2022 – ACOLADE Newsletter

I attended the ACD National Meeting in Houston, Texas in October. Our Regent, Ned Nix, chaired our break-out session. Our Section was honored with the Model Section Award.

Mattel came out with Dentist Barbie in 1997, and according to the Barbie (and ADA) Facebook pages, “When Dentist Barbie put on her lab coat in 1997, 14% of dentists were women. Today, that number is up to 27%.”

Do masks keep us apart or allow us to be together? I never thought, in all my years of wearing masks as a dentist, that a mask made a political statement. I knew about anti-vaxxers, but I’d never heard of anti-maskers.