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worse. Lean an d m ean is som etim es okay. If the pow ers that be find dental school closing easy pickings, it ju s t represents society’s view of o u r im portance and where we are in society’s priorities. D entists today no longer need to raise th e ir voices u rg in g in a tte n tiv e dental educators to produce fewer practitioners. O ur problem , w hich they ignored, is now their problem . T hey did n o t listen and soon w ill be o u t of jobs. W hat goes around, comes around. ST A N L EY M ARKM AN, DDS PA LISA D ES PK, N J
□ T h e needs of dentistry today could be su p p lied w ith half the n u m ber of schools w hich now exist. T h e co n tin u ed overpro d uctio n of unneeded and unw anted d en t ists is senseless, wasteful of education
resources, un fair to young students, and detrim ental to the profession. As for the future, it’s clear th at a greatly reduced n um b er of practitioners w ill be needed to serve the co m in g generation w ho has little caries. T h e need for dentures and endodontic treatm ent w ill be neglible. N ot everyone can perform esthetic, o rth o d o n tic, an d periodontic dentistry an d survive. It’s tim e educators face the facts. You cannot co ntin u e to flood the m arket an d receiv e s u p p o r t fro m th e d e n ta l p op u latio n .
the cem entoenam el ju n c tio n an d apex, usually som ew here m id-w ay dow n the root. I reported two cases of external root resorption of b oth m axillary canines after o rth o d o n tic therapy in “Bilateral external root reso rp tio n ,” (JADA 1980;101:269-72). P erhaps “ m u ltip le external root b lu n t in g ” or “m u ltip le apical external root re so rp tio n ” w o u ld have been a m ore descriptive title. H A R O L D I. SUSSM AN, DDS, MSD N EW YORK, NY
L E E R. H R E N , DDS KEOKUK, IA
C orrection A p ica l or cervical? □ I read w ith interest the clinical report by W. Yusof an d M. G hazali “ M ultiple external root reso rp tio n ” (April). A lth o u g h th e term , “ e x te rn a l ro o t reso rp tio n ” can be used for apical or cervical resorption, the title m isled m e as a periodontist. I associate external resorp tion w ith root rad io lu cen t areas between
DENTISTRY’S
o In the article, “T h e dentist an d infec tious diseases: a n atio n al survey of a tti tudes a n d b e h a v io r” by Dr. A. C arl V errusio an d others (May), F igure 5 is in co rrect. T h e p rin te r tran sp o sed the color of the bars in m ak in g final correc tions. F ig u re 5 sh o u ld reflect the in creased n u m b er of offices in 1988 where g lo v e s a re b e in g u se d fo r sp e c ific procedures.
HERITAGE
THE PRESIDENTS D octor J o h n Bom ba of H averford T o w n sh ip , PA, becam e the 121st president of the A ssociation at the 125th an n u a l session in A tlanta. T h e H ouse of Delegates voted against a $125 per m em ber assessment to provide fu n d in g for a n atio n al advertising cam paign. D octor Bom ba successfully com bined a private dental practice w ith an academ ic career at his alm a m ater, T em ple U niversity School of Dentistry, teaching in the areas of rem ovable prosthodontics and operative dentistry. H e was professor and chairm an of the d epartm ent of operative dentistry before becom ing associate dean of the dental school in 1976. H e was a m em ber of the ADA Board of T rustees from 1977-84, an d served as the A ssociation’s treasurer in 1982-83. H e is a pastpresident of the Academy of G eneral Dentistry. D octor Bom ba represented P ennsylvania in the H ouse of Delegates for 9 years an d served on several reference com m ittees. H e was born in P hiladelphia. R o n ald R eagan was reelected in a landslide, carrying 49 states except Sen. W alter M ondale’s hom e state of M innesota. R epresentatives of the U nited States and the Soviet U n io n m et in G eneva for the first significant n egotiations in 13 m onths. T o x ic gas seeped from a U n io n C arbide p la n t in Bhopal, India, an d killed m ore th an 2,000 people. B ritain and C hina signed an accord co m m ittin g surrender of H o n g K ong to C hina in 1997. P resident R eagan an n o u n ced a sw eeping tax revision plan. Am ericans taken from a hijacked T W A flig h t were held hostage in L ebanon for 17 days.
684 ■ JADA, Vol. 118, June 1989
John Bomba
1984-1985
the
worse. Lean an d m ean is som etim es okay. If the pow ers that be find dental school closing easy pickings, it ju s t represents society’s view of o u r im portance and where we are in society’s priorities. D entists today no longer need to raise th e ir voices u rg in g in a tte n tiv e dental educators to produce fewer practitioners. O ur problem , w hich they ignored, is now their problem . T hey did n o t listen and soon w ill be o u t of jobs. W hat goes around, comes around. ST A N L EY M ARKM AN, DDS PA LISA D ES PK, N J
□ T h e needs of dentistry today could be su p p lied w ith half the n u m ber of schools w hich now exist. T h e co n tin u ed overpro d uctio n of unneeded and unw anted d en t ists is senseless, wasteful of education
resources, un fair to young students, and detrim ental to the profession. As for the future, it’s clear th at a greatly reduced n um b er of practitioners w ill be needed to serve the co m in g generation w ho has little caries. T h e need for dentures and endodontic treatm ent w ill be neglible. N ot everyone can perform esthetic, o rth o d o n tic, an d periodontic dentistry an d survive. It’s tim e educators face the facts. You cannot co ntin u e to flood the m arket an d receiv e s u p p o r t fro m th e d e n ta l p op u latio n .
the cem entoenam el ju n c tio n an d apex, usually som ew here m id-w ay dow n the root. I reported two cases of external root resorption of b oth m axillary canines after o rth o d o n tic therapy in “Bilateral external root reso rp tio n ,” (JADA 1980;101:269-72). P erhaps “ m u ltip le external root b lu n t in g ” or “m u ltip le apical external root re so rp tio n ” w o u ld have been a m ore descriptive title. H A R O L D I. SUSSM AN, DDS, MSD N EW YORK, NY
L E E R. H R E N , DDS KEOKUK, IA
C orrection A p ica l or cervical? □ I read w ith interest the clinical report by W. Yusof an d M. G hazali “ M ultiple external root reso rp tio n ” (April). A lth o u g h th e term , “ e x te rn a l ro o t reso rp tio n ” can be used for apical or cervical resorption, the title m isled m e as a periodontist. I associate external resorp tion w ith root rad io lu cen t areas between
DENTISTRY’S
o In the article, “T h e dentist an d infec tious diseases: a n atio n al survey of a tti tudes a n d b e h a v io r” by Dr. A. C arl V errusio an d others (May), F igure 5 is in co rrect. T h e p rin te r tran sp o sed the color of the bars in m ak in g final correc tions. F ig u re 5 sh o u ld reflect the in creased n u m b er of offices in 1988 where g lo v e s a re b e in g u se d fo r sp e c ific procedures.
HERITAGE
THE PRESIDENTS D octor J o h n Bom ba of H averford T o w n sh ip , PA, becam e the 121st president of the A ssociation at the 125th an n u a l session in A tlanta. T h e H ouse of Delegates voted against a $125 per m em ber assessment to provide fu n d in g for a n atio n al advertising cam paign. D octor Bom ba successfully com bined a private dental practice w ith an academ ic career at his alm a m ater, T em ple U niversity School of Dentistry, teaching in the areas of rem ovable prosthodontics and operative dentistry. H e was professor and chairm an of the d epartm ent of operative dentistry before becom ing associate dean of the dental school in 1976. H e was a m em ber of the ADA Board of T rustees from 1977-84, an d served as the A ssociation’s treasurer in 1982-83. H e is a pastpresident of the Academy of G eneral Dentistry. D octor Bom ba represented P ennsylvania in the H ouse of Delegates for 9 years an d served on several reference com m ittees. H e was born in P hiladelphia. R o n ald R eagan was reelected in a landslide, carrying 49 states except Sen. W alter M ondale’s hom e state of M innesota. R epresentatives of the U nited States and the Soviet U n io n m et in G eneva for the first significant n egotiations in 13 m onths. T o x ic gas seeped from a U n io n C arbide p la n t in Bhopal, India, an d killed m ore th an 2,000 people. B ritain and C hina signed an accord co m m ittin g surrender of H o n g K ong to C hina in 1997. P resident R eagan an n o u n ced a sw eeping tax revision plan. Am ericans taken from a hijacked T W A flig h t were held hostage in L ebanon for 17 days.
684 ■ JADA, Vol. 118, June 1989
John Bomba
1984-1985