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Webinar: Saturday Sept. 21, 2024

Hello Happy Fellows! As your new Section Chair, I congratulate our outgoing Chair, Donna Klauser for all the caring and sweat-equity she put into our Section.

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.

I received a notice from my local health system with the heading “be kind.” Scripps Health in San Diego County is concerned that patients “be kind, be patient, be understanding.”

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.

We want personalized medicine, but pain patients are supposed to be treated the same, with acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Dentists are discouraged from prescribing opiates.