October 2010 Nugget

October 2010

Artists Among Us Inside:

Dentists are artists after all PLUS: 2010 SDDS & SDDF Election Results

don’t miss these upcoming events! continuing education

general meeting

October 8, 2010

October 12, 2010

CDA Nigh t!

Adult Oral Conscious Sedation Recertification Course

Crown Lengthening for Restorability & Esthetics

Presented by: Michael Silverman, DMD (DOCS)

Presented by: William Lundergan, DDS, MA

Course Objectives: • How to adjust the level of sedation to fit your patient’s comfort as well as your technical needs • Seven “must know” factors to confidently deliver Sedation Dentistry 8:30am–1:30pm • 7 ceu Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

Course Objectives: • Indications and contraindications for crown lengthening surgery • Significance of “biologic width” • Advantages and disadvantages of orthodontic extrusion • Principles of flap design and suturing for crown lengthening surgery 6:00pm–9:00pm • 2 ceu Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

licensure renewal October 22, 2010 Licensure in a day:

Infection Control • OSHA Update Ca Dental Practice Act

Presented by: LaDonna Drury Klein, RDA, CDA, BS • 2-hours of Infection Control for California licensees • 2-hours of OSHA refresher (bloodborne pathogens, haz comm, materials safety, general office, etc) • 2-hours of California Dental Practice Act for licensees

member forum October 28, 2010 Bras, Boyfriends & Tattoos (HR Issues) Presented by: Mari Bradford (CEA)

This course meets your requirements for both Cal-OSHA & the Dental Board of California.

Topics will include: • Learn what you can tell an employee to wear to work • Respond appropriately to notifications from state or federal agencies regarding an employee’s Social Security Number mismatch • Learn more about benefit rights for employees

8:30am–3:30pm • 6 ceu Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

6:30pm–8:30pm • 2 ceu Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

Table of Contents

THE NUGGET October 2010 Volume 56, Number 8

Features 7–8

Fine Art & the Endodontist (Kevin Keating, DDS, MS) Paul Raskin, DDS

8–9

Conversation with Kenneth Fox, DDS Paul Raskin, DDS

Specials 13

Proposed Bylaw Changes Adrian Carrington, DDS (Bylaws Advisory Committee Chair)

15

Giving Sacramento Families Something to Smile About!

First 5 Sacramento funds 5 new dental clinics

17

Why CDA is Studying Workforce Proposals Alicia Malaby (CDA Director of Communications)

17

A Heart Attack… ALONE? What to Do

21

Elections: Results

21

Vote NO on Measure B The Sacramento County Utilities Rate Roll Back

29

Can You Afford to Become Disabled?

Pamela Trehub (Life & Health Insurance Agent, TDIC Insurance Solutions)

Regulars 4 5 6 9 14–15 19 20 21 22 23 24 24 25 26 26 24 26 27–28 30 31 32

President’s Message From the Editor’s Desk Cathy’s Corner Link of the Month Being Social — NEW FEATURE! Foundation Update YOU: The Dentist… the Employer Trustee Report Vendor Member Spotlights Vendor Members 2010 Committee Meetings SCAM Alert Committee Corner In Memoriam Our Condolences Advertiser Index We’re Blowing Your Horn!

Membership Update Event Highlights Classified Ads SDDS Calendar of Events

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

Outstanding Cover (2007) Remarkable cover

Overall Newsletter (2007) Exceptional publication overall

Platinum Pencil (2010) Outstanding use of graphics

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President’s Message Early Morning Jog There is nothing quite like an early morning jog in October. It’s foggy and there are no cars on the road. All I hear is the panting of my dogs and the sound of my feet falling steadily on the street blanketed in leaves. For a change, my knees are not too sore nor am I too tired not to get some enjoyment out of this moment. The crisp temperature quickens my pace and my thoughts drift and settle and drift again. Only rarely during these runs and only for a very short interval do I lose my thoughts, lose the sense of time and feel just present, small and insignificant in a vast and benign universe.

Mostly, I feel tired, cranky and impatient to finish the run. But October brings such beautiful weather that I can run nearly any time of day and still feel, if not moments of transcendence, at least moments of happiness.

I have been thinking about the pursuit of happiness as I anticipated this month’s Nugget. The articles in this issue illustrate the many talents our members possess. Their interest and involvement in activities outside of the 9 to 5 world of our professional life is both impressive and refreshing. In a way,

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their passion springs not just from a surfeit of talent but the joy these activities provide.

My own interests are limited to reading, jogging, cycling and kayaking. In none of those activities do I excel. But each one challenges me and allows me to meet groups of people who also share those interests. This combination of a personal challenge and a social avenue to pursue it works best for me. Often I am a free rider cashing in on the expertise of the group.

I gain all sorts of valuable information about the advantages of carbon fiber vs. aluminum bikes, Shimano vs. SRAM components; I am cheerfully guided through the maze of kayaks; patiently schooled in the plusses of Kevlar vs.

Polyethylene construction.

The language of the aficionados is sometimes confusing but mostly it is rich with enthusiasm and the excitement of the experience shared with the novice. Still more telling than the words spoken, however, are the non-verbal pleasures shared as we ride through rolling hills flush with fall color or paddle past giant blue herons in hushed reverence. What I’m trying to say is that a great deal of my happiness comes from socializing with others who are happy. I benefit

By Terrence W. Jones, DDS not just from the knowledge and expertise that I acquire over time, but an even more dramatic benefit accrues from their contagious joy.

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at the University of Virginia. His book, The Happiness Hypothesis, was the result of lectures he gave to first year students at the University. These lectures were about the big ideas that interest us all and how psychology attempts to provide some answers.

As he gave these lectures certain ideas kept recurring. For me, none seemed more salient than “Good relationships make happy people and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.”

I hope that your own pursuit of happiness does not exclusively involve the joys our profession provides. I appreciate that the pleasure of learning new dental skills or extending old skills to ever-higher degrees of perfection is both beautiful and gratifying. I understand the good fortune we have to be presented with professional challenges that routinely test our ability yet match our skill set, but as this issue shows there is much more available.

Carpe Diem. 

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From the Editor’s desk Ars Longa, Vita Brevis Wikipedia tells us that art is the product or process of deliberately arranging symbolic elements in a way that influences and affects the senses, emotions or intellect. My art partner, the Naiade, says, “The same thing could be said about fast food.” With my hearing being what it is, I heard her say, “The same thing could be said about dog food.” Whatever, they all make as much sense.

In my opinion, the art itself is what drives the artist. We have no choice in the matter. Ideas come to us and we are powerless to resist the urge to render them in durable form.

Powerless yet empowered, no obstacle can stand in the way of the execution.

Vincent van Gogh has to be the poster child for obligatory creation. Who more than he continued with less resonance from the

In my opinion, the art itself is what drives the artist. We have no choice in the matter.

entirety of civilization? They all thought his paintings were crap. Yet he painted on.

Between 1881 and 1890, he created more than 900 paintings. The fact that nobody ST was willing to trade money for them is proof S THE 31 DWINTER enough that he had no choice in the matter.

E he was an N & EXPO How could he even haveEknown “artist?” Nobody else thought so. How does anyone know she/he is an artist?

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Call it hubris if you want to, chutzpah, if you will, if there are materials within arms reach, that are crying to be arranged into an entity, we will arrange them, hoping, hoping, hoping

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another human will be touched by the result.

Is it colossal arrogance that we are so intent on influencing others? Does it come with the territory in the genome for human behavior?

tooth represented the last indication of my youth. Today, you helped me get old.”

Or is it more accurately a cry, “Hey, Mom, look what I did?”

When you stop to think of it, the smile is the first indication that we are willing to physically approach another human being or have that other human approach us. That smile is the basis, the very first step in eventually manufacturing new humans, a process that is far too detailed to get into here, but I presume you get my drift. It is that symbolic.

This month’s issue of the Nugget is again dedicated to the artists among us. On the one hand, we present a sculptor/dentist whose works defy superlatives in tonnage alone, all with fundamental, deep universal messages to be seen every time you drive by. And on the other, you will meet a sculptor/dentist whose works are intimate, personal, not for humanity in general but for a single viewer at a time in a private moment.

Dentists are in the business of art without even knowing it. The science part of dentistry has been out of our hands for at least sixty years, since the advent of polymer chemistry.

All we really have left is the art part. And if you think a tooth is not a symbolic element, think it over.

As a young dentist, I helped a woman to convert, finally, to complete dentures, upper and lower. She had come to me with only the upper left cuspid still in place. All others had been extracted years ago. She wore a lower full denture and an ungainly upper partial of despicable aesthetics. By the way, the cuspid I mentioned was not a complete tooth. It was only a shard. So I was nonplussed when, after I had so smoothly and painlessly removed the remaining tooth and delivered her fabulous new smile, she was crying bitterly.

“What’s wrong,” I asked her.

“You don’t understand,” she whimpered.

“You couldn’t know. You’re too young. That

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Wow! Is that what we’re in charge of? Is the smile that big of a deal?

So, we are in the business of deliberately arranging symbolic elements every day, with the hope that the result will affect the senses, emotions and the intellect. We are all artists already. We fit the definition, along with fast food, and dog food. Why then, do some of us have to express the urge for art-making in other media?

The answer is simple; we can’t help it. . .

Final note: This will be my last contribution to the Nugget. Thank you for the privilege of writing to you. I could not have known so many of you in any other way. Not one person told me I should quit writing in four whole years! I think that’s a pretty good record.

However, I have emptied my bag, vented my spleen and had my say. I have reported on my 50 years in dentistry. Much of what has changed during that time has been for the good, I think; we are so much more able to work with the materials they give us. But I am not sure this ease of workability is necessarily leading to better care. I see far too many white smiles walking around that are only going to last for the moment. And art is supposed to be for the long haul. 

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Cathy’s Corner …& so do i!

Amador • El Dorado • Placer • Sacramento • Yolo

Leadership

By Cathy B. Levering SDDS Executive Director

October begins the beginning of the end, so to speak. It seems like we just kicked of the beginning of the SDDS event year with the September general meeting (thanks to all 200 of you who attended!), and here comes October and we’re finishing up the calendar year, tying up the loose ends and prepping for the new fiscal year.

Committees are restructuring and rebooting, with new projects, new members and new energy. The 2010 Committees are finishing their year’s work, and getting ready to turn over the new year to the new chairs and new members, the new Board and the new officers.

That said, there is still time to sign up and be the “new blood” for next year’s committees. Please fax back the flyer inserted in this Nugget magazine and we’ll get you involved. The saying about “many hands makes light work” is certainly true in our organization. One third of our membership serves in some capacity as a volunteer, committee member or project participant. That’s truly something of which to brag!

And… speaking of bragging… congratulations to … US!!!!

SDDS was honored to receive the ADA Golden Apple Award this year for membership retention! That means… thanks to you ALL for continuing to support SDDS, for continuing to renew your membership, and for continuing to be engaged in what we do!

We have always felt that SDDS has something for everyone. You don’t have to go to everything, sign up for everything or read everything. Just do something, be somewhere, or take advantage of something that we can do for you. We’re here for you.

Thank you! Our SDDS members are the best! We are here for you! 

PS: My picture this month is a proud picture I took in August with my musical hero, Marvin Hamlisch (composer and winner of Broadway Tony Awards, Academy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Awards!). He invited me to play a piano duet with him on stage on the cruise that I was on. What a treat!

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President — Terrence Jones, DDS Immediate Past President — Adrian Carrington, DDS President Elect — Wai Chan, DDS Treasurer — Victor Hawkins, DDS Secretary — Gary Ackerman, DDS Editor — James Musser, DDS Executive Director — Cathy Levering

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Amador — Dan Haberman, DDS, MS El Dorado — Carl Hillendahl, DDS Placer — Matthew Comfort, DDS Placer — Kenneth Moore, DDS Sacramento — Craig Johnson, DDS Sacramento —Viren Patel, DDS Sacramento — Jeffrey Rosa, DDS Sacramento —Brian Royse, DDS Yolo — Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS Yolo — Kim Wallace, DDS

Board of Directors

Kevin Keating, DDS, MS Donald Rollofson, DMD CE: Jonathan Szymanowski, DMD, MMSc CPR: Margaret Delmore, MD, DDS Dental Health: Dean Ahmad, DDS Ethics: Joseph Henneberry, III, DDS Foundation: Kent Daft, DDS Leadership Development: Adrian Carrington, DDS Legislative: Mike Payne, DDS, MSD / Gabrielle Rasi, DDS Membership: Jennifer Goss, DDS Peer Review: Bryan Judd, DDS / Brett Peterson, DDS Dental Careers Workgroup: Robin Berrin, DDS Beverly Kodama, DDS Budget & Finance Advisory: Victor Hawkins, DDS Bylaws Advisory: Adrian Carrington, DDS Fluoridation Advisory: Kim Wallace, DDS Forensics Advisory: George Gould, DDS Strategic Planning Advisory: Victor Hawkins, DDS/ Wai Chan, DDS Golf Tournament: Damon Szymanowski, DMD Smiles for Kids: Donald Rollofson, DMD SacPAC: Don Rollofson, DMD

Trustees Committees Standing

Ad hoc Advisory Task Forces Workgroups

Special Events Other

Nugget Editorial Board

SDDS Staff

James Musser, DDS

Cathy Levering

Editor

Paul Binon, DDS, MSD David Crippen, DDS Donna Galante, DMD Alexander Malick, DMD James McNerney, DMD Paul Raskin, DDS Christy Rollofson, DDS Ash Vasanthan, DDS, MS

Executive Director

Della Yee

Program Manager/ Executive Assistant

Melissa Orth

Publications Coordinator

Lisa Murphy

Member Liaison/ Peer Review Coordinator

Erin Castleberry

Member Liaison/ Smiles for Kids Coordinator

Editors Emeritus: William Parker, DMD, MS, PhD • Bevan Richardson, DDS Advertising rates and information are sent upon request. Acceptance of advertising in the Nugget in no way constitutes approval or endorsement by Sacramento District Dental Society of products or services advertised. SDDS reserves the right to reject any advertisement.

The Nugget is an opinion and discussion magazine for SDDS membership.

Opinions expressed by authors are their own, and not necessarily those of SDDS or the Nugget Editorial Board. SDDS reserves the right to edit all contributions for clarity and length, as well as reject any material submitted.

The Nugget is published monthly (except bimonthly in June/July and Aug/Sept) by the SDDS, 915 28th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 446-1211. Subscriptions are free to SDDS members, $50 per year for CDA/ADA members and $125 per year for nonmembers for postage and handling. Third class postage paid at Sacramento, CA.

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Fine Art

& The Endodontist The man realizes, to his astonishment, that others are seeing artistry in his hobby work, approval unexpected. He never set out to become an artist. All he had in mind was to do some casual woodcarving in his garage.

But along comes a fellow, a recognized and

Folsom’s Rainbow Bridge (oil on canvas board) commercially successful artist who says to him, “Hey, your stuff is great. You could be a seller. Let me represent you!”

This is Kevin Keating we’re talking about, an endodontist by specialty. I thought that specialty was pretty much devoid of art, a repetitive technical exercise, but he set me straight on the matter. Sure, the easy ones follow the standard operating procedure but the ones that end up under his hands, the tough ones, too complicated to be skimmed off by the generalist, require all the “art” he can conjure. Broken endo files that show up stuck in a hard to reach canal, canals themselves that show up in hard to reach teeth, or don’t 8 | The Nugget

Article By Paul D. Raskin, DDS about Artist Kevin M. Keating, DDS, MS (pictured)

show up at all but you know they are there someplace; these are the ones that need the art of someone who has practiced his strokes with innumerable repetitions, making look easy what the rest of us should be glad we referred away. (“Photoshopping” the digital x-rays, he tells me, is not a viable alternative to getting the instrumentation right and filling it right.)

a result of a repetitive motion affliction — those root canal fillings? — and he found that wax carving was not only comfortable

His first foray into woodcarving was as a Scout, a teenager in the process of accumulating merit badges on his way to Eagle and beyond, a thousand mile backpacker and grinder of his own telescopic lenses. As is often the case under a good mentor, he found himself inspired to continue the craft after achieving his embroidered woodcarver merit badge, eventually becoming a mentor himself to young woodcarving aspirants.

And then, after some years during which he did more other things than carving, his wife gave him with a fine set of German woodcarving knives. Since then, he has kept a steady output of finished work of which he is obviously proud.

He says he grew up in Southern California, Orange County to be evasively imprecise.

But some of his youth was spent in Montana where his immediate forebears, father, grandfather, uncles and so forth, had close friendships with many Native Americans among whom was the veritable Sitting Bull himself. So grew an affinity for these early people of the plains, the Ogalalla Sioux and other kin. It shows in the wood. A chiseled face expresses unmistakably the effects of the inhumanity under which old Chief was pressed to live. Turn the carving over and on the reverse are references to the mystical petroglyphs and rock carvings to be found where the prehistoric ancients abided.

Over the years, it became more difficult for him to wield the knives against wood,

Calla Lilies (oil on canvas board) Daffodils (leaded glass)

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Clockwise from bottom left: End of a Perfect Day (oil on canvas board) After the Storm, Sedona, AZ (oil on canvas board) Water Lilies (oil on canvas board) Awakening (leaded glass)

but therapeutic as well. Now, he casts his sculptures in bronze from the wax, the heavy lifting being performed by foundry assistants. And, to complement the switch to easier to use materials, he has also taken up oil painting. Wouldn’t you know it, there is already a gallery who is encouraging him to let them represent him in this medium as well.

He says this affirmation by real artists is very encouraging. Whereas, he did not set out to become and artist, being regarded as an artist gives him the impetus to continue with enthusiasm. Another artist once said, “I set out to become an artist, and to my surprise, I became Picasso!” You never know.  www.sdds.org

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First 5 of Sacramento has a dental website!

Check it out at:

www.first5sacdental.org Stumbled upon a great link?

Email it to melissa@sdds.org, to submit it as a possible link of the month!

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Conversation with Kenneth Fox, DDS

Article By Paul D. Raskin, DDS about Artist Kenneth H. Fox, DDS (pictured)

In Auburn, California, probably everyone knows Ken Fox’s name. Certainly no one has missed seeing at least one of his colossal cement sculptures up there. These leviathan statues are the result of periodic episodes of Olympian expense of energy, the scale of which is seldom seen in the world at large, let alone among our peers.

multiplied by five in the execution, hence the array of giants to be seen around town.

scaffolding has been made to replicate the smaller version, the real work begins.

How, one wonders, did he wring a two hundred thousand pound Amazon Warrior, measuring thirty feet high or a quarter of a million pound Archer, forty-two feet high from concrete? One trowel-full at a time?

Not exactly!

He is a little guy. Sinewy describes his physique, sinewy and poised as if for immediate action as he speaks to me. His eyes bore in, making sure every word is comprehended. He sits across a cafe table in a break-room behind the operating rooms of his dental office, a building he and his wife, Georgia, built from the ground up. It’s not the first building they ever built, however. That goes back to the early years of their marriage. Together they erected four houses entirely of stone and mortar. No foolish pigs, they. He speaks wistfully about these four houses. By the time they were finished, he said, he was inexorably intoxicated with the idea of working with cement. And size would matter a great deal.

Whatever he would plan in life size would be

It begins when an idea comes to him, a subject that bears setting before the public eye. His messages are deep and basic to the human condition, “Freedom from Bondage,” “The Prodigal Son,” “Buddha,” to name a few.

He starts the work by creating a terra cotta life-size sculpture that he fires in his homemade, parabola-shaped brick kiln. “How did I get that shape, he quizzes,” sounding like a geometry teacher. It is obviously a near perfect replication of the trigonometric function. “You need to build a wooden form that you lay the bricks on until they eventually support themselves in a stable arch. And you have to account for getting the form out after the bricks are on. “To get the shape right,” he continues, “you just have to hang a chain with the two ends up. The resulting curve will be a perfect parabola.”

The skeleton of the statue will be made from steel “re-bar.” It will follow the shape of the finished work as projected from the life sized model, only it will be two inches smaller all the way around the entire surface. This elephantine bird cage, when ready, will be covered with metal fabric (sort of a chickenwire with small openings.) Every part of the assembly must finally be tied or welded together so that it will contain the concrete when it is poured.

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We are in front of the kiln now in his back yard, behind the office. There is a recent terra cotta sculpture in the kiln, its firing having already been completed. If this sculpture were to be multiplied by five, he would build a scaffolding around the life sized model. It would have an enormous number of points of reference from which to make measurements. Then, the multiplication begins. It starts with a load of telephone poles. Telephone poles! He erects these extree trunks in a five times replication of the smaller scaffolding, detail for detail, every board with a counterpart in the expanded version. To within an inch of accuracy, his full size scaffold imitates the original in every respect. The structure looks like the framing of an apartment house. The immensity of the accumulation of beams and buttresses should be daunting in itself yet this stage is just the preparatory work. When the

For some of the works, he has mixed and delivered the concrete himself, bucket by bucket. For others, he called the “Ready-Mix” people. Seventy or one hundred twenty tons of hand mixing can tire a fellow out, especially if he has been monkeying about on a threeor-four-stories-tall jungle gym, getting ready for the pour. And that’s not the final form of the sculpture, not yet. He describes the outer, integumental layer as kind of a snowball fight.

The outside two inches will be fashioned by throwing the mixture of sand, gypsum, clay and water, ball by ball against the inner structure then troweling it into the final surface. It is exhausting even to write about it! The thing about pouring concrete, though, is that it must proceed apace. Once you start, you have to finish. So, whenever he has reached the pouring and finishing phase, he takes time off from his dental practice, a job he now only works at two days a week. After all, the man is 85 years old! Get this: he computes his caloric requirements during the scaffold building and pouring phase to make sure he consumes the requisite amount of nourishment to sustain him through the labor, no more, no less.

Surprisingly, it is not the subject of the Herculean works that boggles the mind; it is the accumulation of a lifetime of sculpting of more normal sizes that literally litter his yard.

In every direction, in sheds or lying about among building materials, the most exquisite smaller works abound. Some were the models for the large works. Some are just what they are with no apparent home to go to. There Sacramento District Dental Society

are enough masterworks to fill a good sized museum. Scattered about as they are, they seem a museum already.

Georgia joins the interview. She has been a piano major at College of the Pacific. To our amusement, she mentions names of faculty that were there ten years later when I was a student majoring also in music. After some “old home week” recitations of names of people we might have known in common, we return to the present. Dr. Fox tells me he only practices two days per week.

“I don’t make very much money anymore,” he says, “but I keep my old friends in repair.”

Georgia says, “You don’t make any money at all.”

“Oh, I make a little,” he responds.

“No you don’t. I keep the books. You make enough to pay Diane and Shelley and that’s about it.” (Diane has been with him 42 years, Shelley, 20.) He smiles at his wife. She smiles at him. They seem always to have enjoyed the arcane advantage of working cooperatively. 

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Proposed ByLaw Changes Presented By Adrian Carrington, DDS (Bylaws Advisory Committee Chair) Proposed ByLaw Changes regarding: • Limiting the Board member terms to 2 consecutive, 2-year terms; • Eliminating the number of Executive Committee members from 5 to 4; combining the office of Treasurer with President/Elect; • Rewording the section of “number of Board members” to reflect a “maximum of 9” so that there can be a flexibility of less Board Members if the Board so decides (Board approved to reduce number of Board members to 9); • Clean up cumbersome “geographic” language Passed by the SDDS Board of Directors, September 7, 2010.

A vote of the membership is required on the reduction of number of Board members.

The Board of Directors recommends a YES vote on the following Bylaw changes: CHAPTER IV: OFFICERS AND DELEGATES Section 10: OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY: The officers of the Society shall be President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary and Immediate Past-President. The term of office shall be twelve months, beginning January 1st and ending December 31st each year.

I. OFFICES AND DUTIES: B. President-Elect: The President-Elect shall serves as Treasurer and shall assist the President in the performance of his/her duties and fulfill those duties in his/her absence. He/she shall be responsible for arranging all general Membership meetings as well as serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Society. He/she shall

oversee all Society monies, bills and disbursements. He/she shall make a full report, on a quarterly basis, to the Board of Directors showing the financial condition of the Society for that period. He/she shall serve as Chair of the Budget/ Finance Committee and present to the Board of Directors a proposed budget for the next calendar year. A public accountant retained by the Board of Directors shall review the books of the Society at the end of each calendar year.

C. Treasurer: The Treasurer shall serve as Chief Financial Officer of the Society.

He/she shall collect and take charge of all Society money, pay all bills duly authorized by the Board of Directors and keep a correct account of the same as specified in the Bylaws. He/she shall make a full report, on a quarterly basis, to the Board of Directors showing the financial condition of the Society for that period. He/she shall give a brief report on the financial affairs to the Board at each meeting. He/she shall remit to the CDA all monies collected for and due the CDA. He/she shall serve as Chair of the Budget/Finance Committee and present to the Board of Directors a proposed budget for the next calendar year. A public accountant retained by the Board of Directors shall review the books of the Society at the end of each calendar year.

III. SUCCESSION TO OFFICE: In the event of a vacancy in the office of President or President-Elect, or Treasurer, the order of succession shall be: President-Elect to President, Treasurer to President-Elect, and Secretary to Treasurer. President-Elect.

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CHAPTER V: Board of Directors Section 10: NUMBER OF AND QUALIFICATIONS FOR DIRECTORS: The Board of Directors of the Society shall consist of the President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, Immediate PastPresident, and a maximum of nine (9) Directors-at-Large. In addition, any trustee to the CDA, the Executive Director and the Editor shall be non-voting ex-officio Board Members. All Directors must be active or life Members in good standing.

Section 20: BOARD OFFICERS: The President of the Society shall be the chair, the President-Elect shall be the vice-chair and Treasurer, serving as chair of the Budget & Finance Committee, and the Secretary shall be the Secretary of the Board.

Section 30: DIRECTORS AT LARGE: The Directors-at-Large shall number a maximum of nine (9), with at least one director, if available, from each of the following areas: Yolo County, Placer County, El Dorado, and Amador Counties. The President, with ratification of the Board of Directors, may appoint alternate existing directors to serve as representatives for those counties from Yolo, Placer, El Dorado and Amador Counties to serve in the absence of the elected Director; the balance of the directors The number of directors necessary to bring the total to ten shall be elected from Sacramento County., giving consideration to their geographic location. In the event that no candidate is available from any one of the aforementioned counties, the Leadership Development Committee shall then nominate a candidate from the general Membership.

Section 40: TERM OF OFFICE: The term of office for Directors-At-Large shall be for a period of two (2) years and shall not exceed two consecutive terms. The terms shall be staggered with five (5) Directors elected each year. 

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NEW FEATURE! Engage social media marketing to establish branding, build your practice and protect your reputation

Being Social It’s All About the Mouth…

Word of Mouth!

By Gordon Fowler

President & CEO, 3fold Communications

In the advertising world, word of mouth wins.

And, thanks to the ever-expanding social media revolution, its reach has become limitless.

Sites such as Yelp, Google Places, Twitter, Facebook, City Search and others have taken peer-to-peer recommendations to the masses. When looking for their next favorite restaurants, coffee houses, clothing boutiques, or even dentist offices, your customers are looking at your online reputation… even if you’re not.

The reigning king of consumer review sites is Yelp. With more than 30 million active monthly users, it’s already an economic powerhouse. In fact, Yelp has created a strong, customer-driven community that is focused on making transactions.

Yelp’s users between the ages of 25 and 44 (54%) have a bachelors degree (68%) and make over $60,000 annually (62%). To put it simply, Yelp users have money to spend and are looking for places to spend it.

If you’re a business in an urban center, having a presence on Yelp is no longer optional; don’t ignore it. In Sacramento alone, there are 478 dentists listed. Is your practice one of them?

If your business has been around long, you probably already have a page, even if you’re not in control of it yet. If you haven’t claimed your business page on Yelp, you’ll want to as soon as possible.

By not claiming your page, you’re risking potential customers finding the wrong contact information; inaccurate product information; misleading photos; or even a competitor purposely listing your business incorrectly. You wouldn’t trust your offline reputation to a stranger, why would you let one control it online?

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Staking your claim is easy. Just fill out a couple of online forms and answer a quick, automated phone call. Once you’ve signed up, you’ll have access to tools to help attract new business and prevent negative word of mouth from hindering your success.

As you begin using Yelp, try thinking about it like a neighborhood.

Some recommendations for being a good neighbor: • Fill out your business information completely. Customers refer to Yelp to find out about a business before going in person.

Bad information leads to bad experiences.

• Respond to all constructive Yelp reviews.

Thank reviewers for their feedback. Good or bad, reviews offer valuable opportunities.

Even dissatisfied customers may give you a second chance if you communicate with them respectfully.

• Give back with special offers or announcements.

When you create an offer or announcement, it appears in the directory for your city. This not only encourages customer loyalty, but also introduces your business to new audiences.

• Proudly show your engagement. Displaying Yelp badges on your website or blog can show visitors how many positive reviews you’ve had and creates a simple method for demonstrating customer satisfaction.

When using Yelp, don’t worry as much about getting five-star reviews. Instead, focus on creating a great customer service experience for your Yelp visitors. Remember, you’re a member of the online neighborhood as well, and you’ll get back what you put in.

Make it count.  Gordon Fowler is President and CEO of 3fold Communications. For more info, visit www.3foldcomm.com.

How to Grow Your Practice with Social Networking

By Glenn Lombardi Officite

If you haven’t already, consider seamlessly integrating your own practice into the relatively new and rapidly growing world of social networking. A professional dental Web design company can establish a presence for your practice on the leading social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Social networking can increase traffic to your Web site, heighten referrals for your practice, build relationships with existing and prospective patients, and reinforce your brand.

The fact is, with ongoing maintenance and participation, you’ll see an increase in appointment requests, and that translates to new patients for your practice.

When you embrace social media as an integral component of your practice’s marketing initiatives, driving new traffic to your website will come naturally. Consider this: More than 175 million people log on to Facebook every day. This ever-evolving marketing medium continues to present incredible numbers, with more than 350 million users in all. With these kind of numbers, you can understand why a dental practice can’t afford to ignore the benefits of social networking if it wants to drive new traffic to its site.

When prospective patients find you on Facebook or Twitter, you can easily direct them back to your Web site, where they can learn more about your practice, and when

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presented with a strong call to action — for instance, requesting an appointment at your office. Likewise, you can direct existing patients to your social media sites to encourage participation by highlighting links to Facebook or Twitter, etc., on your practice site.

The new “word of mouth” The traditional and most effective approach to growing a healthy dental practice has always been personal and word-of-mouth referrals. Before Web-based social networking, personal recommendations could only occur in person. But with the emergence of online social media, referrals can reach a much larger group of patients, faster than ever.

For instance, imagine a patient agrees to do a video testimonial illustrating his immense satisfaction with a recent treatment from your office. You can then load it on YouTube, link it to your Facebook or Twitter, and in a matter of seconds your entire network has access to the compelling video. Moreover, with every social contact you make, you’ll increase the possibility of all of their contacts becoming one of yours, too. It grows exponentially. One post on Twitter or Facebook can be shared with a current patient’s friends, then those friends share with those friends, and so on — a network that will continue to grow at a rapid pace while generating new leads for your practice.

Never before has it been so easy to engage with patients and broadcast information to a large network of followers. You can share educational resources, increase awareness about your services, and post attentiongetting YouTube videos, all in real-time, to Facebook and Twitter. Or, you can encourage office visits by promoting various dental treatments each month on your social media sites. You can even feed a practice blog onto Facebook and Twitter.

In the ever-vigilant quest to attract new patients, it’s more important than ever for dentists to recognize the value of social networking and to understand how popular, user-driven social media platforms can effectively drive new patients to their practices.

Tap into this new online phenomenon and increase traffic to your practice Web site, streamline your referrals, build brand loyalty and connect with new and prospective patients interested in what you are saying and what your practice has to offer.  To find out more about social networking from Officite, call 800.908.2483 or visit www. officite.com/products/social_networking. www.sdds.org

Giving Sacramento Families Something to Smile About!

First 5 Sacramento has funded five new children’s dental clinics; three will be taking patients this year! Sacramento Native American Health Center is already open and had a Grand Opening on Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 2020 J Street in Midtown Sacramento.

The Effort has been funded to build and operate four clinics; one in Oak Park, one in South Sacramento, one in North Highlands and one in Rancho Cordova. The Oak Park Clinic is the first scheduled to open by October 2010 and North Highlands to open by December 2010. The South Sacramento clinic should be open by June 1011 and Rancho Cordova in 2012. These clinics will provide full dental services and accepts GMC Denti-Cal for children.

All five clinics have been modeled after Dr. Cynthia Weideman’s dental clinics which are themed with murals, video screens and stuffed animals. Each clinic is equipped with a dental education area in the waiting rooms.

First 5 Sacramento has also launched a new dental web site specific to Sacramento County dental services: www.first5sacdental.org and has three tabs: one for parents, one for dentists and one for community partners. The web site is in English, Spanish, Russian and Hmong and has videos highlighting local dental programs, including Smiles for Kids Day! The web site is loaded with resources for parents and dentists, and helps uninsured families find health and dental insurance. It also has great flyers to view and download.

Dentists can link to training modules with tips on how to work with children ages zero to five and other helpful trainings from the web site. The latest Sacramento County fluoridation map will always be available at the fluoridation link.

For any questions contact Debra Payne, MSW, First 5 Sacramento Program Planner, paynede@saccounty.net or (916) 876-5870.

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in Sacramento County!

Visit First 5 Sacramento’s NEW Dental Website!

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1. The EFFORT North Highlands Clinic 6015 Watt Ave • (916) 679-3925 • COMING SOON!

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3. The EFFORT Oak Park Clinic

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• Consulting to prepare for a smooth & financially rewarding transition

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Sacramento District Dental Society

By Alicia Malaby

CDA Director of Communications

Why CDA is Studying

Workforce Proposals Workforce activity is emerging in approximately 22 states — including California — as a way to overcome the barriers to oral health care that impact an estimated 82 million Americans.

Workforce activities across the country include: • California — The Children’s Partnership of California and Children Now are working to create a new dental professional to meet the needs of underserved children.

• Alaska — Dental health aide therapists deliver oral health services on tribal lands.

• Minnesota — Two new models are now law: The dental therapist and advanced dental therapist are currently training.

• Conneticut — The dental health aide therapist model will be tested in public health and institutional settings.

• Washington — The dental hygienisttherapist and advanced dental hygiene therapist models are expected to compete for approval in the 2011 state legislature.

• Vermont, Ohio, New Mexico, Kansas & Washington — The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is building coalitions to create a new dental team provider who can render basic restorative care.

• ADA — Community dental health coordinators are training to work in communities where residents have limited access to care.

• Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation — This foundation worked with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to grant funds to the American Association of Public Health Dentistry to establish dental therapy curriculum.

• Institute of Medicine — Two projects are ongoing to assess the oral health care system in the United States and potential workforce strategies to address needs. www.sdds.org

• The Pew Center on the States — It is launching a national campaign to raise awareness and expand the number of professionals to provide dental care to lowincome children. Work is under way in California and Maine.

With 11 different workforce models in development stages in other states, CDA must be prepared to respond to workforce activities in a responsible way.

CDA’s Policy Development Council has two volunteer workgroups that are researching evidence-based ways to address access challenges. The Access Workgroup is analyzing strategies such as Denti-Cal reform and school-based/school-linked programs, among others, with the purpose of developing practical and cost-effective recommendations to improve access.

CDA’s Workforce Task Force is studying dental workforce models that exist internationally as well as those currently under consideration in the United States. The studies include capacity and efficiency of California’s dental delivery system, economic impact of workforce models, development and sustainability costs, and safety of dental providers.

The work of both committees will be reported to the Policy Development Council. Upon completion of the work, a report will be presented to the CDA House of Delegates.

These studies will provide CDA with the evidence base the association needs to be the expert in discussions with policy makers and stakeholders, and will allow dentists to respond appropriately when legislative activity surfaces in the future.  For all of the research CDA is doing in this area and the political landscape across the country, go to cda.org/access. Please send your comments to access@cda.org

A Heart Attack…

Alone?

Let’s say it’s 6.15pm and you’re driving home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.

You’re really tired and frustrated…

YOU ARE REALLY STRESSED AND UPSET ….

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw.

You are only five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately, you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.

You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who conducted the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself!

How do you survive a heart attack when alone?

Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack. Without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly begins to feel faint and has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

What to do? First of all, do not panic.

Start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when expelling sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart, keeping the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm, allowing heart attack victims to get to a hospital.

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Sacramento District Dental Society

Sacramento district dental society foundation

A charitable 501-C3 organization

20th Annual Smiles for Kids: We need you!

Smiles for Kids 2011 Saturday, January 29, 2011

We need:

Our 20th Year!

Additional SDDF Members (since Aug/Sept 2010 Nugget Listing)

DENTIST MEMBERS John Birch, DDS Timothy Mickiewicz, DDS Ryan Wilgus, DDS Associate MEMBERS Margaret Jackson Cookie Lawrence Jillian Takeuchi

• Docs to host an SFK site at their office on January 29th • Docs and staff (RDA’s, RDH’s, etc) to work at one of our SFK sites on January 29th • Docs to Adopt-A-Kid after SFK Day and complete their treatment

If you are interested in participating in any of the ways listed above, please contact SDDS and help provide Smiles for Kids!

Foundation Board Election Results: SDDF Board of Directors: Matthew Campbell, DDS (2011–2012: 2nd term) Adrian Carrington, DDS (2011–2012: 1st term) Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS (2011 only) Gordon Harris, DDS (2011–2012: 2nd term) Kevin Keating, DDS, MS (2011–2012: 1st term) Dennis Peterson, DDS (2011–2012: 3rd term)

Welcome

Oct. 6 2010

Nov. 11 2010

Mar. 16 2011

Apr. 20 2011

SDDF Board Members!

Existing Board Members continuing 2011 term:

June 2 2011

Robert Daby, DDS (Treasurer) • Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD • Victor Hawkins, DDS Gayle Peterson (Associate Member) • Damon Szymanowski, DMD (Golf Chair) • Wesley Yee, DDS

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you

the dentist, the employer

Why Your Employees

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

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

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

Are really missing work From California Employers Association (CEA)

While the majority of employers said they typically don’t question the reason for the absence, 31% reported they have checked up on an employee who called in sick. Of the employers who checked up on an employee who called in sick, 71% said they required the employee to show them a doctor’s note.

• Employee was up all night because the police were investigating the death of someone discovered behind her house.

• Employee didn't want to lose the parking space in front of his house.

• Employee's psychic told her to stay home.

• Employee hit a turkey while riding a bike.

• Employee said he had a heart attack early that morning, but that he was "all better now."

• Employee donated too much blood.

• Employee's dog was stressed out after a family reunion.

• Employee was kicked by a deer.

• Employee contracted mono after kissing a mailroom intern at the company holiday party and suggested the company post some sort of notice to warn others who may have kissed him.

• Employee's wife burned all his clothes and he had nothing to wear to work.

• Employee's toe was injured when a soda can fell out of the refrigerator.

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If you need assistance converting your vacation and/or sick leave policy into a PTO policy, CEA can help. Give your regional director a call at (800) 399-5331.

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• Employee swallowed too much mouthwash.

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More companies today are moving toward a Paid Time Off (PTO) system, giving employees more flexibility in how they categorize time away from the office. Employers are also expanding the definition of the sick day with 65% stating that they allow their team members to use sick days for mental health days. 

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Nearly one-in-ten workers (9%) who played hooky admitted to calling in sick because they wanted to miss a meeting, buy some time to work on a project that was already due or avoid the wrath of a boss or colleague.

Others missed work because they just needed to relax and recharge (30%), go to a doctor’s appointment (27%), catch up on sleep (22%), run personal errands (14%), catch up on housework (11%) or spend time with family and friends (11%). 34% just didn’t feel like going to work that day.

When asked to share the most unusual excuses employees gave for missing work, employers offered the following real-life examples:

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Sacramento District Dental Society

Trustee Report

Election Results (SDDS) 2011 Board of Directors

Kevin M. Keating, DDS, MS Don P. Rollofson, DMD

SDDS Executive Committee:

CDA Trustees

August 27, 2010 The Trustees met in Sacramento on August 27. The first order of business was out annual review of CDA's reserves by our investment managers, Prime Advisors. In spite of the tough economic times, our sound investment policies, great staff, and consultants have allowed us to maintain that our reserves are in good health.

The continuing work of the Access Workgoup and the Workforce Task Force, both focused on studying how barriers to care are at work in California limiting access to needed dental care for underserved populations in our state. These volunteer groups are charged with reporting to the 2011 CDA House of Delegates. All CDA dentists are encouraged to stay informed of access activity happening in many other states by reading the Update, talking to your delegates, and contacting your Trustees.

The Committee on Volunteer Placement presented the slate of candidates for Council,

Committee, Board of Managers, Subsidary Boards, and ADA Delegates, which were approved by the Trustees and now will be sent to the HOD for election. SDDS members were selected as nominees and well represented on most of these entities. James Stephens DDS, a general dentist from Palo Alto, will be the nominee for Secretary and will be an excellent addition to Executive Committee if elected by the House. All of the Trustee positions on these same Councils and Boards were then selected in open and highly contested elections. Kevin Keating was chosen to return to the important Finance Committee and Don Rollofson will be returning to the Board of Directors of the CDA Foundation. Please free to contact either of your Trustees if you have and questions or concerns as we turn to the busy ADA House of Delegates in October and then right to the November CDA HOD. It is our great pleasure to serve you in this capacity. 

Vote NO on Measure B The Sacramento City Utilities Rate Roll Back

Sacramento City residents have enjoyed the benefits of community water fluoridation for over ten years. The City’s drinking water is considered to be one of the purest of all the large cities in California. In November, both the fluoridation program and the quality of our water could be in jeopardy. One of the Measures City residents will be voting on calls for a utilities rate roll back. In effect, Measure B would eliminate the rate increase the City Council approved in June 2009. It would also limit future rate increases to the annual increase in a specified consumer price index, unless approved by voters.

In addition to water, utility rates pay for sewer services, garbage pickup and stormwater drainage. Currently rate increases are determined by calculating the cost to the City for providing these services. Those costs include such things as: maintenance: (fuel, chemical and labor), infrastructure repair and replacement as well as regulatory compliance. As it stands now, when the City does raise rates they are required to serve notice of a pending change, allow for a protest period and conduct public hearings to discuss the change.

Wai Chan, DDS (President) Victor Hawkins, DDS (President Elect) Gary Ackerman, DDS (Treasurer) Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS (Secretary) Terrence Jones, DDS (Immediate Past President)

Ex-Officio: Kevin Keating, DDS, MS (Trustee) Don Rollofson, DMD (Trustee)

Board of Directors: Wallace Bellamy, DMD (2011–12) Jennifer Goss, DDS (2011–12) Dan Haberman, DDS (2011–12) Carl Hillendahl, DDS (2010–11) Craig Johnson, DDS (2010–11) Ken Moore, DDS (2010–11) Viren Patel, DDS (2011–12) Brian Royse, DDS (2010–11) Kim Wallace, DDS (2011–12)

Delegates to CDA House

(2010 House of Delegates)

Terrence Jones, DDS (ExComm) — Chair Gary Ackerman, DDS (ExComm) Wai Chan, DDS (ExComm) Victor Hawkins, DDS (ExComm) Kelly Giannetti, DMD, MS (Secretary Elect) Nancy Archibald, DDS Matt Comfort, DDS Robert Gillis, DMD, MSD Craig Johnson, DDS Beverly Kodama, DDS Ken Moore, DDS Viren Patel, DDS Kim Wallace, DDS

The present system seems reasonable. Measure B would eliminate nearly $22 million from the City utilities budget. The City would need to look to the General Fund to make up the difference. Already depleted by the current recession, the General Fund pays for fire and police and would be hard pressed to assume the utilities department shortfall. The Utilities Rate Advisory Commission for good reasons rejected Measure B. So should we. The bottom line is: services we have come to depend on, services such as community water fluoridation could be eliminated.

That’s too great a risk. I encourage you to vote NO on Measure B this November.

— Terrence W. Jones DDS (President, Sacramento District Dental Society)

www.sdds.org

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• OSHA On-Site Bloodborne Pathogens Annual Staff Training: Course includes a convenient, informative, and entertaining two hour power point lecture. A one hour dental practice inspection & comprehensive follow up report is also provided. This allows your practice to make modifications required to comply with OSHA standards.

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Vendor Members support Sacramento District Dental Society through advertising, special discounts to members, table clinics and exhibitor space at SDDS events. SDDS members are encouraged to support our Vendor Members as OFTEN AS POSSIBLE when looking for products and services. For more information on the Vendor Membership Program, visit the SDDS website: www.sdds.org/vendor_member.htm Vendor Member A Vendor Member B Sacramento District Dental Society

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916-624-2800 800-649-6999

Tony Vigil, President

4095 Del Mar Ave. #13 Rocklin, CA 95677 www.descodentalequipment.com

since

2009

916.624.2800 www.descodentalequipment.com

Financial Services

First US Community Credit Union

Heartland Payment Systems

Ted Widing • Robert Payne

Gordon Gerwig, Business Services Manager

since

916.576.5650 www.firstus.org

2005

Dental Supplies

Dental

dental Supplies

DESCO Dental Equipment

The Dental Equipment Specialists

Financial Services

Fechter & Company

Craig Fechter, CPA

800.399.5331 www.employers.org

2004

Job Placement

Permanent & Temporary

Crest / Oral B

since

since

since

2009

408.661.6435 www.heartlandpaymentsystems.com

Dental Supplies

home/auto/life Insurance

Henry Schein Dental

Carestream Dental (Kodak)

Nicole Deuser, Regional Sales Manager

John McCroskey, Account Executive

Mano Vrapi

916.626.3002 www.henryschein.com

916.320.2123 www.kodakdental.com

916.649.1246 x55884 www.libertymutual.com/manovrapi

since

2005

since

2010

Financial Services

since

2010

construction

Mann, Urrutia, Nelson, CPAs

Olson Construction, Inc.

John Urrutia, CPA, Partner Chris Mann, CPA, Partner

David Olson

916.724.3980 www.muncpas.com

209.366.2486 www.olsonconstructioninc.com

since

2004

Financial Services

First US Community Credit Union

2010

916.773.3343 www.principal.com

since

Life beyond the bottom line.

2009

Jim Ryan, Sales Consultant

You concentrate on their smile and we’ll concentrate 916.452.6200 www.sacmag.com since on yours.

800.333.9990 www.starrefining.com

2009

We know your patients come first. We also know that this can make it difficult for you to concentrate on your own personal financial needs, and the needs of your practice. In The Private Client Reserve at U.S. Bank, you’ll work with a team who specializes in serving the dental profession. From day-to-day office management to personal finances, our dental experts will keep you smiling.

Financial Services

www.sdds.org

916.979.7221 www.unionbank.com

Patterson Dental

since

2003

800.736.4688 www.pattersondental.com

Staffing Services

Resource Staffing Group

Kathy Olson

since

2003

916.960.2668 www.resourcestaff.com

Practice Management & consulting

Straine Consulting

since

2003

Olivia Straine • Kerry Straine 916.568.7200 www.straine.com

Financial Services

Transition Broker

Janet Rollofson, VP, Wealth Mgmt Consultant

Tim Giroux, DDS, President John Noble, MBA

Union Bank

Janice Villand • Philip Kong

2010

800.775.6412 916.431.8046 www.relyaid.com

Dental Supplies

James Ryan

Star Refining

Janet Rollofson Vice President, Wealth Management Consultant 916.498.3891

since

DENTAL

precious metal refining

Becki Philpott, Marketing Director

Member FDIC

PATTERSON

Jim Alfheim, President of Sales & Marketing

Magazine

2002

2010

RelyAid

Sacramento Magazine

since

since

Dental Supplies

Lucas Rayburn

since

Liberty Mutual

U.S. Bank

since

2010

916.498.3891 www.usbank.com

Western Practice Sales

since

2007

800.641.4179 www.westernpracticesales.com

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Advertiser Index

2010 sdds Committee Meetings:

Billing / Payment Processing Heartland Payment Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23

Dental Supplies, equipment, Repair Accurate Handpiece Repair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Carestream Dental (Kodak) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 DESCO Dental Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Henry Schein Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 23 Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Procter & Gamble Distributing Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 RelyAid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Education CADAT (CA Association of Dental Assisting Teachers) . . . . . 12

Financial & Insurance Services 20/20 Financial Advisors of Sacramento, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Ameriprise Financial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 29 Dennis Nelson, CPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Fechter & Company, CPAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 First U.S. Community Credit Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Liberty Mutual Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Mann, Urrutia & Nelson, CPAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Principal Financial Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 TDIC & TDIC Insurance Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 30 U.S. Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Union Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Human Resources California Employers Association (CEA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Medical Gas Services Analgesic Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Mark’s Medical Gases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Office Design & Construction Andrews Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 23 Blue Northern Builders, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12, 23 Henry Schein Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 23 Olson Construction, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Board of Directors • SDDS • 6:00pm Nov 2

CE Committee • SDDS • 6:00pm Oct 4

CPR Committee • SDDS • 6:30pm Future Meetings TBA

Dental Careers Workgroup • SDDS

Future meetings and all training TBA as needed Spring speaking engagements

Dental Health Committee • SDDS • 6:00pm Nov 16

Ethics Committee • SDDS • 6:30pm Oct 19

Foundation (SDDF) • SDDS • 6:00pm Nov 18

Golf Committee • SDDS • 6:00pm Future Meetings TBA

Leadership Dev. Committee • SDDS • 6:00pm Completed for 2010

Mass Disaster / Forensics Committee • 6:30pm Future Meetings TBA

Membership Committee • SDDS • 6:00pm Nov 16

Nugget Editorial Committee • SDDS • 6:15pm Completed for 2010

SacPAC Committee • SDDS • 6:00pm Future Meetings TBA

DBC Consulting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Henry Schein Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 23 Practice Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Professional Practice Sales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Straine Consulting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 TRI Commercial Real Estate (Gordon Stevenson). . . . . . . . . 13 Western Practice Sales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 23

Staffing services dentassist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22, 23 Resource Staffing Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Waste management services Star Refining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Scam Alert

Practice Sales, Lease, Management and/or Consulting

Email from a “friend” Several members have reported receiving and email from someone they know, who is allegedly trapped in a foreign country and in need of funds to help them get home. This email is a SCAM in an attempt to steal money from you.

Please note:

This email looks like it comes from someone you know

What to do:

Delete the email. Do not reply or forward.

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Sacramento District Dental Society

Committee Corner

You asked for this!

Nugget Survey 2009

CE Committee:

By Jonathan Szymanowski, DMD, MMSc

Upcoming programs The CE Committee is busy working on our programs for 2011 and beyond. Our MidWinter Convention, Under the Boardwalk, hits the beach on February 3rd and 4th. We are looking forward to a great program, so don’t forget to register early and often!

This fall we have two excellent programs.

Michael Silverman from DOCS will be presenting the “Adult Oral Conscious Sedation Recertification Course” on October 8th.

This course is designed for doctors needing recertification or if you are even considering getting your adult oral conscious sedation permit. In addition, DOCS is offering a threeday Oral Sedation Dentistry permit-qualifying course in San Francisco on November 4–6.

CE Committee Chair

Your SDDS course tuition will even be applied Backyard.” Last May, all the presenters and toward your Oral Sedation Dentistry course attendees enjoyed the “quick fire” presentation tuition. On November 5, we have a five-hour format and healthy discussion. Since this “mini-meeting” with something for the entire meeting has our local colleagues as presenters, dental team. Dr. Ross Nash will be presenting we are calling for submissions from our SDDS PRESENTS THE 31 UNDERmembers THE BOARDWALK “Esthetics in Action — Clinical Techniques, who would like speak next year.

ANNUAL MIDWINTER & EXPO Karen E E Materials & Technology”CONVENTION and Ms. The presentations will be 25 minutes with Hays on “Win the Battle Against Biofilm: five minutes of questions. Please submit a title Leverage the Power of Ultrasonics.” As an and a brief description of your presentation to added bonus, Cathy Jameson, CEO, Jameson SDDS by November 1.

Management Group will present “On Target: Have a great fall and we will see you “Under Creating Systems for Success.” Let you fingers the Boardwalk” in February.  do the walking to SDDS.org for all the speaker and registration details.

31st annual SDDS MidWinter Convention ST

Next spring, we are going back to the Sacramento Zoo for “Right In Your Own

February 3–4, 2011

Dental Health Committee:

TOPto10see these REASONS kids!

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Gives dentist the opportunity to talk to parents before there are problems with the kids’ teeth.

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Dentist can do a clinical exam and expand parents’ knowledge about their baby’s dental health.

8

Allows children and their parents the opportunity to become comfortable in a dental office.

7 6 5 4 3 2

Helps make dentists aware that they should see and treat or refer children, beginning at age 1.

1

Early exams can provide a strong foundation for the lifelong integrity of the masculatory system.

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Improves customer service and helps with practice building.

Gives dentist the chance to be an advocate for good health care, rather than an adversary.

Provides a valuable community service.

We can prevent caries in teeth, rather than filling them!

Dentists can ensure that children are receiving the proper dosage of fluoride.

1st Tooth OR 1st Birthday Campaign The Dental Health Committee and SDDS staff has been busy assessing the need, identifying the referring doctors (thanks for sending in your updates last summer!), and planning for the next step.

The purpose of this campaign is to increase the awareness of the public and the medical community as well as our own dental community on the importance of children visiting the dentist by age 1. Much information has been in the press lately on this subject, and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentists has launched their campaign as well: “Get it Done in Year One!” Our outreach will include: 1. SDDS dentists – do you know how to do a knee to knee exam?

2. Pediatricians, Ob-Gyns, hospitals – for their patients’ education.

3. The public – to help spread the word!

Marketing pieces we have available for purchase for dental offices: 1. Brochures: Smart Parents, Smiling Kids (free with purchases of any of the items below) 2. Magnets for your patients 3. Infant toothbrushes (infant gum brushes, teething brushes, and baby brushes) Our partners are growing, including Kaiser Hospital, First 5 Sacramento County and many more signing on.

If you have a contact, please let us know.

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We’re blowing your horn!

Congratulations to...

Dr. Terrence Robbins and his wife, Jan, on their 25th wedding anniversary.

Dr. Kevin Keating, on his election to the CDA Foundation Finance Committee.

Dr. Dan Miyasaki and his wife, Beverly, on their 50th wedding anniversary.

Dr. William Marble, on his installation as President of the Sacramento Valley Division of the California League of Cities.

Dr. Jeff Rosa, on his induction as a Fellow in the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Dr. William Bachicha, on his 100th Marathon in San Francisco on July 25, 2010. Following the race, Dr. Bachicha and his wife Laura celebrated in Maui.

Dr. Don Rollofson, on his election to the CDA Foundation Board of Directors.

Dr. Paul Binon, featured guest on the radio program, “Wide World of Health” on station KSTE on June 6th.

The interview with Cary Nosler lasted one hour and was focused on dental implants.

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

Dr. Kelly Giannetti, on her participation in the World Series of Poker Ladies’ Championship in Las Vegas. Dr. Giannetti finished 102 out of 1060 and cashed! 

In memoriam James W. Ragsdale, DDS Dr. James W. Ragsdale passed away on Sunday, June 6, 2010 at Sutter General Hospital in Roseville, at the age of 88. He was the son of the late James B. and Edna Ragsdale. He attended local schools and graduated with the class of 1939.

Dr. Ragsdale practiced dentistry in Lincoln for 30 years. He was a member of the Lincoln Rotary Club for many years and was very active in his community.

During World War II, he served as a pilot in the U.S. Marine Corp, in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, and had the distinction of having former movie star Tyrone Power as his co-pilot.

Dr. Ragsdale had eight grandchildren,three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. 

Our Condolences Horace Blanchette Horace Blanchette, father of SDDS member Dr. Ronald Blanchette, passed away peacefully on August 20, 2010, in Sacramento, CA. Our thoughts are with Dr. Blanchette and the rest of their family. 

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Sacramento District Dental Society

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

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

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

Keep us updated!

Moving?

Opening another office?

Offering new services?

Share your information with the Society!

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

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

www.sdds.org

New Members Ana Maria Antoniu, DMD General Practitioner 31 Main St Winters, CA 95694 (530) 795-4377 Dr. Ana Maria Antoniu graduated from Boston University in 2004 with her DMD and later completed a residency at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 2005. She is currently practicing in Winters at the Winters Healthcare Foundation.

Lydia Cam, DDS General Practitioner Pending Office Address Dr. Lydia Cam graduated from the Creighton University Boyne School of Dentistry in 2010 with her DDS. She is currently seeking employment in the greater Sacramento area and lives in Elk Grove.

Michelle Kucera, DDS Pediatric Dentist 3415 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Sacramento, CA 95817 (916) 233-4910 Dr. Michelle Kucera graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2002 with her DDS and later completed a residency at the University Medical Center in 2004. She completed her specialty certification in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Connecticut in 2006. She is currently practicing in Sacramento with fellow SDDS member, Dr. Cassandra Krupansky, at The Effort’s Oak Park Dental Clinic.

Maria Lopez-Shams, DDS Wel co General Practitioner bac me 11526 C Ave k!

Auburn, CA 95603 (530) 886-3404 Dr. Maria Lopez-Shams graduated from the UCSF School of Dentistry in 1989 with her DDS. She is currently practicing in Auburn at the Placer County Dental Clinic and lives in Rocklin with her husband, Habib Shams.

Darin Lunt, DDS Orthodontist 7916 Pebble Beach Dr, Ste 105 Citrus Heights, CA 95610 (916) 965-3336 Dr. Darin Lunt graduated from Ohio State University in 2005 with his DDS and later completed a residency at the Miami Valley Hospital in 2006. He completed his specialty certification in Orthodontics at Ohio State University in 2009. Dr. Lunt is currently practicing in Citrus Heights and El Dorado Hills and lives in El Dorado Hills with his wife, Sarah.

October 2010

Phong Ngo, DDS General Practitioner 1935 El Monte Ave Sacramento, CA 95815 (916) 927-7418 Dr. Phong Ngo graduated from the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC in 2002 with his DDS. He is currently practicing in Sacramento where he also lives.

Nawal Osman, DDS General Practitioner 2205 Francisco Dr, Ste 150 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 (916) 934-0207 Dr. Nawal Osman graduated from the University of Khartoum in Sudan in 1993 with her DDS. She is currently practicing in El Dorado Hills with fellow SDDS members, Dr. Amar Pawar, Dr. Mandeep Randhawa and Dr. Vincent Chiappone.

Gina Salatino, DMD General Practitioner 6500 Lonetree Blvd, Ste 100 Rocklin, CA 95765 (916) 797-8503 Dr. Gina Salatino graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2010 with her DMD. She is currently practicing in Rocklin with fellow SDDS member, Dr. Charles Smurthwaite, and lives in Auburn.

Adrian Sarchisian, DDS General Practitioner 6611 Coyle Ave Carmichael, CA 95608 (916) 965-6250 Dr. Adrian Sarchisian graduated from the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC in 1999 with his DDS. He is currently practicing in Carmichael and lives in Folsom with his wife, Armine.

Trevor Smith, DDS Pediatric Dentist 6522 Lonetree Blvd Rocklin, CA 95765 (916) 773-6565 Dr. Trevor Smith graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2008 with his DDS and later completed his specialty certification in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Florida in 2010. He is currently practicing in Rocklin and Citrus Heights with fellow SDDS members, Dr. Cindy Weideman, Dr. Kelvin Tse, Dr. Justin Winger, Dr. Alexis Lyons, Dr. Thomas Clements, Dr. Darcy Owen, Dr. Jennifer McCarthy, Dr. Holley Gonder, Dr. Jeff Sue and Dr. Ruth McComb. Dr. Smith lives in Roseville with his wife, Heather.

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

total membership (as of 9/9/10): 1,561 total active members: 1,299 total retired members: 195 total Dual members: 3 total affiliate members: 13

total student/ provisional members: 1 total current applicants: 5 total dhp members: 45

total new members for 2010: 47 October 2010 | 27

Pok Teh, DMD General Practitioner 2830 Marconi Ave Sacramento, CA 95821 (916) 972-1751 Dr. Pok Teh graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2005 with his DMD. He is currently practicing in Sacramento where he also lives with his wife, Xi Ye.

New Transfer Members:

Hana Rashid, DDS Transferred from Fresno-Madera Dental Society General Practitioner 151 N Sunrise Ave, Ste 1301 Roseville, CA 95661 (916) 780-1965 Dr. Hana Rashid graduated from the UOP Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2009 with her DDS and later completed a residency at the University Medical Center in 2010. She is currently practicing in Roseville.

Navneet Arora, BDS Transferred from Orange County Dental Society Periodontist Pending Office Address Dr. Navneet Arora graduated from K.L.E Society’s Institute of Dental Sciences in India 2002 with his BDS and later completed a residency at Loma Linda University in 2005. He completed his specialty certification in Periodontics at the Eastman Dental Center in New York in 2008. Dr. Arora lives in Roseville with his wife, Gurkamaz Kaur.

Ryan Wilgus, DDS Transferred from San Francisco Dental Society General Practitioner 3401 Folsom Blvd, Ste A Sacramento, CA 95816 (916) 457-7710 Dr. Ryan Wilgus graduated from the UOP Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2010 with his DDS. He is currently practicing in Sacramento with fellow SDDS member, Dr. Tim Mickiewicz.

Doina Charan, DDS Transferred from San Francisco Dental Society General Practitioner Pending Office Address Dr. Doina Charan graduated from the UOP Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry in 2010 with her DDS. She is currently seeking employment in the greater Sacramento area and lives in Sacramento.

Antonia Accettura, DDS Shveta Basho, DDS Carl Fleischmann, DDS Gregory Olsen, DDS April Westfall, DMD

Place this page in the “New Members” section of your 2010–11 SDDS Directory

New Applicants:

Daniel Nolan, DDS Transferred from Kern County Dental Society General Practitioner 1530 3rd St, Ste 201 Lincoln, CA 95648 (916) 645-1138 Dr. Daniel Nolan graduated from the UCLA School of Dentistry in 1980 with his DDS. He is currently practicing in Lincoln.

Retiring Any time soon?

If you plan to retire between now and the end of December, please call the SDDS office so that you can officially change status before the next dues year.

It saves you money!

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

Need an associate? Staff? Buying or selling a practice?

Check out the Job Bank at www.sdds.org!

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Sacramento District Dental Society

Can you Afford to become disabled?

By Pamela Trehub (Life & Health Insurance Agent, TDIC Insurance Solutions)

As an Ameriprise financial advisor, I’m here to help make your dreams a reality. Using our unique Dream > Plan > Track >® approach to financial planning, I can help you seamlessly integrate both your business and personal goals into one easy-tomanage plan. With tailored solutions, I’ll help you manage taxes, develop attractive retirement and employee benefit programs, protect your business, and develop a sound succession plan.

To start a conversation, call (916) 787-9988 today.

Violetta Sit Terpeluk, CFP®, MBA, CRPC® Senior Financial Advisor CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner 2270 Douglas Boulevard, Suite 218 Roseville, CA 95661 (916) 787-9988 CA License #: 0D80218 violetta.s.terpeluk@ampf.com www.ameripriseadvisors.com/violetta.s.terpeluk Ameriprise Financial cannot guarantee future financial results.

Consult your attorney or tax advisor regarding specific tax issues.

Financial planning services and investments available through Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc., Member FINRA and SIPC. © 2009 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved.

Why Smart Dentists Are Taking a Fresh Look at Disability Insurance As a practicing dentist, your ability to earn an income is your most important and valuable asset. If you suddenly became disabled due to injury or illness, unable to earn your current income, what would happen to your savings portfolio? What would happen to your children’s college funds? Your family’s standard of living? Your plans for retirement?

While the word “disability” conjures images of a catastrophic accident, or severe work-related injury, in actuality, more than 92% of disabilities are caused by illness, while only 8% are the result of accidents.* Furthermore, three in ten workers entering the workforce today will become disabled before retiring. ** If you were to become disabled, how much money would you need to spend each month to pay your bills and maintain your lifestyle? How much income will your current policy replace? Substantial differences in policies provided by different carriers mean that you must scrutinize your current policy carefully, and make certain that you will receive the benefits you need in case a disability prevents you from earning the income you are used to.

For instance, some insurance carriers may not consider you eligible for benefits if you are only partially disabled. Some limit benefits once you are back to earning a certain percentage of your previous chair side income. And some claim to offer “Own Occupation” policies, but extensive restrictions and limitations render the policy less than effective when you need income replaced.

Did you know that true Own Occupation disability insurance is only offered by a few major insurance carriers? Two of these are through TDIC. What is true Own Occupation coverage? “Own Occupation” refers to disability coverage that pays you benefits when you can no longer perform all the day-to-day duties of your present or “own” occupation... even if you can still perform some of the functions of your job, or are able to fully perform in another occupation. True Own Occupation products guarantee that if you cannot work chair side, but are still able to work (consulting, administration, teaching, sales, etc.) you will still receive 100% of your disability benefits – regardless of how much you earn in your new job or career – paid monthly until your policy ends.

Now is the time to talk candidly with your insurance agent, and ensure that your policy will protect your income throughout every stage of your dental career. Taking action now will give you the peace of mind that comes from knowing that you have fully safeguarded your standard of living, your family’s welfare and your financial future.

TDIC is an endorsed vendor of SDDS. TDIC’s brokerage offers the dental industry’s highest quality, most generous, and most comprehensive true Own Occupation disability insurance options available — no misleading fine print, no hidden restrictions, and no reduced benefits. To learn more, call TDIC to speak directly with one of the insurance agents at 800-733-0633. *2007 Long-Term Disability Claims Review, Council for Disability Awareness **Social Security Administration, Fact Sheet, January 31, 2007 Disability products are underwritten by other insurance carriers, brokered through TDIC Insurance Solutions. TDIC Insurance Solutions Insurance Agent Pam Trehub Ca. Lic #0C87473. TDIC Insurance Solutions Ca. Lic # 0652783

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Event highlights

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5: Drs. Friz Diaz and Mitch Goodis1 share the newest SDDS campaign, “1st tooth or 1st birthday,� to promote early dental screening for children.

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

(800) 641-4179.

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Please call (916) 448-5702.

04-09 Office of your dreams! Open or relocate your practice. Beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Roseville available immediately. Please call (916) 772-6248 or (916) 257-0832.

08/09-10 Dream office shell — nicest / newest in sacramento! Build / design 2,000 sf to suit. Near Watt / El Camino, close to shopping. Great for new / existing practice, general / specialty. Call Dr. Favero (916) 487-9100. 10-C1 free rent — Fully equipped, 4 ops, Dentrix software, Arden area, great for starting new practice. Former location of 35 year practice. Contact Douglas Yee (916) 801-1707.

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A Great Opportunity! If you are planning or considering opening a practice in El Dorado Hills, give me a call!!! Dr. Linssen (916) 952-1459.

02-09 busy multi-specialty dental group in the Greater Sacramento area is looking for an associate pediatric dentist and orthodontist to join our team 2–4 days/week.

Competitive compensation determined on experience and certifications. Our unique office offers an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled individual who is motivated, a team player and dedicated o providing superior patient care.

Seeking someone interested in a long term commitment.

Please fax resume to (916) 817-4376.

06/07-10 Exciting Opportunity for Endodontist — Advanced practice with beautiful, new high tech office in foothills of Jackson, California looking for an endodontist to work one day per week, developing into a full practice with great potential. Please fax resume to (209) 223-2719.

01-10 orthodontic opportunity — Start an orthodontic practice in an established orthodontic office in Sacramento.

For details email bs2bandit@aol.com.

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Panoramic Corp. PC-1000. 6 years old. Rarely used. Great condition. $2500 / OBO. Call Brenda (310) 923-6981. 10-10

SDDS HR Hotline: 1-800-399-5331

Stop the Screaming! In-office sedation services by MD anesthesiologist • Pedo/Adults • Medi-Cal Provider • 20 years experience • Call (800) 853-4819 or info@propofolmd.com. 05-07 Locum Tenens — I am an experienced dentist, UOP graduate and I will temporarily maintain and grow your practice if you are ill / maternity leave or on extended vacation.

(530) 644-3438.

04-10

You asked for this!

New Classified Sections!

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Contact SDDS at (916) 446-1227 for more information.

Periodontist needed — Part time. Call Brenda (310) 923-6981.

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Vacation homes • Misc items for sale • Home rentals / sales • Tickets

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

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Exciting opportunity for endodontist — Established, high-tech office in Folsom, California looking for an endodontist to work one day per week with potential for additional days. Please fax resume to (916) 983-3286.

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sdds calendar of events October

1 Executive Committee Meeting

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CE Committee 6:00pm / SDDS Office SDDF Broadway Series Burn the Floor 8:00pm / Sac Community Center Continuing Education Adult Conscious Sedation Recertification Course

LaDonna Drury-Klein, RDA, CDA, BS

Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

2200 Harvard Street, Sacramento

6:30pm–8:30pm 11 Columbus Day

SDDS office closed

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12 General Membership Meeting

Crown Lengthening for Restorability & Esthetics

William Lundergan, DDS, MA

CDA Night

Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

2200 Harvard Street, Sacramento

6:00pm Social

7:00pm Dinner & Program 14 Peer Review Committee

6:30pm 14 Dental Health Sub-Committee

6:30pm / SDDS Office 19 Ethics Committee

6:30pm / SDDS Office 22 Licensure in a Day

California Dental Practice Act , Infection Control & OSHA Update

LaDonna Drury-Klein, RDA, CDA, BS (Innovative Resources for Dentistry)

Sacramento Hilton — Arden West

2200 Harvard Street, Sacramento

8:30am–12:30pm

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Member Forum Bras, Boyfriends & Tattoos (HR Issues) Mari Bradford (CEA) Sacramento Hilton — Arden West 2200 Harvard Street, Sacramento 6:30pm–8:30pm

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Board of Directors Meeting 6:00pm / SDDS Office Continuing Education “Esthetics in Action” — Clinical Techniques, Materials & Technology Ross Nash, DDS (for doctors & assistants) Ultrasonics: An Evidence-Based Approach to Non-Surgical Periodontal Therapy Karen Hays, RDH (for hygienists) Discover Effective Communication Jameson Management Group (for all) Hyatt Regency — Sacramento 1209 L Street, Sacramento

Catch a wave at the 31st annual MidWinter Convention Tons of CE & a great time! you won’t want to miss it! February 3–4, 2011

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

Crown Lengthening for Restorability & Esthetics

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Indications and contraindications for crown lengthening surgery Significance of “biologic width” Advantages and disadvantages of orthodontic extrusion Principles of flap design and suturing for crown lengthening surgery October General Membership Meeting: CDA Night