Former student leaders offer insight, lessons learned in retrospective series – New Dentist Blog

In February 1970, a bunch of dental college students met in Chicago to kind an impartial nationwide dental scholar group and named themselves the Scholar American Dental Affiliation (SADA).

The next 12 months the ADA embraced this concept and arranged a gathering of scholar representatives from every dental faculty within the nation to assist kind a brand new group referred to as the American Scholar Dental Affiliation (ASDA).

Though scattered everywhere in the world, a number of of the founders and leaders of these two organizations deliberate on having a reunion this 12 months in celebration of their fiftieth anniversary, nevertheless it was scuttled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As an alternative, they determined to mark this auspicious event by writing and publishing a collection of seven articles relating to the state of dentistry, dental schooling, and well being care normally from a retrospective perspective within the New Dentist News.

The essays within the collection are:

• A look back at ‘70s-style student advocacy by Dr. Jonathan Nash, ASDA’s first chair of dental licensure reform from 1971-72, and Dr. Harry Martin, who was elected ASDA’s first president in February 1971.
• The Perpetual Student: Why I believe that CE is one of your most important investments by Dr. Fred Troxel, editor of the ASDA Information from 1972-74.
• Lessons learned about life, profession as an expat dentist in Australia by Dr. Martin, who continues to observe dentistry in Armidale, Australia.
• The challenges and rewards of volunteering abroad by Dr. Nash, who retired in 2005 and moved to Chiangmai, Thailand.
• 21st century leadership—A challenge to those who thought that dentistry was just about teeth by Dr. Jack Dillenberg, a founding father of the SADA and served as inaugural dean of the Arizona Faculty of Dentistry and Oral Well being in 2002.
• Dental licensure reform: The case for expanding interstate portability by Dr. Nash.
• Dental licensure reform: The case for eliminating the clinical exam by Dr. Nash.