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Per Kjeldsen

“Just finished watching the U-Mich dental video. Now I can see
(again) why I am so proud to be a Michigan grad and brag about it!
I especially enjoyed seeing the ‘dress code’ with white uniforms.
I am sure the students must feel professional with
their new jackets from day one!”

Dr. Hugh Koppel, MS, Pediatric Dentistry 1948

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January 10, 2006 (Tuesday)


Kenneth J. Ryan, DDS Memorial Seminar –
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This course promises to be exciting, humorous, and
educational with numerous “take home” ideas and
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critiques of new techniques and concepts, Dr. Gordon
Continuing Dental Education
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Room G508, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1078 or by visiting the that you can give to them.
School of Dentistry Web site:
April 21, 2006 (Friday) www.dent.umich.edu.
In the video, students, faculty, and alumni talk about why the
Excellent Adventures with Children, the Team On the homepage, put your
Approach cursor on “alumni” and then University of Michigan School of Dentistry is special and the
Rackham Amphitheater click “continuing dental
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor education.”
important role it plays in classroom and clinical education, patient
This seminar will provide an informative and humorous care, research, and community service.
experience for dentists, hygienists, dental assistants
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about treatment. Since the dentist-patient relationship You can receive either a DVD or VHS video tape by sending an
is established most effectively in a dental operatory, what
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Dr. Marvin Berman, an internationally recognized Chicago- fordawn@umich.edu. Allow 1-2weeks for delivery.
based pediatric dentist, will demonstrate a myriad of do’s
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DentalUM
Fall 2005 Volume 21, Number 2

How Technology
DentalUM magazine is published twice a year by the
University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Office of
Alumni Relations and Continuing Dental Education.
is Shaping Dental
Mail letters and updates to: Jerry Mastey, Editor, School
Education
of Dentistry, Room 1205, 1011 N. University Ave., Ann
Arbor, MI 48109-1078. Or you may send your letters and
updates via email to: jmastey@umich.edu. It’s interesting to think about how technology has profoundly altered
our lives in recent years.
Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Polverini Considered “esoteric” just 10 or 15 years ago, the Internet, laptop
Director of External Relations and
Continuing Dental Education . . . . . Richard Fetchiet
computers, cell phones, and e-mail are “necessities” to most of us
Writer & Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Mastey today.
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Jung Technology is playing a major role in shaping education at the
Photography . . . . . . Per H. Kjeldsen, Keary Campbell University of Michigan School of Dentistry. It’s influencing how students
Member publication of the American
learn, how faculty members teach, and how members of our staff
Association of Dental Editors interact.
This issue of DentalUM contains some fascinating stories that
The Regents of the University: describe what we’re doing.
David A. Brandon, Laurence B. Deitch, Olivia P. Maynard,
Rebecca McGowan, Andrea Fischer Newman, Andrew C. One of the major changes that has taken place during the past year
Richner, S. Martin Taylor, Katherine E. White, Mary Sue was inspired by one of our dental students, Jared Van Ittersum, and a
Coleman, ex officio. staff member, Trek Glowacki.
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
In a story that begins on page 10, you will learn more about how
Alumni Society Board of Governors they worked with a group of dental students to solve a learning problem
by using technology so dental students can listen to classroom lectures
Terms Expire 2005:
Joseph T. Barss ‘80, Chicago, IL
anywhere at any time. Their efforts caught the attention of one of the
Eli Berger, ‘57, ‘61, West Bloomfield, MI (Chair) world’s major technology companies, Apple Computer, and resulted in
William E. Brownscombe, ‘74, St. Clair Shores, MI a collaboration that has the potential to not only benefit our students,
Janet Cook, ‘81 DH, Whitmore Lake, MI but our alumni as well (pages 6-7).
Thomas C. Pink, ‘69, Jackson, MI
Another story (pages 18-23), describes how a software program that
Terms Expire 2006: benefits our students, faculty, staff, and patients has been introduced in
Daniel L. Edwards, ‘97, Ann Arbor, MI
Gerald L. Howe, ‘61, Monroe, MI a comprehensive care clinic and our orthodontics clinic.
Gary R. Hubbard, ‘78, Okemos, MI Digital imaging, now being used at our Michigan Center for Oral
Michel S. Nasif, ‘72, Lansing, MI Health Research, could play a major role in how patient care is provided
Janet Souder Wilson, ‘73 DH, Northville, MI
(pages 15-16).
Terms Expire 2007: Other stories describing our use of technology focus on our unique
Samuel Bander, ’81, Grand Rapids, MI
Richard L. Pascoe, ’70, Traverse City, MI Digital Learning Laboratory (pages 27-28), where faculty, students,
Susan Pritzel, ’67 DH, Ann Arbor, MI and staff learn how they can use technology to enhance learning and
Terry Timm, ’71, Saline, MI education; digital video on demand (pages 29-30); and a continuing dental
Josephine Weeden, ’96, ’99, Saline, MI
education course we are offering online in a novel way (pages 30-31).
Student Representative: Casey Tenniswood (D3) To make all of this happen requires the effort of our technical support
Ex Officio Members: staff (pages 24-26).
Peter Polverini, Dean I think Dr. Lynn Johnson, our director of Dental Informatics, put it
Janet Souder Wilson, ‘73, DH, Northville, MI
Alumni Association Liaison best when she said, “With technology, you can never stand still. You
Steve C. Grafton , Executive Director, Alumni Assoc. either move ahead or you don’t. We’re leaders in many areas and want
Richard R. Fetchiet, Director of External Relations and to lead in our innovative use of technology to enhance student learning,
Continuing Dental Education
patient care, and research. We don’t intend to be left behind.”
The University of Michigan, as an equal opportunity/affirmative action I couldn’t agree more.
employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding
nondiscrimination and affirmative action, including Title IX of the
Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Sincerely,
Act of 1973. The University of Michigan is committed to a policy of
nondiscrimination and equal opportunity for all persons regardless of
race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, age, marital
status, sexual orientation, disability, or Vietnam-era veteran status in
employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
Inquiries or complaints may be addressed to the Senior Director for
Institutional Equity and Title IX/Section 504 Coordinator, Office for Peter J. Polverini, Dean
Institutional Equity, 2072 Administrative Services Building, Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 48109-1432. (734) 763-0235, T.T.Y. (734) 747-1388. For other
University of Michigan information, call (734) 764-1817.

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In This Issue . . .
COVER STORY
4 TechKNOWLEDGEy – The Fusion of Innovation and Education
Technology is changing how students learn and how faculty members
teach at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. Dental students
still look at the caliber of a school’s faculty and its programs. But now,
they also evaluate a school’s technology and how they can use it to
enhance their education. At the U-M School of Dentistry, technology
is being used in ways unimaginable only a few years ago. This
“TechKNOWLEDGEy” is a fusion of innovation and education.
4 – New Software, New Technology Revolutionizing the School of Dentistry
6 – School of Dentistry and Apple Computer in Partnership
9 – DentalUM Now on the Web
10 – A Technology Sea Change - How a Dental Student and Staffer
Sparked Innovation
15 – Innovative Technology, Pioneering Research
18 – axiUm – A Gain for Students, Faculty, Staff, and Patients
24 – Making Sure “It” All Works, The Indispensable Role of “Tech Support”
27 – The Digital Learning Laboratory – “The Ultimate Core Facility”
29 – DAMS – Digital Video on Demand
30 – A New Approach to Continuing Dental Education
Design by Chris Jung.

FEATURES
32 32 Faculty Profile — Dr. Josef Kolling
After earning his dental degree from the U-M School of Dentistry,
Dr. Josef Kolling never thought about becoming the president of any
dental organization. But in May, he became the School’s first faculty
member in nearly a quarter century to lead the Michigan Dental
Association.
40 Bay Cliff Health Camp – The Experience of a Lifetime
It was a week they will always remember. Three dental students
and two pediatric dental residents provided oral health care to the
developmentally disabled at the Bay Cliff Health Camp in Michigan’s
Upper Peninsula. The five will remember their experiences with
patients as well as seeing the smiles on the faces of 27 teens who were
dressed up for a formal dinner and a prom.
40 44 6,345 Patients...12,312 Procedures
How much of a difference is the School of Dentistry’s outreach program
making in communities across Michigan? During a 10-month period,
fourth-year dental students treated more than 6,000 patients at eight
different sites across the state.
46 Alumnus Profile — Dr. Joel Egnater
A vacation safari to South Africa two years ago had a profound impact
on Dr. Joel Egnater. Stunned with what he saw during a brief visit to
Soweto in Johannesburg, he returned to Michigan vowing to do
something. This year, four influential groups in that country gave him
the go ahead to open a group of dental clinics to provide oral health
care to patients with HIV/AIDS.

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55 Lunch & Learn Program Offers Insights into Life after


Dental School
Dr. Daniel Edwards, a member of the School’s Alumni Society Board of
Governors, is giving fourth-year dental students opportunities to learn
more about what to expect in “the real world” before they actually
receive their dental degree. The program was so well received its first
year that it’s being offered again.

57 Graduation Day
Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Antonia Novello returned to Ann 55
Arbor this spring to deliver her fourth commencement address
to School of Dentistry graduates. In her inimitable speaking style, she
congratulated, counseled, and challenged students.

62 Lollipops May Help Pediatric Dentists


Will a lollipop have a place in a pediatric dentist’s office in the future?
It may, thanks to the collaboration between a U-M School of Dentistry
pediatric dentist and the Mott Children’s Health Center.

DEPARTMENTS
36 Faculty News 57
49 Development
49 – Dr. Raymond Gist Gifts $100,000 for Dental Student Scholarships
50 – Drs. Jed Jacobson and Wayne Colquitt Spearhead Creation of the
H. Dean Millard Scholarship Fund
53 – Dental Students Seek Mentors

64 Dental Hygiene
67 Department Update
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital Dentistry 62
71 Research News
71 – School #2 in NIDCR Grants
71 – Microarrays – Linking Laboratory Science and Technology
73 – School of Dentistry Researcher Inspired by Death of Family Member
74 – The Dziewiatkowski Award, Recognizing the Next Generation of
Scientists
76 – Scientists Discover More about How Cancer Cells Form and Grow

79 Alumni News

71
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New Software, New Technology
Revolutionizing
Everyone Affected-

S



ignificant investments in technology at
the University of Michigan School of Dent-
istry in recent years are benefiting students,
faculty, staff members, and patients.
Sparked by rapid changes in hardware and
using technology in a way that caught the
attention of one of the world’s major technology
companies, Apple Computer.
How technology is being used throughout
the School is described in detail in this issue of
software, the explosive growth of the Internet, and DentalUM.
faster and novel ways of delivering information, “Our investments in technology are enhancing
Dr. Lynn Johnson the new technology appeals to students who are student learning, enabling faculty to become
Director, Dental Informatics as comfortable using laptop computers, more creative in their teaching, and helping our
iPods and MP3 players, personal billing office get more comprehensive and timely
digital assistants, and cell statements to our patients. As a result, dentists in
phones as their parents were our clinics will also be able to provide more timely
with transistor radios, information to patients when they provide care,”
eight-track tapes, electric Johnson said.
typewriters, and rotary
telephones. Technology: Very Important
Under the direction of to Dental Students
Dr. Lynn Johnson, director Students considering the U-M School of
of Dental Informatics, the Dentistry not only look at the caliber of the
changes have been grad- School’s faculty and programs “they are also
ually rolled out following considering, as never before, what kind of
extensive collab- technology we offer and how they can use that
oration among technology in ways that supports or enhances
department their education,” she said. “And it doesn’t matter
administra- whether they’re studying for a dental degree or
tors, faculty, a bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene, a master’s
and staff mem- degree in one of our specialties, or a doctorate.”
bers through- Johnson’s statistics prove her point.
out the dental As Figure 1 illustrates, nearly all first-year
school. U-M dental students own a computer.
Students are Nearly two-thirds own a laptop computer, a
also playing figure nearly 20 percentage points more than the
an active role. students who made the same claim in 2002 (Fig. 2).
They have been Meanwhile, the number of students who say they
Keary Campbell

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the School of Dentistry
Students, Faculty, Staff, Patients
own a desktop computer has declined sharply. In the Roberts Preclinical
High-speed connections to the Internet are Laborator y, for example,
also important. i n s t r u c t o r s a re u s i n g
This summer, more than 80 percent of first- computers, the Internet,
year dental students said they use high-speed DVDs, an intraoral camera,
connections (cable and DSL) to connect to the a telestrator, and other
Internet from home. The use of telephone (dial- devices as instr uctional Fig. 1
up) to connect to the Internet fell sharply from 60 tools.
percent from 2002 to about 5 percent in 2005. Previously, students gathered
“Waiting 15 or 20 seconds around an instructor who would
to download an demonstrate a procedure. Then
illustration, a the dental students returned to
document, or their seats to try to replicate
anything else, is what they observed.
an eternity to them Technology now gives
and to faculty too,” each dental student a front
Johnson said. “They row seat to watch any and
want the same speedy all procedures up close.
access at home they Wi t h a f l a t - s c re e n
have here.” monitor at each of 110
The changes workstations, students
described in the can watch
following pages are only Fig. 2 instructors
the beginning. televise live demonstrations
“With technology, you can never stand still,” using mannequin heads to illustrate
she continued. “You either move ahead or you preparing teeth for restoration,
don’t. We are a leader in many areas and want crown preparation, or other
to lead in our innovative use of technology to procedures. To emphasize a point,
enhance student learning, patient care, and the faculty member can use small
research. We don’t intend to be left behind.” television cameras and zoom in
on an object, zoom out, or rotate
New Technology: Roberts Preclinic the camera up to 360 degrees.
Some of the new ways technology is being used [DentalUM, Spring & Summer
have been described in earlier issues of DentalUM. 2004, pages 11-14.] Fig
.3

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U-M School of Dentistry and Apple


iTunes Music Store to
Per Kjeldsen

A Major Shift
Dr. Lynn Johnson, the School’s director of
Dental Informatics, said the approach taken by
the School in collaboration with Apple Computer
is a major shift in how technology is used to
support and enhance student learning.
The learning issue was raised last year by
Jared Van Ittersum, now a second-year dental
student, who wanted to reinforce what he learned
in the classroom by listening to recordings of
classroom lectures as his schedule allowed. He
collaborated with a staff member in the School’s
Office of Dental Informatics, Trek Glowacki, to see
what could be done to help him and hundreds of
Celebrating the launch of a partnership between the School of Dentistry and Apple Computer on other dental students.
Sept. 19 were Dr. Lynn Johnson (left), the School’s director of Dental Informatics; John Couch, During the past year, Van Ittersum and
vice president of dental education for Apple Computer; and Dean Peter Polverini. A special Glowacki conducted three pilot studies with as
poster created for the event was designed by the School’s graphic artist, Chris Jung.
many as 60 dental students to ask for their ideas
The University of Michigan School of and feedback. The overwhelming majority of
Dentistry and Apple Computer have entered into students said they preferred listening to audio
a partnership that is designed to provide dental recordings of classroom lectures using their iPods
students with access to education-related content or other portable listening devices. Students
virtually anywhere, any time. The venture may
be the first of its kind with any professional Per Kjeldsen

school in the nation. The program was officially


launched Sept. 19 during a program at the School
of Dentistry.
Using a special iTunes Music Store interface
from Apple Computer, students will use their Macs
or PCs to download classroom lectures, transfer
the information onto an iPod or an MP3 player,
and then listen to the lectures in their apartments,
walking around on campus, or even while jogging
or working out. Access is for students with valid
University of Michigan names and passwords.
Future collaboration with Apple may result in Rick Getchell (left) explains to John Couch, Apple’s vice president of
new study aids, such as videos, photos, and other education, how dental students such as Chen Chen (lower right) are using
technology in the new Roberts Preclinic to enhance their education. Also
educational material, being added to the School listening are Lynn Johnson and Steve Rychly, the company’s regional
of Dentistry’s iTunes Store. manager of higher education.

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Computer in Partnership
Help Provide Information Access 24/7
Per Kjeldsen

said the portable devices gave them maximum


flexibility that allowed them to listen to lectures
at their convenience and regardless of location.
However, Johnson emphasized that listening
to classroom lectures does not replace going to
class. “Being physically present in the classroom
Apple to Offer
is the starting point, the foundation,” she said.
Discounts
“Listening to the lectures on the iPod allows you
to Students,
to build on that foundation.”
Faculty, Staff,
and Alumni
“ The Michigan Difference” The University of
Johnson said the initiative “is another Michigan School
of Dentistry’s
example of ‘The Michigan Difference’ in three
partnership with
important respects.” Apple Computer
The first is the approach that was taken. extends beyond
“Until now, one would take a new technology and Following a special program that launched the partnership between the the classroom.
see how it can be used to enhance teaching and School of Dentistry and Apple Computer, second-year dental student Kyung-
Hong Kim (right) and Apple’s U-M representative Joshua Tishhouse discuss Apple is offering
learning,” she said. “We reversed that. We started how technology can enhance learning. dental school
with a learning challenge and then researched
students, faculty,
various options until we arrived at a solution
staff, and alumni
that uses new technology.” how this approach might be used elsewhere
discounted prices on
The second major difference, Johnson noted, throughout the University of Michigan,” Johnson
its desktop and laptop
is that the initiative was driven from the bottom- said.
computers, iPods, and
up, not the top-down. “Students started the James Hilton, U-M associate provost for
other products. To
project, supported it, and showed faculty and academic, information, and instructional
take advantage of the
staff its potential. To have as many as 60 students technology, said, “The School of Dentistry has
discounts, visit the
involved in a pilot study and giving constant always strived to provide our students with the
School’s Web site,
feedback during the past year, given their class best education possible. That includes the latest
www.dent.umich.
schedules, is absolutely incredible,” she said. “It technology and resources. Apple Computer,” he
edu/itunes. Then
clearly demonstrates they knew there was a need continued, “has developed an innovative and
click “store” to place
and that they would take an active role in coming powerful resource for the School, and I look
your order using a
up with a solution that would benefit them and forward to seeing how it will expand teaching
valid credit card.
other students throughout the School.” and learning.”
Finally, the third difference is that the project John Couch, Apple’s vice president of
involved not only collaboration among dental education, praised the School of Dentistry for
school students, faculty, and staff, it also involved its initiative and leadership. “You’ve created a
the University’s Information Technology Central digital learning environment for this generation
Services unit. “As we worked with ITCS and kept of students. We look at technology as a tool, but
them posted on our progress, we also discussed they see it as an environment,” he said.

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“Wi-Fi”in the School As cellular telephone use has skyrocketed in


recent years, a similar trend has emerged among
millions who are logging on to the Internet without
using a cable or other “wired” connections.
At the U-M School of Dentistry there are
several “hot spots” where students, faculty, and
staff no longer need to be in an office sitting at a
desktop computer to connect to the Internet.
One is the Student Forum. Others include the
library and some research laboratories.
At each location, anyone with a properly
equipped portable computer or personal digital
assistant can access the Internet using wireless
fidelity or “Wi-Fi.”
The “Wi-Fi” concept is similar to what’s used
This sign shows the location of wireless “hot spots” in the School of Dentistry. for cellular telephone conversations or radio and
television broadcasting.
However, unlike radio or TV signals, which
can travel hundreds of miles, the range of a Wi-
Fi signal is much shorter, typically 100 to 300
feet.
The Student Forum is not only a place for students to have lunch and In areas known as “hot spots,” a user within
socialize, it’s also one of several locations in the School where they can use a range of an Wi-Fi antenna can connect to the
wireless connection to log-on to the Internet.
Internet to check e-mail, visit Web sites, or
download documents.
To prevent unauthorized access or guard
against potential security breaches, safeguards
such as user authentication and data encryption
are used. There are also restrictions on who can
use the network and what information can be
obtained.
Outside the School, there are Wi-Fi hot spots
in coffee shops, restaurants, bookstores, hotels,
and at airports. Many homeowners have also
installed it.
The Student Forum has been a “hot spot” as a
social venue. Now it’s a hot spot in another way
– a place where one can wirelessly connect to the
Jerry Mastey
Internet.

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School’s Alumni Magazine Now on the Web


DentalUM First of Several Publications to be Added
The School of Dentistry’s alumni magazine,
DentalUM, is now available on the School’s Web
site, www.dent.umich.edu. The publication is
the first of several that will appear online in the
future.
The School’s approach to posting the
magazine’s contents is different than the methods
used elsewhere.
Too often, readers have to click the online
version of a publication one page at a time to
find a story of interest. Typically, this frustrates
readers, especially if a magazine is lengthy.
Since the Web is different than print, the
School took the print version of the magazine and
adapted it to make it easier for those going online
to find stories and features that interest them.

What’s New
At the top of the DentalUM Web site are
without scrolling through others in a particular
section. www.
pictures of the major stories that are in the Table of
Contents section with direct links to those stories.
After clicking a picture, a PDF (portable document
More Efficient
“It’s a much more efficient way of getting the
information you’re interested in than what you
dent.
format) file is sent to a user’s computer.
Or, visitors can scroll down to see a list of major
stories in the Table of Contents that appear on the
typically see,” said Dr. Lynn Johnson, director of
Dental Informatics.
Richard Fetchiet, director of Alumni Relations,
umich.
left. Beneath each headline is a one- or two-sentence
narrative describing each major story.
said, “This approach will allow our alumni new
opportunities to both read the publication online
and pass along items of interest to colleagues who
edu/
What’s Different
However, if individuals want to see a list of
all the stories in the publication, they do that by
are not affiliated with our School, or even young
men and women who are thinking about studying
at Michigan to earn a dental, dental hygiene, or
alumni/
looking at the frame on the right. There, they will
find a subject label for each group of stories. The
stories are grouped into categories such as “School
a specialty degree.”
An added benefit of having the magazine
appear on the Web is that most of the pictures
dentalum/
News,” “Alumni,” “Faculty News,” etc. When a on the Web site are in color. In the magazine,
subject label is clicked, a PDF file is sent to the pictures on the inside appear in black and white
user’s computer containing all the stories. to minimize printing costs.
Individuals can also go directly to an article

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A Technology Sea Change


Per Kjeldsen
How a Dental Student
It’s a project unlike any other in recent from Spring Lake, Michigan, earned a bachelor’s
memory at the School of Dentistry. degree in general psychology from U-M in 2002.
It was the result of a suggestion from a dental After graduating, he took a two-year
student who once ran his own software company, sabbatical to establish a software company.
collaboration between the student and a part- It was a bold decision that would benefit
time staff member now working for his master’s those in business and in academia.
degree at the School of Information, feedback from Van Ittersum’s ability to help corporations
60 dental students, as well as support from dental with their technology needs would help him
school administrators and faculty. develop a keen eye for identifying problems and
The student-led initiative also caught the developing solutions at the dental school.
attention of one of the world’s premier technology However, prior to earning his bachelor’s
companies, Apple Computer. degree, Van Ittersum worked part time as a
“We’re seeing a significant change in how research assistant for Dr. Helena Ritchie, an
learning takes place in courses where information assistant professor in the Department of Cariology,
is often presented in different ways and how Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics.
technology can be used to help students become “I’ve always wanted to be a dentist, and
better learners,” said Dr. Lynn Johnson, director talking to family, friends, and working in Dr.
of Dental Informatics. Ritchie’s lab convinced me that this was the best
school in the country to attend to get a dental
What’s Different degree,” he said.
“Previously, the typical approach was to take Van Ittersum, who often uses an electronic
a new technology to see how it could be used in notebook to take notes during lectures, began his
teaching and learning,” she said. “Here, that dental studies last summer.
approach has been reversed. We started with Glowacki, a Michigan native, was an English
a student learning dilemma and solved it using and communications studies major who earned
technology.” his bachelor’s degree in 2003. He never set foot
Instead of a top/down approach, this one is in the School of Dentistry until he applied for the
driven from the bottom up. part-time position.
Trek Glowacki discusses the
results of three pilot programs “What we’re seeing at Michigan is that However, he did work at the U-M computer
he conducted with dental students, in efforts to improve their learning, are store in the Michigan Union and also ran the
students that allowed them working together and developing novel solutions
to download audio files of
largest U-M summer program for the U-M Housing
classroom lectures from the that use technology to address a range of learning Department.
Internet to their iPods and issues and challenges. It’s a significant shift,” Just as Van Ittersum displayed initiative by
MP3players. Thirty students
participated in the first two Johnson said. establishing his own business, Glowacki was also
pilot programs. That number The central figures in this story are twenty- proactive.
doubled to 60for the third and somethings – Jared Van Ittersum and Trek
final pilot program.
“I needed another job so I could eat and pay
Glowacki. my bills,” he said with a laugh. “I was willing
Van Ittersum, a second-year dental student to do just about anything, even stocking shelves

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and Staffer Sparked Innovation


at a store.” Glowacki found his opportunity in “Typically, schools will give students a “The typical
the fall of 2003 in the School of Dentistry’s Digital computer or another type of technology and say,
Learning Laboratory. ‘See what you can do with it.’ Then they will find approach was
“The atmosphere was different than other an instructional problem that the technology will to take a new
places,” he said. “I thought Dan Bruell and Sarah solve. It’s like giving someone a hammer and
Brittain would be great people to work with. saying, ‘Go find a way to use it’,” she said.
technology
What really appealed to me, though, was the “But that is not what we wanted to do. Nor to see how it
variety of assignments I would have.” is it what we did. We took the opposite approach. could be used
Initially, Glowacki helped faculty with We wanted our students to be better learners.
scanning and other technical needs. So we investigated if technology, specifically in teaching and
Later, he helped Bruell film classroom videotaping lectures, could help students become learning. Here,
Integrated Medical Sciences lectures. The IMS better learners.”
lectures were established to help first- and second- Johnson assigned Glowacki to work with Van that approach
year dental students see the connections between Ittersum to determine what needed to be done. has been
dentistry and various medical disciplines. “I thought this could be a great opportunity for
[DentalUM, Fall 2004, pages 60-61.] us to develop a content management system, a
reversed. We
library, if you will, that mimics Apple’s popular started with a
An Instructional Problem Leads to a iTunes music store,” she said.
Technology Solution
student learning
Per Kjeldsen

Glowacki and Van Ittersum crossed paths dilemma and


last fall, nearly three years after Apple Computer solved it using
introduced a revolutionary piece of hardware – the
iPod. The device allows individuals to download technology.”
music from Apple’s Internet site (iTunes) and
then play back those recordings whenever and Dr. Lynn Johnson
wherever they choose.
Van Ittersum, a first-year dental student
last year, recognized the challenges he and other
Jared Van Ittersum,
dental students faced. He suggested videotaping seen here taking
lectures might help students with their studies. notes on an electronic
Based on his business background and notebook in a School
of Dentistry classroom,
technology experience, Van Ittersum told Johnson realized the learning
it could be done and that it would be popular with challenges facing
dental students and
students. proposed a solution.
This is what Johnson meant when she talked
about reversing the traditional approach to learning
and technology – starting with a student need and
ending up with a solution using technology.

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“But instead of downloading music from an advantage of those learning opportunities when
Internet site, we would have an electronic library they arise, whether it’s in a car, at the breakfast
of classroom lectures that could later be expanded table, going to and from classes, or even working
to include videos and images.” out in the CCRB (Central Campus Recreational
Johnson approached Dr. Dennis Lopatin, Building),” he said.
senior associate dean, who agreed to become The iPod also offered another distinct
the first dental school faculty member whose advantage to students – a speed up/slow down
lectures would be recorded and Internet accessible. feature. With it, students can slow down portions
However, the lectures would be available only to of a lecture to hear remarks that are important to
students after entering their personal identifier them. But they can also quickly bypass sections
and a password. of a lecture they already understand.
A second test pilot program involving 30
Surprising Results of Pilot Program students began a month later, in November.
Glowacki began videotaping Lopatin’s Since students in the first pilot program
lectures last October and hosted a focus group to overwhelmingly preferred audio, the second pilot
get student reaction. program was “audio only.”
After each lecture, Glowacki spent nearly Students were equally divided about using
nine hours a week making technical adjustments an iPod or MP3 player to download lectures from
so the information could be available in three a Web site.
different ways — as a video, as a PowerPoint By the time the third pilot program began in
presentation with accompanying audio, and as this January and ended in April, the number of
an audio recording only. students who were participating doubled to 60.
But to make the information available in
the three formats, Glowacki had to teach himself Lectures Now Available in Four Minutes
how to use AppleScript. “I was teaching myself For the third pilot, Glowacki wrote software
a whole new set of skills, he said. “Learning that that allowed students to record lectures and put
was essential because it’s ‘the glue’ between the audio files on the Internet.
many different applications.” Once again, students moved the project
The results of the pilot program surprised forward.
everyone. Glowacki was no longer recording lectures and
Of the 30 students who participated in the posting them on the School’s Web site. However,
pilot program, nearly 70 percent said they preferred the time he spent making technical adjustments
listening to audio of the lectures because it was so students could retrieve the information dropped
quicker to download from an intranet site. more than 97 percent – from nine hours a week to
There was another reason the audio was 15 minutes. Students could download a lecture
preferred – Apple’s iPod. It’s portability and ease of only four minutes after a lecture ended.
use helped students to better manage their time. Meanwhile, the volume of lectures students
“Every minute of every day counts for every can now listen to has increased five-fold from 3-
dental student,” Van Ittersum said. “So we take 1/2 hours to 15 hours.

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Per Kjeldsen

“ Not Designed to Replace Going to Class” “What we’re


However, everyone is emphatic about one
point. seeing at
“Listening to a recording of a classroom Michigan is
lecture is not designed to replace going to class,”
Van Ittersum said. “Students must attend to get
that students,
a basic understanding of a thought or concept in efforts to
that’s being conveyed.”
improve their
Johnson agreed, saying, “Being there, being
physically present in the classroom is the starting learning,
point, the foundation. The audio allows you to are working
build on that foundation.”
Van Ittersum, Glowacki, and Johnson said together and
they have been impressed with the way the developing
University of Michigan embraces technology to
enhance learning.
novel solutions
Apple Computer was too. that use
In September, the School and Apple launched
Among those attending the announcement of the partnership was U-M technology
a partnership. [See story, pages 6-7.] President Emeritus James Duderstadt who is seen here with Apple’s vice
president of education, John Couch. Duderstadt directs the U-M Millennium to address
Other Enhancements Project, a collaborative educational research “incubator” where creative
students, faculty members, and those outside the university are exploring a range of
New technology and new ways of using innovative approaches to education.
existing technology allows dental students to learning
not only retrieve lectures from the Internet, but to sentences or paragraphs of information, or an issues and
to also “subscribe” so lectures are automatically audio recording of an entire lecture.
delivered to them. “It’s a new way of delivering information to
challenges.”
One application is “podcasting” (as in iPod). students that will become more popular because
Instead of a student retrieving or “pulling” a students can customize the types of information Dr. Lynn Johnson
lecture from a Web site, the lecture would be they want to receive and when,” Johnson said.
automatically “broadcast” or “pushed” to the “For our current students, their preference is
student’s iPod or MP3 player. clear – they prefer to receive audio recordings of
Another application is the use of RSS or lectures by downloading and through RSS.”
“Really Simple Syndication.” The trend is clear.
Basically, an RSS feed is a communications Technology and how it is used now, and
tool that allows a user to collect information from how it will be used in the future, is playing an
various Web sites. The information is automatically important role in the education of students at the
made available to individuals, based on their University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
preferences, in an easy-to-use and understandable Look for students to continue being in the
format. The information can range from a headline vanguard.

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Photo courtesy of Jared Van Ittersum


Students Give Audio
of Lectures
“Thumbs Up”
Below are some of the comments
received from dental students about a
pilot program allowing them to listen
to classroom lectures on portable audio
devices.

It’s the best thing since sliced bread. It gives you the opportunity
Among the students participating in the iPod pilot program were to listen actively in class instead of worrying about taking every
(L to R): Elise Boncher, Matt Palazzolo, Sarah Miller, Adam Osga,
and Justin Pearson. little note down. ...Also, if you don’t understand a concept, you
can replay it a couple of times. This has helped me a lot.
Photo courtesy of Jared Van Ittersum

It’s nice to go back and listen sometimes, when I have time,


because I don’t always catch everything during lectures.

The audio recordings are the reason I have received A’s on my last
four exams. ...I listen to every lecture and then review and study
my notes afterwards. This method has helped me tremendously.

I frequently revisit lectures and listen to them at high speed, and


then stop and rewind them to catch main ideas. It’s a useful tool
that I am amazed I hadn’t used before. ...It allows you to burn
in your memory, phrases and ideas the prof wanted you to take
away from the lecture.

Katie Beougher (left) and Elise Boncher listen to a classroom lecture I think these recordings are some of the most beneficial study tools
on their iPods while working out at the CCRB. we have. I was very skeptical of the idea, but after using them on
two exams, I think they are better than scribe notes.

I can really focus and review my notes thoroughly each day to


make sure I wrote everything down and understand it.

I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT. I LOVE IT.

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Innovative Technology, Pioneering Research


Measuring Changes by the Pixel

A
new tool at one School of Dentistry site “It’s an important tool,” he emphasized,
may one day help dentists and specialists “because it will allow us to precisely quantify
get precise information about the smallest changes before they’re apparent. For example, if
of changes in a person’s bone mass, tissue we know there’s been a specific amount of change
densities, and height of structures in the oral in a patient’s bone mass over a period of time,
cavity. we may then be able to tell a patient, ‘based on
Dentists have been limited in their ability to what has already happened, this is what you can
precisely measure those changes. Typically, two expect to happen weeks or months from now’,”
or more x-rays are taken and the dentist then he said.
places “before” and “after” radiographs near a Being able to precisely see and measure
light to see what changes, if any, have taken changes that are taking place could give the
place. dentist an opportunity to provide low-cost or
Photo courtesy of Dr. Christoph Ramseier

These three photos


illustrate the same area
before therapy (left),
after therapy (center),
and how subtraction
radiography can be
used to show bone
mineral density gain.

Using digital technology, the School’s minimally invasive procedures before a patient’s
Michigan Center for Oral Health Research may oral health further deteriorates, Giannobile said.
help change that practice. “This would be very valuable information to have
in treating patients with long-term problems,
Exquisite Digital Imaging such as periodontal disease.”
The Center is enhancing a technique known
as “Digital Subtraction Radiography” so dentists Seeing What the Eye Can’t
can precisely quantify changes that occur. The Helping Giannobile develop the technique is
technique may one day be used in all School of Dr. Christoph Ramseier, a visiting professor from
Dentistry clinics. the University of Bern, Switzerland.
“I call this ‘exquisite digital imaging’ because “With this digital imaging technique, we
we will be able to see changes as small as a hope to be able to see changes that the human eye
pixel on a computer screen,” said Dr. William can’t,” he said. “Having this precise information
Giannobile, MCOHR director. He said the procedure could lead to modifying current intervention
will allow dentists to see changes ranging from techniques, or even developing new ones, in
fractions of a milligram in bone mass or density specialties that include periodontology, cariology,
to microns in height. orthodontics, or even implant dentistry.”

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Per Kjeldsen

Digital Imaging –
the Paperless Office
With help from dental
assistant Theresa Bogarin,
Dr. Christoph Ramseier gets
ready to place a transmitter When it opened earlier this year, the
into the mouth of a patient Michigan Center for Oral Health Research
that will send an electronic (MCOHR) began using technology in a novel
image to a computer for
storage and analysis. way.
Dr. William Giannobile, MCOHR director,
The shrinking size of electronic components wanted the facility to become a “paperless
has allowed Giannobile and Ramseier to capture office.”
and measure those minute changes. That dream is becoming a reality.
In each of the four operatories is a
How it Works computer monitor that allows a clinician to
A small transmitter, about half the thickness display a patient’s digital radiographs as well
of a 9-volt battery, is covered with a thin film as intraoral images. That’s a major change
of plastic and then inserted into a patient’s from the past when information was available
mouth. on photographic negatives.
The transmitter is attached to a rod several But that’s only the beginning.
inches long. At the end of the rod is an “O” ring. In the future, digital videos being
An x-ray cone placed near the “O” ring allows developed by the School’s Digital Learning
for more precise targeting of the area the dentist Laboratory will be used. The videos, for
wants to check initially and, if necessary, during example, could show patients the proper way
follow-up visits. to brush and floss their teeth. Other videos
As the x-rays are taken, the transmitter in the may display a new scientific procedure.
patient’s mouth not only captures images of the “We’re trying to use new technology in
patient’s oral cavity, it also sends those images to ways that will benefit not only patients who
Digital images are
captured using electronic a computer for electronic storage and retrieval. come here, but also members of our staff,”
components that are
There’s another advantage, according to Giannobile said. “We’d like to use the digital
about the size of a technology so that paper records will not have
quarter. On the left is the Ramseier.
sensor. In the center is to be physically transported between the
“The radiation from the digital x-ray is only
the battery that transmits Center and the School of Dentistry on the U-M
the images. one-tenth the level of a conventional x-ray, which,
Central Campus.”
I think will also interest dentists,” he said.
Located at Domino’s Farms on Plymouth
Per Kjeldsen
Road near U-S 23, the Center provides patient
services that are central to clinical research,
including oral exams, some oral surgeries, and
major restorative procedures.
The 3,500 square foot facility the dental
school is sharing with the U-M Health System
can handle as many as 7,800 patient visits and
conduct between 15 and 20 studies annually.

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Meeting Dr. Ash “A Big Moment for Me”


Says Visiting Professor
Per Kjeldsen

Professor Niklaus Lang. Dr. Major Ash.


Both names came up when Dr. Christoph
Ramseier was being interviewed and photographed
for the story about subtraction radiography
(pages 15 and 16).
Ramseier earned his dental degree from
the University of Bern, Switzerland in 1995 and
graduated with a master’s degree in periodontics
in 2004. Currently a visiting professor in the
Department of Periodontics, Prevention, and
Geriatrics, he is working with Dr. William
Giannobile at the Michigan Center for Oral Health
Research.
“Professor Lang, my mentor at the University
of Bern, strongly suggested I come here if I wanted
to advance my career,” Ramseier said. Lang was also present as he began his three- Some might call it “The Swiss
Lang, a clinical instructor and assistant month sabbatical in Ann Arbor. Connection,” and why not?
Dr. Christoph Ramseier (left),
professor at U-M in the 1970s, has been a professor “Major was my mentor and it was good to see from the University of Bern,
at the School of Dental Medicine at the University him again. He’s one of a few who have received an is now a visiting professor
at the School of Dentistry.
of Bern since 1980. In January, he returned to Ann honorary doctorate from the University of Bern,” Dr. Niklaus Lang (center), a
Arbor as guest speaker for the annual Kenneth J. Lang said. Ash received the honorary degree in former U-M professor who
Ryan Memorial Seminar. [DentalUM, Spring & 1975 for his contributions to dentistry. has been at the University
of Bern since 1980and is
Summer 2005, p. 23.] “To finally meet Dr. Ash was a privilege I on sabbatical leave at U-M,
“I’m glad I listened to him,” Ramseier couldn’t think of when I was a dental student urged Ramseier to come to
U-M to further his career.
said, “because this dental school is doing some studying the concepts of occlusion ten years ago,” Ramseier said meeting Dr.
exciting things.” Following the summer photo Ramseier said. “I knew about the connection Major Ash (right) “was a
session, Ramseier showed some of his pictures between Dr. Lang and Michigan, but seeing him privilege I couldn’t think
of when I was a dental
of Switzerland to School photographer Per now with his mentor, Dr. Ash, was a big moment student.” Ash was awarded
Kjeldsen. for me. I could feel the transfer of knowledge from an honorary degree in 1975
from the University of Bern
“Do you know Dr. Major Ash?” Kjeldsen asked mentor to mentor.” for his contributions to the
Ramseier. “He would really be interested in seeing Ash said it was a pleasure meeting dental profession.
these,” Kjeldsen advised. Ramseier.
Ramseier said he didn’t know Ash personally, “His Swiss-English style and genuine interest
“I only know of him from the books he’s written in people and places reminded me of the time of
that I read during my dental studies.” my first sabbatical leave at the University of Bern
In September, Ramseier had the opportunity where the Swiss people like him were so helpful
to meet his mentor’s mentor at MCOHR offices. to me and my wife, Fayola,” Ash said.

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axiUm
A Gain for Students, Faculty, Staff, and Patients
Keary Campbell

available to individuals with authorized access


would save valuable time and lead to greater
efficiencies benefiting everyone – patients, dental
students, residents, clinical faculty members who
supervise the students, and staff.
Fitzgerald, who is also vice chair of the
Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences,
and Endodontics, is a member of a committee
that, for the last five years, has been investigating
how the software, known as “axiUm,” can be
customized for use by different departments and
clinics throughout the School.

A Thoughtful, Methodical Approach


The School of Dentistry has taken a series of
measured steps in moving toward its ultimate
goal of a paperless environment, beginning with
the Clinic Billing Office and several other facilities
in May 2001.

“O
The School’s 2Blue ur ultimate goal is to have a computer The work has involved extensive collaboration,
Comprehensive Care Clinic at every chair, in every cubicle, in every not only within the dental school, but also with
is the site of a pilot program
that may lead to a change clinic at the dental school,” said Dr. Mark another dental school that is using the system.
in how information about Fitzgerald as he talked about a new [See page 23.]
a patient’s treatment
history is provided.
software program being tested this summer in “AxiUm has been used in other ways elsewhere
Instead of paper records, one of the School’s comprehensive care clinics. throughout the School in recent years,” Fitzgerald
virtually everything would A similar test is also underway in one of the said. “But now it’s time to get this great resource
be stored and retrieved
electronically. Dr. Donald School’s graduate clinics. into the hands of the end users, the students
Heys (left), director of the If the pilot programs succeed, use of the and the faculty, who are in our clinics providing
2Blue Clinic, and Dr. Mark
Fitzgerald review a chart
software system could transform the process of patient care.” [See axiUm Timeline, page 21.]
on a computer screen in how patient care is provided at the U-M School of Developed by Exan Academic, a Canadian
the clinic. Fitzgerald is a Dentistry. software company, axiUm is a niche product
member of a committee
that has been investigating Paper records would be a memory. being used by about two dozen dental schools
how the “axiUm” software In their place, information about virtually across North America, including, the U-M School
can be customized for use
throughout the School.
everything – records of a patient’s visits, the care of Dentistry.
and treatments they received, payment history, Following a two-year search by a School
account balances, radiographs, and more – would committee, a contract was signed with Exan
be stored and retrieved electronically. Academic in October 2000 to provide the software
Having a wealth of information instantly system.

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Eventual Goal – Paperless Office


Major Benefits front desks, Central Records, Hospital Dentistry/ “The
Why axiUm? Oral Surgery, and graduate clinics. Since then,
Several reasons. it has been introduced elsewhere throughout the information
Perhaps the overriding one is that no single School. that can be
system was available to meet the various needs of
many departments throughout the School. AxiUm Comp Care Clinic Pilot Program
retrieved
does. This summer and fall axiUm became “more includes
Another important reason is that the core visible” with the launch of two pilot programs in
two clinics – the 2 Blue Comprehensive Care Clinic
patient
academic mission of the School, educating and
training dental students to provide care in clinics, and the Robert W. Browne Orthodontics Clinic. treatment
did not have to change. Instead, what did change Heys said axiUm has been tested in 14 cubicles plans and
were inefficient clerical and administrative in his clinic.
processes. In 12 cubicles, students use their laptop appointment
Another strong feature of the software computers to schedule patient appointments schedules.
system was axiUm’s ability to deliver a and retrieve patient treatment records. Different
comprehensive package of data – billing and hardware is being tested in the other two
Eventually,
collection information, patient records, financial cubicles. digital
management, and more. How that information A touch screen, similar to those at checkout
lines in grocery stores, is being tested in one. A
images will
is delivered can also be customized.
Dr. Donald Heys, professor of dentistry and “privacy monitor” is in the other. A student and/ be added.”
director of the 2 Blue Comprehensive Care Clinic, or faculty member must stand directly in front of
said axiUm allows students to see a patient’s it to see the information they are retrieving and Dr. Don Heys
treatment record and give them an idea of the entering. If they’re off to the side, even slightly,
patient’s payment record. none of the information can be seen.
“Our comprehensive care clinics are designed The information that can be retrieved includes
to mimic a private practice, where everyone works patient treatment plans and appointment
together,” he said. “In addition to providing care, schedules. Eventually, digital images will be
part of being a dentist is the business side, the added. “These are steppingstones in the School’s
finances. The two go hand-in-hand. Sometimes efforts to eventually becoming a paperless, all-
you have to talk finances with a patient and with electronic environment,” Heys said.
your staff. I think axiUm will help dental students The pilot program in the comprehensive care
see those connections and help them long after clinic will try to answer two questions, Fitzgerald
they graduate.” said.
Finally, security can be customized, allowing The first – what equipment works best for
only certain individuals to see specific items of accessing information on axiUm in a clinical
information. environment? Laptop computers? Something
AxiUm’s rollout began in May 2001, at several else?
locations including the Clinic Billing Office, all The second involves ergonomics – what is

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with fourth-year dental students. Following


the training, students took a competency test.
This summer, the two-hour training session was
expanded to include third-year dental students.
Mary Garrelts, a patient care coordinator
and member of the Clinical Implementation Task
Force, said nearly all the students who went
through the training did so without any major
problems. “They’re comfortable using computers
and were able to quickly learn what they needed
to know.”
As a patient care coordinator (there are four,
one for each clinic) Garrelts is an intermediary
between students and patients. She works with
clinical directors to ensure that patients receive
the care they need and that students get the
support they need.
One of the major advantages students realize
Third- and fourth-year the best way to use the system that causes the is that scheduling appointments will become
dental students have least amount of strain or physical discomfort on more efficient.
been trained to use
axiUm. Dr. Donald dental students and clinical faculty members who “Currently, students must walk to another
Heys shows fourth- supervise the students? part of the building and hand in an appointment
year student Crystal card for each patient. However, if a patient
Marciniak a chart of a Security is another issue as required by
patient’s treatment the federal Health Insurance Portability and cancels an appointment, the student has to turn
plan that can be Accountability Act (HIPAA). What items of in a second card. That’s another trip, another
electronically retrieved.
information about a patient an individual can inconvenience,” she said. “Being able to do all of
see is carefully controlled. this electronically saves a lot of steps and a lot of
“Students using their computers in the clinic time.”
will find that their units are simply a conduit First- and second-year dental students may
to retrieve and send information. They will not also learn how to schedule appointments using
be able to store and leave the clinic with any axiUm. But that’s probably a year or two away.
sensitive patient information on their laptops,” Clinical faculty will also be taught to use the
Fitzgerald emphasized. system, she said. “They’ll need to learn how to
use axiUm because they will have to review the
Training Program work of students, check to make sure all data
The first efforts to train students to use axiUm has been entered correctly, and then sign off on a
to schedule appointments began last summer student’s work.”

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Ortho Pilot Program schedule patient appointments,” said Kapila, axiUm


The pilot program in the Robert W. Browne chair of the Department of Orthodontics and TIMELINE
Orthodontics Clinic began following a successful Pediatric Dentistry. • October 2000: School of
six-month “test drive” of axiUm in the orthodontics “It’s very inefficient because there’s so much- Dentistry signs contract
area of the Dental Faculty Associates Clinic in the double entry of information as a person shifts with Exan Academic for
School. from one program to another. AxiUm will allow axiUm.
Clinical faculty in the DFA entered information us to eliminate that which, in the end, will lead to • May 2001: Initial rollout –
at chair side or after an appointment. They also a more efficient way of doing things,” he said. Clinic Billing Office (all
noted any problems with treatment, key clinical Like Heys, Fitzgerald, and Gong, Kapila said functions), Appointment
findings, and analyzed results. that the ultimate goal is to have a completely Office, front desks, Central
Dr. Siew-Ging Gong, who worked with the digital clinic so that residents not only schedule Records, Hospital Dentistry/
Oral Surgery, and graduate
technical support staff to help set up axiUm in appointments, but also retrieve digital x-rays and clinics.
both the DFA clinic and the graduate orthodontics other visual data.
clinic, said 22 orthodontics residents are currently Digital x-ray technology was being introduced • Early 2002: Dental Inform-
atics, Financial Services, and
trying the system compared to only three in the in the orthodontics clinic during the summer. Clinic Billing Office develop
DFA. However, digital images have been used for some Oracle-based financial
She cited several benefits using axiUm in the time at another facility, the Michigan Center for reporting tool for offices and
orthodontics clinic. Oral Health Research. [See sidebar, page 16.] department administrators.
“Since it’s a common system used throughout • Summer 2004: D4s trained
the School, our residents will have a better idea Praise for Tech Support to use “Scheduling” feature.
about other dental treatments a patient may have Making sure the axiUm software works as it • Fall 2004: Dental Faculty
had,” she said. should is the responsibility of Roger Gillie and his Associates (orthodontics
That information will be useful in scheduling five-member Programming Services unit. section).
patients who will be treated in the clinic over an “We’re like the mechanic who’s under the • January 2005: Digital radio-
extended period of time, typically two or three hood of the car tweaking the engine to try to graphs in Michigan Center for
years. find ways to make it run even better,” he said. Oral Health Research.
“More timely information will be available, “We’re working with different groups of people • February 2005: Patient
including a patient’s payment history, when they throughout the School to make sure that the check-in at Information Desks.
were treated, the treatments they received, and system works the way they want it to work so
• June 2005: D3s and D4s
more,” she added. “Knowing that will lead to they can do their jobs better.” trained to use “Scheduling”
more efficient scheduling and treatment planning Jean Thompson, administrative associate feature.
which will be good for patients, residents, and in the School’s Office of Patient Services and a
• June 2005: 2 Blue Clinic
staff.” member of the Implementation Task Force, praised chairside pilot program.
That’s something Dr. Sunil Kapila is eagerly Gillie and Rick Getchell, leader of the School’s
anticipating. Desktop Support unit. • June 2005: Orthodontics
Clinic, chairside pilot
“We’ve been using two different software “I can’t praise Rick and Roger and their teams program.
programs – axiUm, for financial purposes, and enough for the work they’ve done,” she said. “It
the other, an orthodontic-specific program, to seems we give them challenges every single day

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“A Vast Improvement,”Says
Clinic Billing Office Manager
The School of Dentistry’s Clinic Billing Office was and they deliver every
one of the first units in the School of Dentistry to time. They’re a great
use axiUm, beginning in May 2001. group to work with.”
“It’s a vast improvement over what we Fitzgerald also
were using before,” said Diane Nixon, CBO praised the support
manager whose office handles nearly $8 million he and others
in payments annually. have received
“It’s so much easier for everyone in this office from Johnson
to use,” she said. “We can see a patient’s complete and her working
record – treatments, payment history, insurance relationship with
company reimbursements or rejections, payment the software
adjustments, and more.” program’s
Having that information instantly available, m a n u f a c t u re r,
and in an easy-to-understand format, benefits Exan Academic.
everyone. “Lynn played
“When patients call with questions about a very impor-
their bills, we can give them immediate answers tant role in
Diane Nixon to their questions,” she said. advocating a controlled
Nixon and 18 others in the CBO receive approach to testing and measuring the results
approximately 750 incoming calls weekly from of what we were doing before upgrading features
patients with billing questions. The office also and considering new ones to add,” he said.
electronically files more than 350 dental and “Because of her ‘hands-on’ approach, Lynn
medical claims with insurance companies daily and her technical support team were able to
and follows up on approximately 400 inquiries create a stable, predictable, and flexible computer
and 800 rejections each month from insurance server environment. That has allowed the School
companies. to expand its use of axiUm while simultaneously
Each month, the office mails more than improving its reliability to the end user,” he
14,000 statements to patients. continued.
This summer, the Clinic Billing Office began
mailing a redesigned statement that is easier for What’s Ahead?
patients to understand. The new statement better These first steps, however, are just the
explains the procedures a patient received, the beginning.
charges for those services, insurance payments, The ultimate long-term goal is a paperless
and the amount owed the School of Dentistry. office.
In the months head, axiUm will be unveiled
in other clinics. It may also be used to track
laboratory and clinical equipment and supplies in
a manner that resembles the way Federal Express
and UPS track packages for their customers.

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The Importance of Dental


School Collaboration
Student There has been significant collaboration
grading and among administrators, faculty, and staff members
evaluations throughout the School of Dentistry prior to the
may be another rollout of axiUm. Staff and faculty from the School
option. also worked extensively with their counterparts at
the University of Maryland School of Dentistry.
“ The system
“There were substantial benefits to everyone,”
has a lot of said Roger Gillie, director of programming
flexibility,” Heys services.
said, “and part The major benefit was financial.
of deciding what “By working together, we were able to save a
we might want considerable amount of money as well as reduce the
to do from here amount of trial and error we probably would have
on will be based also experienced,” he said.
on feedback from Gillie and Dr. Mark Fitzgerald toured clinics
at the dental school in Maryland and talked to
students, faculty,
administrators, computer programmers, and
and staff.”
others prior to launching the chairside program at
Funding will Michigan.
also be a factor. “In short, we didn’t have to re-invent the Roger Gillie
“It’s probably wheel,” Gillie said. “They gave us details on the
going to cost one- to challenges they faced, what we were likely to face,
two-thousand dollars to equip each cubicle with what they did to make their system work at the
a computer, to say nothing of replacing that chairside, and what we had to do to make axiUm
work in our clinics.”
equipment every three- to five-years due to wear In return, Gillie gave his counterparts at the
and tear,” Fitzgerald said. Maryland dental school templates of complex
Additional equipment may also be needed. financial reports from Michigan so they wouldn’t
“If digital imaging and digital radiography have to begin their efforts from scratch.
are used in all the clinics, that’s going to put Collaboration between the two schools was
significant demand on our network and servers important...and will become increasingly important
in the future...said Dr. Christian Stohler, dean of the
which will mean more hardware,” he added.
University of Maryland dental school and former
But the benefits could be more significant. chair of the Department of Biologic and Materials
“The more axiUm is integrated into the Sciences at U-M.
School’s daily activities, the more efficient we “The market for software used by dental
become,” Fitzgerald said. “That connection, schools is a very limited market,” he said. “Dental
between what we do here and ‘real world schools need to share their experiences as well as
their vision for what they want that software to do
dentistry,’ I think, will resonate with not only
in a clinical environment, otherwise we could face
our current students, but prospective students more significant problems in the future. If we don’t
who may ultimately decide to come to Michigan collaborate, our curricula may soon become limited
to get their dental education.” by software constraints.”

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Making Sure “It” All Works – Hard


The Indispensable Role of
So you think keeping your personal computer Collaboration Essential
running properly is a challenge? In essence, their interrelated roles remind one
How would you like to be in Rick Getchell’s of the classic conundrum: which came first, the
shoes? Or Roger Gillie’s? chicken or the egg? Or, in this case: can hardware
They have more than 800 units to worry run without software? Or, can software run
about. without hardware?
Getchell and Gillie head teams that are Neither group has the luxury of working in
responsible for making sure that computers a vacuum.
Most Common throughout the School of Dentistry and those “Many times we find issues or problems
Requests for
at off-campus sites, and the software that runs overlap, so quite often one group relies on the
HELP those computers, function smoothly and that if other for their expertise to address a problem,”
12% – registering something goes wrong, the problem is quickly Getchell said.
computers to use on fixed. Both groups not only respond to problems.
the dental school
network But computers are not their only concern. They also pride themselves on being proactive
They’re also responsible for collecting and anticipating problems.
11% – how-to/ mountains of data generated daily, storing it, Gillie puts it this way. “If my team is too
technical advice
transferring it, making sure it’s accessible only visible, it usually means there’s trouble,” he said
10% – user account to authorized users, protected from loss, and with a smile.
issues (passwords, unassailable by hackers. Requests for “technical support” can range
creating accounts, etc.)
Collectively, these responsibilities are labeled from 15 to 20 on a “slow” day, to as many as 50 on
10% – new computer “technical support.” a busy day. The requests arrive by phone, e-mail,
setup Getchell heads a six-person Desktop Support and in face-to-face conversations.
8% – axiUm related unit responsible for the reliability of the network, The problems the groups deal with also
8% – install/upgrade all server hardware, and the operating system on vary.
software desktop computers and servers. They range from registering computers so
Gillie leads a five-member Programming they can be used on the dental school’s network,
7% – printer trouble-
shooting/setup Services unit responsible for making sure all the to technical advice, installing and/or upgrading
applications software that runs on the hardware software, or removing viruses and spyware.
6% – failed hardware and the network functions as it should. His team “Depending on the workload, we try to fix
6% – virus/software also works with students, faculty, staff, and these problems as soon as they’re brought to our
22% – Miscellaneous administrators to make sure software systems, attention,” Getchell said. Often the problems
(other programs, other such as axiUm, continue to improve. are quickly resolved, typically in less than a day.
software) Responsibility for some of the desktop and However, in more complex cases, more time is
server software is shared by Desktop Support and needed.
Programming Services.

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ware, Software, and Security


“ Tech Support”

Per Kjeldsen
Roger Gillie (right), and
members of his team
Experience and Low Turnover discuss progress being
made in introducing
“We’re able to quickly solve many of the axiUm throughout the
problems because of our group’s experience,” School of Dentistry.
Getchell said. Working with him are
members of his team
He said another factor is working in his (left to right): Luchuan
group’s favor – low turnover. Cai, Lane Hoy, Mike
Bleed, and Ed Steinman.
At some places technical support staffers
spend a couple of years at an organization and

Jerry Mastey
then leave. But that’s not the case at the School
of Dentistry. Data security is a
“John Squires has been providing technical paramount concern at
the School of Dentistry.
support for nearly twenty-five years, Matt Rick Getchell frequently
Vuocolo has been doing it here for seven years, researches digital
John Strode for five years, Mark Personett for two technologies in an
effort to stay ahead of
years, and Oral Molden, almost a year, and I’ve potential threats.
been doing it for about eight years,” Getchell said.
“Each one of us brings a certain set of skills to
the table that enables us to solve just about any
problem that’s brought to our attention.”
Per Kjeldsen

Gillie concurs about his group – “Ed Steinman


is a veteran of fourteen years; Lane Hoy, five years,
and supports both teams; Luchuan Cai, four years;
and Mike Bleed supports the newest programming
effort for grants and research projects.” Members of the Tech
Not long after arriving at the dental school more Support team also fix
computer hardware
than a year ago, Gillie said he was surprised to learn when the need
23 different software systems were in use. arises. John Strode
reinserts memory
“It seemed there was a different software in a computer and
program for just about every different job or reinstalls connections
function,” he said. “We had to streamline our prior to startup.
systems so we could be more efficient and work
across different units at the School. AxiUm
allowed us to do that. We are actually increasing
the program’s functionality, improving support,
decreasing costs, and retiring old and sometimes
broken systems.”

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Paperless Office As Getchell’s Desktop Support team was


Getchell’s group and Gille’s group also pride setting up the hardware in the new facility,
themselves on their ability to work together to Gillie’s Program Services unit was simultaneously
serve faculty, students, staff, and patients within working on a challenge from the Center’s director,
the School of Dentistry and at sites off campus. Dr. William Giannobile, to create a paperless
A good example involved preparations at the office.
Michigan Center for Oral Health Research. After extensive collaboration, a software
system was set up allowing those with authorized
access to retrieve a patient’s digital x-rays. It’s

Jerry Mastey
One of the most common
services the School’s the first time this has been done there. The group
Technical Support also devised a system allowing access to paperless
staff offers is providing
“how to” advice. Here, patient records by authorized individuals.
Matt Vuocolo is on the “Rick and his team spent a lot of time
telephone explaining
to a staff member how designing the hardware setup and the network
to create a portable to make sure they worked,” Gillie said, “and
document format (PDF) that made our job of installing the software and
file that can be e-mailed.
making sure it ran properly that much easier.
Instead of our group needing two months to
complete its work, we finished in less than a
Per Kjeldsen

After installing a new week.”


software program on Giannobile said Getchell and Gillie “were
her computer, Oral
Molden provides Dr. instrumental in getting us network and IT
Marilyn Lantz, associate capabilities at this off-site clinical location.” He
dean for academic praised both Getchell’s and Gillie’s teams for their
affairs, with instructional
suggestions on various efforts.
applications of the “Roger and his programming staff played
software.
key roles in setting up electronic patient charts
through axiUm and linking it to the digital
radiography system as well as setting up digital
John Squires’ familiarity
imaging capabilities.”
Per Kjeldsen

with products from


Apple Computer makes As this issue of DentalUM was going to press,
him a valuable resource
for students, faculty, both teams were evaluating the results of the
and staff. Here he offers axiUm pilot programs in the Blue Clinic on the
dental student Tyra second floor and in the orthodontics clinic.
Jefferson some tips on
how to get the best use If the past is any measure, don’t be surprised
of an Apple notebook if Getchell, Gillie, and members of their teams find
computer.
new ways in the future that will help students,
faculty, staff, and administrators become even
better at what they do.

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The Digital Learning Laboratory


W

“The Ultimate Core Facility”
hat used to be a television studio on the
DLL

Jerry Mastey
A major portion of the
third floor of the dental building has been old television studio
transformed in recent years. in the dental building
is now being used
Constructed at the time the “new” dental as a Digital Learning
school building was being built in the early 1970s, Laboratory. Faculty,
the 1,800 square foot studio was the site where students, and staff can
get help to prepare
hundreds of videos on dental education and oral lectures or other
health topics were produced. materials, or use
hardware and software
Then came desktop computers, the Internet, they may not have on
the World Wide Web, and digital photography. desktop units in their
In the mid-1990s, Dr. Paul Lang began offices.
investigating ways faculty could use the Internet
and World Wide Web to help students access manuals, syllabi, or newsletters. Only persons
course syllabi, notes, and selected readings for with special accounts and passwords can obtain
Services
particular courses. He also looked at how dentists the information. • Scanning (slides,
were using what was then “new” technology, radiographs, papers)
such as e-mail and video conferencing, to see if Using the TV Studio • Videotaping and editing
these technologies could be used to supplement Since hardware and software updates were • DVD creation
classroom education. rapidly coming to market, and the production • Web services
Lang also created the School’s first Web site. of new television videotapes all but abandoned, • Database development
It has been substantially improved, most recently Pelok in late 2000 suggested a new use for the • Photography, illustration,
earlier this year. [DentalUM, Spring & Summer former TV studio – as an instructional computing graphics
2005, pages 6-7.] center – where faculty and students could learn • Desktop publishing
In 1999, Dr. Scott Pelok, a clinical assistant how to use new technology. • Large format printing
professor, assumed responsibility for what was Today, about two-thirds of the 1,800 square • Consulting services
known as “dental informatics,” the dissemination foot facility is being used as a “Digital Learning
of dental information using technology. Laboratory.” Faculty, students, and staff learn Equipment
With technology advancing at a breakneck to use new software programs, scanners, digital • 3 workstations
pace, different hardware and software systems often cameras and digital videotape recorders to (12 Macs, 1 PC)
made communications difficult. After spending a enhance clinic and classroom instruction. • 1 flatbed scanner
year resolving hardware and software issues, he Two full-time staffers, Sarah Brittain and • 2 slide scanners
also had to look to the future, including developing Dan Bruell, and one part-time employee, Trek • 2 DVD recorders
an intranet for the School of Dentistry. Glowacki, help those throughout the School who • 2 digital video cameras
Unlike the Internet, where information is come to the third floor to use the equipment. • 1 digital still camera
accessible to anyone with a Web browser, obtaining “It seems that more students use the • Sound booth
information from an intranet site, by design, is equipment, but they don’t need a lot of help
restricted. A firewall prohibits individuals from because they’re already so comfortable using
obtaining confidential or proprietary information technology,” said Brittain, who also manages the
such as course materials, clinical handbooks and School’s Web site.

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Per Kjeldsen

Sarah Brittain moves study model casts


into position as Dr. Michael Ignelzi prepares
to take digital photos that he will use in a
classroom lecture.

About two- “Most of the faculty who come here to use


the equipment are also pretty comfortable with
thirds of the it, but there are cases, where we may have to do
1,800 square some hand holding,” she said. One Faculty Member’s View:
Brittain said faculty often come to the facility “It’s The Ultimate Core Facility”
foot television to use the equipment to prepare PowerPoint
graphics for classroom instruction or scan Dr. Michael Ignelzi is a big fan and a frequent
facility is radiographs or periodontal charts for classroom user of the Digital Learning Laboratory.
being used use. “It’s the ultimate core facility,” he said.
“The Digital Learning Lab offers side-by-side
as a “Digital attention to those users,” said Lynn Johnson,
“The people there – Dan Bruell, Sarah Brittain,
and Trek Glowacki – are incredibly helpful,
Learning director of Dental Informatics. “Sarah, Dan, competent, and very service oriented. They
and Trek help faculty members and others gain
Laboratory.” proficiency using the resources that are here so
make the technology available in a useful and
user-friendly way.”
Faculty, that the faculty or staff can ultimately do the
An associate professor of dentistry in
work by themselves.”
students, and the Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric
staff learn to use Digital Video Use Growing Dentistry, Ignelzi said he often uses the lab to
Digital video is increasingly being used. make digital photos and digital videos. He also
new software Bruell worked closely with Dr. Samuel scans materials and has converted hundreds of
programs, Zwetchkenbaum to develop a novel continuing 35-mm slides into other formats for use in his
dental education course that gives oral health lectures.
scanners, care providers an opportunity to learn about The digital video clips seem to have the
digital cameras, treating patients with developmental disabilities biggest impact on students. “It’s one thing to
from their home or office using a high-speed talk about or describe a procedure in a classroom.
and digital connection to the Internet. But when you show it, it reinforces what you
Several hours of video were digitally recorded
videotape and edited. Streaming technology allows
said,” Ignelzi said.
recorders to The approach has paid dividends.
those taking the course to view seminars and
demonstration of techniques. [See story, page In 2002, Ignelzi received the Charles Craig
enhance clinic 30.] Teaching Award, the highest honor bestowed
and classroom As more students, faculty, and staff learn by Omicron Kappa Upsilon, the national dental
about the equipment that’s available in the honor society, for his innovative teaching
instruction. Digital Learning Lab and the personalized support methods to educate and motivate students to
that is available, use of the facility is expected to become life-long learners.
increase. “The Digital Learning Laboratory is the best
“Currently, we are seeing growing demand of both worlds,” he said. “I don’t have to stay on
for digital video, but we know that technology top of all the latest developments in technology.
and learning needs will always be changing,” I can focus on what I enjoy doing, teaching.
Johnson said. “We’re always listening to the needs With ideas from Dan, Sarah, and Trek, I can use
of students and faculty so we can meet those
technology to be an even better teacher.”
needs.”

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DAMS
We’re all familiar with locating information
Digital Video on Demand
on the Internet using one or more of today’s
popular search engines. Type in a word or phrase
and you get documents or pictures that match,
or nearly match, what you were looking for.
But consider this situation.
A faculty member is preparing a lecture on
a particular topic, for example, how to properly
administer local anesthesia to a five-year-old.
Short of actually going into a pediatric
dental clinic, what is the best way the instructor
could visually convey the correct way to perform
the procedure? Also, could that procedure be
displayed in different ways, such as in a video
clip or a computer animation with an audio
description?
In the not-too-distant future, that could be
possible because of the efforts of Dan Bruell and
others with something called the Digital Asset Information Technology Central Services. One way the Digital Asset
Management System (DAMS). “Although we have hundreds of videotapes Management System will
be used is for showing
Since digital content is being created daily, that were produced here and used extensively procedures during
effectively managing it and harnessing it for use during the past 20 or 30 years, many of them are classroom instruction. In
this example, an instructor
throughout the School is an issue that must be no longer useable today,” Bruell said. types in a phrase of a
addressed. The reason? procedure he or she
Nearly all of the videotapes are “old” wants to show a group
of students. Instead of
Applying Internet Searching technology, that is, analog. Digital is today’s coin using the entire video, the
in a New Way of the realm. instructor will be able to
DAMS mimics the approach used to search electronically edit the video
In addition, many of the old videos do not to the 15or 20seconds
for information on the Internet. reflect today’s realities, for example, dentists that will be viewed.
However, in the case of DAMS, the items that must wear masks and surgical gloves when Although the video has
been electronically edited,
are searched, retrieved, and delivered to the desktop working on a patient. the original remains intact
would not be text. Instead, they would be videos, Bruell said that in addition to developing for future use.
audio files, and images. All would be “tagged” so new digital videos, efforts are also underway to
that only rightful users would have access. develop audio transcripts for each video.
Bruell, in the Digital Learning Laboratory,
is leading the School’s efforts in a project The Present and a Look into the Future
that involves other schools and colleges on “When portions of a video become a part of
the U-M campus: Education, Pharmacy, LS&A, DAMS, each segment is analyzed and a track of
Nursing, Social Work, the University Library, and text is generated which can then be searched,” he

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A New Approach
said. “In the future, one might be able to do
both a video and a text search.” A new continuing dental education
Copies of the original video are course now being offered by the School of
automatically created for the user that Dentistry could become a model for similar
would allow him or her to connect to the courses in the future.
Internet at different speeds (cable, DSL).
The course, Dental Care for People
The benefits of developing a transcript
with Disabilities, gives dentists, specialists,
that accompanies each video may not
and other oral health care providers an
be apparent, but they are not to be
underestimated. opportunity to learn from their home or
For example, if an instructor has an office using a high-speed connection to the
8- or 9-minute video about a particular Internet.
subject, but only wants to use 15 or 20 Although the School currently offers
seconds for a lecture, DAMS would allow the five online courses, this course breaks new
instructor to locate the entire video, isolate ground by blending content with technology
the specific segment he or she wanted to in several ways that are all interrelated.
use, electronically edit that segment, and
then use the finished version in the lecture Major Benefits
and possibly e-mail it...all without altering One of those major benefits is that all
the original video. course materials are immediately available
“We’re still trying to get some of the kinks on the Web (www.dent.umich.edu/con_ed)
out of the system we’re experimenting with after registration.
that involves trying to develop transcripts Instead of signing up and then waiting
from the video,” Bruell said. “For example, several days to receive study materials that
the phrase ‘dental plaque’ might appear in a must be physically delivered to a home or
transcript as ‘dental flag.’ Obviously, that’s
office, one can immediately begin taking the
not correct, but it’s an example of what still
course after successfully registering.
needs to be worked on.”
A second major breakthrough is that
A demonstration of DAMS was “a
smashing success” at this spring’s meeting of video for the course is streamed.
the American Dental Education Association, Several hours of video have been recorded
said Dr. Lynn Johnson, director of Dental and digitally edited. Streaming technology
Informatics. allows participants to view seminars and
“Dentistry is highly visual and dental demonstrations of techniques.
schools have always struggled with storing
and retrieving images and video. The Interactive Case Studies
reaction we received at ADEA shows that we Another unique feature of the course
are leaders in solving this problem.” involves four case studies.

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to Continuing Dental Education


After viewing each case study, participants Extensive Collaboration
Course Overview
are asked, based on what they have seen and What also makes this course unique,
heard, to develop a treatment plan for each according to Dr. Lynn Johnson, director of Dental In his pioneering report on
oral health in America issued
patient. Informatics, is the extensive collaboration that
in 2000, the U.S. Surgeon
Participants electronically submit has taken place. General noted disparities
that plan to course director, Dr. Samuel “Our department has been working with the in oral health and care for
Zwetchkenbaum, a clinical assistant professor Office of Continuing Dental Education and the those with developmental
in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery disabilities. Caring for these
Surgery and Hospital Dentistry. to provide an educational experience that goes individuals is challenging
for practitioners. However,
A f t e r re v i e w i n g t h e re s p o n s e s , beyond the typical classroom experience and can
successfully meeting those
Zwetchkenbaum e-mails his evaluations to be made available to every practicing dentist,” challenges can provide a
each participant one or two business days she said. “I hope they take advantage of the great deal of satisfaction
later. If a section is successfully completed unique opportunity this course offers.” to everyone involved.
(scoring 70 percent or higher), the course Working with Zwetchkenbaum to develop the Dental Care for Persons with
participant can proceed to the next case course were Dr. Daniel Jolly, a professor of clinical Disabilities covers subjects
study. dentistry at Ohio State University and Dr. Clive important to oral health care
practitioners including the
Freedman, an associate clinical professor at the
For all Dentists philosophy of care, informed
University of Western Ontario, Canada. Jolly and consent, examinations,
“I would encourage all dentists to take Friedman are past presidents of the International and the use of protective
this course to learn more about the best way Association for Disability and Oral Health. restraints.
to treat disabled patients,” Zwetchkenbaum
Per Kjeldsen
said. “By watching each case study, submitting Much of the content for
their own treatment plans, and having each the continuing dental
education course offered on
plan individually evaluated, dentists have the Internet, Dental Care for
an opportunity to see how they can improve, People with Disabilities, was
developed in the School’s
or at least consider treating these patients Digital Learning Laboratory.
with special needs if they’re not doing so Dan Bruell (seated) and
Dr. Sam Zwetchkenbaum
already.” review a section which
Zwetchkenbaum said the course will allows participants to submit
their treatment planning
benefit dentists whose patients have cerebral suggestions.
palsy or other motor impairments. “It
may also provide guidance when working
with patients with acquired neurological
conditions, such as Huntington’s disease or
closed head injuries,” he added.

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Faculty Profile
Keary Campbell

Dr. Josef
Kolling
First School When he graduated with his dental degree from the University of Michigan
School of Dentistry twenty-four years ago, Dr. Josef Kolling said he never gave
of Dentistry any thought to becoming the president of any dental organization, much less a
state-wide group.
Faculty In May, Kolling became the first U-M School of Dentistry faculty member
Member in nearly a quarter century to become the president of the Michigan Dental
Association. The last dental school faculty member to lead the statewide
in Nearly organization was Dr. Robert Doerr who assumed the presidency of the MDA in April
1981. At the time, Doerr was a professor of dentistry and an associate dean.
25 Years Since earning his DDS in 1981 and a master’s degree from Michigan three
to Serve years later, Kolling has been active in dental organizations at local, state, and
national levels. Before becoming MDA president, Kolling was president-elect, vice
as MDA president, secretary, and served on both the Executive Committee and the Board
President of Trustees. [See Selected Highlights, page 35.] “So I’ve had plenty of time to
get ready for the issues I’ll be facing,” he said with a laugh during an interview
shortly before his term as president began.

How it Began
“Getting involved in organized dentistry was something that was expected
of me when I began working with my mentor and practice partner, Dr. Hugh
Cooper (DDS 1951; MS, prosthodontics, 1954),” Kolling said. “Since then, I have
found that being involved in organized dentistry has been a great way for me to
give something back to the profession.”

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The first member of his family to occlusion; Dr. Sig Ramfjord, who taught Daniel Edwards (DDS 1997) and Dr.
earn a college degree, Kolling said his periodontics; Dr. Brien Lang, who Deborah Lisuall (BS, dental hygiene
interest in dentistry was sparked by his taught removable prosthodontics; and 1979; DDS 1983). Edwards, who is
family dentist, Dr. Sidney Weber (DDS Dr. Gerald Charbeneau, who taught a member of the School’s Board of
1948), of Bloomfield Hills. operative dentistry. They were just a Governors, also teaches part-time at the
“When I was 12 or 13, he gave me an few of the giants of the profession who School of Dentistry. [See story, pages
opportunity to look over his shoulder as taught here when I was a student.” 55-56.]
he worked on my younger brothers who Kolling said others instructors who “It’s the best of both worlds,”
came to him for their appointments. influenced him included Drs. Robert Lorey, Kolling said about his dual role as
By the time I entered Notre Dame High George Myers, and Joe Clayton. “I credit a clinical instructor and private
School in Harper Woods, I knew that both Drs. Lorey and Myers for encouraging practitioner. “Many times I find that I
this is what I wanted to do with my me to become a clinical instructor, and Dr. can apply what I’ve learned or taught
life,” Kolling said. Clayton for urging me to become involved in one setting in the other environment,
Also influencing his decision was in academic dentistry, even if for only a and that works out nicely for everyone
“the enjoyment I got out of working few hours a week,” he said. involved,” he said.

“Getting involved in organized dentistry was something that was expected of me


when I began working with my mentor and practice partner, Dr. Hugh Cooper.
Since then, I have found that being involved in organized dentistry has been
a great way for me to give something back to the profession.”

with my hands and fixing small What made a lasting impression on Teaching at the School of Dentistry
appliances around the house. That gave him, Kolling said, “was the way they all has also given Kolling a front-row seat
me opportunities to diagnose problems taught and how they treated students to watch the continuing evolution
and develop creative solutions, which and patients. They treated everyone of the profession. The changes are
is what dentists do all the time.” with respect and were always sharing something he has mentioned on many
Kolling entered the U-M School of their knowledge with those of us who occasions.
Dentistry in 1977 prior to completing were new to dentistry. Their example, “Dentistry is now more diverse
his studies for a degree in chemistry at in turn, inspired me to do the same in than when I was a student,” he said.
the University of Detroit. my role as a clinical instructor,” he “Today you see almost as many women
said. as men entering our School studying
Great Teachers at Michigan to become dentists. You also see the
“Looking back, what continues Watching Change Unfold number of minority students entering
to amaze me is the caliber of the Three days a week, from 9:00 the profession is higher than it was
instructors we had,” he said. “At the a.m. until noon, Kolling teaches before, and you also see how technology
time, I don’t think many of us who prosthodontics to third- and fourth- continues to evolve and how it’s applied
were students fully appreciated who year dental students in the 3 Blue Clinic. in novel ways in classrooms and clinics.
was teaching us until we got out into When he’s not there, he’s practicing As a faculty member who sees this
the real world and began talking to general dentistry in Ann Arbor. After taking place day in and day out, I often
colleagues who then became a bit practicing downtown with Cooper for tell our members, ‘this is the reality
jealous of our good fortune when we 24 years, Kolling established a new of what’s taking place now, so as an
told them where we went to school.” practice this summer, Oak Valley Dental organization, let’s be prepared for the
He said the list of instructors Associates, in southwest Ann Arbor. future’.”
“included Dr. Major Ash who taught With him are two U-M graduates, Dr.

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Keary Campbell

Acknowledging School
of Dentistry Leaders
In his MDA Presidential acceptance speech,
Dr. Josef Kolling paid tribute to administrators
and faculty members who have mentored him.
Excerpts of his remarks are below...
I also need to acknowledge the support
and encouragement given to me by Deans Bernie
Machen, Bill Kotowicz, and Peter Polverini,
as well as my department chairs Brien Lang,
Christian Stohler, Robert Bradley, and Paul
Krebsbach who were my bosses at the U-M
dental school for the past eight years I served on
the MDA board. I have been a part-time faculty
member . . . and these men all assured me that
my involvement with MDA was important, and
Prior to starting an initial clinical examination of her patient, dental student Kathy Verhay reviews the patient’s medical and
it would never jeopardize my teaching position. dental history with Dr. Joe Kolling.
Without that support, I could not have done this.
So for all who believe that full-time faculty and
school administrators don’t care about organized Don’t Wait
dentistry, I can tell you that they do. Kolling is aware of the challenges of the School’s Dental Hygienists’
I also want to thank my students who were he faces as MDA president. Alumnae Association, including a one-
impacted by my absences from the clinic. I know One is workforce issues that year term as president.
it was inconvenient for them, and I would like to involves dentists who are retiring or “We met at a dance group in Detroit
think they understood. My current students think about to retire, as well as those who the summer before I began dental
it’s pretty cool having the MDA President as an are entering the profession. Another is school and not long after she finished
instructor. I think it’s pretty cool seeing so many disparities in oral health care. Others high school,” he said. “But it wasn’t
former students in this House of Delegates. include how the state’s finances and until after we began dating that we
I must acknowledge and thank Dr. Hugh budget cuts will affect the dental learned we both were interested in a
Cooper who has been my biggest mentor and school’s programs, personnel, and career in dentistry.”
friend for 24 years. He accepted me into his its ability to attract highly qualified Kolling said his wife has provided
practice as an associate right out of dental school
students to Michigan. some valuable insights about the dental
in 1981. I was the last in a long line of associates
Kolling’s philosophy is profession, but from the perspective of
who worked for him while completing graduate
straightforward. “My attitude is: If a dental hygienist. “Those are insights
studies at U-M... Hugh urged me to become
there’s an important problem that I may not have received, and they’re
involved in organized dentistry. ...Thank you,
needs to be addressed, deal with it now, helpful because they are always focused
Hugh, for everything you have done for dentistry,
and for me. I doubt I would be standing up here
don’t wait,” he said. on what’s best for the profession and
today if you had not become a part of my life and Not only does he hear about the the patient,” he said.
started me on this path. challenges facing dentistry from those “The dental profession has its
I want to thank my wife, Barb, and my at the dental school and other dentists share of challenges now, and there will
children, Joe and Christina, who understood the across Michigan, but Kolling also gets be challenges in the future,” Kolling
importance of a dentist’s active participation a different professional perspective said. “But students here at Michigan
with the profession and supported my decision from his wife, Barbara, who earned have many opportunities ahead of
to get involved with the MDA. a Bachelor of Science degree in dental them. It’s a great time for a student
hygiene from U-M in 1983. She served to become a dentist, just as it was for
for six years on the Board of Directors me in 1981.”

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Dr. Josef Kolling
Professional Achievements
Selected Highlights

Education • Washtenaw District Dental Society


• Doctor of Dental Surgery, University of Michigan (1981 to present)
School of Dentistry (1981) - Chairman, Public Relations Committee
• Master of Science; Restorative Dentistry, Crown (1987-1988)
and Bridge; University of Michigan School of - Executive Board liaison to Committee on
Dentistry (1984) Insurance (1993-1995), Peer Review Ethics
Committee (1993-1995), Membership
Academic Appointments Committee (1994-1995)
• Clinical Instructor, U-M School of Dentistry - WDDS Delegate to MDA House of Delegates
(1981-1982) (1991-1996); Chairman, WDDS delegation (1992)
• Assistant Professor, U-M School of Dentistry - Chair, Nominations Committee (1997-1998)
(1984-1991) - Treasurer (1993-1994)
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, U-M School of Dentistry - Secretary (1994-1995)
(1991-1996) - President-elect (1995-1996)
• Adjunct Associate Professor, U-M School of Dentistry - President (1996-1997)
(1996 to present) • F.B. Vedder Society of Crown and Bridge
Prosthodontics (1984 to present)
Professional Affiliations and Leadership Roles - Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
• Senior Dental Class Officer, Vice President (1980-1981) (1993-1994)
• Omicron Kappa Upsilon, Chi Chapter (1981 to present) - Treasurer (1995-1996)
• American Dental Association (1981 to present) - President-elect (1996-1997)
- Alternate Delegate from Michigan to ADA House of - President (1997-1998)
Delegates (1995, 1997, 1998)
- Delegate to ADA House of Delegates (1999-2005) Honors and Awards
- Chair, Michigan Delegation to House of Delegates • Clinical Instructor of the Year Award, Class of 1990
(2004) • Alumni of the Year Award, Alpha Chapter of Delta
• Michigan Dental Association (1981 to present) Sigma Delta (1991)
- Peer Review Committee (1990-1996), Chairman • Clinical Instructor of the Year Award, Class of 2001
(1995-1996), Consultant (1996-1997) • American College of Dentists (1998)
- Chairman, House of Delegates Credentials • International College of Dentists (October 2005)
Committee (1995)
- Finance Committee (1999-2002)
- Board of Trustees (1997-2005)
- Executive Committee (2002-2005)
- Secretary (2002-2003)
- Vice President (2003-2004)
- President-elect (2004-2005)
- President (May 2005 to May 2006)

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Faculty NEWS
Jan Hu New Director of Pediatric Dentistry
Dr. Jan Hu recently became the new director of pediatric dentistry following
the retirement this summer of Dr. Lloyd (Bud) Straffon. Dr. Sunil Kapila, chair of
the Department of Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, made the announcement
this spring.
“With her exceptional research and teaching credentials, I am certain Dr.
Hu will lead the pediatric dentistry section of our department to even greater
heights,” Kapila said. “I look forward to working closely with her to continue
building on our already strong clinical and academic programs and to further
develop our department’s research.”
Education Background
Hu received a Bachelor of Dental Surgery degree from National Taiwan University
in 1985. Three years later, she received a specialty certificate in pediatric dentistry
from USC and, in 1990, a PhD in craniofacial biology from the same school. Dr. Jan Hu
Following her training, Hu was a postdoctoral fellow in craniofacial molecular
biology and a clinical assistant professor at USC. In 1993, she joined the Department
of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Johnston to Receive
Six years later, she was named an associate professor with tenure.
She came to Ann Arbor in 2002 as an associate professor with tenure.
AAO Award
Research Interests and Service Dr. Lysle Johnston will receive
Hu’s research focuses on the regulation of tooth formation and genetic the Louise Ada Jarabak Memorial
mutations associated with dental structures. Her clinical interests are in the area of International Orthodontic Teachers
craniofacial anomalies and special patient care among pediatric dental patients. and Research Award next spring. The
In addition to her research and teaching, Hu holds several positions in award will be presented during the
professional societies, including the Science Affairs Committee of the American AAO’s 106th annual session that runs
Association of Pediatric Dentistry, and on two editorial boards, the Journal of from April 28 to May 3.
Dental Research and the Journal of Pediatric Dentistry. Hu is board certified by The award from the American
the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and is a member of the Omicron Association of Orthodontists Foundation
Kappa Upsilon, the national dental honor society. honors individuals who have made
This spring, Hu received one of the nation’s most prestigious awards for dental significant contributions to teaching
research, the Gies Award, for the best paper published in the Journal of Dental and research during their careers as
Research. [DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2005, pages 62-63.] orthodontists.
This spring, Johnston received the
Straffon Praised
School’s Distinguished Service Award.
Kapila praised Straffon for his years of service to the School of Dentistry. “I
[See story, page 59.]
want to thank Dr. Straffon for his 37 years of selfless service, dedication, and
contributions to our department and the dental school,” Kapila said.
Straffon said he and his wife plan to continue to live in the Ann Arbor area,
but may venture to a warmer climate during the winter months. Some travel,
both in the U.S. and overseas may also take place, including trips to the Denver
area to visit their two sons.

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Bagramian External D’Silva in ADEA Leadership Institute
Examiner in Singapore
Dr. Robert Bagramian spent two Nisha D’Silva, an assistant professor in the
weeks in Singapore this June as one Department of Oral Medicine, Pathology, and
of three external examiners at the Oncology, will be participating in the ADEA’s
National University of Singapore. He Leadership Institute during the next year. She
was invited by the school to help test a was selected for the 12-month course in March.
group of 35 graduating dental students. The program, now in its sixth year, is designed
The other two external examiners were to develop the nation’s most promising dental
from Maryland and London, England. faculty to become future leaders in dental and
“Graduating dental students at higher education.
the National University of Singapore Three years ago, D’Silva collaborated with
take a series of rigorous examinations, others to create the School’s “Digital Microscopes”
Dr. Nisha D’Silva
including a written exam, a clinical initiative. Using the World Wide Web, the School
exam, and a combination oral and of Dentistry’s intranet, and a computer, dental
clinical exam,” he said. “It’s a pretty students use their monitors as surrogate microscopes and view images of more
intense period of time for the students than 50 different tissues. The tissues, which had been collected from patients who
since the exams are spread out over two have been treated for an array of maladies at the School’s clinics since 1940, can
weeks.” be viewed at any time and at any place there’s a computer, rather than during
However, it wasn’t Bagramian’s a designated three-hour lab session.
first time at the National University. This approach to education has saved significant time for students and faculty
In 1992, he spent three months there and has also eliminated the need for physical laboratory space and saved money
as a visiting professor and returned on since microscopes no longer need to be repaired or replaced.
several occasions years later. D’Silva also has a major role in the Specialized Programs of Research Excellence
Nor was it the first time Bagramian (SPORE) grant as director of the head and neck cancer tissue core. In this role, she
was a national examiner in Asia. He co-manages development of a patient database and the collection, storage, and
participated in a similar event at the distribution of patient tissue and blood samples to gain a better understanding
dental school in Malaysia in 1997. of the genetic and molecular mechanisms behind malignant tumor behavior.
The first phase of the leadership program began in June with a self-study on
organizational theory and leadership in higher education.
The second phase, which began in September, focused on legislative issues
affecting dental education and included visits to congressional and senate
offices.
The third phase, which begins in mid-January, will address administrative
skills needed to become effective leaders. The final phase takes place next spring
at the ADEA’s annual program in Orlando, Florida.
“The Leadership Institute will provide me with tools I will be able to use
presently and in the future as my career develops,” D’Silva said. “I am excited to
be a part of the program and to be mentored by Drs. Peter Polverini and Marilyn
Lantz.”
Dr. Robert Bagramian

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Faculty NEWS
Ma Featured in Whitaker Oral Cancer Campaign Urges
Foundation Annual Report Detroiters to Get Checked

The research being conducted in the


Under the leadership of Dr. Amid Ismail, a professor in the Department
laboratory of Dr. Peter Ma, an associate
of Cariology, Restorative Sciences, and Endodontics, the Detroit Oral Cancer
professor in the Department of Biologic
and Materials Sciences, was featured Prevention Project has launched a citywide campaign to lower the oral cancer
in this year’s annual report from the death rate in that city.
Whitaker Foundation. The foundation is Detroit has one of the highest rates of oral cancer in the nation.
the country’s largest private sponsor of According to a recent study, 46 percent of all deaths from oral cancer in
biomedical engineering and biomedical Michigan occur in the Detroit area. In African-American men, Detroit reported
research and education. an oral cancer rate of 31 cases per 100,000 people, which was the highest rate
The story features Ma’s work that reported among all states.
involves creating synthetic scaffolds. With one of the highest incidence and mortality rates of oral cancer in the
The feature is available on the Web at: state, the Detroit area had only 35 percent of its oral cancer cases detected at an
www.whitaker.org/news/peterma. early stage.
html.
“Our best hope for decreasing the rate of oral cancer is to get Detroiters in
for a screening,” Ismail said. “If caught early, oral cancer has a 90 percent cure
rate.”
Taylor on IADR/AADR By contrast, the effects of later-stage oral cancer treatments can be
Publications Committee devastating. Some patients require full or partial removal of the tongue, teeth,
gums, or oral tissues.
Dr. George Taylor has been elected Among the risk factors of oral cancer are tobacco use, moderate or heavy
as an AADR representative to the alcohol use, a diet low in fruits and vegetables, lack of access to early screening
IADR/AADR Publications Committee. and dental care, and poor oral hygiene.
As a member-at-large, Taylor and other The Detroit Oral Cancer Prevention Program seeks to reduce the death rate
committee members review the quality for oral cancer by half in the next five years.
and financial status of the Journal of
The campaign, Get Checked Before It’s Too Late, includes billboards, radio,
Dental Research and other publications
and newspaper ads all urging Detroiters to call a toll-free number (877-7CHECKED)
owned jointly by IADR/AADR. His term
for an oral cancer screening. The
ends in 2008. Per Kjeldsen

screenings provided through the


project are painless and free of
charge.
“Bottom line, we want everyone to
know that oral cancer is preventable.
It’s treatable,” Ismail said, “but it
must be caught early.”
Funding for the oral cancer project
has been provided by a five-year
grant from the National Institute of
Dental and Craniofacial Research.

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125 Get Fitted at Annual Mouth Guard Clinic
Jerry Mastey

Dental and dental hygiene students worked with


School of Dentistry faculty members in mid-July to
make mouth guards for 125 student athletes from
Third-year dental
across Michigan. Third-year dental student Erica student Gwendolyn
Frando who coordinated the event, said more than Buck tells 13-year-old
Royce White how his
60 registered during the first 10 minutes. mouth guard will be
Student athletes five and older came from made after taking his
impression.
Ann Arbor, Saline, Whitmore Lake, Belleville, West
Bloomfield, and other communities. They plan to
use their customized protective gear this fall and
winter for sports including football, soccer, and ice Jerry Mastey

hockey.
U-M students who participated in the annual
event said they enjoyed providing the service to the
community.
Third-year dental
“I’m doing this because I enjoy volunteer work, student James Powell
prepares the compound
and this seemed like it would be a fun thing do,” said that will be used to
third-year dental student James Powell. take an impression for a
student athlete.
Another third-year dental student, Kim Dao, said
this was her first time helping at the annual clinic.
“I heard it was fun and I wanted to be involved,” she
said.
Parents were equally enthusiastic.
For Sheila Monroe’s son, Andrew, it was the Jerry Mastey

third time he had been to the clinic to be fitted for


a customized mouth guard. “He plays travel ice For Andrew Monroe,
this summer’s mouth
hockey, and the other two he’s had made here in guard clinic was the
third time he has been
the past have worked out, so we’re back again,” she to the U-M School of
said. Dentistry to be fitted.
Fourth-year dental
Also during the event, the dangers of using spit student Emily Da Silva
tobacco were mentioned to the young athletes. In shows him his oral
impression and explains
addition to a poster board displaying adverse effects how the mouth guard
will be made.
from using spit tobacco, Joan McGowan, associate
professor of dental hygiene, talked to the student
athletes and answered their questions.

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Bay Cliff Health Camp
Jerry Mastey

The Experience
was originally built needs during the short time we are
as a dairy farm in the here,” said Tujios, who was at the camp
early 1900s. Abandoned as a dental student in the summer of
d u r i n g t h e G re a t 2002.
Depression, the 180-acre Kloostra, Larson, and Snell each
site was purchased by treated between four and six patients
Bay Cliff and reopened daily.

I
in 1934 with the intent “The pace here is different than at
t was a week they will always to serve malnourished children who the clinics in Ann Arbor,” Larson said.
remember. lived in the Upper Peninsula. “Depending on what needs to be done,
Three fourth-year dental students With the outbreak of polio in the here you can treat patients rather
– Erin Kloostra, Jennifer Larson, and 1940s, the camp adopted a mission of quickly. But if you need help or have a
Aimee Snell – and two third-year improving the lives of children and question, the residents are only a few
pediatric dental residents – Dr. James young adults with orthopedic, speech, feet away.”
Thomas and Dr. Aleco Tujios – will hearing, visual, or other physical Talking to the kids in language they
never forget providing oral health disabilities. That mission continues understand is important.
care to physically disabled children today. One morning, 10-year-old Dylan
and adolescents at the Bay Cliff Health “For seven weeks, from mid June sits down in a dental chair. As Larson
Camp in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. to early August, more than 160 persons moves the chair into a reclining position,
The memories of their experiences, with disabilities, ranging in age from 3 Thomas tries to explain to Dylan what
however, will include more than the to 17, come here for an opportunity to will happen.
care they provided in the camp’s three develop the skills they need to become “We’re going to fix a big hole in
operatories. independent and to learn to live a fuller one of your teeth caused by the sugar
They will also remember the life,” said camp director, Tim Bennett. bugs,” Thomas says. “If we don’t take
good-natured banter with patients... M o re t h a n 1 2 5 i n d i v i d u a l s , the sugar bugs out, your tooth will
conversations with counselors and including staff members, therapists, hurt, just like your finger does when it
patients on many topics in the camp’s physicians, nurses, pediatric dentists, gets a sliver. Does that make sense?”
18,000 square foot dining facility and dental students provide services “Uh-huh,” Dylan responds. The
referred to as “The Big House”...and at the site. work begins.
seeing smiles on the faces of more But there are moments of humor
than two dozen teens nattily attired The Personal Touch too.
in tuxedos and dresses for a formal “About 80 or 85 percent of the After Thomas finishes his work, he
dinner at a nearby landmark and prom children who come to Bay Cliff only positions the dental chair so Dylan can
in the camp’s gymnasium that was see the dentist when they are here. So, now sit up and leave.
transformed into a dance hall in late for most of them, this means receiving But Dylan says he feels dizzy.
July. oral health care only once a year. That’s “I hear you, Dylan, but I think you’re
About 30 minutes northwest of why it’s important for us to work hard dizzy because you put your shoes on the
Marquette, the Bay Cliff Health Camp to try to address all their oral health wrong feet,” Thomas says with a grin.

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Jerry Mastey

of a Lifetime Jerry Mastey Twelve-year-old Brittany is all smiles after being treated by dental
shorts, opens the door to the dental student Jennifer Larson. Lending a hand were dental residents
Dr. Jim Thomas (left) and Dr. Aleco Tujios.
office and walks in a few minutes
before her scheduled appointment. After giving some advice about
Thomas, who’s looking at the day’s the corsage each will give to his date,
schedule, turns around to extend a Bennett smiles, gives them a thumbs
hand. As he does, Cody slaps it and up, and says, “This is your night. Have
begins talking to Kloostra who says, fun.”
“You’re going to be seeing Miss Aimee The young men proceed one at a
today.” time to a nearby building to meet their
Cody casually walks a few steps to dates. As they do, they are first greeted
the entrance of the clinic where Snell is by younger girls who are screaming and
working on a patient and asks, “What women who are applauding.
Tim Bennett, executive director and camp director, Bay ya doing?” Noah, who’s leading the men,
Cliff Health Camp.
Snell replies, “I’m getting the grins from ear to ear. “I’m excited,” he
Dylan smiles, sits for a few sugar bugs out of John’s mouth.” Cody says.
moments, gets up, and then leaves. smiles, shrugs her shoulders, and walks When the young men meet their
away. dates and present them with corsages,
Hanging Out with the Kids Afterwards, Kloostra says, “My the couples are directed to a bus that
The repartee is an important way experiences here at Bay Cliff are exactly will take them to the nearby Thunder
of connecting with patients. geared for what I want to do and what Bay Inn for dinner. The Inn was the site
“But it just doesn’t take place in Aimee wants to do after we receive our of filming the 1950s movie, “Anatomy
the office,” Kloostra said. “We make it dental degrees.” of a Murder” which starred James
a point to hang out with the kids and The final week in July, however, Stewart, Lee Remick, and Ben Gazzara,
talk to them at breakfast, lunch, and was different than earlier weeks. and was directed and produced by Otto
dinner so they see us as regular people, A buzz was in the air as teens Preminger.
not just someone who only works on began talking about “the big night,” Some couples walk arm-in-arm
problems they have in their mouths.” going to the prom on July 28. towards two camp buses. Others
B e n n e t t , t h e c a m p d i re c t o r, ride side-by-side in their wheelchairs
agrees. Formal Wear, Dinner, and Prom holding hands or interlocking one or
“Part of what we try to do is to get Around mid-afternoon, the young more fingers. All are smiling and are
the kids to see dentists as people. That’s men and women begin getting dressed greeted by applause from the dental
why they sing with the kids, have lunch in formal wear provided by a local students, camp staffers, and others.
with them, or toast marshmallows clothing store. But as the couples leave, a female
around the campfire with them at Bennett, the camp director, arrives counselor in the background shouts in
night,” he said. and looks at them and says, “This is jest to the men, “What time will you be
That approach pays off. your big night, gentlemen. How do you home with my girl tonight?” Laughter
One morning, 7-year-old Cody, feel?” echoes across the camp.
wearing an orange shirt and pink “Good” they reply in unison. At dinner, Andy Rhoden and his

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For More Information about Bay Cliff Health Camp:
Web site: www.baycliff.org E-mail: baycliffhc@aol.com
Write: P.O. Box 310, Big Bay, MI 49808
Phone: (906) 345-9314

be introduced by name and have their became the camp’s dentist. She was

Jerry Mastey
pictures taken. also instrumental in designing Bay
As the couples enter, flashes from Cliff ’s new dental offices which opened
dozens of digital cameras pierce the earlier this summer. During the past 30
darkness. The flashes of light from the years, the couple has provided dental
cameras remind one of the paparazzi care, served as consultants, and helped
taking pictures of Hollywood movie recruit staff.
stars. However, Hollywood movie stars Bennett hopes Bay Cliff Health
can’t hold a candle next to the smiles of Camp can be open more than five or six
these kids who are absolutely radiant months. To make that dream a reality,
and enjoying their all-too-brief moment a $7.5 million fundraising campaign
in the spotlight after working day in is underway. Funds will be used to
“For many of these kids, this is the only time in their lives that they
and day out for years to combat their winterize the camp’s facilities so they
will have an opportunity to get dressed up, go to a formal dinner,
and then go to the prom,” said camp director Tim Bennett. physical disabilities. are usable 12 months a year; upgrade
“For many of these kids, it will be facilities to meet all requirements of
the only time in their lives that they the Americans with Disabilities Act;
Jerry Mastey

will have an opportunity to get dressed update and renovate all of the camp’s
up, go to a formal dinner, and then go therapy, living, and camping facilities;
to the prom,” Bennett says. and expand the number of Michigan
As 17-year-old Ryan Scaggs enters residents who can be served.
the gym with his date, Bennett’s eyes As they discussed their experiences,
begin welling with tears. Kloostra, Larson, Snell, Tujios, and
“He reached his goal. All week he Thomas offered nothing but praise for
practiced for this moment. It was the the camp’s administrators, counselors,
first time he walked without his walker and patients.
and with a pretty girl in his arms,” Thomas perhaps summed it up
Bennett says. best.
date, Emily Gretens, talk about “the “As a dental student, I thought Bay
event” – dinner and the prom. It was School of Dentistry Alumnus Cliff was the best outreach program
a “first” for both. and Wife Help the dental school could offer,” he said.
Andy, who is 15, has been coming Watching with more than passing “My experiences here prompted me
to Bay Cliff for 12 years. “But this is the interest is School of Dentistry alumnus, to consider a career as a pediatric
best year yet because of the prom,” he Dr. Bud Kipka (DDS 1973), and his wife, dentist.”
says smiling. Kris. Thomas graduates in January and
After dinner, the couples return “I came to Marquette to start a will become an associate at a practice
to the gymnasium which has been dental practice after spending two in Seattle. He would also like to return
transformed into a dance hall. years in the Navy,” he said. “They to Bay Cliff every four or five years for
needed a dentist to help at the camp, one week to provide care.
“ Walk ing without a Walker” so I said I’d be willing to lend a hand. “He’ll be welcome with open arms,”
Upon entering the gym, each I’ve been at it ever since.” said Bennett. “So too will others from
couple is greeted by applause from Kris, a Saline native with a the University of Michigan dental
nearly 30 individuals. The couples are background in food service, became school.”
instructed to pause briefly so they can the camp’s baker not long after Bud

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Photo courtesy of Dr. Richard Mathewson

Professor Emeritus
Richard Mathewson
Recalls Experiences at Bay Cliff
In this photo, For more than forty years, the U-M School of Dentistry has been providing oral health care services to
taken during the the developmentally disabled at the Bay Cliff Health Camp just outside of Marquette.
summer of 1964, Dr. A School of Dentistry alumnus, Dr. Richard Mathewson (DDS 1959), was one of those who provided care
Richard Mathewson during the summer of 1964.
(left) works on a “It was a wonderful clinical experience and a turning point in my pediatric dentistry profession,” he
youngster at the Bay said.
Cliff Health Camp. From 1963 to 1965, Mathewson was a Mott fellow in pediatric dentistry. In the summer of 1964, Mott
Note the lift insert, Children’s Dental Clinic asked him to go to the camp to expand the screening program that emphasized
made from wood “dental repair,” that is, first treating those needing emergency care and later correcting other oral health
and canvas, under problems.
the child. “The first time I provided dental care to these children with developmental disabilities I was apprehensive
internally, but kind and confident outwardly,” Mathewson said. “And although I was using what is now
considered primitive equipment, the approach I adopted bolstered my enthusiasm and confidence and
became a lifetime clinical philosophy.”

Memories of the Experience Still Vivid


The experience at Bay Cliff is still etched in Mathewson’s mind. “After forty-plus years, I can close my
eyes and still see the clinical setup,” he said.
Mathewson said an opthalmologist donated the original large “dental chair” that was used. “To adjust
the height of the children who were in the chair, a lift insert, made from wood and canvas, was used. We
also used a beautiful donated cherrywood mail cabinet from the post office to store dental supplies.”
A portable x-ray unit was used, as was a new procedure – using a lead apron at the time x-rays were
taken. “To develop the x-rays,” Mathewson said, “we made a ‘developing tank’ from an old truck motor
battery and used a bathroom as our ‘dark room’, ” he added.
Mathewson’s experiences at Bay Cliff Health Camp were memorable for another reason. He and his
wife, Alice, a registered nurse, premedicated those needing extra help and, after completing the dental care,
“she would take the children next door to our ‘suite’ and care for them.”
At the end of the summer program in 1964, Mathewson and his wife returned to the Lower Michigan.
“During the fall and winter, the staff that lived in the Detroit area had several potluck reunions and had a
great time recalling our experiences.”
“The Bay Cliff Health Camp dental patient care experiences, and camp experiences with the staff,
influenced the life-long care I provided for children and adults with developmental disabilities,” he said.
This spring, Mathewson, a professor emeritus of pediatric dentistry, was honored by the Oklahoma
Association of Pediatric Dentists and the faculty of the Department of Pediatric Dentistry for his contributions
to the profession and that university’s dental school.

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During the academic year, fourth-year dental students
provide oral health care at eight community clinics
across Michigan as a part of their education. AEGD
residents provide oral health care in Jackson.

• Baldwin (Baldwin Family Health Center)


• Grand Rapids (Cherry Street Health Services)
• Grand Rapids (Ferguson Street Health Services)
• Jackson (Center for Family Health)
• Muskegon (Hackley Community Care Center)
Traverse City • Saginaw (Bayside Dental Clinic)
• Saginaw (Wadsworth Dental Clinic)
• Traverse City (Dental Clinics North)
Baldwin

Muskegon Saginaw

Grand Rapids
Jackson

6,345Patients...
School’s Outreach Program Helping

H
ow much of a difference is the School of Dentistry’s oral health care to patients they typically don’t see in clinics
outreach program making in communities across here in Ann Arbor,” Stefanac said. “So they get broader-based,
Michigan? real world experiences that prepare them for what they will
Consider the numbers. experience once they graduate.”
From July 2004 through April 2005, fourth-year The program is also successful because of “the two-way
dental students treated 6,345 patients and performed evaluations that are conducted at all the sites. Students
12,312 procedures at eight different sites across Michigan. evaluate the sites and the people they work with. In turn,
Procedures included general restorative dentistry, emergency the people at the sites evaluate our students,” he said.
care, extractions, sealants, and more. Earlier this year, Dr. Robert Bagramian, a professor
During a presentation to members of the School’s Alumni of dentistry who directs the Summer Migrant Dental
Society Board of Governors this spring, Dr. Stephen Stefanac, Clinic Program in the Traverse City area, visited the eight
associate dean for patient services, whose responsibilities sites to evaluate each site and get feedback from clinic
include supervising the outreach program, said the program administrators.
is very popular.
“Even before being admitted to Michigan, prospective Tremendous Confidence
dental students want to know how they can participate in “Dental students who return to Ann Arbor after being
the community outreach program,” he said. at these clinics come back with a tremendous amount of
Dental students now in the program, he said, are so confidence,” he said. “They take charge and become more
enthused that the amount of time they spend providing oral productive.”
health care outside the School’s clinics in Ann Arbor may J.P. Miller, the student’s representative on the Board,
increase from three weeks to four weeks. agreed.
“The students I know who have been to these sites do
Why the Program is Popular great work and help two to three times more patients once
There are many reasons the program is popular. they return,” he said. Miller, who graduated in May, is now
One is demographics. “Our students frequently provide a public health dentist in Philadelphia.

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Dr. Stephen Stefanac,
associate dean for
patient services, thanks
community outreach
partners from across
Michigan for participating
in the School’s outreach
program.

Keary Campbell
Outreach Partners Praised

12,312Procedures It’s the highlight for many dental and dental hygiene
students as well as AEGD residents during their studies at the
U-M School of Dentistry – treating patients at community clinics
throughout the state.
Those in Need That sentiment was voiced to the School’s community
outreach partners during a retreat last fall at the Michigan
League. The annual event gives both School and outreach
“I think the reason I’m now in public health dentistry administrators an opportunity to discuss the highlights of the
is because of my outreach experiences in Traverse City and program as well as ways to enhance the program so that the
Saginaw,” he said. “It was a valuable experience for me. experience is even more meaningful for students, outreach clinic
I hope it gets other students to consider careers in public administrators and their staff, and patients treated at those
health dentistry.” clinics.
The program is also popular among those who are at Among those participating in the one-day program were
the clinic sites. clinic administrators from Muskegon Heights, Grand Rapids,
Stefanac said he often receives requests from officials Saginaw, Traverse City, Jackson, and Baldwin.
at community clinics asking if they can become sites where “You’re very important to our dental education program,”
U-M dental students can help. “However, before we say ‘yes,’ said Dr. Stephen Stefanac, associate dean for patient services,
we ask these officials to come here to see what we do and who is in charge of the outreach program. He said the program
how we do it,” he said. “We also tell them there are certain gives dental school students new opportunities to meet and
bedrock principles that we have and certain things that will be treat a different demographic of patients than they typically
expected of an outreach site before they’re officially added.” encounter at the School’s clinics.
More outreach sites may be added in the future. Dr. Marilyn Lantz, associate dean for academic affairs, told
The outreach program offers an array of experiences the outreach partners,“Your cooperation is incredibly important
for all levels of students within the dental school, including to our School and our students. In fact, when they return after
dental, dental hygiene, and graduate students. being at your site, our students rave about their experiences.
The School of Dentistry is involved in other community We can’t thank you enough for what you’re doing.”
outreach initiatives during the year. Once the academic year She noted that some students have changed their career
ends, dental students also have an opportunity to participate paths as a result of their experiences. [DentalUM, Fall 2004,
in other outreach initiatives including the Summer Migrant pages 22-25; Spring 2003, pages 15-17.]
Dental Clinic in the Traverse City area and the Bay Cliff Health Fourth-year dental students treat patients at clinics at
Camp northwest of Marquette. [See story, pages 40-43.] selected sites across Michigan in three, one-week rotations.
Dental hygiene students are also involved, participating in a
single, one-week rotation.

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Alumnus
Profile

Joel Egnater
DDS 1983
Dr. Joel Egnater will be very busy
between now and March 2007 if he
hopes to realize his dream of opening a
group of dental clinics in South Africa
to provide oral health care to AIDS/HIV
patients.
His dream received a major boost
this spring when it was endorsed by
four very influential groups in that
country — the government of South
Africa’s Department of Health and
Human Services, the Lions Club of
South Africa, the Community Dentistry
branch of the University of Western
Cape, and the University of Stellenbosch
Dental School. The two universities
are approximately 5 and 25 miles,
respectively, from Cape Town.

Reaching Out... “My dream is coming true!,” he


exclaimed when he learned of their

in Southeast Michigan
endorsement.
“They want the clinics to be up
and running around the time I will be

and South Africa completing my course requirements


next fall for my master’s in public health
here at the University of Michigan,” he
said.
Egnater not only wants to establish
the clinics and run them, but eventually
teach in the doctoral program at the
University of Western Cape.
Photo courtesy of U-M School of Public Health and Peter Smith

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Egnater, who earned his DDS from traveled to Cape Town. He found it to reservations, dustbowl towns in the
the U-M School of Dentistry in 1983, is be an area full of contrasts. Midwest, and some of the poorest urban
a man in perpetual motion. areas of large American cities. I began
In addition to working on his Purchasing a Home in Cape Town thinking the same approach could work
master’s degree in public health, he The geography and beauty of in South Africa,” he said.
also runs a full-time solo practice in the area were offset by the living To provide the care he envisioned,
Huntington Woods, Michigan, and is conditions. “A family of four lives on Egnater had to create a foundation.
the director of the Southeast Michigan about $50 a month, so the chances of “I didn’t have a clue about how
HIV/AIDS Coalition. He was nominated living a better life are pretty slim for to set one up,” he said with a smile,
to the board of directors last year. most people,” he said. “so I began asking a lot of questions
A plan to do something about what of people I knew. Fortunately, one of
From Huntington Woods to he had seen was already percolating the courses I’m taking for my master’s
South Africa because before leaving, Egnater degree addresses some of those issues,
Since several of his friends have died purchased a home in Cape Town. such as writing grant proposals.”
from HIV/AIDS, Egnater said he has tried “Seeing the conditions, I wanted to In time, Egnater developed the
to help these patients as much as he return and find a way to make a framework of a plan that would
does his other patients. Over the years, difference,” he said. provide emergency dental care, dental
friends as well as other dentists from Searching the Internet back in maintenance, and early prevention of
across Michigan have referred HIV/AIDS Michigan, Egnater was dismayed to dental disease.
patients to him. learn that little, if any public health “ This is not the first dental
However, Egnater’s work extends dentistry was available to those needing intervention project proposed in the Cape
beyond Southeast Michigan. It now it most. “I decided I would try to do Town area,” he said. “Clinics already
reaches to South Africa. something, no matter how small,” he exist to serve the poor. Unfortunately,



“This is the kind of dentistry I love to do. It’s so rewarding,

especially when I’m working with impoverished people and I

can see the difference I’m making.”

About every three months, he said. “As I began thinking about it more, even simple transportation and
boards a plane for South Africa to I thought about some of my experiences geographic unfamiliarity, as well
provide oral health care, usually for here and the feeling I had knowing that as social bias toward HIV infected
two or three weeks, to help patients I was making a difference in someone’s individuals, have left many of the
with the same malady. life, especially those with HIV/AIDS, who poorest and unhealthiest South Africans
A safari vacation Egnater took two were coming to me for help.” without any dental care at all.”
years ago spurred him to action. As the months passed, Egnater’s
During the first day of the vacation, plan began taking shape. University, Government,
Egnater went to Soweto in Johannesburg. Community Collaboration
“I was shocked at what I saw,” he said. Developing a Plan to Provide What his plan attempts to do is
“The lack of services for people in need, Oral Health Care involve a group of diverse organizations
the destitution, the poverty, they were all “I remembered that mobile vehicles – universities, government agencies,
overwhelming. Most of those in Soweto for dentistry were used extensively in community leaders, and others – that
live in shacks that have tin roofs, dirt America, especially Appalachia, during will work together to provide basic and
floors, and no indoor plumbing.” the Great Depression, and that they emergency dental treatment to people
After the safari ended, Egnater were later used at Native American in their own neighborhoods.

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Photos courtesy of Dr. Joel Egnater
His Cape Town home may also be
used. “It has enough space to create
an administrative office, if needed, and
will be able to house visiting dental
staff as well,” he said.

“ It’s So Rewarding”
In addition to recruiting dentists
and dental assistants from the two
universities, Egnater wants to recruit
volunteers worldwide from dental
organizations in the U.S., Africa, and
other parts of the world.
“I would love to set up more
foundations like this elsewhere and
Dr. Joel Egnater he said he was so struck with the poverty
he saw in Soweto that he decided to establish dental
teach others to do what I am doing,”
clinics in South Africa to provide oral health care to he said. “My fondest hope is that if
patients with HIV/AIDS. people see this program succeeding,
then others will be inspired to create
• Bringing community volunteers similar programs elsewhere.”
together to gain experience in Despite geographical distances,
establishing and running Egnater finds there is a common thread
oral health care clinics in their in volunteering to provide oral health
communities. care to needy patients in parts of
When he presented an outline of his Southeast Michigan and South Africa.
plan to officials at the two universities, “This is the kind of dentistry I love
Egnater said “they were amazed” with to do. It’s so rewarding, especially
the concept and the scope of what he when I’m working with impoverished
was trying to achieve. So too were people and I can see the difference I’m
government officials and the leaders making,” he said. “I’ve also noticed that
of the 18 different chapters of the Lions people who go beyond their personal
Club he addressed. comfort zone and volunteer to help
With their approval, Egnater others are always happier than if they
Egnater’s plan has five major goals: will spend time meeting community do something only for themselves.”
• Introducing dentistry to people leaders when he returns to South Will Egnater slow down? If the
who have not received oral health Africa. “They have credibility with past is any indication, the best response
care. the local population that will help to that question is summed up in two
• Alleviating dental crisis situations. create awareness of the program and words: no way.
• Allowing public health researchers encourage them to come for the care “Being this busy is not a hardship
opportunities to gather inform- they need.” at all. In fact, this kind of dentistry
ation about the oral health care of He estimates the cost to r un is a source of joy, whether I’m helping
those being treated. the program will be about $40,000 in South Africa, the Cass Corridor in
• Involving dentists and dental annually. Detroit, or helping with the Ryan White
students in a program that Funds will be used to purchase and Foundation,” he said.
exposes them to people in socio- equip vehicles, maintain them, as well
economic situations they may not as purchase needed dental equipment
have experienced. and supplies.

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DEVELOPMENT

Dr. Raymond Gist Gifts $100,000


for Dental Student Scholarships

Remembering the past and trying to make a difference


Per Kjeldsen

in the future.
Those are the reasons Dr. Raymond Gist (DDS 1966)
has gifted $100,000 to the U-M School of Dentistry for
scholarships.
Gist, who earlier served a one-year term as President of
the Michigan Dental Association and was recently elected to a
four-year term as an ADA Trustee, said he began considering
the gift last fall.
“I was the first in my family to go to college and
graduate, so I know from personal experience about
student debt. Except today, the amounts are so high they’re
staggering,” he said.
Gist said minority students will be the recipients of the
scholarship that bears his name.
“I want minority students to have the same chance I had,
or even a better chance, of realizing their dream of becoming
dentists and, in turn, go on to help others, especially those
here in Michigan,” he said. Dr. Raymond Gist addressed first-year dental students at the School of Dentistry’s
In addition to running a private practice in Flint, Gist White Coat Ceremony in 2003.
has been extensively involved in organized dentistry locally,
state wide, and nationally. [DentalUM, Spring & Summer “ Dramatic Differences”
2003, pages 29-32.] In October, he began service as the ADA’s Addressing that group of students and talking to many
Ninth District Trustee. During his four-year term, Gist will of them afterwards made a lasting impression on him.
represent Michigan and Wisconsin. “I was struck by what I saw,” he said. “There was a
He has also returned to the dental school on many dramatic difference in the number of minority students and
occasions including delivering the keynote address to first- women aspiring to become dentists compared to when I was
year dental students at their White Coat Ceremony in the fall a student. I want my gift to continue encouraging diversity
of 2003. [DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2004, pages 65-67.] at the dental school.”

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DEVELOPMENT

Former Students Create


H. Dean Millard
“He was
a great
mentor who
H e made an indelible impression on
students and faculty members who
worked with him and for him.
That’s why they wanted him to be recognized
“Opened Doors of Opportunity”
“He had a significant impact on my life,”
Colquitt said. “But I never thought of Dean Millard
as my boss. To me, he was a great mentor who
opened and remembered forever at the School he loves. opened doors of opportunity that I probably
doors of Earlier this year, Drs. Jed Jacobson and Wayne wouldn’t have had without his help.”
opportunity Colquitt created the H. Dean Millard Scholarship One of those opportunities was with Project
that I Fund. Millard, who earned his dental degree at Hope.
probably Michigan in 1952, and who was the first to receive “Dean arranged for me to take a year’s leave of
wouldn’t a master’s degree in oral diagnosis in 1956, taught absence from the dental school from 1975 to 1976
at the School of Dentistry from 1952 to1989. [See so I could go to Egypt and teach at dental schools
have had
sidebar, page 52.] at the University of Cairo and the University of
without his Alexandria as a part of Project Hope,” Colquitt
help.” Serving Two Purposes said. “Interestingly, both universities were using
The idea of creating the scholarship fund the textbook on oral diagnosis that was written
Dr. Wayne surfaced about four years ago. by Dean Millard, Major Ash, and Don Kerr.”
Colquitt “When Wayne and I got together to talk about Jacobson recalled how Millard played a
our days at the dental school, the conversation similar role in his professional growth.
inevitably turned to the rising cost of dental “In 1986, I received a Robert Wood Johnson
education and the difference Dr. Millard made in postdoctoral fellowship for health services
our lives,” said Jacobson (DDS 1978, MS 1982) who research at UCLA,” he said. “His enthusiasm and
is now vice president and dental director for Delta support for me are something I will never forget.
Even though he knew he would be losing a faculty
Dental Plans of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
member for two years, Dean Millard phoned,
“We thought establishing a scholarship in
wrote letters on my behalf, and told me that he
his name that would help students meet some of
wanted me to take that fellowship because it was
their financial obligations, as well as honor the
in my best interest.”
legacy of a man who was a great person and a
Colquitt said another overseas opportunity
great instructor, was the perfect way to do both,” later affected one of his children.
Jacobson said. In the late 1970s, graduate students in Nigeria
Colquitt (DDS 1968, MS 1975), a professor invited Millard to be an external examiner in oral
emeritus who practices part-time near the dental diagnosis and radiology. “After Dean finished the
school, agreed. first of three years there, he asked me if I would
Photo courtesy of Dr. Wayne Colquitt

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Scholarship Fund
Photo courtesy of Dr. Wayne Colquitt

Brooks said that Millard’s confidence in her “We thought


was well founded, enabling her to take over for establishing a
Professor Albert Richards when he retired. “I’m
scholarship in his
still teaching those courses 25 years later,” she
said.
name that would
help students
Comprehensive Care meet some of
B ro o k s a n d J a c o b s o n s a i d M i l l a rd ’ s their financial
contributions to the profession are substantial. obligations, as
Until then, she said, dentists were mostly well as honor the
trained to treat caries.
legacy of a man
“Dr. Millard changed the way dentists
In this 1970s photo, Dr. Wayne Colquitt teaches Egyptian students
practiced. Traditionally, they were mostly trained
who was a great
how to take panoramic x-rays.
to treat caries,” she said. “With him saying there person and a
be willing to take his place for the next two years. was another dimension, a larger dimension, to a great instructor,
I agreed,” Colquitt said. patient’s health that involved not just treating was the perfect
“My experiences in Egypt and Nigeria helped caries, he laid the groundwork for something all of way to do both.”
me to grow personally and professionally,” he us in the profession embrace today, comprehensive
said. “In fact, both of my children who went care. It’s a cornerstone of what we do and teach Dr. Jed Jacobson
with me to Egypt later joined the Peace Corps. here because it emphasizes the well-being of the
My son is working for a company doing work in whole patient.”
Third World countries. It may not have happened Jacobson agreed, adding, “Dr. Millard
without Dean Millard.” developed the first oral medicine and oral
Dr. Sharon Brooks, a professor of dentistry, diagnosis departments in the country. He raised
shared that sentiment. the profile of the dental school and the University
“He was very supportive of the people in his of Michigan with his involvement in Project Hope.
department,” she said. “Without him, I probably He helped Michigan gain global attention with his
wouldn’t have had the career I’ve had.” World Workshops on Oral Medicine,” he said.
Recalling a radiology instructor who retired in “Dean Millard also saw that the University
1978, Brooks said, “Dr. Millard pointed at me and of Michigan and the School of Dentistry were
said, ‘You’re going to teach the graduate courses.’ not just institutions that could make an impact
But when I protested and said I didn’t know the in Ann Arbor, or the State of Michigan, or even
subject matter, his response was, ‘You’ll learn’.” the United States,” he continued. “His view was Per Kjeldsen

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DEVELOPMENT

A Pioneer –
“He was very that Michigan and the dental Dr. H. Dean Millard:
supportive of school could have an impact Seeing Links between
worldwide.” Oral and Systemic Health
the people in
his department. During its 130-year history, the U-M School of Dentistry has had
Helping Future
Without him, I many pioneers who have advanced the profession.
Generations of Students You can add the name of Dr. H. Dean Millard to that list.
probably wouldn’t
“The scholarship will be a Throughout his 37-year clinical and teaching career, that included
have had the wonderful way to help future practicing general dentistry one summer at the state prison in Jackson,
career I’ve had.” generations of dental students,”
Millard recognized that dentistry was not just about teeth. He saw a
need for a broader approach to dental education.
Millard said. Looking back at He did something about it.
Dr. Sharon Brooks how he financed his dental Not long after he began teaching at the School of Dentistry in 1952,
education, Millard said, “I was Millard developed a program that helped dentists see interrelationships
Per Kjeldsen
fortunate because I was able to between oral and systemic health.
In 1956, he became the first person to receive a master’s degree
fund my education with help
in oral diagnosis. Two years later, he became chair of the Department
from the G.I. Bill after World of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology and served in that position for nearly
War II. With the costs of dental thirty years.
education continuing to rise, The relationship between oral and systemic health that Dr. H. Dean
every bit will help and Jed and Millard helped to establish what eventually became a cornerstone of
the first-ever report on oral health issued by the U.S. Surgeon General
Wayne deserve a lot of credit
in 2000. It also became the cornerstone of what’s known today as
for getting this started. I’m “comprehensive care.”
honored.”
A Global Reputation
To make a gift to the fund, Millard’s work transcended U-M and Ann Arbor. His work and his
contact the School of Dentistry reputation were recognized globally.
Office of Development at (734) He served aboard the S.S. Hope in Sri Lanka in 1968 and was a
763-3315. consultant for Project Hope’s dental program, first in Ethiopia in 1973,
and three years later, in Egypt.
During a sabbatical in Scotland that began in 1976, Millard worked
with Sir David Mason, a professor of oral medicine and later dean of
the dental school in Glasgow. In 1988 they developed the first of three
Gifts to the H. Dean Millard World Workshops on Oral Medicine.
In March 2000, Millard was presented with a Fellowship in Dental
Scholarship Fund Surgery, ad eundem (in kind), by the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland.
Dr. Jed Jacobson $25,000 As he reflected on his career and his work for an article that
appeared in the Fall 2000 issue of the School’s alumni magazine,
Dr. Wayne Colquitt $10,000 DentalUM, Millard said,“There’s not an institution in the world like the
School of Dentistry. It’s rewarding to look back with pride at building
upon an already excellent reputation that resulted from the dedication
of so many clinicians and researchers. But there’s more to do.”

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Dental Students Seeking Mentors
Dental students are asking U-M School of Dentistry alumni to
serve as mentors.
At their spring meeting, members of the School’s Alumni
Society Board of Governors learned that nearly three-quarters
of second-, third-, and fourth-year dental students expressed an
You Can Be a Mentor
interest in shadowing a dental school graduate in their private
practice. More than 88 percent of the members of the Class of 2008 Your name: ___________________________
expressed interest in job shadowing.
Dental students Rajeev Prasher and Matt Martin said dental Degree(s) and
students are interested in shadowing general practice dentists and year(s) received: _______________________
specialists.
“We need the help of dental school alumni to serve as mentors Address: ____________________________
and to help us develop networks with other professional colleagues,”
Prasher said. “This would broaden our experiences and help us E-Mail: _____________________________
with job opportunities or associateship possibilities.” Prasher is
president of the Alpha Chapter of the recently resurrected dental Preferred daytime
fraternity, Xi Psi Phi. [DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2005, page telephone number: ______________________
70.]
In an effort to connect students and alumni, the School’s Office I am willing to....
of Multicultural Affairs joined forces with the Michigan Dental
Allow students to shadow me at my office.
Association several years ago to launch a mentoring program for
dental students.
Talk to students on the telephone about careers.
Led by Dr. Todd Ester, OMA director, and Dr. Raymond Gist, who
was MDA president at the time, students and potential mentors
Other _________________________
were given the option to participate in the program. Thirty-five
students belonging to the Student National Dental Association
_________________________
participated according to Dr. Marilyn Woolfolk, assistant dean
for student services. The OMA/MDA program solicited mentors
Please return to:
through a mailing to alumni who were involved with the MDA and
University of Michigan
in programs sponsored by the OMA.
School of Dentistry
During the Board of Governors meeting, both students and
Office of Alumni Relations
Board members agreed developing a questionnaire to send to alumni
1011 N. University
who would complete the form and returning it to the School of
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078
Dentistry would be a way to help dental students. The information
would be compiled and made available to students.
If you are interested in mentoring, please take a moment to
complete the form and return it to the School of Dentistry.

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Looking for Leaders!

Alumni Society Board of Governors


Here’s your chance to make a difference.
In September 2006, five new members will be elected to the U-M School of Dentistry’s Alumni Society
Board of Governors. The group will include four dentistry graduates and one dental hygiene graduate. All
will serve a three-year term.
During the past two years, the Board has heard, first hand, from School administrators, faculty, and staff
about a range of projects and initiatives.
This is a perfect opportunity for you to become involved with the School, build relationships with students,
faculty, and staff, and perform a worthwhile and satisfying public service.
If you’re interested in serving, or if you would like to nominate someone, send in the form below. In the
event more than 10 individuals are nominated, the Board’s nominating committee will select a representative
slate.

Nomination Ballot
Please
I nominate for the Board: __________________________________________________ clip
and
Class Year(s) ________________________________________________________ mail

Address (if known) _____________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

2nd Name ___________________________________________________________

Class Year(s) _________________________________________________________

Address (if known) ______________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________

If you nominate yourself, please send your biography (45 words or less) on a separate
sheet of paper. However, because of time constraints on our staff and limited
space in the magazine, we cannot accept a CV. Instead, please take a few
moments to highlight what you consider are major achievements, whether personal
or professional.

Return the ballot, and your biography if you’re nominating yourself, to:
Amy Reyes
Office of Alumni Relations
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
1011 N. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1078

Nominations must be received at the School of Dentistry by December 31, 2005.

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Lunch & Learn Program
Offers Insights into Life after Dental School
Dr. Daniel Edwards Organizes
Program Popular with Students
Per Kjeldsen

A member of the School of


Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board of
Governors is giving fourth-year dental
students opportunities to learn more
about what to expect in “the real
world” before they actually receive
their dental degree.
Dr. Daniel Edwards (DDS 1997),
created a Board of Governors-sponsored
Lunch & Learn Program last summer
to help students become more familiar
with some of the “outside the classroom”
experiences they are likely to encounter
after graduation.
As part of the Lunch & Learn Program, Drs. Emily Shwedel (left) and Sara Collins Schneidwind talked to dental students this
As chair of the Board’s Student/ summer about their experiences in residency programs following graduation from the U-M School of Dentistry.
Alumni Relations Committee, Edwards
invites individuals from outside the
School to discuss an array of nuts- afterwards and highly recommend it.” you’re looking for with a program
and-bolts issues that are uppermost Another benefit she cited was that because all have differences,” she
in students’ minds. A question-and- the residency program allowed her to said.
answer session follows. defer repaying her student loans for
The program was so well received a year while also offering continuing Other Factors to Consider
education credits. Edwards agreed. “There isn’t a
its first year that it’s being offered
again. Dr. Sara Collins Schneidwind perfect program. You have to decide
(DDS 2000), who
Residency Programs spent a year in
On July 12, Edwards and two the GPR program
“Dental students love to hear people from outside
School of Dentistry graduates talked a t the Ve t e ra n s the School talk about their experiences in the real
about their experiences, as well as Administration
world. Their response to this program has been
the advantages of GPR and AEGD Hospital in Ann
programs. A r b o r, s a i d t h e awesome.” Dr. Daniel Edwards
Dr. Emily Shwedel (DDS 1998), program “gave me
said the year she spent in the GPR a great opportunity to work with great which is best for you,” he said.
program in Texas “gave me well-rounded mentors, ask questions, and have a But he also suggested students
experiences in areas that included great dialogue with a diverse group of think not just about a program, but
dentistry, anesthesiology, and oral and professionals.” also about the community where the
maxillofacial surgery. Because of that, She also told students to do some program is being offered.
I found I enjoyed dentistry a lot more serious self-evaluation. “Decide what “I looked at programs in 17 different

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Per Kjeldsen

communities and, from experience, I since April. It can be overwhelming


can tell you that it will be a difficult at times to think about the different
year with many challenges. When you programs and the different options, so
have the opportunities, you’ll want this helped me sort some of that out,”
to take advantage of them, so be sure she said.
the community environment matches Although she hasn’t made any
some of your interests, whether they final decisions, Johnson said she’s
involve sailing, mountain climbing, or currently leaning toward an AEGD
something else,” he said. or GPR program. She suggested that
Edwards, who works in two private future programs be held earlier, perhaps
practices and teaches part time at in early- to mid-June, so students have
the School of Dentistry, said, “a year’s more time to evaluate the information
residency gives you an opportunity to before finally deciding what to do.
build your skills and improve yourself. Drew Eason, assistant executive
And after that year, you’re more director of membership services for
confident.” the Michigan Dental Association who
Dr. Dan Edwards, a member of the School’s Alumni Society As a former assistant director of the was present for the event co-sponsored
Board of Governors, created a Board of Governors-sponsored GPR program at the Loyola University by the MDA, said he thinks the Lunch
Lunch & Learn Program last summer to help students
become more familiar with some of the professional Medical Center in Chicago, Edwards also & Learn Program provides useful
experiences they are likely to have after graduation. The offered some other advice. information to students. “They have
program was so popular last year that it was offered again. “Your letters of recommendation so many questions and being able to
are very important, especially from connect names and faces with the
Per Kjeldsen
clinical, classroom, or faculty members information that’s presented is very
that you have worked with on a daily helpful to them,” he said.
basis,” he said. A July 19 program focused on
When he was assistant director, private practice valuation. A July 26
Edwards said he looked for “common program addressed associateships and
themes in the letters – things like how to review a contract.
being a team player or being well Two other programs are held during
organized.” the year, some in the fall, and others in
He also emphasized the importance the spring, including one program for
of a strong opening paragraph in a dental hygienists.
student’s personal statement. “You Edwards said he is always seeking
have to begin with a strong statement speakers and sponsors for the Lunch
in your first paragraph so that the & Learn Program. Programs can be
person wants to read on.” sponsored with a gift of $300. Those
interested should contact him via e-
Positive Response mail at: dewards@umich.edu.
Jill Johnson, one of nearly 60 dental “Dental students love to hear people
One of those taking notes, on an electronic notebook, during
the program was dental student Jared Van Ittersum. students who attended the July 12 from outside the School talk about their
program, said it was helpful. experiences in the real world,” Edwards
“I’ve been thinking about what I said. “Their response to this program
want to do after graduation and have has been awesome.”
been looking at several possibilities

56 DentalUM Fall 2005


Graduation Day – May 7, 2005

Novello Delivers Rousing


Commencement Address
Keary Campbell

Dean Peter Polverini


welcomes Dr. Antonia
Novello to the School
of Dentistry’s spring
commencement.

It’s safe to say that everyone listens when Dr. Antonia Novello speaks.
In May, the New York state health commissioner, who was the first woman
and the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. Surgeon General (1990-1993), returned to
Ann Arbor to deliver her fourth commencement address to School of Dentistry
Graduation on the Web graduates at Hill Auditorium.
After earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Puerto
You can listen the remarks of Rico, Novello completed her internship and residency in nephrology at the U-M
graduation speakers on the School Medical Center. She remained at Michigan (1973-1974) on a fellowship in the
of Dentistry’s Web site: www. Department of Internal Medicine.
dent.umich.edu. In a quick-tempo, 30-minute address, Novello congratulated, counseled, and
challenged students.
On the homepage, click the “This is a great occasion,” she told graduates, their families, and friends. “Not
headline “Listen to Graduation only are you celebrating your graduation, but you’re also celebrating the 130th
2005.” You will see headlines and anniversary of the creation of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry.
photographs of the speakers. The Hail to you, Michigan, the best and the brightest.”
times for each audio segment are Saying “the future is already here,” Novello joked, “Tomorrow you start paying
listed. You can listen in any order your student loans.”
you choose.
Counsel and Challenges
Turning serious, Novello said she was impressed with the graduates, especially
their community service. “There’s no more noble mission in life than helping
others,” she said.
She counseled graduates that they will have to be life-long learners. Citing
advances in science and technology in recent years, she said that knowledge will
continue to advance and that change will be constant.

DentalUM Fall 2005 57


Graduation Day – May 7, 2005
Keary Campbell

Dean Peter Polverini


congratulates
graduates
during spring
commencement
ceremonies at Hill
Auditorium.

“You have demonstrated that respond to meet the oral health care
it’s never too late to learn,” she said, needs of those in rural areas and inner
“because the average age of your class cities.
is 26 and the oldest graduate is 40.” The fourth, to integrate oral health
The Class of 2005 She challenged students to set lofty care into the mainstream of total health
goals as professionals and to serve their care, including insurance.
Includes those who completed communities and their profession. The fifth, to be professional, “which
formal requirements and those “Riches, fame, and power will not means putting the interest of patients
to receive degrees or certificates make you totally happy. The happiest first.”
after completing formal people are those doing good for others
requirements. without asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’,” “ Never Forget”
she said. “A heartfelt ‘thank you’ from “As you leave today, may you seize
106 – DDS degrees a patient, the smile from a kid whose this day and those that follow to bring
29 – BS degrees, Dental Hygiene teeth you fixed, a discovery in the honor to your alma mater, joy to your
23 – Master’s degrees laboratory, the dental profession offers family and friends, and true happiness
3 – Certificates many paths to happiness.” to yourself,” she said.
3 – Oral Health Sciences, PhD In her remarks, Novello presented “But above all, I pray that you
five challenges to graduates. never forget who you are, where you
The first, to effectively respond to came from, who is responsible for
the health care needs of an increasingly you to be here and, above all, don’t
diverse population whose demographics ever forget the impact of this great
are quickly changing. institution in molding your life and
The second, to eliminate disparities your professional future.”
in oral health that affect minorities.
The third, to find ways to rapidly

58 DentalUM Fall 2005


Dr. Lysle Johnston – Distinguished Service Award
Keary Campbell

A legend in the field of orthodontics


was honored by the University of
Michigan School of Dentistry at spring
graduation ceremonies.
Dr. Lysle Johnston, who chaired
the Department of Orthodontics and
Pediatric Dentistry, and who directed
the orthodontics program from 1991
until his retirement last year, received
the Distinguished Service Award for
his contributions to U-M, the School,
and orthodontics.
Dr. Eli Berger (DDS 1957; MS,
orthodontics, 1961), chairman of the
School’s Alumni Society Board of
Governors, presented the award. Berger extensive, writing, teaching, lecturing, Dr. Eli Berger (left), chairman of the School
said that when he asked Johnston what and research.” of Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board of
Governors, presents the Distinguished Service
accomplishments he was proudest of During his career, Johnston has Award to Dr. Lysle Johnston at graduation
during his career, Johnston replied, been a member of numerous local, state, ceremonies at Hill Auditorium.
“Just say I contributed to the education regional, national, and international
of more orthodontists than any other orthodontic and dental associations;
teacher in the country.” has published chapters for more than 50
books; and has given nearly 400 lectures
“ The Brightest Resident worldwide in countries on nearly every
I Taught” continent. In 1994, he received a plaque
Johnston earned his DDS from U-M of recognition from the Crown Princess
in 1961, and a Master of Science degree of Thailand for his work.
in orthodontics in 1964. After receiving the Distinguished
Berger, who taught for more than Service Award, Johnston told graduates,
three decades in the orthodontics “Experience tells me there’s a silver
department, said of Johnston, “He was thread that draws Michigan alumni
the brightest resident I had the honor back home. In my case, it drew me back
to teach during my 35 years on the to the Department of Orthodontics and
faculty. Later, he became my boss, brought me back here to receive this
showing that the student often exceeds wonderful award for which I am truly
the accomplishments of his teacher, appreciative.”
which is as it should be.”
Of Johnston, Berger added, “He’s
been an ambassador of the best in
dentistry. He has brought great honor
to the School of Dentistry with his

DentalUM Fall 2005 59


Graduation Day – May 7, 2005
Keary Campbell

Dr. Kelly Cottrell Janet Souder


Paul Gibbons Award Wilson, DH 1973
Outstanding Alumnae
The Dental Class of 2005 presented Award
the Paul Gibbons Award for outstanding
teaching to Dr. Kelly Cottrell, an adjunct
clinical assistant professor in the The University of Michigan School of
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Dentistry’s Dental Hygienists’ Alumnae
Surgery and Hospital Dentistry. Association presented its Outstanding
The award honors an instructor the Alumnae Award to Janet Souder Wilson
students deem to have had the greatest during graduation ceremonies.
influence on them during their four The award honors a graduate
years in the predoctoral program. of the dental hygiene program that
In presenting the award, class the association believes has made
president Justin Smith said that Cottrell significant contributions to the
Dr. Kelly Cottrell
“pushed us every day in the oral surgery profession.
clinic, academically and clinically. She A more detailed story appears in
demanded excellence and taught us the the “Dental Hygiene” section beginning
importance, as doctors, of treating the on page 64. The remarks of DHAA
entire person, not only their mouth and president Jemma Allor, who presented
teeth.” the award, and Wilson can be heard on
Excerpts of her remarks to students the School of Dentistry Web site: www.
appear in the “Department Update” dent.umich.edu.
feature on pages 67-68. They can also
be heard on the School of Dentistry Web
site: www.dent.umich.edu.
Keary Campbell

60 DentalUM Fall 2005


School News
The Class of 2008’s Dental Students
“Summer Sendoff” Win Awards
Photo courtesy of Paul C. Lopez

Dental students Kelly Misch and Marvin Jabero recently


won awards from two academies that represent a significant
number of implant dentists in the U.S.
The School of Dentistry’s pre-doctoral implant program,
which began last summer, allows third- and fourth-year
dental students to gain additional knowledge about the
subject and obtain some limited clinical experience. Students
attend lectures and participate in a four-hour lab session
where they prescreen, plan, and diagnose patients, as well as
observe residents in clinics and fabricate crowns. However,
the predoctoral students do not place implants in patients
in School clinics. [DentalUM, Fall 2004, page 63.]
Since the implant subject matter was being presented
for the first time to the predoctoral students, both Misch
Dental students gathered for this “summer sendoff” picture not long after and Jabero who were already fourth-year students, found
finishing the first year of their dental studies. themselves doing “double duty.”
They had to learn material taught during the third year
“This is our summer sendoff,” said Paul C. Lopez as he
of the predoctoral curriculum, meaning they had to attend
finished taking pictures of his first-year classmates in the
lectures and lab exercises. In addition, they also had to take
School of Dentistry courtyard in late June. “We decided to their fourth-year classes. Once they finished the third-year
do something different to celebrate the end of our first year course material they were able to work with residents who
before returning in August to begin our D2 year.” actually placed the implants in patients.
Lopez and more than 100 students, all members of the Their efforts paid off.
Class of 2008, gathered for a group picture wearing blue, Misch received an Outstanding Dental Student Award
yellow, and pink t-shirts with the words “Prophy Camp” on from the Academy of Osseointegration.
the front. Jabero also received an Outstanding Dental Student
The backs of the t-shirts were personalized. Award from the American Academy of Implant Dentistry.
While many students had their first name or a nickname The academies gave both students free membership in
over a giant “05,” others were more creative. The back of the organization for one year, free access to the academy’s
one t-shirt read “Survivor,” another “Cavity Creep.” annual meeting, and a free one-year subscription to their
respective journals. The Academy of Osseointegration also
According to Lopez, two dental students, J. Hershey and
presented Misch with a cash award.
David Lipton, came up with the idea.
Dr. David Sarment, a clinical assistant professor who
One student, Michael Hoffman, was unable to attend
was a member of the committee that developed the implant
since he was at Officer Training School in Texas. A few curriculum for the predoctoral students, and Dr. Howard
enterprising classmates mounted a picture of his head on a Hamerink, adjunct associate professor who mentors students
piece of cardboard and included his image in some of their in the implant program, expressed pride in the students.
pictures (front row, third from left). Lipton was also unable “Both Kelly and Marvin displayed a great commitment to
to attend since he was overseas. personal learning and professional growth,” they said.

DentalUM Fall 2005 61


School News
Brandon Park Wins $50K Lollipops May Help
Fellowship Award U-M Dentist
Per Kjeldsen

A graduate student in
periodontics is the first from
Will a lollipop have a
the U-M School of Dentistry
It may, thanks to the collaboration between a
to receive a major fellowship
U-M School of Dentistry pediatric dentist and the Mott
in implantology from the
Children’s Health Center in Flint.
American Association of
However, when it is, it won’t be your typical
Periodontology Foundation.
lollipop.
Dr. Brandon Sang
The pediatric dentist, Dr. Heather Gormley,
Park, a third-year resident,
was searching for a way to help dentists safely and
won the $50,000 Richard J.
effectively deliver a sedative to young children who
Lazzara Fellowship Award in advanced implant surgery
need extensive dental care, but who are unable to
this spring.
cope with the stress that’s associated with a dental
Park will use the award to learn the most current
procedure.
techniques in implant dentistry, both in the classroom
Pharmacists in Flint formulated the lollipop used
and in clinics.
in Gormley’s research. Her study followed up another
The Fellowship is named for Richard J. Lazzara,
study conducted several years earlier by Vanessa
one of the specialty’s innovators whose works have
Velilla, another graduate of the U-M pediatric dental
been published and who has lectured worldwide on
program. Both used an ingredient in the sucker,
surgical and prosthetic applications of implant dentistry.
fentanyl, that has sedative effects. A flavoring agent
Lazzara is a clinical associate professor at the University
was also included.
of Southern California School of Dentistry and associate
Although lollipops are commercially available for
clinical professor at the University of Maryland’s
youngsters prior to painful medical procedures, these
Periodontal and Implant Regenerative Center.
were the first times they were tried in a pediatric dental
Park, who earned his dental degree at the University
setting.
of Toronto three years ago, said he was attracted to
During Gormley’s two-year study, more than 30
U-M because of its “well known integration and balance
youngsters between the ages of 3-1/2 and 5 were given
between basic science and clinical training.”
the lollipop after a parent or guardian approved.
He said his mentors in Toronto spoke highly of
The children took the “medication” willingly and
U-M’s programs and the number of articles published by
most of them finished it within 20 minutes. There was
researchers showed “this School as one of the leaders in
significantly less crying in the young patients when
our profession,” he said.
they were given the fentanyl.
After earning his master’s degree, Park will spend
While drowsy, all patients could respond to verbal
12 months studying at U-M as required by the Lazzara
commands. Some youngsters reported mild nausea, but
Fellowship.
only one vomited. This was attributed to the addition
Park’s research background focuses on tissue
of the anti-emetic, Vistaril. The sole incident is much
regeneration around dental implants.
lower than the rate of post-operative nausea and
Only one Fellowship is awarded annually. The
vomiting noted in studies using the lollipop alone.
program began in 2003.

62 DentalUM Fall 2005



Pediatric Dentists
Cites B enefits at National Meeting
place in a pediatric dentist’s office in the future?
Photo courtesy of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

Heather Gormley was


recognized by the
American Academy
of Pediatric Dentistry
for a presentation
describing her work
that seeks new ways
to help pediatric
dentists administer
anesthetics to young
dental patients.
With her is Ralph
McDonald, past-
president of AAPD.

For her work, Gormley received the American


Academy of Pediatric Dentistry’s Ralph McDonald Award
as the best graduate student research presentation
during the organization’s annual convention in Orlando
in May. A $500 cash award was given to the School’s Two Other Pediatric
pediatric dental unit. Residents Recognized
Dr. Jan Hu, director of pediatric dentistry at
the School of Dentistry, said, “Heather’s research Two other pediatric dentists from the U-M
demonstrates that it is possible to develop a sedative School of Dentistry were recognized during the
that pediatric dentists can use to help their young AAPD’s annual meeting.
patients that is safe and effective and one that is also Dr. Shannon Butler received an award from the
acceptable to parents.” American Board of Pediatric Dentistry for achieving
Gormley’s mentors were Dr. Daniel Briskie, the the highest score of all candidates who completed
director of pediatric dentistry at Mott Children’s Health the ABPD’s comprehensive written section
Center in Flint; Dr. Michael Ignelzi, associate professor of examination last year.
pediatric dentistry; Dr. Robert Majewski, adjunct clinical Dr. Catherine Hong also received an award from
assistant professor at the School of Dentistry and director ABPD for being in the top three percent of those who
of the graduate program in pediatric dentistry at Mott; took the exam.
and Dr. Paul Reynolds, chief of pediatric anesthesiology About 150 to 200 pediatric dentists take the
at the U-M Medical Center. exam which is administered twice each year.

DentalUM Fall 2005 63


DENTAL HYGIENE
Graduation 2005
Janet Souder Wilson Receives
Outstanding Alumnae Award
Keary Campbell

Professional Service “She exemplifies what a graduate


of this program should be – bright,
• Board of Governors, hard working, active, dedicated, and
U-M School of Dentistry most important, caring,” said Jemma
(1992-1995; 2004 to present) Allor shortly before presenting the
• Board of Directors, Washtenaw Outstanding Alumnae Award to Janet
Children’s Dental Clinic Souder Wilson (BS, DH 1973) during
(1981-1986)
spring graduation ceremonies.
• President, Board of Directors,
The award, presented by the
Washtenaw Children’s
Dental Clinic School’s Dental Hygienists’ Alumnae
(1987-1995) Association (DHAA), honors a person
Jemma Allor (left), president of the School of Dentistry’s Dental
• Executive Board member, Hygienists’ Alumnae Association, details Janet Souder Wilson’s the group feels has made significant
U-M Dental Hygienists’ contributions to the profession at this spring’s commencement contributions to the dental hygiene
Alumnae Association ceremonies. profession.
(1985-1990) Keary Campbell
Allor, DHAA president, said that
• Michigan Delegate to the Wilson, in addition to being employed
American Dental Hygienists’ as a clinical dental hygienist in a
Association private practice for the past 32 years,
(1985-1990) has been active in dental hygiene
• Officer, Michigan Dental organizations, served as president of the
Hygienists’ Association
Michigan Dental Hygienists’ Alumnae
(1984-1990)
Association, served for 15 years as a
• President, Washtenaw
District Dental Hygienists’ member of the Board of Directors of
Association the Washtenaw Children’s Dental Clinic
(1981-1983) including two terms as president, and is
Dental hygiene graduates Lindsay Thompson, Melissa Wasley, and Alaina serving her second term on the School
Whitefoot chat with Professor Wendy Kerschbaum, director of the dental of Dentistry’s Alumni Society Board of
hygiene program, prior to graduation ceremonies at Hill Auditorium.
Governors.
Wilson, who said she was humbled
to receive the award, urged graduates
“to keep serving and giving back.
Always make the effort to give back to
your profession, to your community,
and to your school,” she said.

64 DentalUM Fall 2005


Carla Harrel Named
Outstanding Instructor
Keary Campbell

Call for Members


Your help is needed.
The U-M School of Dentistry’s Dental
Hygienists’ Alumnae Association is
looking for volunteers to serve on
its executive board in 2007.
Among its activities, the association
arranges homecoming activities,
selects a recipient of the Outstanding
Dental hygiene students acknowledged the efforts and Alumnae Award that is presented
contributions, both personal and professional, of one of their at spring graduation, and brings
instructors. important information about the
Class President Gracie Buhagiar (right) presented profession to the attention of
Carla Harrel, a lecturer in the Department of Periodontics, association members, faculty, and
Prevention, and Geriatrics, with the Outstanding Instructor students.
Award during spring graduation ceremonies.
If you’re interested in serving, please
“She’s been caring, compassionate, and her door has
call Amy Reyes in the School’s Office
always been open,” said Buhagiar.
of Alumni Relations at (734) 764-
Harrel, who said she was “surprised, speechless, and
6856.
honored to receive the award,” teaches in classrooms and
clinics and coordinates the pediatric dentistry rotation for
hygiene students and second-year dental students. She also
supervises dental hygiene students and provides direct patient
care in the MDENT program.

DentalUM Fall 2005 65


DENTAL HYGIENE
DH Student Awards
Gracie Buhagiar – Pauline Steele Student Leadership Award
Named for the second director of the dental hygiene program at the School of Dentistry (1969-1988), this award recognizes
a senior student who demonstrates outstanding leadership skills while at U-M.
Buhagiar was class president (2004-2005) and was instrumental in organizing and conducting the first Advancement
Ceremony for dental hygiene students. [DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2005, pages 53-54.] She was also a student teacher
in both oral anatomy and clinic with first-year dental hygiene students.

Jennifer McNamee – Washtenaw District Dental Hygienists’ Society’s Community Service Award and
the American Association of Public Health Dentistry’s Special Interest and Achievement in Community
Dentistry/Dental Public Health Award
The award recognizes a graduating dental hygiene student who has been active in community service during the three
years they were a student in the School’s dental hygiene program.
McNamee chaired the Class of ’05s fundraising drive. Ninety-seven percent of the class raised more than $4,500. [DentalUM,
Spring & Summer 2005, page 59.] She was class representative to the Student American Dental Hygienists’ Association
and active in Give Kids a Smile, Dental Health Day, and the March of Dimes Health Fair at the School of Dentistry. She
participated in the first Diabetes Expo in southeast Michigan and coordinated a dental clinic for battered women.

Marianne Jabero – Colgate Oral Pharmaceutical Student Total Achievement Recognition (STAR) Award
The recipient of this award has demonstrated dedication to the dental hygiene profession, displays compassion in patient
care, exhibits enthusiasm for community service, and realizes the contributions a dental hygienist can make in providing
oral health care to patients.
Jabero demonstrated outstanding qualities in all areas. She was a member of the School’s Honor Council for three years,
participated in a research project her final year and won a second-place award during the School’s Research Table Clinic
Day program earlier this year.

Nicole Beadle, Melanie Lemanski, Alaina Whitefoot – Sigma Phi Alpha (Nu Chapter)
Graduating dental hygiene students are selected for this national dental hygiene society based on their academic
achievements and potential for future professional growth and contributions to the profession.
All three excelled academically.
Beadle also worked with Dr. George Taylor on a research project examining the relationship between diabetes and periodontal
disease. She also was a student teacher in the clinic with first-year dental hygiene students.
Lemanski was co-chair of the Class of ’05s fundraising drive and also served as a student teacher in clinics.
Whitefoot was a student teacher in preclinic and clinical courses for first-year dental hygiene students.

Kelly Hresko and Melissa Wasley – The Hu-Friedy Outstanding Clinician Award
This award is given to students who excel in patient care.
Hresko and Wasley were selected by dental hygiene clinical faculty for exemplifying the highest qualities and skills as
dental hygiene students. Both demonstrated a thorough understanding and application of the science and art of dental
hygiene care.

66 DentalUM Fall 2005


DEPARTMENT UPDATE
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital Dentistry

T
Keary Campbell

he Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Hospital


Dentistry has had some notable achievements that I’m proud
of and want to bring to your attention in this report.
Those achievements have involved every aspect of our
department’s mission – education, patient care, and research.

Kelly Cottrell Receives importance, as doctors, of treating the


Paul Gibbons Award entire person, not only their mouth and
Dr. Kelly Cottrell (DDS 1999, OMFS teeth.”
Dr. Joseph Helman, Class of 2002), and former director of After receiving the award, Kelly
Chair the predoctoral oral surgery clinic at expressed her “deepest appreciation”
the School of Dentistry, received the to the class for bestowing the award.
Paul Gibbons Award from graduating Excerpts of her remarks appear on this
dental students in May. page and the next.
The award honors the instructor You can also listen to her remarks
students believe has had the greatest on the School of Dentistry’s Web site,
influence on them in the predoctoral www.dent.umich.edu.
program.
Presenting the award at this
Others Receive Awards
spring’s graduation, Justin Smith,
Dr. Brent Ward, residency program
president of the Class of 2005, said
director of oral and maxillofacial
of Kelly, “She pushed us every day,
surgery, recently received the Faculty
both academically and clinically. She
Educator Development Award from
demanded excellence and taught us the
the American Association of Oral and
Keary Campbell
Maxillofacial Surgeons. The award
Excerpted Remarks by Dr. Kelly Cottrell
after Receiving the is given to only four young surgeons
Paul Gibbons Award nationwide who have demonstrated
potential for professional impact as
Addressing the chair of the Department of clinicians, researchers, and academic
Oral and leaders.
Maxillofacial Surgery: Dr. Stephen Feinberg, associate
Thank you to the chairman of oral and chair of research, was awarded the Oral
maxillofacial surgery, Dr. Joseph Helman, my and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation’s
mentor. Sir, thank you for entrusting in me the Research Recognition Award last
responsibility to guide the surgical education year. The award is given to the most
of this class. It has been an outstanding and prominent and productive investigator
unforgettable experience.
within the specialty. He has also been
Dr. Kelly Cottrell addresses School of Dentistry graduates appointed co-chair of the Research
after receiving the Paul Gibbons Award from them. Committee of the International

DentalUM Fall 2005 67


Department Update

Keary Campbell

Acknowledging the Association of Oral and Maxillofacial


contributions of others: Surgeons.
Thank you to Dr. Lina Karam who has In addition, he is a member of the
done a wonderful job as new clinical Advisory Committee on research and
director. And while it is my name technology assessment of the American
on that plaque, I absolutely must Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
honor and share this award with four
Surgeons, is a member of the Scientific
of my dearest colleagues who have
Advisory Board of the Regenerative
helped me to provide the foundation
of your oral and maxillofacial Medicine Initiative in the Technology
surgery education – Dr. Maximiliano Transfer Office here at U-M, and is also a
Diamante, Dr. Kyle Pullen, Dr. Allen member of the Biotechnology Advisory
Weiss, and Dr. Sheldon Mintz. Board, AO-ASIF (Association for the
Study of Internal Fixation) Foundation,
Acknowledging the parents Davos, Switzerland. Dr. Stephen Feinberg
of the graduates: Dr. Feinberg and myself were both
Parents, thank you for sharing your honored with Guest Professorships with
sons and daughters with us. I do not the School of Stomatology, Shanghai the C.J. Lyons Academy of Oral and
have to tell you, you have raised them Second Medical University in China. Maxillofacial Surgery, a nationwide
well. And we have been carefully I was also inducted recently as academy that requires members to
helping them to build upon the
Founding Fellow of the International have direct academic lineage from Dr.
foundation that you have helped to
Academy of Oral Cancer. Members of Chalmers J. Lyons, the first chairman
establish. We hope you are pleased.
this select group include some of the of our department (1917) at U-M.
To graduating dental students: world’s leading researchers, clinicians, Dr. Steve Edlund, one of our
As a representative for the oral radiotherapists, and surgeons involved residents and the first recipient of the
surgery department, I speak for all in the field of management of malignant Ravitz Foundation Research Award
of the faculty and staff when I say it tumors. under the mentorship of Dr. Paul
has truly been our pleasure to work D r. C a r o l A n n e M u rd o c h - Krebsbach, presented his findings on
with you. We are so proud. You have Kinch, who is Board Certified in oral The Effects of Bone Morphogenetic
inspired us, challenged us, challenged medicine and oral and maxillofacial Proteins on Oral Cancer Cells at the 6th
us, and challenged us. (Laughter.) radiology, is in the second year of a International Conference on Head and
And we have admired the way in NIH funded K12 award, which is a Neck Cancer in Washington D.C.
which you have grown and the way mentored clinical research training
you have matured personally and
program from the Medical School. The Residency Program
professionally.
principal investigator of this award is An ongoing continuing education
...I offer my congratulations, my David Schteingart (Internal Medicine). lectureship has been established by Dr.
gratitude for your commitment, Dr. Murdoch-Kinch’s K12 mentor is Brent Ward, director of our residency-
for challenges conquered, for goals Dr. Avraham Eisbruch (Radiation training program. The program,
achieved, and for goals surpassed. Oncology). I also want to add that Updates in Oral Surgery, is a weekly
You will always be a part of the this year she served as president of the course specifically designed for residents
Michigan family and, as such, we Organization of Teachers of Oral and faculty.
will follow your careers with genuine Diagnosis The course features dental and
interest. D r. G e o r g e U p t o n recently medical professionals, as well as oral
completed his tenure as president of surgeons from the region who train

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interns to our residency program this symptomatic patients over time.


year. Two of them, Matt Pinski and Preliminary data suggests that none
Reynaldo Rivera, earned their dental of these pro-inflammatory mediators
degrees this spring from the U-M School may become reliable objective markers
of Dentistry. The other, Nick Mahoul, for symptomatic TM joints.
earned his DDS this spring from McGill Dr. Ward has completed two years
University in Montreal. on the faculty. He has been actively
The Section of Hospital Dentistry involved in the clinic and operating
says farewell and wishes success to room, his research endeavors, and as
the outgoing general practice residents program director of the residency and
(GPRs): Drs. Aditi Bagchi, Diane Lee, Head and Neck Oncology fellowship.
Irene Renieris, and Erika Tyler. As a member of the U-M
However, we welcomed three Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine
Dr. Brent Ward new GPRs: Drs. Adam Feinman from and the Biological Sciences and the
University of Michigan, Dahlia Hadad University of Michigan Head and
from University of Detroit-Mercy, and Neck SPORE (Specialized Programs of
fellows, residents, dental and medical Seema Joseph from UT-Houston Dental Research Excellence), his lab is working
students. Branch. with nanostructures targeted at head
Three individuals were invited to and neck cancer for more effective and
speak during the last academic year as Faculty Notes of Interest safe chemotherapy.
Chalmers J. Lyons lecturers. Dr. Robert Dr. Upton continues his clinical This endeavor is being undertaken
Gorlin, with the University of Minnesota, research that includes comparing with the goal of future clinical trials
lectured on the genetic aspect of means of rigid fixation associated using this technology to enhance
syndromes of the head and neck. Dr. with LeFort I maxillary osteotomies, patient care. He is also assisting to
James Sciubba, from Johns Hopkins and comparing the outcomes of scalpel coordinate the University of Michigan
Medical School, provided an illustrative versus electro surgery in soft tissue as a site for an upcoming clinical
and intellectually challenging clinic-
pathological conference. Dr. Jeffrey “ Our department continues to be productive and
Posnick, from Georgetown University,
successful thanks to the hard work of our faculty, our
delivered an overview of cranio-
maxillofacial surger y during the support staff, the unconditional help of the adjunct
residents’ graduation banquet. faculty, and last but not least, great support from the
The two graduating residents from
the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
University of Michigan.”
(OMFS) Program are Drs. Sean Edwards
and Jeffrey Collins. Sean will continue incisions for orthognathic surgery. He trial from Johns Hopkins offering
his education as a Craniofacial Fellow is also trying to identify biomarkers for chemoprevention treatment for pre-
at the University of Pittsburgh under temporomandibular joint pathology by cancerous dysplasias.
the direction of Dr. B.J. Costello. Jeff is looking at several pro-inflammatory Continuing to bridge the work
joining a private practice in Chicago cytokines: Interleukin 1-Beta, Interleukin that’s taking place in both dentistry and
and planning to teach part time at the 6, and Interleukin 10. Groups looked medicine, Brent has facilitated creation
University of Illinois. at included controls, right and left of a pilot program to train medical
We welcomed three new OMFS side in symptomatic patients, and doctors in dentistry preparing them for

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Department Update

oral and maxillofacial surgical residency Nevoid Basal Cell Carcinoma Syndrome active NIH-funded research program in
so that our dual degree program will (Gorlin Syndrome). tissue engineering. His main project is
one day be a true “two-way” street for In addition, collaborations are also in the ex vivo development of a human
students graduating from either the underway with the National Institute full-thickness oral mucosal tissue
dental school or the medical school. of Dental and Craniofacial Research that is suitable for intraoral grafting
Dr. Murdoch-Kinch is studying in areas of proteomics of OKCs as well procedures.
oral health in patients after parotid- as proteomics and genomics of oral The long-term objective of his
sparing radiation therapy of head and cancer. research is to produce a “smart”
neck cancer. Unlike patients who receive Dr. Wen-Xiang Zhang, co-director transduced oral mucosal graft that will
standard radiation therapy (RT) and of our Microsurgical Training Center, be used for reconstruction of major oral
suffer from permanent xerostomia, continues to train residents and defects secondary to oncologic resection,
patients treated with parotid-sparing specialists from around the world traumatic events or developmental
RT developed at University of Michigan in the art of vascular and neural disturbances. The graft would act both
experience recovery of salivary function microsurgery. He is collaborating on a as a material for reconstruction and as
over time. She hypothesizes that this will federally funded research project with a repository for in situ transmucosal
lead to better oral health for patients. Drs. David Humes (Internal Medicine) delivery of recombinant growth factors
Dr. Lina Karam is our newest and Dave Brown (Plastic Surgery) or cytokines.
faculty addition. She obtained her developing an experimental model for The goal is also to establish
DMD from the University of Florida a tissue engineered kidney. expanded cultures of an enriched
in 1999, completed an internship in Dr. Samuel Zwetchkenbaum, population of oral mucosa progenitor/
OMFS at Medical College of Virginia the director of our GPR Program, stem cells, using only physical and
in 2000, and trained in Oral and and Dr. Stephen Minehart, assistant pharmacological means, under
Maxillofacial Surgery at the Sinai/ program director, are providing didactic chemically defined conditions consistent
Henry Ford Residency from 2000-2004 training and clinical experience in with FDA guidelines that will be the
in Detroit. Dr. Karam is in charge of the advanced areas of dentistry, including foundation for our advances into cell
pre-doctoral teaching program in Oral care of medically compromised and replacement therapy. His next step is
and Maxillofacial Surgery. In her own developmentally disabled patients, to perform a FDA-approved Phase I/II
words, “I like the students and I love management of dental emergencies, clinical trial through the U-M General
teaching!” She is presently a member and restoration of dental implants. Clinical Research Center in 2006.
of the Curriculum and the International Members of our faculty are taking D r. Fe i n b e rg ’ s o t h e r a re a o f
Program Committees. programs that will help our department research is in the development of
In addition to my duties as become even more effective in the 3-dimensional biomimetic scaffolds
department chair, I continue my future. for tissue engineering of bone and/or
re s e a rc h f o c u s o n t h e s u rg i c a l Dr. Zwetchkenbaum is one year cartilage for reconstruction of the
management of oral cancer as well as into the Executive Master’s Program in temporomandibular joint.
orthognathic surgery in patients with Health Management and Policy at the In short, our department continues
obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. School of Public Health. Dr. Minehart to be productive and successful thanks
I am especially interested in clinical participated in the Academy of Dental to the hard work of our faculty, our
outcome measures. Current projects are Sleep Medicine conference in Denver support staff, the unconditional help
recurrence rates in the management as we continue to provide services of the adjunct faculty, and last but not
of odontogenic keratocysts (OKC), for patients with sleep disordered least, great support from the University
success rates in the surgical treatment breathing. of Michigan.
of obstr uctive sleep apnea, and Dr. Stephen Feinberg maintains
maxillofacial findings on patients with his clinical activities and also has an

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RESEARCH NEWS
School of Dentistry #2 Linking Laboratory Science with Technology
in NIDCR Grants How School of Dentistry’s Use of Microarrays May Help Patients

Per Kjeldsen

Throughout its history, the U-M


School of Dentistry has been one of the
nation’s premier research institutions.
In recent years, the School has been
consistently ranked among the top five
dental schools across the country in
federal funds awarded for research.
New statistics show that during
federal fiscal year 2004 (October 1, 2003
to September 30, 2004), the School was
second in terms of grants awarded by
the National Institute of Dental and
Craniofacial Research.
“Our research is designed to
achieve two objectives,” said Dean Peter
Polverini. “The first is to develop new
knowledge in oral health sciences and Dr. Debby Hwang (left) and Taocong Jin look at a “heat map” that shows, in this instance, which gene may make patients
related fields. The second is to apply more susceptible to certain periodontal diseases.
that knowledge to improve the health
and well being of patients.” Karl Leif Bates, U-M Life Sciences Communications

The days when a dentist diagnosed periodontal disease with nothing more
than a probe and a hunch may some day be just a memory.

I D C R G ra nt s to s Using the latest tools from biotechnology, U-M School of Dentistry faculty
N
t a l I n s titution members Drs. Russell Taichman, Cun-Yu Wang, William Giannobile, and graduate
n
U.S. D e Top 5 of
46) student Debby Hwang, are trying to identify a tell-tale genetic signature that
a r 2004 ( would show which patients are more susceptible to the hidden infection at the
Fiscal Ye
Amount tooth’s roots.

stitution Every patient has 300 to 500 different species of bacteria in their mouth. For
Rank In rnia, ,273
U n iv. of Califo $13,146 about half of these people, the bugs stay in a balanced ecosystem, held in check
1 isco
an Franc by each other and by the host’s immune responses (and good hygiene). But in
S ichigan, ,180
U niv. of M $11,411 the other half of patients, something gets out of whack and a subtle infection
2 12
nn Arbor $9,743,9 finds a fertile niche below the gum line.
A st it u te 64
3 Forsyth In r $8,334,6 The association with obesity, pregnancy, diabetes, smoking, heart disease,
cheste 28 and other conditions is an intriguing clue to the underlying nature of periodontal
4 U niv. of Ro t o n $7,887,3
ashing disease, said Taichman, an associate professor of periodontics. But it would be
niv. of W
5 U hard to say which condition aggravates the other. “Maybe it’s the same molecular
issue behind both,” he speculates.

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Per Kjeldsen

DNA on the gene chip, they form a pair,


releasing a tiny signal of fluorescence.
The dental school’s microarray
core facility prepares the samples that
Hwang brings from patients and injects
them into a small port on the back of
the microarray chip. After stirring
overnight at 45 degrees Centigrade in
a machine that looks like a sped-up
hotdog cooker, the chips are placed into a
rectangular tabletop machine that reads
more than 60 megabytes of data off each
microarray chip.
The chip reader is looking for spots
on the microarray that emit a faint
glow, indicating that a length of the
Drs. Russell Taichman (left), Debby Hwang, and William Giannobile are using a new technology, called a microarray, that unknown RNA has bound to a sequence
melds high technology and laboratory science to reveal which genes play a role in certain diseases.
of DNA on the chip. Specialized software
that knows what DNA sequence is at
“What are some of the factors course. The experimental procedure each precise spot on the grid then turns
that make people susceptible?” asks first involves collecting tissue samples that pattern of tiny splotches into a
Giannobile, the Najjar professor from healthy and diseased patients and readout of what genes were found in
of periodontics and director of the then extracting and purifying RNA, the the sample of RNA.
Michigan Center for Oral Health message-bearing cousin of DNA, from Other studies have found some
Research. “It’s not just certain bad the samples. intriguing clues about the role an
bacteria. It’s clearly genetic.” The RNA in the solution represents immune system signaling molecule
genes that are actively being expressed called Interleukin-1 in periodontal
Trying to Solve the Puzzle in the tissue sample because genes that disease. But clearly, there are more
72
The first step in solving this puzzle aren’t being expressed don’t make RNA. genes at work than just this one,
is to understand the genetic differences Next, the researchers rely on a new Giannobile said.
that may exist between healthy and technology, called a microarray, that
diseased patients. melds computer chips and laboratory Better Treatments Ahead?
All of a person’s genes are present science. In fact, this microarray study
in each of their nearly 100 trillion cells, The microarray is a thumb-sized may point out genetic differences that
but only certain genes are turned on computer chip made with the same indicate there are several kinds of
or “expressed” at any given time in sort of lithography that is used to periodontal disease. Such knowledge
a particular tissue. Being able to see etch computer circuits onto chips. But would lead not only to better tests, but
these patterns of expression in gum instead of transistors, the “gene chip” better treatments, Giannobile said.
tissue and contrast them in healthy and holds a forest of more than 20,000 short “We have people that we throw
diseased patients should help reveal lengths of single-strand human DNA the kitchen sink at, and nothing
which genes play a role in periodontal with very specific sequences. works,” Taichman said. “Sometimes
disease, Taichman said. When single-strand RNAs from the our response might even be making
This is easier said than done, of gum tissue meet their complementary things worse.”

72 DentalUM Fall 2005


Finding the appropriate patients
to test and running the exacting
Death of a Family Member Inspires
laboratory procedures is taking some School of Dentistry Researcher
time, he said. It is too soon to say where
the pattern will emerge.
Brad Henson Wins Dziewiatkowski Award
His “early guess” is that some of
the genes being expressed in the full- Photo courtesy of Wanda Snyder

blown disease state will be the same


ones that play a role in programmed
cell death. Normal cells have a finite
life expectancy and self-destruct on cue
when their time is up, thanks to these
genes. It is also possible that something
has gone wrong with the genes that
would normally signal the presence of
an intruder.
Giannobile thinks there is a
connection in the similarities between
rheumatism and other inflammatory
disorders and periodontal disease.
He suspects there may be something
about the diseased patients that makes
Dr. Bradley Henson (second, right) received the Dziewiatkowski Award for his research this spring. Jane Damren (right), the
their immune system react a little too daughter of the late Dr. Dominic Dziewiatkowski for whom the award is named, presented Henson with a plaque and $800for
strongly to an infection, setting off a his work. Also pictured are Dr. Nisha D’Silva (second, left), Henson’s mentor, and Dr. Paul Krebsbach, chair of the Department
of Biologic and Materials Sciences.
cascade of damaging inflammation in
the gums. When he was 17, Bradley Henson’s of two University of Michigan alumni,
Should this first pass at finding a grandfather succumbed to lung Herbert Remien, DDS (1981) and Lloyd
distinct pattern of gene expression fail, cancer. J. Hooper, MD (1981), both of whom
the researchers may have to start the Following the death of his 73-year- practiced in the Upper Peninsula
experiment over with individual cells old grandparent, Henson, who grew up community.
that have been tweezed out of tissue in Ishpeming, began asking parents, After earning a bachelor’s degree in
samples. “We’re hoping to hit the home teachers, and others about why that biology and chemistry from Northern
run on this approach first,” Taichman happened and what, if anything, Michigan University, Henson was
said. could be done to prevent others from accepted at the U-M School of Dentistry
If a clear genetic signature for experiencing a similar fate. and earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery
disease susceptibility emerges, it would “The more questions I asked, the degree in 2000. He is now a candidate
be a natural for a new saliva-testing more I wanted to know,” said Henson. in the School’s Oral Health Sciences
system Giannobile is working on with “An interest in science and a pursuit of PhD program and plans to earn his
a different group. Dentists would have knowledge bloomed.” doctorate this year.
a hand-held device that could provide In the years that followed, Henson This spring, Henson received
real-time genetic testing from a saliva broadened his scientific knowledge by the Dziewiatkowski Award for his
sample. working as a volunteer in the offices discovery of two cell surface receptors

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RESEARCH NEWS
that had never been seen in head and
neck tumors. These receptors have
The Dziewiatkowski Award
been shown by Henson and others in Recognizing “The Next Generation of Scientists”
the laboratory of Dr. Nisha D’Silva, an
assistant professor, to be significantly
involved in head and neck cancer cell “If my father were alive today Living and Breathing Research
growth. and had the opportunity to talk to the “As a kid, you couldn’t help but live
students who have received the award and breathe research because dad was
What the Research Could Mean
that was established in his name, I so enthused not only about his research,
The discovery may one day play an
think he would be so pleased to see but also his teaching and mentoring
important role in treating individuals
the caliber of the students who have students,” said Damren, a clinical
with head and neck tumors.
received this award that honors not nurse specialist in behavioral health in
“Our ability to identify the
just his memory, but also his love of Detroit. “He was always encouraging
differences between cancers that spread
research,” said Jane Damren. them to publish their work and get
and those that don’t is important, so
Damren is the daughter of the some recognition for what they were
these receptors may serve as objective
late Dr. Dominic Dziewiatkowski, who doing.”
biomarkers that help doctors to identify
taught at the School of Dentistry for 18 After her father died, Damren
aggressive tumors,” Henson said.
“Since these receptors are significant years and directed the Dental Research said she and her husband discussed
in head and neck cancers, we may later Institute from 1967 to 1972. In 1988, she establishing an award with her father’s
learn that they also play an important and her husband, Samuel, established former colleagues that would honor
role in other cancers in other parts of the Dziewiatkowski Award to honor students for their research. “There were
the body,” he added. his memory and recognize dental some clinical research awards being
“Eight years of clinical training and students for their research excellence. given,” she said, “but nothing for basic
research investigations have given me In addition to the recognition, recipients science research. We thought that an
an exciting, yet sobering opportunity of the award receive $800. award, given in dad’s name, would be
to profoundly affect peoples’ lives,” he Before his death in September 1987, a way to not only carry on his legacy,
said. “Perhaps most importantly, my Professor Emeritus Dziewiatkowski, but also honor students at the dental
work during the past two years has “Dr. J,” as he was affectionately known school for their basic research.”
heightened my interest in conducting to many, was known nationally and The Damrens have not been
oral cancer research with a translational internationally for his research on bone disappointed. “I’ve been impressed
focus.” and cartilage metabolism, connective with the students I have met over
After receiving his PhD, Henson tissue, and the role of complex proteins the past 17 years. In many ways, I
plans to continue his research and to in bone calcification. He also led think their work is building on the
become a faculty member at a dental many scientific organizations, served foundation that dad was establishing,”
school. on numerous School committees, and she said. “These student researchers are
The D ziew i atko wski Award, was a consultant to state and federal the next generation of scientists who
which recognizes excellence in student agencies of government. will be making important contributions
research, was first presented in 1989 Dziewiatkowski was also among the in the years ahead.”
to honor the memory of Dr. Dominic first 18 School of Dentistry alumni and Although she doesn’t possess her
Dziewiatkowski who directed the faculty members who were posthumously late father’s research background,
Dental Research Institute from 1967 to inducted into the School’s Hall of Fame in Damren said she reads the papers
1972 and who also was a department September 2003. [DentalUM, Fall 2003, submitted by dental students being
chair from 1967 to 1977. pages 12-24.] considered for the award.

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Impressed with the Winners “Brad Henson, this year’s award
“If dad had the chance to talk to winner, reminds me of dad in some
the award winners, he would be excited respects. Brad came to Michigan with
to learn what major advances have the intelligence and a strong desire to
taken place in research,” she said. As learn and better himself, which dad
an example, Damren pointed to DNA would appreciate and would have been
sequencing which was only something very pleased to see,” she said.
that was talked about three decades
ago, but now is commonplace. The Future of the Award
“I also believe he would be Damren said the Dziewiatkowski
impressed with Brad Henson, not only Award will continue to be presented
for his research, but because their to an outstanding dental student
backgrounds were similar in many researcher for the next 10 years. When
ways,” she said. Henson, a candidate she and her husband retire, “it will be Previous Dziewiatkowski
in the School’s Oral Health Sciences PhD up to our children to decide if they want Award Winners
program, received the Dziewiatkowski to continue funding the award.”
Award earlier this year for his discovery Each year, an award is presented Below are the individuals who have
to a dental student. A companion received the Dziewiatkowski Award since
of two cell surface receptors that had
award is presented to a student in the it was first presented in 1989. When it
never been seen in head and neck
Department of Biochemistry at the U-M was established, the award was presented
tumors. to students in the predoctoral program.
Dziewiatkowski, the son of Polish Medical School.
However, in recent years, recipients have
immigrants, grew up on the south “The success and prestige that
been those in the Oral Health Sciences
side of Chicago. After graduating from has grown to be associated with the PhD program.
high school, “which many did not do award is the result of the commitment
and dedication of past and present • 2005 - Bradley S. Henson
in the late 1920s or early 1930s,” she
department chairs and faculty in the • 2004 - Andrew M. Fribley
said, he attended what is now Western
Department of Biologic and Materials • 2003 - Abraham Schneider
Michigan University and earned a
Sciences to ensure the highest quality • 2002 - Domenica Sweier
bachelor’s degree in chemistry and
research is recognized,” Damren said. • 2001 - Solaiman Al Hadlaq
biology in 1939.
“I appreciate all the help I have and Catherine Kuo
“As a student in Kalamazoo, he
received and want to thank John Drach, • 2000 - Dr. Erica DeBoever
helped to pay for his college education
Christian Stohler, Don Clewell, Robert • 1999 - Dr. Hongjiao Ouyang
by working as a janitor and a lab
Bradley, and Charlotte Mistretta for • 1998 - Dr. Jacques Nör
technician,” Damren said. “He knew
their commitment and dedication. • 1997 - K anwal Chawla (D3)
that kind of hard work would lead to
Working with me, they have helped • 1996 - Sandeep Sood (D3)
better things, not just for himself, but
me to recognize, understand, and • 1995 - K athryn W. Feng (D2)
others later.”
appropriately award outstanding • 1994 - No award
In 1942, Dziewiatkowski earned a
students for the basic research being • 1993 - Yan An Su
master’s degree from U-M and a PhD in
conducted at the dental school.” • 1992 - John C. Wataha
biochemistry a year later.
• 1991 - William C. Robson (D3)
“Dad grew up in a blue-collar
• 1990 - James P. Lee
community and earned a bachelor’s
• 1989 - M ichael A. Smith (D4)
degree at another university before
coming to Michigan,” she said.

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RESEARCH NEWS

AADR Research Fellow- Scientists Discover More About How


ships to 5 from U-M Cancer Cells Form and Grow
Five U-M School of Dentistr y
Colleen Newvine, U-M News Service
students were awarded fellowships
at the AADR’s annual spring meeting.
U-M researchers have figured out one more component in cancer cells’
They were among 18 from across the
aggressive growth. They hope that knowledge can help kill the cells.
country who were recognized for their
In the July issue of Cancer Cell, the scientists explain how cancer tumor cells
research. The fellowships give the
attach themselves to a protein on the surface of cells lining blood vessel walls.
students an opportunity to continue
When this attachment occurs, it tells the cancer cell to grow and develop blood
their research and travel to AADR and
vessels which feed the cell.
IADR meetings.
Cun-Yu Wang, senior author of the article, said this discovery could help in
The five School of Dentistr y
the fight against cancer.
students, their mentors, and research
“The blood supply is key for tumor growth and tumor development,” said
projects are:
Wang, the Richard H. Kingery Endowed Collegiate Professor at the U-M School of
• Aisha Akpabio, Christine Klausner,
Dentistry. “If you cut off the blood supply, you stop cancer development.”
Preventing Early Childhood Caries
Wang collaborated with researchers Qinghua Zeng, Shenglin Li, Douglas
- Pregnant Mothers’ Knowledge,
B. Chepeha, Jong Li, Honglai Zhang, Peter J. Polverini, Jacques Nör and Jan
Attitudes & Behavioral Intentions
Kitajewski.
• Erin Lynn Ealba, James Simmer,
Enamel Proteomics
Searching for Answers
• Richard Koh, Gisele Neiva, Finishing
Scientists have extensively studied how cancer cells secrete proteins to form
Systems on the Final Surface
blood vessels. But Wang said when researchers tried to turn off that process,
Roughness of Composites
some tumors responded. Others did not. That made him curious about how to
• Keyna Peterson, Keith Kirkwood,
develop a better treatment.
Squamous Cell Carcinoma-derived
Rather than simply looking for a better way to interrupt the protein secretion,
RANKL in Osteoclastogenesis
Wang and colleagues looked for other ways that tumor cells might develop their
• John Thomas, Marita Inglehart,
blood supply, a process called angiogenesis.
Child Abuse & Neglect - Dental Care
Wang’s team has studied hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) to better understand
Providers’ Knowledge and Actions.
its function in forming cancerous head and neck tumors. Part of what HGF does
is to get neighboring blood vessels to grow toward the tumor and then into it.
What they did not know was how HGF launched angiogenesis.
Ealba New President of Student So they looked at head and neck cancer cells to see if growth factors prompted
Research Group the release of angiogenesis-related proteins. That led to an exploration of direct
interaction between the tumor and endothelial cells which line blood vessels.
Erin Ealba, now a second-year dental student,
Examining data on the genes HGF activates, the team found a specific gene,
was recently elected President of the AADR’s
called “jagged1,” is among the most expressed. Jagged1 binds to a specific protein
National Student Research Group. She began
on the surface of the endothelial cells.
her one-year term during the AADR meeting in
Wang speculated that if jagged1 is not secreted, but found on the surface of
Orlando in March. Her term ends at next year’s
tumor cells, then perhaps HGF gets jagged1 levels to increase which then prompts
IADR/AADR meeting.
a connection between the tumor and endothelial cells.

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Dr. Cun-Yu Wang

Wang said he that although much research has looked at cancer cells’ secretion
of proteins to form blood vessels, notch’s function in cancer angiogenesis has
not received the same attention. Notch, Wang said, pulls this whole complex
operation together.

A Two-Progned Approach?
After this contact stimulates angiogenesis, the tumor receives nutrition and
grows faster, Wang said. He hopes blocking the signaling pathway can cut off
the tumor’s nutrition and stop its growth.
If this development pans out as a treatment, Wang said he envisions a two-
pronged approach that attacks the protein secretion and the cell contact to kill
cancer cells.
The next question Wang wants to explore is how these connections lead
to metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body. He speculates that
inflammation could trigger that pathway, and wants to look at the potential for
controlling inflammation to stop tumor development.
“Head and neck cancer is understudied,” Wang said. “The five-year survival
rate hasn’t improved in decades. We want to change that.”

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Keary Campbell

Helping the MDA


Get Ready for 150
The School of Dentistry is helping the Michigan Dental
Association get ready for next year’s celebration marking
the 150th anniversary of the MDA’s founding.
This summer, Shannon O’Dell, the School’s Sindecuse
Museum curator, and Dr. Michael Maihofer, chair of the
MDA’s 150th Anniversary Task Force, spent several hours
reviewing dental artifacts in the museum’s storage
area.
“We have an incredible number of interesting and
valuable artifacts in the museum, many of them going
back one hundred or more years,” O’Dell said. “So when
an opportunity, such as this one, presents itself that
allows us to showcase what we have, we’re ready to lend
16 Recognized for Long-Term Service a hand.”
Sixteen staff members with the School of Dentistry About the collaboration, Maihofer said, “All of us at
the MDA are excited about partnering with the U-M School
were recognized for their long-term service to the of Dentistry’s Sindecuse Museum for this special part of
University of Michigan earlier this year. our anniversary celebration.”
The dental artifacts will be on display next May
Receiving 10 Year Service Awards were (left to right): during the MDA’s annual session in Lansing.
Per Kjeldsen

Barbara Wolfgang, Department of Periodontics, Prevention,


and Geriatrics (PPG); Donita Ehnis, Patient Services; Thomas
Davis, Patient Services; Kim Huner, Office of Research; Sywe-
Ren Chang, Department of Cariology, Restorative Sciences,
and Endodontics; Vicki Walda, PPG; and Amy Koh, PPG.

Not pictured were three others who were also recognized for
10 years of service: Vernon Rife, Kristi Ocenasek,
and Deanna Nellis.

Receiving 20 Year Service Awards were Dan Bruell, Office of


Dental Informatics; Wanda Snyder, Department of Biologic
and Materials Sciences; and Judy Craft, Patient Services.

Three individuals received 30 Year Service Awards: Per


Kjeldsen, Educational Resources; Mirian Brockie, Department
of Cariology, Restorative Services, and Endodontics; and
Marsha Meyer, Patient Services.

Shannon O’Dell, curator of the School of Dentistry’s Sindecuse Museum, and Dr. Michael
Maihofer, chair of the MDA’s 150th Anniversary Task Force, look at some of the fountain
spittoons that were commonly used in late 19th century dental practices. Near the the
spittoons are foot pedal dental engines from that era.

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Alumni News
Class Notes

Bonciel Griffin (DDS 2001) of Forest Park, Illinois, who Community College in the 1970s,
recently finished an orthodontics residency at Howard she retired from the field and later
University in Washington, D.C., will soon be practicing worked in the brokerage business.
dentistry with an uncle in private practice in the Chicago The advice in the book, she said, is
area. based on years of consultations and
collaborations with former clients
T i m o t hy J . B u s s i c k ( M S , from all walks of life.
orthodontics 1997) of Ft. Wayne,
Indiana, was recently elected to a Raymond Gist (DDS 1966) was
one-year term as President of the elected to a four-year term as ADA
150-member Indiana Association of 9th District Trustee in May. Gist was
Orthodontics. President of the Michigan Dental
Association from May 2003 to May
2004.
Ray Lefton (DDS 1984) recently joined Princeton
HealthCare System as its new vice president of finance. Richard Mathewson (DDS 1959)
Photo courtesy of The Univ. of Oklahoma College of Dentistry

Before joining PHCS, Lefton was chief financial officer at of Norman, Oklahoma, was recently
Temple East, a former subsidiary of Temple University honored by the Oklahoma Association
Health System in Philadelphia that included Northeastern of Pediatric Dentists and the faculty
Hospital and Neumann Medical Center. After earning his of the Department of Pediatric
dental degree, Lefton earned an MBA from U-M in 1987. Dentistry for his contributions to
the profession and that university’s
Howard Belk in (DDS 1980), a psychiatrist who dental school. During the spring
specializes in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology for event, a bronze plaque with his image and a list of his
adults, adolescents, and children, is currently practicing professional achievements was unveiled. The plaque
in Birmingham, Michigan. A Diplomate of the American now hangs on a wall in the Department of Pediatric
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and an attorney, he Dentistry he helped establish in 1973. Professor emeritus
has published several articles that have appeared in Mathewson retired in 1995.
medical literature and is the author of several chapters
in medical textbooks. J ustin Dunmire (DDS 1942)
of Lantana, Florida, has had a
Thomas Bloem (DDS 1976, MS 1978) of Ann Arbor, lot to celebrate in recent months.
Michigan, was recently elected to a one-year term as The dentist turned glassmaker
President of the Michigan Section of the American College [DentalUM, Spring & Summer 2002,
of Prosthodontists. page 42] recently celebrated his
91st birthday, his 62nd wedding
Marcia VanderWaude (BS, Dental Hygiene 1967), anniversary, and 60 years of perfect
has written a book, $avvy Women, $mart Choices: 42 attendance at Rotary Club meetings. “I ride a bike
Smart Choices Women Can Make in Financial and Estate everyday and continue to work crossword puzzles,” he
Planning. After teaching dental hygiene at Grand Rapids wrote.

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Per Kjeldsen

“Just finished watching the U-Mich dental video. Now I can see
(again) why I am so proud to be a Michigan grad and brag about it!
I especially enjoyed seeing the ‘dress code’ with white uniforms.
I am sure the students must feel professional with
their new jackets from day one!”

Dr. Hugh Koppel, MS, Pediatric Dentistry 1948

Mark Your Calendar...


Continuing Dental Education Courses

January 10, 2006 (Tuesday)


Kenneth J. Ryan, DDS Memorial Seminar –
The Christiansen Bottom Line
The Power Center for the Performing Arts
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This course promises to be exciting, humorous, and
educational with numerous “take home” ideas and
More information about
these and other continuing
You Can Make a Difference
suggestions you can use in your practice. It will be a fast- dental education courses
moving, pragmatic, clinical, and financial appraisal of many may be obtained by
current popular concepts and controversies in dentistry, contacting the University Do you know someone who might be interested in attending the
based on clinical observation and research. Using concise
explanations, demonstrations, clips from new DVDs, and
of Michigan School
of Dentistr y, O ffice of
University of Michigan School of Dentistry?
critiques of new techniques and concepts, Dr. Gordon
Continuing Dental Education
Christiansen will provide the “BOTTOM LINE” on the
confusing array of “advancements” in the profession. at 1011 N. University Avenue, If you do, let us know and we’ll send you a copy of the new video
Room G508, Ann Arbor, MI
48109-1078 or by visiting the that you can give to them.
School of Dentistry Web site:
April 21, 2006 (Friday) www.dent.umich.edu.
In the video, students, faculty, and alumni talk about why the
Excellent Adventures with Children, the Team On the homepage, put your
Approach cursor on “alumni” and then University of Michigan School of Dentistry is special and the
Rackham Amphitheater click “continuing dental
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor education.”
important role it plays in classroom and clinical education, patient
This seminar will provide an informative and humorous care, research, and community service.
experience for dentists, hygienists, dental assistants
and front office staff who frequently answer questions
about treatment. Since the dentist-patient relationship You can receive either a DVD or VHS video tape by sending an
is established most effectively in a dental operatory, what
you say and how you say it is just as important as what you e-mail to Dawn Ford with the School’s Office of Alumni Relations:
do and how you do it. Using movie clips and videotapes,
Dr. Marvin Berman, an internationally recognized Chicago- fordawn@umich.edu. Allow 1-2weeks for delivery.
based pediatric dentist, will demonstrate a myriad of do’s
and don’ts that build patient confidence.

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