May 2012 Nugget

May 2012

Dental Tourism Inside:

What’s the draw to dentistry outside the United States?

PLUS: SDDS Foundation 2011 Annual Report

CE courses Through June 2012 general meeting May 8, 2012

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Medical Emergencies do occur in children: are you prepared?

Presented by: David Rothman, DDS

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licensure renewal June 1, 2012 California dental practice act & Infection control Presented by: Marcella Oster, RDA Infection Control:

Learn to: • Identify medical and sedation emergencies; how to prevent them • Develop an appropriate emergency kit • Identify risk factors for pediatric patients based on age and physiologic differences • Provide RESCUE support for stabilization

• Legal responsibilities • Intent of DBC Infection Control Regulation language • Latest information for infection control education requirements for unlicensed dental assistants, effective this year.

California Dental Practice Act: • Highlights and updates of the Dental Practice Act

6:00pm–9:00pm • 2 ceu, Core Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

• Scope of practice for dentists and allied dental health professional

HR audio conferences

• License renewal requirements, continuing education, laws governing citations and fines • Laws pertaining to prescriptions • Dental record keeping

May 16, 2012 (Noon) Ask the expert — Bring all your HR Questions!

California Employers Association (CEA)

June 21, 2012 (7:05pm)

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• Acts in violation of the Dental Practice Act including unprofessional conduct This course meets your requirements for both Cal-OSHA & the Dental Board of California.

This course does NOT qualify for unlicensed dental assistants’ mandatory education requirement. Only a Board-approved 8-hour program meets the educational requirements for unlicensed staff effective 1/1/2010.

8:30am–12:30pm • 4 ceu, Core Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

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Table of Contents

THE NUGGET May 2012 Volume 58, Number 5

Features 7–10

International Dental Tourism Paul Binon, DDS, MSD (SDDS Member, Associate Editor)

Specials 12

Smiles for Kids® 2012 — Photo Highlights

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Smiles for Kids® 2012 — Statistics

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Smiles for Kids® 2012 — Thank You, Volunteers!

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Sacramento District Dental Foundation 2011 Annual Report A Celebration of Foundation Donors

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Sacramento District Dental Foundation 2011 Annual Report From Your Foundation President

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Sacramento District Dental Foundation 2011 Annual Report Financial Report

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Smiles for BIG Kids® 2011 — Statistics and Recap

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Sacramento District Dental Foundation 2012 Members Is Your Name on this List? It Should Be!

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Increasing Delta Issues; An Appeal to Our Members Greg Alterton (CDA Third Party Analyst)

Regulars 4 5 6 25 26 26 27 27 28–29 29 30 30 31 32 33 33 34 35 36

President’s Message From the Editor’s Desk Cathy’s Corner Committee Corner Committee Meetings Scheduled YOU: The Dentist… the Employer Our Condolences A Tribute…

Vendor Members Vendor Member Spotlights We’re Blowing Your Horn!

Link of the Month Volunteer Opportunities Advertiser Index Membership Update Back in Time — Can you identify this SDDS member?

Event Highlights Classified Ads SDDS Calendar of Events

The Nugget is a four-time International College of Dentists Journalism Award Winner: Golden Pen (Honorable Mention, 2007) Article or series of articles of interest to the profession

Outstanding Cover (2007) Remarkable cover

Overall Newsletter (2007) Exceptional publication overall

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President’s Message Access to Care —

Where are we now?

In the interest of keeping you all informed of the major activities of your elected representatives, Board of Directors and SDDS Delegates to the CDA House, I would like to bring you up to date regarding the Access to Care issue.

In 2008, recognizing that a significant portion of Californians continue to experience barriers to oral health care, the CDA House of Delegates adopted Resolution 36S12008-H. This resolution directed CDA to undertake a comprehensive study aimed at improving access to dental care for the underserved population. Resolution 36S1 was referred to the Policy Development Council and two groups, the Access Workgroup and the Workforce Research and Forecasting Task Force were formed.

Progress reports were made in 2009 and 2010 (Resolution 27-2009-H, Resolution 31-2010-H). Both groups engaged in indepth examinations of the issues, including review of existing literature, presentations by subject experts and independent research.

The groups’ analysis of barriers to oral health care, the role of the dental profession and considerations for solutions produced the Access Report and the CDA Access Proposal: Phased Strategies for Reducing Barriers to Dental Care in California.

To aid Delegates and interested members in understanding the problem, ask questions and get clarity of the presented information and the proposed solutions, Town Hall Meetings were held in various locations in Northern, Central and Southern California, at webinars and at CDA Presents.

As part of the solution to treat the underserved, a study to determine the efficacy, safety and feasibility of creating a mid-level/non dentist provider was proposed. The parameters of this mid-level provider, with proper training, would be on irreversible procedures such as cutting preps, direct fillings, pulpotomies, pulp caps, extractions and other procedures on children in a public health setting under the supervision 4 | The Nugget

By Victor Hawkins, DDS

of a dentist. Heretofore, only dentists could legally perform these procedures.

and the Special Session was held all day on March 3, 2012.

Before the vote to accept the filing of the report at the 2011 HOD, many caucuses were held. Discussions were many and diversified.

Most everyone conceded that if the State Legislature "bus" was "leaving the station," and that dentists should at least be on the "bus" if not driving it. A majority of Delegates, 87%, voted in favor of the resolution to file the report. Filing the report did not mean all the recommendations in the report were accepted

A revised Resolution was passed by the Special Session HOD 2012 without much change from the one passed by the HOD in November 2011. According to many Delegates, however, this time everyone had the same information and the vote was more transparent. The vote was a lot closer. CDA will continue its support of SB694 with a clarified, defined workforce study. The resolution clarified that the midlevel provider studies will be carried out only at California universities and will be limited to RDAEF-2 and RDH licensed individuals who have received modular training on specified new duties. The study must focus on safety, quality, patient satisfaction and cost effectiveness of the care of children delivered in a public health setting under the direct, general and remote supervision of a dentist. The resolution also requires CDA, at the conclusion of the study, to analyze the results and take a position on any proposed changes to the Dental Practice Act only after presentation and approval by the CDA House of Delegates.

You can be very proud of our SDDS representatives, as they carried out their fiduciary responsibilities to CDA for our component members. by the CDA House. The House also adopted Resolution 2RC-2011-H, that the Access Proposal serve as a framework for CDA in addressing Access to Care Issues and that CDA pursue the strategy recommendations in phase 1 of the Access Proposal.

In early January 2012, SB694/Padilla was quickly moving through the State process.

Many CDA members became alarmed of the possibility that the proof of efficacy, safety and feasibility process would be minimized and that undertrained mid-level providers would be doing our job on the most vulnerable people in our communities — THE CHILDREN — sooner rather than later.

This caused much unrest and uncertainty among CDA Members and Delegates. Many Delegates called for a Special Session of the House to be convened by CDA Leadership, bringing everyone together for better clarification and understanding. More than the required votes to call a Special Session of the HOD were sent to CDA Leadership

So far no one has shown how expanding the dental work force by adding mid-level/nondentist providers to do irreversible dental procedures will solve the access problem. If there is a better way we must find it.

You can be very proud of our SDDS representatives, as they carried out their fiduciary responsibilities to CDA for our component members. They were all present and were exemplary in their performance.

In my view, dentists are some of the most caring, giving people on the planet. We all must own this problem of helping the underserved. We are doing a lot now. Thanks to all of you SDDS members we do well over one million dollars in pro bono dentistry every year for the underserved. There is more work to be done to solve the Access problem.

As a dentist — unified CDA we have a BIG voice! Together we can solve the problem.  Sacramento District Dental Society

From the Editor’s desk International Dentistry & Dental Tourism Those of us who have had a chance to travel extensively, and see firsthand what dentistry is like in foreign countries, have come to realize rather quickly that the dental world around us is rapidly changing. We have always had an air of superiority along with a handful of other industrialized nations as to providing excellent dental care for our patients. For the most part, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Singapore, Israel and the Arab Emirates among others, have very good reputations for providing state of the art dentistry. Other countries are rapidly developing their educational systems and are definitely upping the ante. One look at the journals these days tells you that a large number of research and clinical articles originate from a diverse number of countries across the globe. Educators and clinicians in countries that 10 or 15 years ago would have never submitted articles to peer reviewed journals are now commonplace.

International conferences, global networking and the internet in particular have all raised the bar professionally for those willing to learn. Graduate students from all over the globe flock to our shores to enter specialty programs in multiple dental and medical specialties. This has its good point, in that we provide educational nourishment to many areas of the world. On the other hand, it does compete with available space for those

By Paul Binon, DDS, MSD

Associate Editor

American dentists who desire to enter a specialty or attain additional education.

It has been my experience in every country I have visited as a lecturer that the level of clinical excellence can vary a great deal,

Other countries are rapidly developing their educational systems and are definitely upping the ante. from several percent points to more than three quarters of the dentist population. In contrast, third world countries have a very small percentage of dentists who provide a level of treatment that we would consider superior. A common denominator always seems to be related to economics. If you have the means, you can and will obtain the best that dentistry can provide, be it in Bangladesh or Peoria, Illinois.

To some extent, in the U.S. it is getting to be no different. The recession or depression, whichever you choose to call it, has had an impact on our dental population. Loss of employment, loss of benefits and erosion of the financial nest egg has led to more of our patients looking to obtain more affordable dentistry elsewhere.

One such enticement is dental tourism.

Medical and dental tourism is not new.

However, according to the tourism industry, it is on the increase globally, not only in the U.S. but in other highly industrialized countries as well. Fly to Malaysia for a week vacation and, while there, get a tummy tuck, a face lift, breast implants and, of course, full mouth restoration with dental implants at a pittance of what it costs in your own country. Enjoy the beauty of our land while we enhance the beauty of your body.

Given the same level of treatment (or is it?), using the same dental materials, why is it so much less expensive in other parts of the world?

From a local perspective, two blatant reasons come to my mind immediately. Excessive regulations and rampant bureaucracy. For example, I just purchased a new x-ray unit and before it was out of the box, I received a registration form from a state “regulatory” agency, asking for money. The cost of doing business and providing services in California and the U.S. is excessive. Those of you in practice only know that too well. Naturally, other factors such as high labor cost, taxes and the cost of living all play a significant role.

Given that the medical and dental services available outside of the U.S. are continuing to improve and our own economic situation continues to decline, dental tourism will continue to be a growing industry. 

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Cathy’s Corner A Day in the Life… at least this week

Sacramento District Dental Society Amador • El Dorado • Placer • Sacramento • Yolo

Leadership

By Cathy B. Levering

SDDS Executive Director

(Mel — Will this fit one line each? If not, I’ll rework it) The members. The drop list. The NEW MEMBERS! (14!!!)

The triage. THE MEMBERS! The listening ear.

The Capitol. The State Department. The GMC advocacy.

The phone calls. The EMAILS. The quick responses (I hope).

The financial reports. The Board reports. The DELTA questions. (see page 22) The member benefits. The member requests. The JOB BANK! The PAC. The parent education. The FOUNDATION. (Have I reserved the restaurant for my son’s Rehearsal Dinner?)

The parents. The DENTISTS. The patients.

THE 1ST TOOTH OR 1ST BirthDAY CAMPAIGN. Impromptu and MULTIPLE staff updates.

The appointment. The parking place.

WHERE IS THE DARN TICKET? (And… it’s only Tuesday!)

The vendors. The calendar. THE STAFF! The leadership. The volunteers. THE PASSION!

CE: Jonathan Szymanowski, DMD, MMSc CPR: Margaret Delmore, MD, DDS Ethics: Volki Felahy, DDS Foundation: Robert Daby, DDS Leadership Development: Wai Chan, DDS Membership: Lisa Laptalo, DDS Peer Review: Bryan Judd, DDS / Brett Peterson, DDS 1T1B Medical Outreach: Guy Acheson, DDS Access to Care: Terrence Jones, DDS Amalgam: Wai Chan, DDS / Viren Patel, DDS Dental Careers Workgroup: Robin Berrin, DDS Budget & Finance Advisory: Gary Ackerman, DDS Bylaws Advisory: Wai Chan, DDS Fluoridation Advisory: Rick Kennedy, DDS / Kim Wallace, DDS Forensics Advisory: George Gould, DDS / Mark Porco, DDS Geriatric Outreach: Viren Patel, DDS Legislative: Mike Payne, DDS, MSD / Gabrielle Rasi, DDS Strategic Planning Advisory: Gary Ackerman, DDS

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Ad hoc Advisory Task Forces Workgroups

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Member Liaison/ Smiles for Kids Coordinator

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Board of Directors

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The resources. The updating. THE MEMBERS.

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The surveys. The wants. The NEEDS.

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Golf Tournament: Damon Szymanowski, DMD SacPAC: To be elected Smiles for Kids: Donald Rollofson, DMD

The meetings. The schedule. The FUTURE planning.

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International

Dental Tourism Dental Tourism: Subset of Medical Tourism that involves individuals seeking dental care outside of their local healthcare systems, often accompanied by vacation time.

Where do the patients come from and where do they go to obtain treatment?

There is scant information available on dental tourism from the United States to other countries. There are no experts on the subject.

No database exists at the American Dental Association as to the number of patients leaving our borders to go elsewhere and obtain dental treatment. Perhaps, even more importantly, there is no ADA-maintained database that dentists across the nation

An analysis of what drives and motivates American patients [to seek treatment outside the United States], conducted by medical and dental travel agencies, indicates it’s often more than money. can send information to, regarding grossly deficient treatment they have observed on their patients. Maybe there is no issue with the dentistry they received abroad and it’s really a non-entity!

However, as many of you will agree, that is not the whole story. Unfortunately, in order to get a clearer indication of what is occurring, you have to rely on information gathered from other countries’ experiences.

PubMed offered several informative papers regarding dental and medical tourism.

Other sources included searching the web for specific treatment destinations, websites, the printed media and personal (unbiased) anecdotal information. With that in mind, let’s investigate where patients come from and where they go for treatment. www.sdds.org

By Paul Binon, DDS, MSD

Associate Editor

The greatest source of information comes from Europe. Essentially the European Union has open borders and there are minimal restrictions as to geographic relocation. There are also minimal licensure qualifications for the EU members, which allow dentists to apply to practice not only in all the countries of the EU but also within the greater EU zone of influence. The Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) has made significant strides to establish quality assurance and evaluate and provide accreditation of EU dental schools.

In the European sector for example, Austrians go to Hungary, Slovakians to Slovenia and the Irish to Hungary, Poland, Turkey and the Ukraine.

Hungary appears to be a predominant destination for neighboring countries such as Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Italy.

Approximately 81% of the new patients in that area of Hungary come from tourism.

Two of every 10 practices realize 40 to 100% of their income from dental tourism; and the numbers are increasing.

One suburb of Budapest that 10 years ago had no dental tourism, today has over 150 dentists providing services. Another town, some 60 miles away, has about the same number of dentists doing the same thing.

Now, larger, multi-disciplinary operations are moving into the region to take advantage of the one-way patient flow. Obviously the cost of doing business in Hungary (former Soviet block country) is less.

The current economic issues in Europe, relative to the cost of goods and services, has resulted in closing the gap between the more affluent economies and the low-cost developing and marginal economies. There is now a greater marketing effort directed to UK and U.S. patients. For example, one large Hungarian clinic has opened its own tourism office in New York City. The depression, the fall of the U.S. dollar and, to some extent, 9-11 has dampened the interest of American patients.

Dental tourism is not for lower income unsophisticated patients. Those who have the financial means to avail themselves of optimal treatment in their local healthcare system also have the means to travel. Americans have traveled to India, Singapore, Venezuela and Brazil for major medical and plastic surgery.

However, most patient traffic goes to Mexico, San Salvador and other Central American countries. If you go online, there are a plethora of websites enticing you to Tijuana, Juarez and other border towns. They advertise that when you walk across the border, a car and driver will meet you and drive you to the dental office. On completion of the dental treatment, they drive you back safe and sound. The narcotic wars have seriously impacted the border towns and they are no longer safe. The businesses have moved to more distant places such as Cabo, Puerto Vallarta and Mazatlan.

Canada is also a focus for medical and dental tourism. There are approximately 25 tourism companies promoting travel to foreign countries in Canada. The core marketing message is that treatment is affordable, completed in a short time and of high quality (criteria were determined by the tourism companies themselves). Some promote specialty services such as organ transplants and dental only, with emphasis on implant treatment. Marketing is extensive through sophisticated web sites.

Reasons for Dental Tourism.

Cost is the foremost reason for seeking treatment outside the U.S. However, an analysis of what drives and motivates American patients, conducted by medical and dental travel agencies, indicates it’s often more than money. They claim it indicates that these individuals believe they have good consumer judgment, are “savvy,” in a social position to do it and that they demonstrate independent and libertarian ideal. This information is used in complex marketing efforts that essentially say the person is smart and cutting edge. continued on next page May 2012 | 7

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Business Week, in a 2008 article written by Catherine Arnst, blames the lack of dental insurance as the reason why “Americans are flocking overseas for high-quality, low-cost dental care.” The article states that surveys estimate “as many as 30% of the population along the Texas side of the Rio Grand cross the border for cheaper dental services.” She notes that crowns in the U.S. range from $750 to $1000 in the U.S. and $150 in Mexico. They also seek less expensive options in Budapest, Prague and Bangkok. She tells of the “full mouth reconstruction” quoted at $60,000 in the States, completed for $19,000 in El Salvador, which not only met but exceeded the patient’s expectations.

A July 2005 issue of USA Today relates the experience of a Federal Government “health educator,” who journeyed to Budapest for treatment after receiving a quote from her Washington DC dentist in the amount of $11,150 for an exam, a hygiene appointment, a RCT and 8 crowns. She spent 10 days in Hungary on “vacation,” paid $3,195 for the “same” dental treatment, with a total outlay of $4,300 that included hotel and air fare. Another patient in the same story claims that he paid

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Along the same lines, the Sacramento Bee published an article by Carrie Peyton entitled “More Americans have surgery overseas to cut costs and hassles.” She also cites that rising health care costs and limited insurance drive “hundred of thousands of Americans” out of the country for care. There was no reference cited in the article that substantiates those numbers. Furthermore there is little data other than that about international organ transplants, and even less about the aspects of safety. The story recants two medical experiences and one dental experience where treatment was obtained in Tijuana, Mexico.

implant related, that would amount to $3500 per crown or pontic! If you added a few extra units, just in case, it still comes to $2800 per unit. That is more than twice my specialty fee for PFM or Zirconia restorations. In Mexico he paid $32,000 (which included travel and accommodations). I contacted the reporter and told her I was skeptical regarding the veracity of the expenses reported in her article but never received a response. A GP dentist stated in the article that the dentistry provided in Mexico was “really good; better than some of the dentistry I’ve seen in the U.S.” There is no doubt that adequate treatment can be obtained in some offices in Mexico. In my experience however, it’s been the exception and not the norm.

A Roseville patient is a “lifelong grinder,” who was quoted $80,000 for periodontal treatment and crowns on 20 teeth. Having been in practice in Roseville for 38 years, as a fixed and removable prosthodontist, I was stunned to see those numbers. Let’s just say that the periodontal surgical treatment was $2500 per quadrant ($10,000) for the entire mouth that would leave $70,000 for crown and bridge. Since nothing was mentioned as

As health care costs continue to rise, health insurance companies are “slashing costs by sending policyholders overseas for pricey procedures,” so reports News in March of ’08. Blue Cross and other companies have signed agreements with select overseas hospitals as an option for their 1.5 million members. According to one of their Vice Presidents, “medical travel is going to be part of the solution.” As an incentive, waiving all

$6,000 for crown work (no specifics given) on 26 teeth, quoted at $43,000 in Philadelphia.

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deductable and co-pays are being considered.

The example offered in the article is that a heart procedure that costs $100,000 in the U.S., costs 10–20% of that amount in private hospitals in Asia. Global Healthcare, a subsidiary of Blue Cross has signed with hospitals in Bangkok, Singapore, Turkey, Ireland, Costa Rica and, by now, India. The selected hospitals are approved by the Joint Commission International, which is a part of the same regulatory organization that accredits American hospitals. However, when mistakes are made, the hospitals are insulated since it’s very difficult to sue for malpractice in a foreign country.

To underscore that the cost of treatment, be it medical or dental, is important. A published paper from Germany evaluated the preference of 1,368 patients by giving them four different treatment scenarios involving local treatment or tourism. The difference in the cost of a crown and an implant treated locally vs tourism was 80 Euro and 280 Euro respectively. 92% of the patients said that quality was an important factor. Yet one third said that “price” was the determining factor.

Like it or not, we live in a global world. Cork University in Ireland asked 520 patients if they used the internet on a regular basis.

One third of the participants did not use the internet regularly. One third of the 520 patients investigated their dental condition and possible solutions prior to treatment on line. And almost 40% of the sample visited tourism locations and indicated that they would consider using tourism.

The article’s conclusion stated, “with the increased interest in traveling abroad for

dental treatment, guidance for patients and practitioners regarding the legal and ethical issues pertaining to dental tourism is critical.” It also indicates the power of the internet.

Price and Quality The dramatic difference in dental fees from one geographic location to another is sometimes difficult to unravel. It is possible to compare specific procedures and sometimes the identical materials used. For example, the identical dental procedure using the same porcelain veneer made by a Swedish dental laboratory, when applied by an Australia dentist generates a fee of 2500 AUD and only 1200 AUD when applied in India. So the difference is not exclusively the material, although it can have an impact. There are a wide variety of dental laboratory services available in the U.S. as well as in other parts of the world. Not all are created equal nor do the fees charged reflect the difference in quality. The lay consumer does not know the difference between Chiclets and a properly fitting and contoured esthetic crown. As you well know, the difference comes down to the skill of the operator (what he believes his time is worth), the education of the clinician, the economic setting in which the dental treatment takes place, the fixed and variable overhead, which includes rent and staff salaries and benefits. Office rent in San Francisco and Manhattan are significantly greater ($30 to $40 per square foot) than those in Roseville, Mumbai and Budapest.

The cost of living is also more expensive in those different locations and all those factors are determinants of the fee that is charged.

Some Fee Comparisons: El Salvador Mexico

Hungary India

Thailand

Procedure

USA

Implant with Crown

$2,900– 5,000

$900

$990

$1,000

$600

$1,700

Veneer

$800– 2,000

$440

$495

$360

$220

$240

Root Canal

$699– 2,000

$220

$300– 450

$60

$80

$90– 200

Crown

$750– 3,000

$440

$495

$285

$80

$210– 390 Source: Wikipedia

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A German dentist that moved to Hungary states that in Germany most of the costs were due to high salaries and lab expense. In Hungary, he uses the same materials, pays his staff better than prevailing local wages and still makes a bigger profit since the cost of doing business there is considerably less and that is reflected in the lower fees.

Government intrusion with excessive regulations, fees and taxes further adds to the burden of doing business. I seriously doubt that in Hungary, El Salvador or any other country, you have a drive by ADA lawyer that sues and then runs with the money. The cost of doing business is just not comparable.

Consider the Credentials The popularity of implants and “esthetic” dentistry has given additional vigor to the dental tourism business. In Mexico, as elsewhere, there are different levels of education and expertise. Many dentists will have taken short courses and begin placing implants. The patient does not know what he is getting into.

Checking out the credentials on the internet does not always give a clear indication as to the foreign dentist’s ability or qualifications.

To the lay person they seem impressive, but to a fellow professional it’s readily apparent that it’s a dental meeting here and there and usually amounts to nothing but fluff.

Healthcare Tourism, (www.healthcaretrip. org) a major resource in the tourism industry, sends patients to dental clinics that, according to them, duplicate U.S. standards. According to Dr. Stuart M. Hirsch, Associate Dean for International Programs and Development at New York University, School of Dentistry, NYU takes in 110 foreign dentists from 33 countries and trains them in advanced dental techniques every year. Inference is that they are directly associated with Healthcare Tourism.

He states “there is no reason to assume the quality of care is any lower overseas.” In selected office settings that may apply, but certainly not in all.

The ADA has no official position on dental tourism. ADA consumer advisor and Associate Professor at UCLA, Dr. Edmund Hewlett, states, “We tell people it is possible to get high-quality dental care in places other than the U.S., but they should be aware there are no international standards.” For the patient in the international market place, there is no protection. It’s a hit and miss situation. continued on next page May 2012 | 9

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The ADA has a web site on dental tourism specifically aimed at the patient before they decide to go abroad for treatment. It’s a good

to enter the operating room where an open heart surgery was taking place. No surgical gown, cap or mask, just slippers!

• Healthcare tourist becomes quadriplegic after language barrier interpretation error in the Philippines

Costs are not always what they seem. Patients don’t know what they are getting.

Global travel, especially to endemic areas for hepatitis A and B, require additional vaccinations and precautions. The most common risk factors abroad are casual sex with new partners, medical and dental care abroad and the adoption of children who are hepatitis B carriers.

Medical tourism has “awakened many ethical and legal issues,” such as malpractice, consumer protections, telemedicine, organ trafficking and alternative medical practices. It creates issues between the doctors at home and those abroad. It alters the doctor-patient relationship and some practitioners have declined treating patients who have issues created from medical–dental tourism.

resource for any of your patients considering tourism. (http://www.ada.org/371.aspx).

Another ADA advisor, Dr. Matt Messina from Ohio, validated that the ADA does not have any records or database on tourism. He states that he is more concerned with long term follow-up and possible complications.

The Negative Side of Medical and Dental Tourism Medical and dental tourism is sometimes advertised as an adventure where you have your procedure completed, relax in a five star hotel, have better service and get totally spoiled. It can be an adventure indeed, judging by some reports.

In one German study, 60 patients who went outside of the country to obtain treatment were examined and it was found that 29 (48.3%) had clinically relevant findings that required reparative/corrective dentistry.

The average cost to complete the reparative treatment amounted to 1,383 Euro.

The Australian Dental Association cautions travelers that there is a lack of accountability, and that no regulations exist when problems arise outside the country. In the article they document five such cases where serious complications arose.

Since there is a lack of independent inspection and evaluation for dental facilities offshore, compared to the medical that generally does have international hospital accreditation standards, there is no assurance that the facility adheres to stringent sterile technique. While speaking in India at a dental conference, I recall that one of the attendees approached me and asked if it would be alright to reuse a failed dental implant, retrieved from another patient, if he re-sterilized it. Consider all the others who did not ask! During the same trip, we visited a new state-of-the-art cardiology surgery center. It was magnificent, with all the latest technology available at the time.

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The appearance and spread of New Dehli metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1), which has extreme resistance and “raises the specter of untreatable bacterial infections” is another factor to contend with. The concern is for the international traveler who seeks medical, dental and surgical care. A Belgian became the first death attributed to this antibioticresistant superbug that originated in South Asia. Since then, three Americans from California, Massachusetts and Illinois returned to the U.S. from India, infected with the virus.

The superbug was first identified last year in a Swedish patient admitted to a hospital in India. It is found inside bacteria containing the New Delhi metallo-lactamase-1 (NDM1) gene. On Dec 21, 2011 another report said that 94 patients died in Kolkata Hospital in India, raising serious questions regarding India medical tourism.

The Herald Sun, in 2007, reported on botched plastic surgeries done in Thailand and Malaysia.

The women were lured with attractive package deals promising full facelift and breast enlargement at a Malaysian hospital, costing upwards of $10,000. This is quite cheap and would have saved the patients thousands of dollars compared to local rates. The Australian Society for Plastic Surgeons then completed a national survey to determine how often local surgeons were seeing botched operations. By geographic region, Perth reported 66, New South Wales 35 women, and Victoria 14, for a total of 115 patients.

Other headlines of interest offer the following: • Integrity of organ transplants in question: Medical Tourism Agency under investigation in Colombia

The down side is that treatment is a long distance. What if you experience the inevitable complication when you return home? Jump back on the plane and the awesome savings are history.

The experiences reported in the news media are often glamorous, with unbelievable financial savings. However, it does not always work out that way and there are serious risks involved. The risk of infection is real and should be taken seriously. Traveling to high risk geographic areas exposes you when you are at your most vulnerable state.

Costs are not always what they seem either.

Patients don’t know what they are getting. Is it a PFM with noble metal or non precious, is the crown made in China, is the post a paper clip or a real cast post? Dr. Hirsch from NYU “assumes” that there is no difference in the quality of care, but I have seen, as I am sure you have as well, that many times there are significant differences.

Patients are also vulnerable to scams involving travel and hotel accommodations, making it another area for vigilance. A serious negative is quite often that you don’t understand your physician or dentist, since he or she speaks broken, barely discernible English.

Communication is often difficult enough when you speak the same language and adding that extra barrier takes it to another level.

In the end, people need to do what they feel comfortable with. The old adage, “let the buyer beware” certainly does apply to medical and dental tourism. 

References: • International Association for Medical Assistance to Travelers (www.iamat.org) • Medical Tourism Association (www.medicaltourismassociation.com) • Other specific references on request Sacramento District Dental Society

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Smiles for Kids 2012 February 4, 2012

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Sacramento District Dental Society

Smiles for Kids 2012 statistics 697 total volunteers (348 doctors participated — 26% of our active membership!)

FALL 2011 Screenings

SFK Day Treatment Sites

34,977 kids screened

655 kids scheduled for treatment 102 doctors volunteered 349 staff and other volunteers worked

150 kids referred for GP treatment 110 kids referred to Ortho Program 135 kids referred to other specialities

451 total volunteers 24 treatment sites in 27 private offices

395 total Adopt-a-Kid cases 160 total doctors volunteered to take Adopt-a-Kid cases

93 Doctors did screenings Results: 71% 1’s • 21% 2’s • 8% 3’s 1 = good dental health 2 = care required 3 = urgent care required

Adopt-a-Kid Program

SFK DAY (February 4, 2012)

Adopt-a-Kid

Total # of kids scheduled...............................................655 Total % of “no shows” ................................................... 25% Total # of “walk-ins”.......................................................... 36 Total # of kids treated.....................................................529 Total % of kids needing additional treatment through the Adopt-a-Kid Program........................................... 75%

Dollar value of pro bono services donated to Adopt-a-Kid Program cases (estimate — NOT FINAL*)........$250,000

Total dollar value of pro bono services donated on SFK Day.....................................................$306,208

Dollar value of pro bono services donated to Ortho Program cases (estimate — NOT FINAL*)......$400,000 Estimated total dollar value of pro bono services donated to 2012 Adopt-a-Kid & Ortho Programs (NOT FINAL*)............................................ $650,000+ *

Final numbers available July 31, 2012

Total dollar value of dental care from all sources (2012): $956,208*

Thank you to our generous Smiles for Kids 2012 Grantors & Sponsors

Thank you to the following For their gracious donations: Blue Northern Builders — Marc Davis

The California Endowment Dignity Health (Catholic Healthcare West) CDA Foundation Henry Schein Cares Patterson Dental Supply Star Group — Crowns for Kids United Concordia Dental

CSUS Pre-Dental Club — Project Backpack Oral B — Lauren Herman Sacramento Regional Community Foundation — Knapp Family #1 Fund

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Smiles for Kids®

Thanks to all (697 total volunteers!) who volunteered their time to make this year’s Smiles for Kids project a huge success! * Volunteered their office for Smiles for Kids Day SFK Screening Docs

Dean Ahmad, DDS Ashkan Alizadeh, DDS Kimberly Anderson, DDS Todd Andrews, DDS Paul Barkin, DDS Robin Berrin, DDS Forrest Boozer, DDS Michael Boyce, DDS Arthur Burbridge, DDS Jayson Chalmers, DDS Christopher Chan, DDS Jonathan Chan, DDS Wai Chan, DDS Regina Cheung, DDS Vincent Chiappone, DDS, MSD Rajas Chitre, DDS Mark Choi, DDS Clifford Chow, DDS Brian Crawford, DMD Paul Cripe, DDS David Crippen, DDS Robert Daby, DDS Paul Denzler, DDS Lisa Dobak, DDS Robert Dorian, DDS Mark Douglas, DDS, MSD Timothy Durkin, DDS Maria Eloisa Espiritu, DDS Tiffany Favero Holladay, DMD Vivian Fernandez, DDS Kimberly Fong, DDS Melissa Fong, DDS Lora Foster Rode, DDS Kasi Franck, DDS Michael Gade, DDS Jennifer Goldman, DDS A. Scott Grivas, DDS Kirk Hanson, DDS Daniel Harlan, DDS Gordon Harris, DDS Russell Hirano, DDS Alice Huang, DDS Ralph Isola, DDS Denise Jabusch, DDS Terrence Jones, DDS Mark Kujiraoka, DDS Merlin Lai, DDS Tamar Lev, DDS Yen Lieu, DMD Neil Loveridge, DDS Thomas Ludlow, DDS Donald MacDonald, DMD Abdon Manaloto, DDS Larry Masuoka, DMD Jim McNerney, DMD Mahnaz Moussavi, DMD Charles Newens, DDS John Noe, DDS George Oatis, DDS Brian Orcutt, DDS Gregory Owyang, DDS Virenchandra Patel, DDS Hanh Pham, DDS Mark Porco, DDS

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Richard Portalupi, DDS, MSD Dexter Quiggle, DDS Linda Rafferty, DDS Gabrielle Rasi, DDS Ronald Rasi, DDS Joseph Rawlins, DDS, MS Jorge Rico, DDS Ron Rott, DDS Jeffrey Routsong, DDS Stephen Saffold, DDS Charles Smurthwaite, DDS Lee Anne Stigers, DMD Victoria Sullivan, DDS Scott Szotko, DDS Jonathan Szymanowski, DMD,MMSc Ricky Tin, DDS Amy Thu Tran, DDS Loc Tran, DDS Hoang Truong, DDS Thuy Nga Vu, DDS Judith Vue, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS Dina Wasileski, DMD Julie Wong, DDS Mark Wong, DDS Jamson Wu, DDS, MSD Michelle Yap, DMD Douglas Yee, DDS H. Wesley Yee, DDS

SFK Day volunteer Docs

Gary Ackerman, DDS Dean Ahmad, DDS* Dawn Anderson, DDS Kimberly Anderson, DDS Kreston Anderson, DDS* Stan Arellano, DDS Ron Ask, DDS* Amandeep Behniwal, DDS Michael Boyce, DDS Keith Boyer, DDS Arthur Burbridge, DDS Matthew Campbell, DDS Erin Carson, DDS* David Cernik, DDS* Christopher Chan, DDS* Nikki Chauhan, DDS* Tommy Clements, DDS Matt Comfort, DDS* G. Curtis Croft, DDS Jerome Daby, DDS Robert Daby, DDS* Binh Dao, DDS Stella Dariotis, DDS* Elisabeth deGaust, DDS* Paul Denzler, DDS* Friz Diaz, DDS Shaina DiMariano, DDS Pamela DiTomasso, DMD* Barry Dunn, DDS Debra Finney, MS, DDS Kasi Franck, DDS Holley Gonder, DDS*

CJ Gregor, DDS Matthew Gustafsson, DDS* Gordon Harris, DDS Sheila Harris, DDS* Victor Hawkins, DDS* Carl Hillendahl, DDS Nam Hoang, DDS Chester Hsu, DDS* Chen-Wen Huang, DDS* Aaron Irvin, DDS* Denise Jabusch, DDS Loche Johnson, DDS* Paul Johnson, DDS* Ashley Joves, DDS Bryan Judd, DDS Craig Kinzer, DDS* Beverly Kodama, DDS Matthew Korn, DDS Laurie LaDow, DDS Merlin Lai, DDS Emerson Lake, DDS Matthew Lau, DDS Skip Lawrence, DDS Tyson Lechner, DDS Garrett Lee, DDS* Diane Liberty, DDS Yen Lieu, DMD Alexis Lyons, DDS* Jenny McCarthy, DDS, MS* Candy McComb, DDS* Jeff McComb, DDS* Sydney Moore, DDS Megan Moyneur, DDS* Esmeralda Munoz, DDS* Jamie Parado, DDS Purvak Parikh, DDS* Viren Patel, DDS Jean Rabadam, DMD Alan Rabe, DDS Robert Ramirez, DMD Gabrielle Rasi, DDS* Leon Roda, DDS* Christy Rollofson, DDS* Donald Rollofson, DMD* Nicholas Rotas, DDS Jason Roth, DDS Sean Roth, DDS* Elaheh Samsani, DDS Dean Sands, DMD* Cindy Shen, DDS Stefanie Shore, DDS Dwight Simpson, DDS* Andrea Sosa, DDS Tate Stimpson, DMD Jeff Sue, DDS* Allison Trout, DDS* Hoang Truong, DDS Kelvin Tse, DDS Stuart Wakeman, DDS* Kim Wallace, DDS* Russell Webb, DDS Cynthia Weideman, DDS* Justin Winger, DDS Boyoung Won, DDS Kenneth Wong, DDS

Kim Wong, DDS Janice Work, DDS* Magnus Yang, DDS Michelle Yap, DDS* Michael Yoon, DDS

SFK day Staff Volunteers

Nikki Ackerman Taylor Ackerman Leann Agee, DA Comel Ahmad, DA Jema Albaren, RDA Nallely Alonso Kristen Alvis Venessa Amparan Jenna Andersen, RDA Viktoriya Apanovich, DA Kelli Arellano Samantha Armstrong, RDA Stacey Arnett, RDA Rachel August, RDA Sharron Austin, DA Jenn Axtell, RDA Jennifer Ayers, RDA Trina Aziz, RDAEF Starla Babasin, RDA Danielle Badue, DA Ashley Bailey, RDA Kimberly Bailey, RDA Dianna Baker, RDH Rachel Baltezore, RDA Florista Banford-Lucero Patricia Barclay, RDA Sheryl Basa, RDA Gracee Bati Jeff Baxter Gelton Bayona Sandy Bell, DA Lisa Bender, RDH Jeanna Berezay, RDH Caitlin Blake, RDA Sarah Bodtker, DA Sunday Bogart, RDA Violet Borthovsky, RDA Barbara Bozarth, RDH Melissa Brown Stacey Brown Christina Browning, RDA Analicia Burnett Nancy Burton, RDH Michelle Cahoon, RDAEF Jamie Callahan Danielle Cannarozzi Annie Carney Nancy Carney Michelle Carrasco, RDA Arcy Castillo, RDA Erin Castleberry Adrianna Ceballos, DA Angelica Cedeno Arcelia Cervantes, RDA Sheri Chambers, RDA Mary Clouse, RDH Ann Condon, DA

Adrianna Contreras, RDA Mary Contreras, OSA Maricar Costanilla, RDA Chris Cowan Jennifer Crawford, RDA Carmen Cuellar, RDA Allison Daby Jill Daby, RDA Lori Daby, RDH Natasha Daryton, RDA Maria Davies, RDA Star Delap Snooky Delas Alas, RDAEF2 Satvir Dhaliwal, DA Sharon Dhaliwal, RDA Frances Diamonon, RDA Sharon Diehl, RDH Angela DiTomasso Nancy Drake Judy Dudley, RDH Andrew Duong, RDA Christine Duong, RDA Renee Dupriest, RDH Shelby Duran, RDA Arlen Edson, RDH Alisia Edwards, RDA Tanya Edwards Pam Esfandiary, RDH Rachael Espinoza, DA Eileen Eubanks, RDA Jen Evans Heather Falkenhagen, DA Lorena Favis, RDAEF2 Alina Fedorchuk, RDA Teresa Ferdani, RDA Ashley Finegan, RDA Jennifer Franco, RDA Sue Franco, RDH Kathy Freeman, RDA Griffin Galvin Isaiah Garcia Jeanette Garcia, RDA Jonathan Garcia Sandy Garcia Christy Garrett, RDA Katie George, RDH Linda Gereghty, RDH Ramanpreet Gill Stacey Gillgrass-Lalumondier, RDH April Goard, RDH Jill Goard Katie Gonzalez Maria Gonzalez, RDAEF Jan Goodwater Courtney Graham Trish Grasse, DA Jessica Gray, RDA Elizabeth Green, RDA Janet Green, RDH Sarah Greenseid Brenda Griffis Saharai Guerrero, RDA Brenda Hackett, RDA Julie Hamer, RDAEF Sarah Hannah

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Camille Mathewson, DA Dusty McDonald, RDA Keri McKinney-Towe, RDA Jessica McVey, RDA Amy Miller Lila Mirrashidi Sierra Misquez Julie Mitchell, RDH Lucila Monjaras, RDA Cinthia Murguia Lisa Murphy Jackie Navarro, RDA Jessica Nicholson, RDA Veronica Nieves Stella Norris, RDH Joel Olquiano, RDH Joshua Opperman Lilia Ortega Christian Osmena Taylor Osorio Mayme O’Toole Kamira Patel Jessica Patterson, RDH Melanie Paulk, RDA Myla Pelito, RDA Lois Perisho, RDH Shannon Petrjanos, RDH April Peyer, RDH Holly Pfeifer, RDH Hong Phan, RDA Beth Phillips Courtney Ponce, RDA Geni Poolen Michael Prentiss Koos Prins Lisa Purves, RDA Alyssa Queirolo, RDA Rebecca Raines, RDAEF2 Rosa Ramirez Shenandoah Ramirez, DA Abby Rankine Pam Reece, RDA Kiley Reeve Stephanie Reeve, RDA Allison Reinig, RDA Amanda Reinolds, RDA Alissa Repac, RDA Jamie Reyes, RDA Danielle Rice, RDA Julie Richards Tella Rifa, RDH Ashlee Riley, RDH Tina Rios, RDH Sara Rippenkroger, RDA Shirlene Robbins Emily Rodriguez Irma Rodriguez Janet Rollofson Corrie Romena, RDA Karen Roth, RDH Deana Rott Beth Russel, RDH Rebecca Rust, RDA Katie Saint Seans, RDA Joanna Salton Art Sanchez Jenneifer Sanchez, RDH Maricela Sanchez, RDH Teresa Sapp, RDA Jill Schaeffer Julia Schmucker Nicole Schultz, RDH Sara Schultz, RDA Valerie Scott, RDH Cris Severson, RDAEF Megan Shannahan Joyce Sherrad Tanya Shpak, DA Kassia Siakov Stacy Siegalkoff, RDA Lina Silchuk Felicia Silva

Kaneesha Singh Melissa Singleton, RDH Vicki Skeels Addie Smith, RDA Kwanay Smith, RDA Sarah Soderborg, RDA Tiffany Spinelli Parminder Sroa, RDH Christina Stagg Kristen Standart, RDA Cara Strauch, RDA Kym Suarez, RDA Jhaylane Tapia Elise Tayag, DA Diana Taylor, RDA Heather Taylor, RDA Lisa Tenner Erin Thomas, RDA Angela Thompson Lori Thompson, RDH Abigail Travis Hillary Travis Harini Tummala, RDA Julie Uhler, RDAEF Katherine Unwin, RDA Maria Vang, DA Shani Vang Ying Vang, RDA Gabi Vaughan Jenesse Vaughan, RDA Victoria Velasquez Carol Verant-Isom, RDA Deserie Villapando, RDH Cayce Waipa Beth Waklee, RDA Takako Walters, RDA Kim Waymire, RDA Kathi Webb Kathi Webb Donna Weideman Tanya Welch, RDA Penny Wells, RDA JoEllen Werner, RDH Saira West, RDH Trashell Westbrook, RDA Mari Westerman, RDA Colleen Whitney, RDAEF Julie Williams Patricia Williams Sara Wilson, RDAEF Nicki Winkler Megan Witt Jamie Woodruff, RDA Linda Wreford, RDH Angela Wright, RDA, OMSA Theresa Wright, RDA Liz Wrotniewski, RDA Blon Yang Bonnie Yarbrough, RDA Della Yee Linda Yost, RDH Rosalia Young, RDH Amber Zinser, RDH

Adopt-a-kid volunteer Docs

Endodontists

Keith Boyer, DDS Kevin Keating, DDS, MS Ferris Nazeri, DMD Sheri Opp, DDS, MSD Loc Tran, DDS Kenneth Whitnack, DDS

General Dentists

Sucheta Amanjee, DDS Hanan Amini, DDS Stan Arellano, DDS Ron Ask, DDS Lenna Bright, DMD Arthur Burbridge, DDS Matthew Campbell, Jr., DDS

Erin Carson, DDS David Cernik, DDS Andrea Cervantes, DDS Gary Clusserath, DMD Matthew Comfort, DDS Robert Daby, DDS Paul Denzler, DDS Pamela Di Tomasso, DMD Julianne Digiorno, DDS, RD Shaina DiMariano, DDS Kasi Franck, DDS Arlenita Gomez-Croddy, DDS Elizabeth Harmon, DDS Victor Hawkins, DDS Chester Hsu, DDS Alice Huang, DDS Elizabeth Huynh, DDS Terrence Jones, DDS Craig Kinzer, DDS Diane Liberty, DDS David Lopes, DDS Robert Meaglia, DDS Timothy Mickiewicz, DDS Edward Montalbo, DMD Phong Ngo, DDS Minh Nguyen, DDS Thanh-Truc Nguyen, DDS Gregory Owyang, DDS Joel Pedersen, DDS Jean Rabadam, DMD Alan Rabe, DDS Gabrielle Rasi, DDS Leon Roda, DDS Sean Roth, DDS Allen Sanders, DDS Christopher Schiappa, DDS Dwight Simpson, DDS Tate Stimpson, DMD Minh Tran, DDS Allison Trout, DDS Stuart Wakeman, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS April Westfall, DMD Justin Winger, DDS Raj Zanzi, DMD

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons Alexander Antipov, DDS Steven Brown, DDS Nanlin Chiang, DMD, MD Louis Gallia, MD, DMD Gregory Hailey, DDS Jagdev Heir, DMD, MD Gregory Heise, DDS Loche Johnson, DDS Christopher Kane, DDS Grace Lee, DMD, MD Steve Leighty, DDS Donald Liberty, DDS Michael Mullen, DDS Gregory Olsen, DDS Michael Phelps, DDS Michael Preskar, DDS Nicholas Rotas, DDS J. Alex Tomaich, DDS, MD Kingsley Wang, DDS Kenneth Wong, DDS

Orthodontists

Gregory Adams, DDS, MS Robert Alexander, DDS, MS Crystal Anderson, DMD, MS Steven Anderson, DDS Vincent Chiappone, DDS, MSD John Crawford, DDS Kent Daft, DDS David Datwyler, DDS Jason Dorminey, DMD Mark Douglas, DDS, MSD Jennifer Drew, DDS, MSD J. Patrick Dunbar, DDS Marc Dunn, DDS

Gregory Evrigenis, DDS P. Scott Favero, DMD Stacie Fenderson, DDS, MS Patricia Fong, DDS Steven Frank, DDS, MS Donna Galante, DMD Richard Gere, DDS Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS Stuart Greenberg, DDS Michael Guess, DDS Daniel Haberman, DDS, MS Mark Holt, DDS, MS Darryl Johnson, DDS Yan Kalika, DMD, MS Robert Kelleher, DDS Ming-Fong Kung, DDS, MMSc, MPH Jeffrey Kwong, DDS, MSD Alexis Lyons, DDS George Mayweather, DDS Dwight Miller, DDS Matthew Molitor, DDS Robert Nisson, DDS Gloria Nollie, DDS John Oshetski, DDS Ronald Otto, DDS, MS Michael Payne, DDS, MSD Paolo Poidmore, DDS, MSD Richard Portalupi, DDS, MSD Donald Rollofson, DMD Benton Runquist, DDS Matthew Sanders, DDS Bryan Scott, DDS Charles Stamos, DDS Sam Stassi, DDS Russell Sutliff, DDS Damon Szymanowski, DMD Richard Talbot, DMD, MS Alan Tan, DMD Garri Tsibel, DDS Bruce Ulrich, DDS Melvin Walters, DDS Peter Worth, DDS Jamson Wu, DDS, MSD Timothy York, DDS, MS

Pediatric Dentists

David Crippen, DDS Lora Foster Rode, DDS Wayne Grossman, DDS Matthew Gustafsson, DDS Richard Keilson, DDS Sydney Moore, DDS Dennis Peterson, DDS Lindsey Robinson, DDS David Seman, DDS, MS Victoria Sullivan, DDS Monica Tavallaei, DMD H. Scott Thompson, DDS Cynthia Weideman, DDS Janice Work, DDS

Periodontists

Robin Berrin, DDS P. Kevin Chen, DMD, MS Matthew Korn, DDS

Prosthodontists

Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD

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Volunteer names as of April 5, 2012

Amanda Hartmant Natalyia Havryshkiv, RDA Beverlee Hawkins, RDA Denise Hawkins, RDAEF Annette Haydn-Myer, RDH Monika Henderson Ingrid Hercules Samantha Hernandez, RDA Kristin Hill Tonya Hill Jim Hillier Courtney Holman Lacey Holman Rea Holman, RDA Aloisia Hoopai Kayla Hughes, RDA Monica Huizar, RDA Victoria Hutton, DA Jackie Hyland, RDA Caryn Ikeda Carol Iong, RDH Stacy Jacobs, RDH Latisha Jamerson, RDA Jamie James, RDH Crystal Jason Jennifer Jedlicka, RDA Gail Jennings, RDA Cindy Johnson Hanna Johnson Jennifer Jollymore, CDA II Christina Jones, RDA Christina Joyce, RDA Lindsey Joyce, RDA Rachel Judd Tessa Jurickovich, DA Margaret Katz, DA Sue Keating, RDH Diana Keihl, RDH Amber Keller, RDA Lacie Kennedy, RDA Max Kernan Nasreen Khalil, RDA Ayesha Khan, RDA Wendy Khang, DA Lyudmila Khrystov, RDA Katie King Dena Kinzer, RDH Trace Kinzer Smita Kiran-Naik, RDA Trina Kjosness, RDH Jenn Kline, RDH Alicia Koenig, RDA Debbie Koski Bobbi Kurtz, RDA Inessa Kuzmenko, RDA Lindsay LaMantain, RDA Chelsea Landa, DA Cindy Lao Mercedes Lazano, RDA JiHye Lee Marlynda Lee, RDH Pa Lee Rebecca Lee Cathy Levering Amber Lockwood, RDH Rose Lopes, RDH Mimi Lopez, RDA Maria Lovotti Steven Lovotti Teresa Lua, RDAEF Fabiola Luna Mayra Luna, DA Lauren Maben Clarisse Macasaet Sharon Maccini Karla Macias, RDAEF Katie Magnuson, RDH Sasha Mang, RDA Angel Mann, RDA Elisa Marks Marissa Martin, RDAEF Lilian Martinez, RDA

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A Celebration of 2011 Foundation DONOrs! as of 12/31/11 SDDF MEMBERS (2011) *Renewed for 2012 Dentist Members Susan Abeldt, DDS* Gary Ackerman, DDS* Terry Adair, DDS* Eva Adams, DDS* Gregory Adams, DDS, MS* Dean Ahmad, DDS* Craig Alpha, DDS* Christopher Andonian, DDS Todd Andrews, DDS* Brad Archibald, DDS* Nancy Archibald, DDS* Ron Ask, DDS Sean Avera, DDS, MS* Mark Backhus, DDS* Daisuke Bannai, DDS* Richard Behl, DDS* Wallace Bellamy, DMD* Robin Berrin, DDS* Paul Bianchi, DDS* Paul Binon, DDS, MSD* John Birch, DDS* Michael Boyce, DDS* Damon Boyd, DDS* Rodney Bughao, DDS* David Burke, DDS* Robert Burkhard, DDS* Matthew Campbell, Jr., DDS* Adrian Carrington, DDS* Thais Carvalho-Booms, DDS, MS* Vince Castaldo, DMD* Steven Cavagnolo, DDS* Wai Chan, DDS* Shareen Char-Fat, DDS* Kevin Chen, DMD, MS* Regina Cheung, DDS* Sonney Chong, DMD* Stephen Christensen, DMD* Lawrence Chu, DDS* Michael Chu, DDS* Darrell Chun, DDS* Scott Churchill, DMD* Matt Comfort, DDS* Patrick Cook, DDS* James Cope, DDS* James Coyle, DDS* Lee Crane, DDS, MPH* Brian Crawford, DMD* Paul Cripe, DDS* David Crippen, DDS* Gina Crippen, DDS* John Cutter, DDS* Jerome Daby, DDS* Robert Daby, DDS* Kent Daft, DDS* David Datwyler, DDS* Jeffrey Davidson, DDS* Teresa DeGuzman, DMD* James Delehanty, DDS*

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Paul Denzler, DDS* Friz Diaz, DDS* Hung Do, DDS* Jerome Dobak, DDS Lisa Dobak, DDS* Gordon Douglass, DDS* Jennifer Drew, DDS, MSD* Timothy Durkin, DDS* Mark Engel, DDS James Everhart, DDS* R. Kent Farnsworth, DDS* Diana Fat, DDS* JC Fat, DDS, MS* Kenneth Fat, DDS* David Feder, DDS* Debra Finney, DDS* Stephen Fisher, DDS Michael Forde, DDS, MS* Rikard Forsberg, DDS* Lora Foster Rode, DDS* Kenneth Fox, DDS* Kasi Franck, DDS* Donna Galante, DMD* Douglas Gedestad, DMD* Richard Gere, DDS* Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS* Herbert Gibbs, DDS* Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD* Sam Goby, DMD Mitchell Goodis, DDS* Jack Gorman, DDS Jennifer Goss, DDS* Wayne Grossman, DDS* Edi Guidi, DDS* Dan Haberman, DDS, MS* Gregory Hailey, DDS* Nicky Hakimi, DDS, MSD* Harold Hanefield, DDS Lauren Hanschu, DDS* Kerry Hanson, DDS* Daniel Harlan, DDS* Elizabeth Harmon, DDS* Gordon Harris, DDS* Victor Hawkins, DDS* Robert Hays, DDS* Jagdev Heir, DMD, MD* Greg Heise, DDS* Marsha Henry, DDS Timothy Herman, DDS* Steven Higashi, DDS* Carl Hillendahl, DDS* Craig Hollingsworth, DDS* Michael Holm, DDS* Mark Holt, DDS, MS* Wesley Honbo, DDS* Herbert Hooper, DDS* Chester Hsu, DDS* Alice Huang, DDS* Elizabeth Huynh, DDS* Edward Ishii, DDS* Richard Jackson, DDS* Craig Johnson, DDS Daniel Jones, DDS*

Terrence Jones, DDS* Christopher Kane, DDS* Robert Katibah, DDS* Paul Katz, DDS* Kevin Keating, DDS, MS* Sidney Kelly, DMD* Richard Kennedy, Jr., DDS* Neelofar Khan, BDS* Peter Kim, DDS* Steve Kineret, DDS, MS Craig Kinzer, DDS Robert Koch, DDS* Beverly Kodama, DDS* David Koehn, DDS Marvin Koh, DDS* Matthew Korn, DDS* Cassandra Krupansky, DDS, MS Laski Kung, DDS, MMSc, MPH Kevin Kurio, DDS* Laurie LaDow, DDS* Lisa Laptalo, DMD* Lawrence Larsen, DDS Peter Laurendeau, DDS Skip Lawrence, DDS* Gordon Lee, DDS* Grace Lee, DMD, MD* Leland Lee, DDS* Steven Lee * Steve Leighty, DDS* David Lewis, DMD* Steve Longoria, DDS* Carol Lopez-Shams, DDS* L. Neil Loveridge, DDS Donald MacDonald, DMD* Alexander Malick, DMD James McNerney, DDS* Timothy Mickiewicz, DDS* David Miller, DDS* Dwight Miller, DDS* Daniel Miyasaki, DDS* Edward Montalbo, DMD* Rhonda Montalbo, DMD* Kathryn Ann Moore, DDS* Sydney Moore, DDS* Kenneth Moore, DDS* Megan Moyneur, DDS* James Musser, DDS* John Nelson, DDS Gary Newhouse, DMD* Minh Nguyen, DDS Thanh-Truc Nguyen, DDS Daniel Nolan, DDS* James Oates, DDS* Michael O’Brien, * Kevin O’Neill, DDS, MSD* John Oshetski, DDS* Stephen Ott, DDS* Leif Overby, DDS Gregory Owyang, DDS* Jun Park, DDS Viren Patel, DDS*

James Peck, DDS* Joel Pedersen, DDS* Stacey Peters-Nelson, DDS* Dennis Peterson, DDS* Robert Phillips, DDS* Paolo Poidmore, DDS, MSD* Sharon Prindle, DDS Michael Quessenberry, DDS* Philip Quinley, DDS Alan Rabe, DDS* Moji Radi, DDS* Linda Rafferty, DDS Darryl Ragland, DDS* Hana Rashid, DDS* Ibtisam Rashid, DDS* Gabrielle Rasi, DDS* Ron Rasi, DDS* Joseph Rawlins, DDS* Justin Reich, DDS* Sean Rhee, DDS* Bevan Richardson, DDS* Lindsey Robinson, DDS* Leon Roda, III, DDS Christy Rollofson, DDS* Donald Rollofson, DMD* Nicholas Rotas, DDS* Ronald Rott, DDS* Brian Royse, DDS* Navneet Sahota, * William Schaedler, DDS* Christopher Schiappa, DDS* David Seman, DDS, MS* Howard Shempp, DDS* Richard Shipp, DDS* Stefanie Shore, DDS* James Silverman, DDS* Dwight Simpson, DDS Walter Skinner, DDS William Sloan, DMD* Chris Spain, DDS Norman Spalding, DDS* Joelle Speed, DDS* Charles Stamos, DDS* Visse Storm, DDS* Jeffrey Sue, DDS* Victoria Sullivan, DDS* Damon Szymanowski, DMD Art Tanimoto, DDS* Larry Templin, DDS* H. Scott Thompson, DDS* Robert Tilly, DDS* J. Alex Tomaich, DDS, MD* Leo Townsend, DDS Kelvin Tse, DDS* Glen Tueller, DDS* Gregory Tuttle, DDS* Lucy Valencia, DDS* Asvin Vasanthan, DDS, MS* Chang Vong, DMD* Thuy Nga Vu, DDS Tom Wagner, DDS* Kim Wallace, DDS* Melvin Walters, DDS*

Wayne Walters, DDS* Glen Warganich-Stiles, DDS* Ernie Watson, DDS* Russell Weaver, DDS* Russell Webb, DDS* Cynthia Weideman, DDS* Michael Weideman, DDS* Mark White, DDS* Gregory Wilcox, DDS* Ryan Wilgus, DDS Michael Wilson, DDS* Bingson Wong, DDS* Dennis Wong, DDS* Kenneth Wong, DDS* Timothy Wong, DDS* Peter Worth, DDS* Jamson Wu, DDS, MSD* Lynn Yamamoto, DDS* Thomas Yamamoto, DDS* H. Wesley Yee, DDS* Associate Members Comel Ahmad* Anne Bianchi* Debra Burke* Irene Campbell* Stephanie Cripe* Peggy Daft* Barbara Delehanty Rachelle Doyle* Fechter & Company* Kathleen Ford* Elizabeth Hailey Dave Harlow, CPA Mary Ann Harris* Beverlee Hawkins* Donna Hollingsworth Margaret Jackson* Sherri Johnson Kathy Jones* Marion Jones* Joe Kalinowski, CPA/PFS* Grants Smiles for Kids® The California Endowment Catholic Healthcare West/ Dignity Health CDA Foundation Henry Schein Cares Smiles for BIG Kids® Delta Dental of California 1st Tooth OR 1st Birthday ADA Foundation — Harris Fund Memorials SDDS, in memory of: Ken Ackerman Guadalupe Amaya Ronald Astle, DDS Ray Boron John Cox, DDS Gladys Daby Robert Erickson, DDS

Walter Haffner, DDS Larry Keating Peter Laurendeau, DDS Kenneth Law, DDS Kenneth Messenger, DDS Bev Miyasaki Ronald Pantalone, DDS Clyde Parks, DDS Nelva Richardson Lynn Rudee, DDS Mitsuho Sato, DDS Bette Wallace Randolph Walthall, DMD Michael Zoradi, DDS, MSD Glen Tueller, DDS, in memory of: Nelva Richardson Peter Laurendeau, DDS Beverly Kodama, DDS, in memory of: Nelva Richardson Ken Ackerman Winnie Irwin Peter Laurendeau, DDS Guadalupe Amaya James Peck, DDS, in memory of: Peter Laurendeau, DDS Endodontic Associates, in memory of: Peter Laurendeau, DDS Gordon Harris, DDS, in memory of: Bev Miyasaki General Dentistry Grant Contributions Richard Chang, DDS Scott Churchill, DMD SFK Contributions Blue Northern Builders CSUS Pre-Dental Club Patterson Dental Supply Proctor & Gamble/Oral B Sacramento Region Community Foundation – Knapp Family #1 Fund Star Group United Concordia Dental Miscellaneous Contributions Members Herbert Hooper, DDS Kevin Keating, DDS, MS George Koch, DDS Others Ron Andres Carrington College of California Sacramento District Dental Society continued

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2011 SDDF Annual Report (continued) CROWNS FOR KIDS速 Guy Acheson, DDS Gary Ackerman, DDS Craig Alpha, DDS Mark Backhus, DDS Henry Bennett, DDS Damon Boyd, DDS Capitol Periodontal Group Michael Casagrande, DDS Stephen Casagrande, DDS Barbara Castle, DDS Richard Chang, DDS Garth Collins, DDS James Cope, DDS Jerome Daby, DDS Robert Daby, DDS Randy Davey, DDS Margaret Delmore, MD, DDS Anthony Digiorno, DDS Julianne Digiorno, DDS Shaina DiMariano, DDS Pam DiTomasso, DMD Lisa Dobak, DDS Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD Jennifer Goldman, DDS Mitchell Goodis, DDS Edi Guidi, DDS Laurie Hanschu, DDS Victor Hawkins, DDS Gregory Heise, DDS Ryan Higgins, DDS Kendall Homer, DMD Dick Huang, DMD Ralph Isola, DDS Richard Jackson, DDS Richard Kennedy, Jr, DDS Matthew Korn, DDS Laurie LaDow, DDS Merlin Lai, DDS Grace Lee, DMD, MD Lauren Marr, DDS Luis Mendez, DDS Kenneth Moore, DDS Khari Nelson, DDS Charles Newens, DDS Viren Patel, DDS James Peters, DDS Stacey Peters-Nelson, DDS Hanh Pham, DDS Jean Rabadam, DMD Mojtaba Radi, DDS Ibtisam Rashid, DDS Christy Rollofson, DDS Sacramento Oral Surgery, Sacramento Surgical Arts, Howard Shempp, DDS Richard Shipp, DDS Stefanie Shore, DDS Amy Tran, DDS Carl Trubschenck, DDS Hoang Truong, DDS Steven Tsuchida, DDS Glen Tueller, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS Russ Webb, DDS Ian Wong, DDS BROADWAY SERIES Dean Ahmad, DDS Ana Maria Antoniu, DDS Jayson Chalmers, DDS Teresa Deguzman, DMD Donna Galante, DMD M. Franklin Godfrey, Jr., DDS Mitchell Goodis, DDS Jennifer Goss, DDS Monika Gugale, DDS Brock Hinton, DDS Donald MacDonald, DDS Madeline Majer, DDS

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Gary Newhouse, DMD Trish Peterson Jerome Pielago, DDS Gary Rawlinson, DDS Gerald Roberts, DDS Gerald Roberts, Jr., DDS Patrick Shannahan, DDS Edwin Sims, DDS Phoenix Sinclair, DDS Victoria Sullivan, DDS Kenneth True, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS Dina Wasileski, DDS Janice Work, DDS Peter Worth, DDS HOLIDAY PARTY SILENT AUCTION Guy Acheson, DDS Gary Ackerman, DDS Wallace Bellamy, DMD & Elaine Ferrari Richard Brown, DDS & Julie Brown Matt Campbell, DDS & Irene Campbell Vince Castaldo, DMD & Margaret Castaldo Bob Daby, DDS & Lori Daby, RDH Dyemonds & Curls Louis Gallia, MD, DMD Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS Bob Gillis, DMD, MSD & Mary Lou Gillis Gordon Harris, DDS & Mary Ann Harris Mark Holt, DDS, MS Margaret Jackson Beverly Kodama, DDS & Will Galloway Grace Lee, DMD, MD Steve Leighty, DDS & Karen Leighty Bruce & Cathy Levering Maria Nemeth, PhD James Oates, DDS & Joyce Oates Viren Patel, DDS & Sonja Patel Rocklin Family Chiropractic Eric Wagnon, DC Sacramento Rivercats Baseball Club SDDS Staff, Bump Dinner Michael Solomon, Esq. Kevin Tanner, DDS Russell Webb, DDS & Kathi Webb Thomas Yamamoto, DDS GOLF TOURNAMENT Sponsors Ameriprise Financial Andrews Construction Blue Northern Builders, Inc. Burkhart Dental Supply Carestream Dental / Kodak Delta Dental of California Dental Management Solutions DEXIS Digital X-Ray Jackson, Heise & Alpha OMS Kids Care Dental Group Komet Mann, Urrutia & Nelson, CPAs Northwestern Mutual, Adam Miller & Mike Welch Olson Construction, Inc. Paramount Lab Patterson Dental Supply Prosthodontic Dental Group

Drs. Nordlander, Hinton, Dyal, Alvarado & Angel Ronald Blanchette, DDS Sacramento Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Supply Doc, Inc. C. Thaddeus Szymanowski, DDS Damon Szymanowski, DMD Jonathan Szymanowski, DMD, MMSc TDIC Insurance Solutions Tekfix Team The Levering Company Commercial Real Estate Union Bank Wells Fargo Bank Raffle Donors Blue Northern Builders A-DEC Endodontic Associates Dental Group Drs. Whitnack, Keating, Greene, Bal and Opp Komet Procter & Gamble/OralB Signature Smiles Scott Szotko, DDS SybronEndo Turkey Creek Golf Course Sacramento District Dental Society Golfers Todd Andrews, DDS Stan Arellano, DDS Chris Bailey James Bailey Michele Bailey Dan Baker Daisuke Bannai, DDS Randy Beck Neil Beeman Wallace Bellamy, DMD Sherif Boctor Gary Borge, DDS Steve Brand Richard Brown Robert Burger Michael Burk Greg Busby Jason Caluza Scott Camp Christopher Cantrell, DMD P. Kevin Chen, DMD, MS Thomas Chin, DDS Jim Cho Yu Cho John Choi Bret Cochran Eddie Collins Kent Daft, DDS Bill Doms A. Rocklin Doms, DDS David Duke, DDS Chris Everett Jim Fisher Brian Fortner Douglas Gedestad, DDS Matt Gill Vince Guzman Victor Hawkins, DDS Ryan Higgins, DDS Jim Hillier Michael Hinh, DDS Brock Hinton, DDS Lam Hoang Rick Hodkin Bruce Holt, DDS Dave Hood

Ryan Hughes Tyler Hunt Chad Jensen, DDS Paul E. Johnson, DDS Scot Jovich Jun Kim K. Steve Kim, DDS Andy Kwong Bruce Levering Cathy Levering Donald Liberty, DDS Steve Longoria, DDS Steve Love Allen Lue, MD Jae Lun Jeff Martin, DDS George Mayweather, DDS Candy McComb, DDS Jeff McComb, DDS Ian McFarlane James Meinert, DDS Adam Miller J. Gregory Nahorney, DDS Diane Ogden John Oshetski, DDS Shane Panter, DDS Viren Patel, DDS David Pettey, DDS Mark Pimentel Tony Prim Judson Roberts, DDS James Ryan Jeremy Salvatierra, DMD Nicole Sayers Danny Schoen Mark Schwan Ed Sellers Nam Seo Colin Sheldon Mike Skor Frank Solomon Charles Stamos, DDS Scott Szotko, DDS C. Thaddeus Szymanowski, DDS Damon Szymanowski, DMD Michael Tai, DDS Pamela Trehub Kelvin Tse, DDS John Urrutia Harry Viani, DDS Jonathan Vongshanphen, DDS Michael Ward, DDS Chris Watkins Mike Welch Justin Winger, DDS Clifford Wong, DDS Kenneth Wong, DDS Stuart Wright Douglas Yee, DDS H. Wesley Yee, DDS Dan Zendner, DDS Spirit of Giving Gregory Adams, DDS, MS Wai Chan, DDS A. Rocklin Doms, DDS Gordon Harris, DDS Robert Hays, DDS Craig Hollingsworth, DDS Bruce Holt, DDS Kevin Keane, DDS Richard Kennedy, Jr., DDS Leland Lee, DDS Dwight Miller, DDS, MS Dennis Peterson, DDS Robert Phillips, DDS Don Rollofson, DMD Roseville Dental Group Richard Shipp, DDS Foundation Gala Attendees Gary Ackerman, DDS Ronald & Michelle Andres

Paul Barkin, DDS & Peg Barkin Neil Beeman Wallace Bellamy, DMD Paul Binon, DDS, MSD Ernie Bodai William & Diane Borja Randy Boyd, DDS & Brenda Boyd Burhart Dental Supply Matt Campbell, Jr., DDS & Irene Campbell Adrian Carrington, DDS & Marsha Henry, DDS John Carson, DDS & Connie Carson Wai Chan, DDS & Ruby Yu, MD Regina Cheung, DDS Paul Cripe, DDS & Stephanie Cripe Robert Daby, DDS & Lori Daby Walter Dahl Mark Endo, DDS Endodontic Associates Phil Fitch Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS & Stephen Giannetti Randy & Jeannie Graham Holly Grahm Wayne Grossman, DDS & Zoe Grossman Gregory Hailey, DDS & Elizabeth Hailey Nicky Hakimi DDS, MSD & Melissa Owens Gordon Harris, DDS & Mary Ann Harris Tom & Nancy Harvey Victor Hawkins, DDS & Beverlee Hawkins Health Net of California Milo Hewitt, DDS & Patricia Hewitt Carl Hillendahl, DDS & Deborah Hillendahl Brock Hinton, DDS Kevin Hitomi Chester Hsu, DDS & Teresa Richard Jackson, DDS & Magaret Jackson Christopher Kane, DDS Beverly Kodama, DDS & Will Galloway Skip Lawrence, DDS & Cookie Lawrence Leland Lee, DDS & Deborah Lee Steve Leighty, DDS Ben & Melissa Littau Madeline Majer, DDS Joe & Jeanne Maloney Denise Mar, DDS Laurence Masuoka, DMD & Sharon Masuoka Timothy Mickiewicz, DDS & Erin Mickiewicz James Musser, DDS Clifton Nakatani, DDS & Linda Nakatani Maria Nemeth Ronald Otto, DDS, MS & Patricia Otto Gregory Owyang, DDS James Peck, DDS & Ann Peck Dennis Peterson, DDS & Gayle Peterson Michael Preskar, DDS & Georgiana Preskar Hana Rashid, DDS Ibtisam Rashid, DDS Gabrielle Rasi, DDS

Wayne Riggert, DDS & Suzanne Riggert Lindsey Robinson, DDS & Parker White Donald Rollofson, DMD & Janet Rollofson Nicholas Rotas, DDS & Carol Rotas Brian Royse, DDS Royse Sacramento Dental Associates Sacramento District Dental Society Sacramento Hilton Arden West Rita Saenz Jack & Diane Scanlon Ed & Lisa Sellers Szymanowski Family Richard Talbot, DMD, MS & Carol Talbot Robert Tilly, DDS Ed Trafton Merritt Triano James Van Sicklin, DDS & Janet Van Sicklin Wen-li Wang, DDS & Assmb. Richard Pan Russell Webb, DDS & Kathi Webb Edward Wiggins, DDS & Lee Wiggins Michael Wilson, DDS & Karen Wilson Ken Wong, DDS & Shelley Wong Alan Yee Douglas Yee, DDS Candice Yee, DDS Herbert Yee, DDS & Inez Yee H. Wesley Yee, DDS & Nancy Yee Judy Yee Sponsors Beverly Kodama, DDS Capitol Periodontal Group Delta Dental Donald Rollofson, DMD Drobny Law Office Endodontic Associates Henry Schein, Inc. Jackson, Heise & Alpha OMS Kids Care Dental Group Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney Patterson Dental Supply Wells Fargo Bank Auction Donors Above & Beyond Cakes Meghan Jimenez Ashkan Alizadeh, DDS Ameriprise Financial Violetta Terpeluk, MBA, CFP Crystal Anderson, DMD, MS Guy Acheson, DDS Nancy Archibald, DDS Richard Astor Wallace Bellamy, DMD Hendrik Blom, DDS & Andrea Delurgio, DDS, MSD Dr. Ernie & Carol Bodai Charlie Boise Lori Brown Melissa Brown California Employers Assoc.

Matthew Campbell, DDS Carrie at Dyemonds & Curls Casci DesignWorks Inc. Steve Frkovich Casci Steve Cavagnolo, DDS Wai Chan, DDS Richard Chang, DDS Matt Comfort, DDS

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Susan Creighton, Certified Marriage & Family Therapist Paul Cripe, DDS David Crippen, DDS Robert Daby, DDS Kent Daft, DDS & Peggy Daft DCA Laboratory Inc. David Cho, Artist DeVere’s Irish Pub Thomas DiLallo, DDS Direct Hit Pest Control Drobny Law Offices Inc. Mark Drobny, Esq. El Palmar Mexican Restaurant Fats’ Restaurants Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS & Stephen Giannetti Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates Jennifer Goss, DDS Randy Graham Granite Bay Golf Club Elizabeth Hailey Lajuan Hall, DDS Hyatt Regency Sacramento Hydro Pure Pool Service Shawn Panico Richard Jackson, DDS & Margaret Jackson Knead2Relax Danielle Bergmooser, CMT Beverly Kodama, DDS & Will Galloway Gregory Kondos & Moni Kondos Matthew Korn, DDS & Lisa Dobak, DDS Angeliza LaMantain Leland Lee, DDS Bruce & Cathy Levering Lighthouse Strategic Planners George E. Johnson Jon Lydell, Attorney at Law Mann, Urrutia & Nelson, CPAs Tim Mickiewicz, DDS Steve Mothersell Mt. Vernon Winery Jim Nakamine Clifton Nakatani, DDS Maria Nemeth, PhD Nugget Market (Roseville) Tom Longinotti Dave Olson Kitty O’Neal Ron Otto, DDS Melissa Owens Assemb. Richard Pan, MD Paragary’s Restaurant Group Tom Patton Michael Payne, DDS, MSD Dennis Peterson, DDS Portfolio Image Skin Care Waverly Pierce, CASLE Mary Powers

Georgiana Preskar Gabrielle Rasi, DDS Ronald Rasi, DDS Aaron Reeves, DDS Rocklin Family Chiropractic Eric Wagnon, DC Don Rollofson, DMD & Janet Rollofson Nicholas Rotas, DDS Brian Royse, DDS Sacramento District Dental Society Sacramento Hilton Arden West Scripps Oral Surgery Louis Gallia, MD, DMD Jan Scully, District Attorney Seller’s Concrete Cutting Ed Sellers David Seman, DDS, MS Mr. & Mrs. James Shannon Thomas Shiel Sierra View Country Club Jim Salazar, Golf Pro Phoenix Sinclair, DDS Sinsational Smiles Michael T. Solomon, Esq. Kurt Spataro Sugar Hair Boutique Jonathan Szymanowski, DMD, MMSc Bridget Tarzwell Glen Tueller, DDS & Mercedes Tueller Turkey Creek Golf Course Ramon Gonzales Trayce Turner John Urrutia Valley Crest Tree Care Services Kim Wallace, DDS Wayne Walters, DDS Jana Wong Peter Worth, DDS Rosemary Wu, DMD, MS Thomas Yamamoto, DDS Della Yee Herbert Yee, DDS & Inez Yee H. Wesley Yee, DDS Judy Yee Joe You, DDS Mark Zablotsky, DDS Other Donors Kent Daft, DDS Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD Daniel Haberman, DDS, MS Philip Hankins, DDS, MS Terrence Jones, DDS Cathy Mudge James Peck, DDS William Seabridge James Wallace, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS

By Robert Daby, DDS

SDDF President, 2011

The Sacramento District Dental Foundation sponsors events that are stimulating, rewarding and lots of fun. Let’s start with the fun! To raise funds for our charitable activities, we attend Broadway musicals (Million Dollar Quartet, Mamma Mia and Wicked) and sponsor a golf tournament at Turkey Creek on May 11. But the tremendous highlight of 2011 was The Gala, the best party of the year. Dr. Wes Yee and his committee, Cathy, and all the SDDS staff spent countless hours collecting donations, planning entertainment and creating an extremely exciting evening for all of us. It was a spectacular achievement for SDDS and SDDF. 450 people attended and raised nearly $100,000. People from all over the Sacramento region were shown what SDDF does for the community. People left feeling both happy and impressed. Thanks to all of you who made this night so special!

The programs of SDDF can also be extremely fun and rewarding. Our renowned Smiles for Kids (SFK) program screened over 35,000 children in 112 schools. The 93 screening volunteers found the kids were slightly healthier than at any previous screening. 71% had no observable caries compared to 67% the year before. Despite screening 9,000 more children than last year, fewer patients needed treatment through Smiles for Kids. On SFK treatment days, volunteers help families to apply for the Healthy Families program. That, together with all the treatment and prevention instruction provided each year, seems to be having a definite impact. About $950,000 of dental treatment was provided by 700 volunteers in 2011.

Smiles for BIG Kids is the program that we want to highlight this year. Adults in dire financial need are screened and placed with dentists who volunteer to participate. The dentistry is done at no charge, but lab fees are paid by SDDF or donated by the labs. 44 patients were completed in 2011 with $91,300 donated by docs and $5800 by labs.

Dentists donated an additional $52,000 to SDDF in 2011, $27,000 of that total through Crowns for Kids. Membership in the Foundation, at $75 per year, grew to 312 in 2011. Our goal is to have every SDDS member be a member of SDDF as well. Dental spouses, staff, vendors and friends are also encouraged to join.

SDDF partners with other organizations to improve oral health. We agreed to cover lab expenses for The Gathering Inn, helping them to deliver $85,000 in dental care. We recruited volunteers for the RAM clinic that provided $1,346,000 in services at Cal Expo. SDDF will also assist CDA Cares and Missions of Mercy (MOM) on May 18–19 in Modesto and Aug 24–25 at Cal Expo. MOM is a two-day dental only event, which is extremely well organized. Please volunteer for any of the charitable events mentioned in this report. You will be well rewarded for you service and extremely thankful that you are not in the position of those receiving the care. 

Current Assets

Liabilities & Equity

Checking / Savings

Liabilities

Charitable Fund (Smith Barney) General Fund (Smith Barney) Helen Hamilton Fund Perpetual Endowment Fund

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$161,684 $414,945 $113,863 $263,996

Total Checking / Savings:

$954,488

Accounts Receivable:

$2,467

Prepaid Expenses:

$7,689

Total Assets:

$964,645

Deferred Revenue (Other Current Liabilities) Total Liabilities:

$19,181 $19,181 Equity

Retained Earnings Net Income

$790,618 $154,846 Total Equity:

$945,464

Total Liabilities & Equity:

$964,645 as of 12/31/2011

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Program totals since 2009

TOTAL $$ DOCS DONATED: $410,646 TOTAL $$ SFBK LAB FEES PAID BY GRANTS: $17,992 TOTAL $$ LAB PARTNERS DONATED: $6,309 A project of Sacramento District Dental Foundation

Thank you to our partners!

Grants

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Delta Dental of California SFBK Partners Alpha Tech Dental Lab Artisin Dental Works Bishop Gallegos Maternity Home Brabant’s Dental Lab Carmichael Dental Lab Clara’s House Danilov Dental Dental Creations Frontier Dental Lab Halls Dental Lab Hamai Dental Laboratory Joe Rodriguez Dental Lab Kustom Dental Lab LaFond Dental Lab Merrill Dental Laboratory Mike’s Dental Labratory ParaMount Dental Laboratory Pegasus Dental Lab Professional Dental Laboratory Roseville Dental Lab Sedgwick Dental Lab Sierra Dental Lab Smiles for Success Stride Center Tri-City Dental Laboratories Victor’s Dental Lab WEAVE Wellspring Western Dental Arts, Inc. Women’s Empowerment

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Total $$$ since 2009: $434,947 AVERAGE $$$ PER PATIENT: $2,486 Treatment Statistics

Smiles for BIGKids ®

Total referred for treatment: 390 Total called for placement: 235 Placed cases: 210 No-show/Never called Dr/Failed: 34 Treatment in progress: 20 Treatment completed: 175

Demographics (Age)

18–29 30–39 40–49 50–59 60+ Average Age

24 32 44 24 18 48

Smiles for BIG Kids® Volunteer Doctors Mark Abel, DDS Gary Ackerman, DDS Craig Alpha, DDS Kreston Anderson, DDS Leo Angel, DDS Darryl Azouz, DDS Aneet Bal, DDS Robin Berrin, DDS Lenna Bright, DDS Steven Brown, DDS Arthur Burbridge, DDS Matthew Campbell, Jr., DDS David Cernik, DDS Andrea Cervantes, DDS Jeffrey Chamberlain, DDS Wai Chan, DDS Richard Chang, DDS James Chen, DDS Regina Cheung, DDS Nanlin Chiang, DMD, MD Terry Chin, DDS Darrell Chun, DDS Scott Churchill, DDS Matthew Comfort, DDS Tracey Cook, DDS Paul Cripe, DDS Robert Daby, DDS Elisabeth de Gaust, DDS Margaret Delmore, MD, DDS Friz Diaz, DDS Herlin Dyal, DDS Nagy Elsemary, DDS

Gwendolyn Enriquez, DMD Eloisa Espiritu, DDS James Everhart, DDS John Fat, DDS, MS Kenneth Fat, DDS Michael Favero, DMD Tiffany Favero Holladay, DMD Richard Fife, DDS Debra Finney, DDS Brian Fong, DMD, MD Melissa Fong, DDS Kimberly Fong, DDS Ronald Fong, DDS Shahnaz Formoli, DDS Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD Arlenita Gomez-Croddy, DDS A Scott Grivas, DDS Nicky Hakimi, DDS, MSD Injoo Han, DDS, MSD, PhD Lauren Hanschu, DDS Brian Harris, DDS Jagdev Heir, DMD, MD Carl Hillendahl, DDS Bruce Holt, DDS Dan Hopper, DDS Richard Jackson, DDS Paige Jeffs, DDS Craig Johnson, DDS Loche Johnson, DDS Terry Jones, DDS Bryan Judd, DDS

Christopher Kane, DDS Kevin Keane, DDS Neelofar Khan, BDS George Kingsley, DDS Mark Kujiraoka, DDS Hung Le, DDS Steve Leighty, DDS Pieter Linssen, DDS Jeffery Little, DDS David Lopes, DDS Ryan Maddox, DDS Dwight Miller, DDS Kenneth Moore, DDS Kenney Moore, DDS Richard Moorhouse, DDS Michael Mullen, DDS Ferris Nazeri, DMD Kathleen Greene, DDS David Keating, DDS Brian Orcutt, DDS Steven Penn, DDS Flaviane Petersen, DDS Brett Peterson, DDS Paul Phillips, DDS Michael Preskar, DDS Paul Raskin, DDS Ronald Rasmussen, DDS Sean Rhee, DDS Jorge Rico, DDS Olivia Rodrigues, DDS Donald Rollofson, DMD Nicholas Rotas, DDS

Sean Roth, DDS Brian Royse, DDS Dean Sands, DMD Phoenix Sinclair, DDS Darce Slate, DDS Andrea Smith, DDS Charles Smurthwaite, DDS Ojadimeji Sorunke, BDS Brian Steele, DDS Visse Storm, DDS Jason Straw, DDS Cary Syamken, DDS J. Alex Tomaich, DDS, MD Pedram Towfighi, DDS, MS Loc Tran, DDS Glen Tueller, DDS Gregory Tuttle, DDS Thuy Nga Vu, DDS Judith Vue, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS Mark White, DDS Joel Whiteman, DDS Anna Whitmire, DMD Rae Ann Whitten, DDS Jerard Wilson, DDS Kelly Wilson, DDS Walter Winfrey, DDS Clifford Wong, DDS Ken Wong, DDS Marston Wong, DDS, MS Bianca Yee, DDS

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2012 Sacramento District Dental Foundation Members

Is your name on this list?

It should be!

It is the mission of the Sacramento District Dental Foundation (SDDF) to promote the oral and general health of the public by serving as the charitable arm of the SDDS and the dental community. Members of SDDF make an annual voluntary contribution in support of this effort.

The individuals below have made this commitment to our Foundation. If you’re not yet among them, it’s not too late! For more information on becoming a Foundation Member, see the insert at the center of this issue, or visit www.sdds.org/SDDF_main.htm.

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John Cutter, DDS Jerome Daby, DDS Robert Daby, DDS Kent Daft, DDS David Datwyler, DDS Jeffrey Davidson, DDS Teresa DeGuzman, DMD James Delehanty, DDS Paul Denzler, DDS Friz Diaz, DDS Shaina DiMariano, DDS Hung Do, DDS Jerome Dobak, DDS Lisa Dobak, DDS Gordon Douglass, DDS Jennifer Drew, DDS, MSD Timothy Durkin, DDS James Everhart, DDS R. Kent Farnsworth, DDS Diana Fat, DDS JC Fat, DDS, MS Kenneth Fat, DDS David Feder, DDS Volkmar Felahy, DDS Debra Finney, DDS Leslie Fong, DDS Michael Forde, DDS, MS Rikard Forsberg, DDS Lora Foster Rode, DDS Kenneth Fox, DDS Kasi Franck, DDS Donna Galante, DMD Douglas Gedestad, DMD Richard Gere, DDS Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS Herbert Gibbs, DDS Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD Mitchell Goodis, DDS Jennifer Goss, DDS Wayne Grossman, DDS Edi Guidi, DDS Dan Haberman, DDS, MS Gregory Hailey, DDS Nicky Hakimi, DDS, MSD Lauren Hanschu, DDS Kerry Hanson, DDS Daniel Harlan, DDS Elizabeth Harmon, DDS Gordon Harris, DDS Victor Hawkins, DDS Robert Hays, DDS

Jagdev Heir, DMD, MD Greg Heise, DDS Timothy Herman, DDS Steven Higashi, DDS Carl Hillendahl, DDS Craig Hollingsworth, DDS Michael Holm, DDS Mark Holt, DDS, MS Wesley Honbo, DDS Herbert Hooper, DDS Chester Hsu, DDS Alice Huang, DDS Elizabeth Huynh, DDS Edward Ishii, DDS Richard Jackson, DDS Daniel Jones, DDS Terrence Jones, DDS Lynn Judd, DDS Christopher Kane, DDS Robert Katibah, DDS Paul Katz, DDS David Keating, DDS Kevin Keating, DDS, MS Sidney Kelly, DMD Richard Kennedy, Jr., DDS Neelofar Khan, BDS Peter Kim, DDS Robert Koch, DDS Beverly Kodama, DDS Marvin Koh, DDS Matthew Korn, DDS Cassandra Krupansky, DDS, MS Kevin Kurio, DDS Laurie LaDow, DDS Lisa Laptalo, DMD Skip Lawrence, DDS Gordon Lee, DDS Grace Lee, DMD, MD Leland Lee, DDS Steven Lee, Alan Leider, DDS Steve Leighty, DDS Tom Lenhart, DDS David Lewis, DMD Steve Longoria, DDS Carol Lopez-Shams, DDS L. Neil Loveridge, DDS Donald MacDonald, DMD William Marble, DDS James McNerney, DDS James Meinert, DDS

Timothy Mickiewicz, DDS David Miller, DDS Dwight Miller, DDS Daniel Miyasaki, DDS Edward Montalbo, DMD Rhonda Montalbo, DMD Kathryn Ann Moore, DDS Kenneth Moore, DDS Sydney Moore, DDS Megan Moyneur, DDS Steve Murphy, DMD James Musser, DDS Gary Newhouse, DMD Minh Nguyen, DDS Thank-Truc Nguyen, DDS Daniel Nolan, DDS James Oates, DDS Michael O’Brien, Kevin O’Neill, DDS, MSD John Oshetski, DDS Stephen Ott, DDS Leif Overby, DDS Gregory Owyang, DDS Michael Payne, DDS, MSD James Peck, DDS Joel Pedersen, DDS Stacey Peters-Nelson, DDS Dennis Peterson, DDS Robert Phillips, DDS Paolo Poidmore, DDS, MSD Michael Quessenberry, DDS Alan Rabe, DDS Moji Radi, DDS Darryl Ragland, DDS Hana Rashid, DDS Ibtisam Rashid, DDS Gabrielle Rasi, DDS Ron Rasi, DDS Joseph Rawlins, DDS Justin Reich, DDS Sean Rhee, DDS Bevan Richardson, DDS Lindsey Robinson, DDS Christy Rollofson, DDS Donald Rollofson, DMD Nicholas Rotas, DDS Ronald Rott, DDS Brian Royse, DDS Navneet Sahota, Voltaire Sambajon, DDS, MD William Schaedler, DDS

Christopher Schiappa, DDS David Seman, DDS, MS Howard Shempp, DDS Cristopher Shepard, DMD Richard Shipp, DDS Stefanie Shore, DDS James Silverman, DDS William Sloan, DMD Norman Spalding, DDS Joelle Speed, DDS Charles Stamos, DDS Visse Storm, DDS Jeffrey Sue, DDS Victoria Sullivan, DDS Damon Szymanowski, DMD Art Tanimoto, DDS Larry Templin, DDS R. Bruce Thomas, DDS H. Scott Thompson, DDS Robert Tilly, DDS J. Alex Tomaich, DDS, MD Leo Townsend, DDS Kelvin Tse, DDS Glen Tueller, DDS Gregory Tuttle, DDS Lucy Valencia, DDS Asvin Vasanthan, DDS, MS Gary Vedenoff, DDS Chang Vong, DMD Tom Wagner, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS Melvin Walters, DDS Wayne Walters, DDS Kingsley Wang, DDS Glen Warganich-Stiles, DDS Ernie Watson, DDS Russell Weaver, DDS Russell Webb, DDS Cynthia Weideman, DDS Michael Weideman, DDS Mark White, DDS Gregory Wilcox, DDS Ryan Wilgus, DDS Michael Wilson, DDS Bingson Wong, DDS Dennis Wong, DDS Kenneth Wong, DDS Timothy Wong, DDS Peter Worth, DDS Jamson Wu, DDS, MSD Lynn Yamamoto, DDS

Thomas Yamamoto, DDS Bradley Yee, DDS H. Wesley Yee, DDS Associate Members Comel Ahmad Anne Bianchi Debra Burke Irene Campbell Robin Cavagnolo Stephanie Cripe Lori Daby, RDH Peggy Daft Tom Dalman Rachelle Doyle Fechter & Company Kathleen Ford Lori Forsberg Mary Ann Harris Beverlee Hawkins Teresa Hsu Margaret Jackson Kathy Jones Marion Jones Linda Judd Joe Kalinowski, CPA/PFS Sue Keating, RDH Leigh Kurio Deborah Lee Steve Leininger, CPA/PFS Cathy Levering Joan Lewis Paige Moyneur Joyce Oates Ann Peck Gayle Peterson Koos Prins, PhD Julie Rawlins Janet Rollofson Sherry Sue Brent Thomas, CPA/PFS Annette Tomaich Hans Walde Karen Walters Michelle Wang Kathi Webb Roxanne Weideman Haden Werhan, CPA/PFS Roberta Wong Ruby Yu, MD Henry Zhu

2012 Foundation members as of 4/19/12

Dentist Members Susan Abeldt, DDS Guy Acheson, DDS Gary Ackerman, DDS Terry Adair, DDS Eva Adams, DDS Gregory Adams, DDS, MS Dean Ahmad, DDS Craig Alpha, DDS Todd Andrews, DDS Brad Archibald, DDS Nancy Archibald, DDS Sean Avera, DDS, MS Mark Backhus, DDS Daisuke Bannai, DDS Richard Behl, DDS Wallace Bellamy, DMD Robin Berrin, DDS Paul Bianchi, DDS Paul Binon, DDS, MSD John Birch, DDS Michael Boyce, DDS Damon Boyd, DDS Rodney Bughao, DDS David Burke, DDS Robert Burkhard, DDS Matthew Campbell, Jr., DDS Adrian Carrington, DDS Thais Carvalho-Booms, DDS, MS Vince Castaldo, DMD Steven Cavagnolo, DDS Wai Chan, DDS Shareen Char-Fat, DDS Kevin Chen, DMD, MS Regina Cheung, DDS John Childers, DDS Sonney Chong, DMD Stephen Christensen, DMD Lawrence Chu, DDS Michael Chu, DDS Darrell Chun, DDS Scott Churchill, DMD Matt Comfort, DDS Patrick Cook, DDS James Cope, DDS James Coyle, DDS Lee Crane, DDS, MPH Brian Crawford, DMD Paul Cripe, DDS David Crippen, DDS Gina Crippen, DDS

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Increasing Delta Issues

& an appeal to our members As with other major dental plans in California, CDA has a designated liaison with Delta Dental to assist in addressing problems that member dentists are experiencing.

This liaison arrangement works best on a case-by-case basis when a dentist is inquiring about a specific payment dispute and the normal lines of communication with Delta aren’t resulting in a resolution.

Since January, CDA has experienced an increasing volume of inquiries about issues with Delta’s claims adjudication system. These are more than individual claim issues as they are issues that potentially affect hundreds or thousands of dental practices and the claims they are submitting to Delta.

We’ve heard, for example: Delta is failing to properly process and pay secondary dental claims when the plan is both primary and secondary for a patient (they have opted to pay both claims as if they are primary, and then go back and offset future claims to retrieve overpayments on the secondary claim payment); claims submitted by long-term providers in Delta’s provider network where the plan’s system erroneously recognizes the provider as non-contracted, resulting in payment errors; claims sent to dentists at previous addresses where the dental practice used to be located; claims sent to the wrong dentist; pre-authorized treatment not being recognized by the system as pre-authorized, causing processing delays; improper capping of fees on procedures the plan doesn’t cover and consequently doesn’t pay for; the automated system for confirming patients’ eligibility of coverage not being able to recognize the patient in the system because the plan’s new system has assigned new identification numbers to enrollees; a case where weeks of claims not paid because the system is reading an “incorrect” tax identification number for the dentist, in spite of the fact that the dentist submitted the new tax ID weeks previously, including faxing that number to Delta twice in addition to the formal notice of the change.

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The list goes on, as these are just a few of the problems that have been occurring.

As members have brought their issues to the CDA Practice Support Center, we’ve submitting them individually to our designated liaison with Delta. But the volume of the issues we’ve received has been so large that trying to address them on a case-by-case basis with Delta has been nearly overwhelming.

Last month, CDA wrote to Delta’s Dental Director over claims adjudication and provider relations, describing the Delta system-related problems we’re hearing from members. We asked for a response to the specific issues we raised in the letter, for information on what Delta is seeing as problems, and how they are working to correct those problems so that we might accurately report back to our members, and expedite problems members are experiencing. In response, Delta assured us that the problems we cited are known to them, that they are working to correct their system, and that they would shortly respond to each of the issues we raised in our letter. We were asked to be patient while Delta works on these issues.

Our view is that we and our members have shown enough patience. The problems have been occurring since late last year. We’re now into the third month of 2012 and the problems show no indication of either being resolved or diminishing.

CDA had an initial conversation with representatives of the Department of Managed Health Care about the system problems at Delta. Our belief is that unresolved system difficulties are resulting in noncompliance with various aspects of the Knox-Keene Act under which Delta operates. DMHC asked CDA provide a summary of the issues we are hearing from dentists, including the correspondence we’ve had with Delta, and copies of formal appeals either members or CDA has submitted to Delta on behalf of members.

By Greg Alterton

CDA Third Party Analyst

issues to raise with Delta is to hear from dentists who have filed formal complaints and appeals with Delta. CDA has urged dentists calling about their Delta-related issues to communicate their concerns to DMHC through the department’s toll-free provider complaint number (877-525-1295). DMHC told us that when receiving a call from a dentist about their issues, dentists have been directed to send a summary of their issue to the provider complaint unit’s email address (pcu@dmhc.ca.gov).

We are working with our contact at Delta to resolve individual payment problems. And we will shortly be submitting what dentists are experiencing to the Department of Managed Health Care, which will help the department determine course of action it might take to assure that these issues are resolved quickly.

But in addition…

If you have experienced problems and delays in receiving payments from Delta which stem from system issues, CDA wants to hear from you, but please take the time to summarize your issue, or as many issues you are having, and send them to DMHC at pcu@dmhc.ca.gov. DMHC is tasked with protecting consumers, including providers, when dealing with health care service plans.

Hearing from you is important to the department. You can help us to help you by communicating the issues you’re having to both CDA and to DMHC at the email address given.

We desire that every dentist who has contacted CDA about their recent problems to also communicate those issues to DMHC. Please take the time to submit your comments and issues to the department. This will help bring these issues to a quick resolution. 

An Appeal to Our Members

For more information on this or other dental benefit payment issues, contact the CDA Practice Support Center at 866-232-6362.

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Sacramento District Dental Society

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Peanuts & Popcorn &…

It’s that time of year once again... time to don your ball caps, dust off your gloves, and head out to Raley Field for the 7th annual SDDS Day at the RiverCats Game!!

Over the past six years, dentists, staff, family and friends have been meeting up in droves for this fun day — last year we had 230 in attendance from our group! We hope you’ll join us this year in the Senate Box on Thursday, June 21st, as that Cats take on the Fresno Grizzlies. Game starts at 7:05pm!

The Membership Committee is also excited to announce SDDS’s First Annual Shredding Drive in June — exact date coming soon.

We’ll be having a party in the SDDS parking lot, complete with food and beverages and, of course, a shredding truck. Bring those reams of old papers and join in on the fun! This is a member benefit and will be FREE to all active members… so don’t miss out!

This year’s New Member Dinner was held on April 26th at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Sacramento. This event has proven to be a great way for new members to meet, mingle, network and learn about the amazing benefits of membership in the Society. It is open to all members new to SDDS within the past two years. If you missed out this year and are interested in attending in 2013, let us know — we’d love to have you!

Have an idea for a fun time? The Membership Committee is always looking for new ways to recruit new members and retain the ones we have! To let us know how we can make your experience with SDDS even better, contact Dr. Lisa Laptalo, Membership Committee Chair, at LisaLaptaloDMD@gmail.com.

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By Lisa Laptalo, DMD

Membership Committee Chair

sdds Committee Meetings (2012): Foundation (SDDF) (6:15pm) July 30 • Nov 29

1st Tooth or 1st Birthday Task Force (6:30pm) May 21 Access to Care Task Force (7:30am) Future Meetings TBA Amalgam Task Force (7:30am) Future Meetings TBA

GMC Task Force (3:00pm) Meetings monthly Golf (6:00pm) May 11 (Tourney) Mass Disaster / Forensics (6:30pm) Summer 2012

Board of Directors (6:00pm) May 1 • Sept 4 • Nov 6

Membership (6:00pm) May 21 • Sept 26 • Nov 28

Continuing Education (6:00pm) May 1 • Sept 18 • Oct 30

Nugget Editorial (6:15pm) June 12 • Sept 25

CPR (6:00pm) Future Meetings TBA

Peer Review (6:15pm) Sept 17 • Nov 27

Dental Careers Workgroup Meetings scheduled as needed

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you

the dentist, the employer

Pregnancy

You are a dentist. You’ve been to school, taken your Boards and settled into practice. End of story?

Not quite. Employee evaluations, hiring and firing, labor laws and personnel files are an important part of being an employer. Are you up on the changes that happen nearly EVERY January 1st?

In this monthly column, we will offer information pertinent to you, the dentist as the employer.

Disability Leave From California Employers Association (CEA) For companies with five or more employees in the current or preceding year, your employees are entitled to Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL). There is no length of service requirement before an employee disabled by pregnancy is entitled to PDL. The time is unpaid, and can be taken whenever a woman’s doctor certifies that she is disabled during the pregnancy or after the delivery. The PDL is for any period(s) of actual disability caused by pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions up to four months (or 88 work days for a full-time employee) per pregnancy. The time off can be taken all at once or any time throughout and after the pregnancy for morning sickness, prenatal visits, recovery, etc.

An employee is affected by pregnancy or a related medical condition, with supported documentation of a medical practitioner, may request reasonable accommodation transfer to a less strenuous or hazardous position or duties.

An employer may require medical certification only if medical certification is required for other types of disability leave. Certification should include the date on which the employee become disabled due to pregnancy, the date of the medical advisability for the transfer or reasonable accommodation, probable duration of the period(s) of disability, transfer or accommodation. A statement should also include that, due to the disability, the employee is unable to perform one or more of the essential functions of her position without undue risk to the employee, the successful completion of the pregnancy or to other persons. The statement may also say that, due to the pregnancy, transfer or reasonable accommodation is medically advisable.

Employers must post a notice regarding PDL rights and have a PDL policy in the company’s employee handbook.

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During PDL, an employer can require use of sick time, but vacation or PTO benefits can only be used at the employee’s request.

All women disabled by pregnancy are entitled to State Disability Insurance (SDI) to the same extent as for all other disabilities. Generally SDI will pay for four weeks before delivery and six to eight weeks after delivery. If the employer provides more than four months of leave for other types of temporary disabilities, the same must be made available to women disabled due to pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition. Leave may be taken before or after birth, during any period of time the woman is physically unable to work because of pregnancy or a pregnancyrelated condition.

A woman returning from PDL must be placed in the same or a comparable position as before leave. Terminate employment for an employee who does not return to work after taking PDL may generally occur, unless a policy exists granting longer leave for other disabilities.

Employers with 50 or more employees must grant employees PDL, Family Medical Leave (FMLA) and California Family Rights (CFRA). FMLA can run concurrently with PDL, meaning a pregnant woman can take up to four months of PDL, the first 12 weeks of which are also counted as FMLA, as long as the employee is notified that her PDL is considered FMLA. CFRA regulations do not consider pregnancy a serious health condition and do not allow an employee to take family leave for pregnancy related disability, so it cannot run concurrent with PDL. However, CFRA can be used for ‘baby bonding” time after the pregnancy. Employees are only eligible for FMLA and CFRA if they have worked 1250 hours during the 12 months immediately before the first day of FMLA leave, not the first day of CFRA leave.

Maximum combined PDL and family leave is about seven months (four months plus 12 workweeks). An employee can only take the maximum when she is actually disabled by pregnancy for four full months, and then immediately takes 12 weeks of baby bonding family leave. 

ALERT! !

BRINKER MEAL & REST PERIOD CASE The California Supreme Court decision in the Brinker case upheld the Appellate Court’s ruling that an employer is not required to “ensure” a meal period is taken.

“We conclude that under Wage Order No. 5 and Labor Code section 512, subdivision (a), an employer must relieve the employee of all duty for the designated period, but need not ensure that the employee does no work.”

“We conclude that, absent waiver, section 512 requires a first meal period no later than the end of an employee’s fifth hour of work, and a second meal period no later than the end of an employee’s tenth hour of work. We conclude further that . . . Wage Order No. 5 does not impose additional timing requirements.”

“The employer that relinquishes control but nonetheless knows or has reason to know that the employee is performing work during the meal period, has not violated its meal period obligations [and owes no premium pay], but nonetheless owes regular compensation to its employees for time worked.” (Emphasis added) There is a lot of discussion on whether or not class certification should be granted, but the most important for employers was this issue of meal breaks. The Court ruled the way employers had hoped it would go.

More info: www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/ documents/S166350.PDF  Sacramento District Dental Society

Our condolences

A tribute…

Kathy Angel

Douglas H. Yee, DDS

Our thoughts are with Dr. Leo Angel on the loss of his wife Kathy on Thursday, March 29, 2012. She wanted no memorial, but would appreciate donations to the American Cancer Society in lieu of flowers. 

On March 18, 2012, we lost Doug to cancer after being diagnosed in early January.

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Doug had a wonderful relationship with each one of his patients.

He was more than their dentist. He was their friend. One of his patients wrote me a card when she heard of Doug’s passing. She recalled a conversation with Doug when she stopped wearing her night guard due to breast cancer. Doug would say, “You are just ruining your teeth. Just because you had cancer, are you going to quit your job and take drugs?” This talk with Doug helped her snap out of her doldrums.

In 1999, Doug was appointed by Governor Wilson and served on the Committee on Dental Auxiliaries. Many of you know Doug professionally, but he was so much more than a dentist.

Doug loved his family, enjoyed boating, golf, travel, community service and history. He especially enjoyed playing the SDDS Golf Tournament, because it was a scramble format and he didn’t have to play full round.

He loved his boats and cruised out to his favorite fishing hole in the Delta. There he would read the paper, drink coffee and catch a few stripers. Although Doug and Karun have traveled around the world on cruises, they did join my wife and I on a couple of road trips to Europe. We had a blast driving around the countryside and often getting lost.

Doug was an historian and especially knowledgeable on Chinese American History. For over 10 years Doug fundraised and then published the book Canton Footprints, a critically acclaimed book on Chinese history in Sacramento. He also coordinated the living history each Labor Day weekend in Old Sacramento for Gold Rush Days. For all his efforts he was awarded the KVIE Volunteer of the Year Award in 2006.

He also served on over 20 community boards. Doug served as the president of our Yee Family Partnership and had our complete respect. Doug and his wife Karun looked after our parents with tender loving care. Most of all, he was a wonderful husband to Karun, attentive father to Darrun, Julia, Dean, Debra, and grandfather to little Jake. We would talk or meet a couple times a week to discuss family, community service events or plan a golf game.

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Doug lived a full life, albeit too short of one. He practiced dentistry for 35 years in the city where he grew up. He was good in all facets of dentistry and was especially adept at oral surgery. During his third year at Loma Linda Dental School, he went to Honduras and extracted 600 teeth in two weeks.

We worked as a team and partners in many endeavors. Doug was my brother, mentor, friend, and colleague. I will dearly miss his guidance and friendly voice every day of my life.  — Dr Wesley Yee

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Drs. Kristy and Joel Whiteman, on the birth of Jacob Kyle on February 24. He was 7 lbs., 15 oz; 19 ¾ inches. (photo #1 at right) Dr. Jude Crutchfield, on his cover story publication of Twenty-four month clinical evaluation of fissure sealants on partially erupted permanent first molars; Glass ionomer versus resin-based sealant in the February 2012 issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA).

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Have some news you’d like to share with the Society? Please send your information (via email, fax or mail) to SDDS for publication in the Nugget!

Jan Robbins, wife of Dr. Terry Robbins, for being featured in a Sacramento Bee article on the Annual Sacramento Kennel Club Show at Cal Expo. Jan brought their wire-haired fox terrier, Champion Winston Sheffield of Wilhaggin to the show. (photo #2 at right) 

link of the month Join us at Raley Field!

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Dental Day at the RiverCats (Thursday, June 21, 2012):

www.sdds.org/ RiverCats.htm

Gordon Stevenson, Senior VP 911 Reserve Dr. Roseville, CA • ±4,000 SF (Divisible) Dental/Medical Office Suite Next To Galleria Oral Surgery • Close Proximity To Sutter Roseville, Kaiser Hospital, Shopping and Dining • Located In Beautiful Business Park • Negotiable Tenant Improvements 30 | The Nugget

Real Estate Healthcare Specialist Medical Office Building Sales/Leasing TRI Commercial 2250 Douglas Blvd., Suite 200 Roseville, CA 95661 916.677.8150 Tel DRE Lic: 01092461 gstevenson@tricommercial.com The Gordon Group

Helping Those Who Help Others ♦ 31 Years Real Estate Experience ♦

Sacramento District Dental Society

Volunteer Opportunities Smiles for Kids

Smiles for Big Kids

Volunteers needed: Doctors to “adopt” patients seen on Smiles for Kids Day (February 4, 2012) for follow-up care.

Volunteers needed: Dentists willing to “adopt” patients for immediate/emergency needs in their office.

Contact info: SDDS office (916.446.1227 • smilesforkids@sdds.org)

To volunteer, Contact: SDDS office (916.446.1227 • sdds@sdds.com)

Hiram Johnson H.S. The Gathering Inn Volunteers needed: Dentists and dental hygienists to volunteer one morning a month or every other month to treat Hiram Johnson High School students.

Volunteers needed: Dentists, dental assistants, hygienists and lab participants for onsite clinic expansion.

Contact info: Dr. Wai Chan (916.267.4816 • wmchan@frontiernet.net)

Contact info: Ann Peck (916.296.4057 • annpeck49@aol.com) Volunteer Coordinator

Willow Dental Clinic

Missions of Mercy (CDA Cares)

Volunteers needed: Dentists and hygienists

DATES: May 18–19 (Modesto), Aug 24–25 (Cal Expo, Sacramento)

Equipment needed: Mobile equipment to loan Volunteers needed: Dentists, dental hygienists, assistants, students, or donate — currently limited to using the mobile lab technicians, office staff, specialists including oral surgeons (+/- 100 equipment and instruments brought in by Dr. Alex Tomaich dentist/day needed), and other community members willing to donate time! and Dr. Dagon Jones To volunteer, contact: To volunteer, contact: CDA Cares (link to volunteer form available at www.sdds.org/Volunteer.htm) Michael Robins (530.864.8843 • marobbins@ucdavis.edu) This event is sponsored by CDA and CDA Foundation, in partnership with volunteering or donations Missions of Mercy. for Concerned CCMP (Coalition Medical Professionals)

Volunteers needed: General dentists, specialists, assistants and hygienists.

Also Needed: Dental labs and supply companies to partner with; home hygiene supplies Contact info: Ed Gilbert (916.925.9379 • ccmp.pa@juno.com) www.sdds.org

Additional information on these volunteer opportunities and much more is available on the SDDS website:

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Advertiser Index Dental Supplies, equipment, Repair Burkhart Dental Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 28 Henry Schein Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 28 IDS Sacramento (formerly DESCO / RelyAid) . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Procter & Gamble Distributing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Extraordinary businesses require an extraordinary

Business Bank.

Education San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Financial & Insurance Services Bank of Sacramento . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 32 Dennis Nelson, CPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Eagle West Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Fechter & Company, CPAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Financial Management Associates, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 First U.S. Community Credit Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Mann, Urrutia & Nelson, CPAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Principal Financial Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 TDIC & TDIC Insurance Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 28 Union Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28, 29

Human Resources California Employers Association (CEA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Legal services Wood & Delgado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Medical Gas Services Analgesic Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Office Design & Construction Andrews Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 28 Blue Northern Builders, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 28 Henry Schein Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 28 Olson Construction, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Tilcon Builders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 28 Western Contract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Practice Sales, Lease, Management and/or Consulting Dental Management Solutions, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Henry Schein Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24, 28 TRI Commercial Real Estate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Western Practice Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5, 28

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Publications

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• Easy to use Online Banking

Staffing services Resource Staffing Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Technology Pact-One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Tekfix Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Sacramento District Dental Society

Welcome to SDDS’s new members, transfers and applicants.

New Members Jeffrey Yang, DMD Periodontist 10357 Fairway Dr, Ste 100 Roseville, CA 95678 (916) 782-4500 Dr. Jeffrey Yang graduated from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in 2007 with his DMD and later completed his specialty certification in periodontics at Oregon Health Science University in 2011. Dr. Yang is currently practicing and living in Roseville.

Fun Fact! Dr. Yang enjoys spending time with his wife and playing football, soccer, basketball, tennis, and golf, which he played in high school and was in the top five at Washington State.

Important Numbers:

May 2012

New Transfer members: Joohee Oh, DDS General Practitioner Pending Office Address Dr. Joohee Oh graduated from Loma Linda University in 2011 with her DDS. She is currently seeking employment in the greater Sacramento area and lives in Elk Grove.

Fun Fact! Dr. Oh enjoys creating origami and spending time with her nephew (her sister is fellow SDDS member, Dr. Jooyoung Oh).

New Applicants: Reza Abbaszadeh, DDS William Harris, DDS Sadia Niazi, DDS, MMSc

SDDS (doctor’s line) . . . . . . . (916) 446-1227 ADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 621-8099 CDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 736-8702 CDA Contact Center . . (866) CDA-MEMBER

(866-232-6362) CDA Practice Resource Ctr . . cdacompass.com TDIC Insurance Solutions . . . (800) 733-0633 Denti-Cal Referral . . . . . . . . . (800) 322-6384 Central Valley Well Being Committee . . . . . (559) 359-5631

Back in time…

Can you identify this SDDS Member?

The first SDDS member to call the SDDS office (916.446.1227) with the correct answer wins $10 off their next General Meeting registration.

Keep us updated!

Moving?

Opening another office?

Offering new services?

Share your information with the Society!

We can only refer you if we know where you are; and we rely on having your current information on file to keep you informed of valuable member events! Give us a call at (916) 446-1227.

The more accurate information we have, the better we can serve you!

www.sdds.org

Only the winner will be notified.

The member cannot identify himself.

Watch for the answer in the June/July 2012 Nugget!

Answer from April 2012 issue: Dr. Glen Tueller Congratulations, Dr. Kim Wallace for guessing correctly!

CLIP OUT this handy NEW MEMBER UPDATE and insert it into your DIRECTORY under the “NEW MEMBERS” tab.

total membership (as of 4/2/12): 1,595 total active members: 1,320 total retired members: 204 total Dual members: 2 total affiliate members: 12

total student/ provisional members: 9 total current applicants: 3 total dhp members: 45

total new members for 2012: 15 May 2012 | 33

Event Highlights

General Membership Meeting (Recruitment Night) • April 10, 2012

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Next General Membership Meeting: May 8, 2012 www.sdds.org/genmeetingCE.htm

Sacramento District Dental Society

sacramento dental complex has two small suites available. One suite is equipped for immediate use. Second suite can be modified with generous tenant improvements. Located in Midtown area. Please call for details. (916) 448-5702. 10-11

Greater Sacramento area Multi-Specialty office looking to fill an associate pediatric dentist position and an oral surgeon position. Fax resume 916-817-4376 or email to smiles4abetterlife@gmail.com.

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dental specialist in el dorado hills, ca with 1400 sq ft office is seeking other dental specialist to share space. Ideal for endo or perio. Contact Business Manager at (916) 757-4858.

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My Kid’s Dentist has part time and ownership opportunities for board-certified pediatric dentists in Woodland and Elk Grove. Please call Ed Loonam at (949) 842-7936 or e-mail at looname@pacden.com.

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pediatric-orthodontic dental office, fully equipped, for lease. 2402 sf on Marconi at Watt. 1 block from Del Paso Country Club. Decor, walls hand painted. Child interest — kids love it. Surgical operatory, recovery room, TVs on ceiling, lab, break room, 3 restrooms, 1 handicap. This office could be anything you want it to be. Call Jeff Phelan (949) 720-8000 or (949) 933-8458.

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PT Orthodontist — Too many consults for current doctors to keep up with! Busy Sacramento Pedo Practice (Kids Care Dental Group) seeks local ortho1–2 days a week. Great opportunity for the right doctor to hit a “home run.” Great office, great staff, and great pay! Email dboyes@ kidscaredentalgroup.com.

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dental suite — 2000 sq ft — Fully furnished with all amenities; dental equipment included. Move-in ready or owner will decorate to suit. Exclusively designed single story dental building located in a professional medical/dental area near Country Club Center. Prime Watt Ave corridor, close to shopping, dining, H-50 and I-80. Private parking lot. Available now. Call (916) 761-5711 for information / appointment.

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3 days — $100 Members only Call SDDS at (916) 446-1227 for more information or to place a reservation.

Call the SDDS HR hotline with all Your burning questions —

SDDS member dentists can place classified ads for free! www.sdds.org

experienced board eligible endodontist seeks space-sharing arrangement and/or dental office space in Auburn and/or Grass Valley. Please contact Steve Murphy, DMD — (415) 855-9914 or murphy.steve@hotmail.com. 03-12 fill-in / locum tenens — dentistry, hygiene or combination. UCSF Graduate. Weekdays and Saturdays.

Sacramento County resident. Able to travel. Over 10 years locum tenens experience. Elizabeth Johnson, RDH, DDS (408) 499-9924.

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general dentist associate placerville f/t. We have a thriving general practice, with long term committed patients and a nice, long term friendly team. The Foothills offer an ideal location, excellent schools and a great place to live. Looking for an experienced, friendly, competent, family-minded professional that wants to contribute and build long-lasting relationships. Replacing associate due to relocation. Send resume to coldspringsdental@yahoo.com, call (530) 622-1221 or fax (530) 626-1947.

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The SDDS LCD projector is available for rent!

Learn how to place implants in your office or mine. Mentoring you at your own pace and skill level.

Incredible practice growth. Text name and address to (916) 952-1459.

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Locum Tenens — I am an experienced dentist, UOP graduate and I will temporarily maintain and grow your practice if you are ill / maternity leave or on extended vacation.

(530) 644-3438.

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1-800-399-5331

dentists serving dentists — Western Practice Sales invites you to visit our website, westernpracticesales. com to view all of our practices for sale and to see why we are the broker of choice throughout Northern California.

(800) 641-4179.

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General practice dental office with a 40 plus year history of goodwill in the Sacramento, CA area looking to find a wonderful, kind practitioner to purchase practice. The office is conveniently located in a highly visible, easily accessible, professional building with close proximity to an upscale retail mall. The office occupies approximately 1,200 sq. feet and consists of 4 beautifully equipped ops (+ 1 additional plumbed), a reception area, a staff lounge, a lab and a restroom. The practice generates approximately 12-15 new patients per month. The doctor will work back in the practice or mentor (if desired) to help the new doctor with a successful transition. This is only at the request of the purchasing dentist. The practice is located in a great community in which to live and practice dentistry.

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Selling your practice? Need an associate? Have office space to lease? Place a classified ad in the Nugget and see the results! SDDS member dentists get one complimentary, professionally related classified ad per year (30 word maximum; additional words are billed at $.50 per word). Rates for non-members are $45 for the first 30 words and $.60 per word after that. Add color to your ad for just $10! For more information on placing a classified ad, please call the SDDS office (916) 446-1227.

Deadlines are the first of the month before the issue in which you’d like to run.

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sdds calendar of events May

1 CE Committee

6:00pm / SDDS Office 1

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July

28 Memorial Day

SDDS office closed

Board of Directors Meeting 6:00pm / SDDS Office General Membership Meeting Medical Emergencies Do Occur in Children: Are You Prepared?

David Rothman, DDS

Foundation Night

Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

2200 Harvard Street, Sacramento

6:00pm Social

7:00pm Dinner & Program 16 Dentists in Business Forum

HR Audio Conference

Ask the Expert — Bring All Your HR Questions!

Noon–1:00pm 18–19 Missions of Mercy (MOM)

Modesto, CA

No events currently scheduled

June

1 Licensure Renewal Course

California Dental Practice Act & Infection Control

Marcella Oster, RDA Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

2200 Harvard Street, Sacramento

8:30am–12:30pm 12 Nugget Editorial Committee

6:15pm / SDDS Office 13 SDDF Broadway Series

Wicked

8:00pm / Sac Community Center 21 RiverCats Game

vs. Fresno Grizzlies

7:05pm / Raley Field

August

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Executive Committee Meeting 7:00am / Del Paso Country Club CPR BLS Renewal Sutter General Hospital 8:30am–12:30pm Missions of Mercy (MOM) Sacramento, CA

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Labor Day SDDS office closed Board of Directors Meeting 6:00pm / SDDS Office

Save the date for the 33rd annual MidWinter Convention Tons of CE & a great time! you won’t want to miss it! February 7–8, 2013 earn

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6pm: Social & Table Clinics 7pm: Dinner & Program Sacramento Hilton, Arden West (2200 Harvard Street, Sac)

May 8, 2012:

Medical Emergencies Do Occur in Children: Are You Prepared?

Presented by: David Rothman, DDS

Learn to: • Identify medical and sedation emergencies and learn how to prevent them • Develop an appropriate emergency kit • Identify risk factors for pediatric patients based on age and physiologic differences • Provide RESCUE support for stabilization May General Membership Meeting: Foundation Night