FDA LCDs Protect Your Profession

FDA LCDs

Protect Your Profession

Legislative contact dentists (LCDs) are the Florida Dental Association’s (FDA) grassroots advocates who take the initiative to get involved in helping protect their profession. These volunteers are a group of people who signed up to ensure dentists are the ones making changes to dentistry and not outside groups or organizations that may not have the same views or priorities as organized dentistry. Becoming an LCD enables you to effect meaningful changes at the state level; changes that could affect not only the health and well-being of your patients, but also the way you conduct business.

Currently, not all legislators in the state have an LCD and we need at least one for each legislator. As Florida’ s advocate for oral health, the FDA wants to ensure that each legislator is educated about the priorities of the dental profession — and we need your help to do it! Signing up to be an LCD is easy: Contact the FDA Governmental Affairs Office (GAO) at gao@floridadental.org or 850.224.1089. The GAO will tell you who your legislator is if you do not know, and how you can reach out to him/her to begin building your relationship with them as an LCD.

If you think you don’t have to be involved because “someone else will do it,” you’re leaving that burden to your colleagues and the weight of that burden will eventually become too heavy for them to carry. If you wait to get involved in the legislative process, you may be too late to stop any unfavorable changes made to the dental profession. If FDA members themselves don’t care about how their own profession is governed, who is going to? So, don’t delay, sign up to become an LCD today!