the new 2014-2015
Council Chair-at-Large position. Please submit your
nomination to the PCDA central office by November
6, 2013. Nominations will be announced at the
November 13, 2013 joint meeting.
www.keeppinellasfluoridated.org
www.wcdental.org
www.floridadental.org
www.ada.org
www.floridasdentistry.gov
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
HIPAA Email Communications
Dentist email communications with patients may be affected by new HIPAA rules. Under the new rule, if the
patient requests that the information be provided in an unencrypted email, the dental practice may be required to
provide the information that way if the practice has advised the patient of the risk that the email might be accessed
by an unauthorized third party and the patient still prefers to receive the information in an unencrypted email.
HIPAA requires that covered dental practices implement reasonable safeguards, including reasonable procedures,
to ensure that the practice correctly enters the email address. The practice is not responsible for the email while in
transit nor once is it delivered to the patient. A dental practice would be prudent to consult qualified legal counsel
to determine whether it is covered by HIPAA and how to respond to patient requests in compliance with applicable
state and federal law. View article and FAQs at http://www.ada.org/news/9156.aspx.
Environmental Scan Shows Dentistry
Entering a New Normal
Dentistry may be entering a new normal. Americans have been
visiting the dentist less frequently and spending less money on their
oral health, according to the ADA Health Policy Resources Center.
These habits may be pushing the profession into a new normal when it
comes to total U.S. dental spending, HPRC said in an environmental
scan of the dental care sector titled “A Profession in Transition: Key
Forces Reshaping the Dental Landscape.” “Using various modeling
scenarios, the results indicate that dental spending will remain fairly
flat in the coming decades—a departure from the decades of
historically robust growth in the dental economy,” according to the
scan. “Clearly, the economic recovery, when it does finally kick into
gear, may not bring back the dental spending growth many are
anticipating.” “The findings from this scan have shown considerable
change is taking place in dentistry,” ADA President Robert Faiella
said. “Dentists are facing significant challenges in their practices and
business models. They may think it’s because of the economic
recession, but it’s really a change in the dental landscape as a whole.
The ADA is here to help dentists navigate and adjust to those changes
and look at them as opportunities.” Click here to view the full article
and findings. To read the full environmental scan and to watch a video
explaining the report, visit ADA.org/escan.
Center For Professional Success
The ADA Center for Professional Success is live on the web and
available to help members navigate the challenges of being a dentist.
The Center, located at Success.ADA.org, is a one-stop shop for
dentists who are seeking resources that will help them succeed as
dental practitioners and small business owners. This new member
benefit will help dentists find solutions to professional and personal
challenges. The website includes everything from tips for choosing a
career path to balancing personal and professional lives to planning for
retirement. Read full article here.
Once again, PCDA will be
collecting new toys for the
TOYS FOR TOTS annual
campaign at the December 4th
meeting. Please consider
participating in this worthwhile
program and bring unwrapped
toys to our meeting for
distribution.
SAVE-THE-DATE
PCDA’S SMILE
EVERYONE
SCAVENGER HUNT
Get your team together
and save the date for
Saturday, February 22, 2014
at 5:30pm!
Location and details to follow.
Stay tuned!
PINELLAS TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER
Dental Assisting Program is Alive and Well
I would like to share a great success story with everyone and thank you for your help. The dental assistant program at
Pinellas Technical Education Center (PTEC) is flourishing! Currently there are 38 students enrolled in the program with a
98% hire rate. There are many reasons for this success, but two main reasons are your support and the fact that PTEC
turns out some of the best trained assistants in the field. When we as dentists sit down next to a patient, a good assistant
makes us look like well-oiled machines. A poorly trained assistant makes us look like – well, something else. We need
good assistants. The program needs our support. So what can you do? It’s simple. One, talk to your patients about the
rewarding profession of dental assisting and inform them of the opportunity PTEC offers. Two, hire assistants from the
program. There are nine students ready to graduate in December. Lastly, donate to the dental assisting scholarship. This
scholarship is awarded to students in need. If you know of somebody you would like to nominate for a scholarship or if
you are looking for an assistant, just contact Dawn Smith, PTEC’s spectacular head instructor at smithdawn@pcsb.org.
Thank you again for your continued support.
Anthony J. Schweiger, DMD
Dental Assisting Advisory Committee
PTEC Dental Assisting Students
Kaileen Alvarado
Ariel Baker
Lady Brown
Shannon Burt
Carrie Dowdy
Kirsten Erickson
Kasey Fernandez
Karene Ferrus
Dylan Forney
Shawanda Fowler
Jaleesa Hartfield
Kelli Hartman
Tedd Hernandez
Erika Hofer
Martine Houston
Brittany Howell
Maria Jaramillo
Cindy Johnson
Jesse Johnson
Emrah Kuc
Pakou Lee
Tiffany Martin
Justine North
Sebastian Ocampo
Lea Olivero
Crystal Pate
Anthony Peterson
Qahsheim Porter
Tierra Rollins
Stacy SanSoucie
Lindsay Slaughter
Kim Smith
Stacy Smith
Devin Wagner
Marquitta Williams
PTEC Dental Assisting
Scholarship Recipient
PCDA was able to provide $1,670.80
towards scholarship for Ms. Justine North.
I can’t thank the PCDA
enough for helping with my
love for dental assisting. I
will strive to be the best and
can’t wait to be out in the
dental world working!
Ms. Justine
North
– Justine North
PCDA Mission Makes Advances
Your PCDA Mission is a motivational train! We are extending our volunteer
program to PTEC to accommodate more of the Free Clinic patients in need of
dental work. We will initially work one Friday per month from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00
p.m., and the dental assisting students will be there to lend a hand. (They will be
training in the areas of reception, assisting, radiographs, and sterilization.) We are
planning to have a hygienist there as well. All five chairs will be utilized, and with
PTEC’s outstanding head instructor, Dawn Smith, things will flow smoothly.
Dawn just recently received approval to submit estimates for new flooring and all L:R – Chris Lee, Kelly Dixon, Dawn Smith,
Ronda Russick, Claudia Rosas and
new cabinetry in their clinic, which we’re hoping to be completed prior to our first
Dr. Amy Anderson
clinic, February 2014. As we have done in the past, Claudia Rosas from the Free
Clinic, will continue to schedule these patients for us. Once again, all we need is for one doctor to show up each clinic
and treat eight patients. You will be busy and all chairs will be filled!
Chris Lee, Ronda Russick, Claudia Rosas, and I met with Dawn Smith and her new (soon-to-be full time) co-instructor,
Kelly Daxon, to take inventory at PTEC. Besides disposables, the only request they have is for a cavitron and/or
cavitron tips. If you have one you do not need, please consider donating it to this fantastic cause. Otherwise, we are
good to go! Please contact myself or Claudia if you’d like to volunteer. This mission is a win-win for ALL those involved!
Thanks,
Amy Anderson
The Endo Post
PCDA Dental Advertisements
• October 2013 •
Dentist Volunteers Needed!
Want to be part of something great that will really make
a difference? VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME AND
TALENTS TO THE HEALTHY TEETH CLINIC.
Work with awesome assistants and grateful patients in a
beautiful office. We work hard to make sure you have a
great experience. Tell us the hours and dates that will
work for you and the services you’re happy to provide
and we will take care of the rest. Currently we are in
desperate need of volunteer dentists for October,
November, January, February and March. Call or e-mail
Christina Vongsyprasom at (727) 824-6966 or Christina
Vongsyprasom@doh.state.fl.us for more information or
to set up a volunteer date.
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Visit www.wcdental.org for more info!
Direct all classified and ad inquiries to: PCDA/Kelsey Tidler smilepinellas@gmail.com or (727) 342-0374.
Luis E. Martinez, DMD, PA, Peer Review Chairman • Charles L. Ford, DMD, Ethics Chairman
Amy F. Anderson, DMD, Editor • Kelsey M. Tidler, Co-Editor
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
PINELLAS AND UPPER PINELLAS COUNTY
DENTAL ASSOCIATIONS JOINT MEETING
The Florida Dental Association will be honoring a great friend during the annual PCDA & UPCDA
meeting with a legislative award for his non-wavering commitment to organized dentistry.
In addition, we would like to show our support for his Senate campaign through fundraising!
You are welcome to attend and honor our special guest
SENATOR JACK LATVALA
Candidate for State Senate, District 20
At
The Hilton St. Petersburg Carillon Park
950 Lake Carillon Drive
St. Petersburg, FL 323716
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Social starts at 6:00PM
Contribution of $50 - $500 is suggested. Maximum contribution allowed under Florida law is
$1000 per person or corporation.
Please make checks payable to the “Jack Latvala Campaign.”
Not attending the meeting? You can still contribute by mailing your check to:
West Coast District Dental Association
1114 Kyle Wood Lane
Brandon, FL 33511
Attendees must RSVP to this meeting. For additional information, please contact PCDA (727)
342-0374 or Lissette Zuknick at Lissette@wcdental.org or (813) 654-2500
Contributions are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.
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