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CDDS Meeting
May 9, 2013
Location: Healy Point
Time: 6:00pm-7:00pm social hour and check-in;
7:00pm dinner and business meeting which is followed by
our speaker.
Speaker: Susan Muller, DMD, MS
Dr. Muller is
on faculty at Emory University School of Medicine where
she is a Professor in the Department of Pathology,
Department of Otolaryngology, and the Winship Cancer
Institute.
Talking Points:
Red, White, and Ulcerative Lesions of the Oral
Cavity. What are they? How to treat?
Educational Objectives:
1. Be able to identify common oral soft tissue
lesions and develop a differential diagnosis.
2. Be familiar with various therapeutic treatment
options for oral ulcers.
3. Lean when and what to biopsy for diagnosis.
4. Develop proficiency in identifying oral
precancerous lesions.
Words from the President
First off I need to plug the GDA summer meeting. If
you have not been before you should go and if you have
kids bring them with you. It is a great event and
fun for all who are involved. Hopefully we will see
you there.
I want to let you know that the Central District is
continuing to work hard to help make some of the things we
all have to do in order to practice a little easier and if
possible cheaper. Vin Bhasim and Ched Smaha are
working hard to set up an OSHA continuing education
coarse. Our goal is to provide our members a
mandated course at a reasonable rate and on a good date
for the membership. If we have good success with
this course we will try to have it every year. We
may attempt to have different speakers each year but we
will try our best to get anyone the membership
wants. So please plan on attending your central
district OSHA coarse. Support your district, save
money and enjoy a morning of government-mandated
education. We will also have a few sponsors to help
offset the cost of the meeting and maybe show you
something interesting.
I would like to invite any member who has an idea for
speakers to talk with Vin Bhasim who will be organizing
the speakers for next year. Having gone through the
chairs I can tell you any suggestion would be appreciated.
It has been a privilege to serve as the Central District
President and the last few years have been an eye opening
experience. The challenges that face dentistry in
the next few years are great but it is my belief that the
Georgia Dental Association put us in a much better
position than our colleagues in many other states.
On a completely non dental note. Many of you are
aware Mercer University is starting a Football program. In
the near future the members of the central district will
be receiving an invitation to meet the Bobby Lamb the head
coach for the new football team. It will be on
Thursday, May 16th at 6:30pm at my home in Macon. I hope
to see many of you there for a social night. I don't think
we will be able to get you any CE credit but we can look
into it.
Michael M. Wright <wrightmm@gmail.com>
Board of Trustees Report
January 12, 2013 (by Ched Smaha)
Present: Jim Hall, Jay Harrington, Mike Loden, Ched Smaha,
Leadership GDA, Cameron Garvin,
President’s report
Dr. Tourial welcomed and introduced Meg Robinson, Esq.,
new GDA Director of Governmental Affairs;
ADA Councils and Commissions
Dr. Jay Harrington, Council on Governmental Affairs,
discussed the issue with stand-alone dental plans with the
Affordable Care Act.
Dentists on Government Agencies
The following dentists currently serve on state agencies
and boards: Dr. Donna Thomas Moses, Department of
Community Health Board; Drs. Mike McCartney, Amy Loden and
Beth Sheridan, Insurance Advisory Council; and Dr. Randy
Daniel, newly appointed to the Special Advisory Commission
on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits.
Report of the Executive Director
Ms. Martha Phillips reported on the following topics from
her written report to the House of Delegates:
Membership market share and its increase based on the GDA
Workforce Census numbers;
New Board of Dentistry registry for performing botox and
dermal fillers;
Economic outlook and medical excise tax;
Implications of the Affordable Care Act on dentists;
Foundations’ focus on creation of midlevel providers and
the recent forum on MLPs at Morehouse College of Medicine.
ADA Delegation
Dr. Jim Reynierson stated that the Georgia Delegation
performed admirably at the ADA Annual Session.
Nominating Committee
The committee offered the nomination of Dr. Greg Goggans
for GDA vice president, which will be voted on at the GDA
Business Meeting on July 26, 2013. The Nominating
Committee received the nomination for the ADA At-large
delegate position (term expires 1/17) and accompanying CV
from Dr. Jack Bickford
Patient Protection Task Force
Dr. Tourial stated that he is charging each district with
staying up-to-date with the current issues affecting the
profession. He also asked everyone to work on ways to
address the lack of demand for dental care and barriers to
care. Dr. Tourial requested that the BOT send creative
ideas on how to address the barriers to care to him.
Georgia Mission of Mercy (GMOM)
Dr. Richard Smith reported for the co-chairmen who were
unable to attend the BOT meeting. He stated that
registration is scheduled to go live the following week.
The GDA has a new PR agency, Ogilvy, that will be helping
with pro bono PR services.
Calendar of Events:
Central District Dental Society Meeting……………May 9, 2013
GDA Presidents Trip………………………………..May 15-25, 2013
GMOM………………………………………………June 13, 2013
House of Delegates…………………………………..July 25, 2013
GDA Annual Meeting (Hilton Head)………………..July 24-28, 2013
So what has the ADA been doing for you?
- Kara Moore
-The ADA is working to build bipartisan support for a bill
introduced by Paul Gosar (R-Ariz). His bill H.R.911
would repeal those portions of the MCarran-Ferguson
statute that exempt medical health insurance plans and
dental benefit plans from federal antitrust laws. In
other words, as the law is written now if another local
dentist and I discuss what we charge for a procedure it is
considered illegal because of the anti-trust laws in
place. However an insurance company can call every
other company and set their prices accordingly with no
penalty! Now does that seem fair? If this bill is
successful insurance companies would have to play by the
same rules that you and I have been forced to play by for
years.
-The ADA is still active in supporting efforts to repeal
the 2.3% medical device tax that was put into place this
year through Obama Care. Although the ADA and many
of your GDA representatives fought hard to keep this from
going into place we were unsuccessful. However the
ADA will push on fighting for the repeal because the ADA
is looking out for you!
-Finally there are other areas of the Affordable care act
which have yet to take affect that are still concerning to
the practice of dentistry. The ADA is trying to help
guide our lawmakers as they establish the new health
exchange programs. However time will tell just how
beneficial or detrimental these programs are to our
patient’s oral health.
Remember your membership dollars are at work 24/7.
If you don't sustain your membership and support the ADA
in their efforts then who do you think will be speaking
for you in Washington?
Thank you to all who attended LAW Day at the Capitol on
March 20th. The Central District was well represented and
was there at a critical time when the GDA's premier
legislation, HB 132, was in the Senate Subcommittee.
On Tuesday, March 26th, HB 132 passed the Senate with a
vote of 45 to 8. The bill will now go to the
Governor for his consideration.
Mark your calendars! The 2013 Legislative Reception
will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd. Details to
follow.
Amber P. Lawson
POLITICS 102
I got away from writing about politics in the last column,
but today we will get back to business. One of the themes
that I hope has come through as you have allowed my
opinions across the years is that it is very important for
each and every one of you to be involved in the political
process. Remember it is NOT important for you to know your
representative and senator. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR
REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATOR TO KNOW YOU. Let me give you an
example of how this can be important.
Recently the Georgia Dental Association along with the
Georgia Pharmacy Association sought to transfer the Boards
of Dentistry and Pharmacy from the Secretary of State’s
Professional Licensing Division to the Department of
Community Health (DCH). The legislation was known as House
Bill 132. We passed up an opportunity to join with the
Medical Association several years ago when they
established an autonomous board. You may ask why this
could matter. Well, it was made apparent by the testimony
of the Secretary of State himself during the deliberations
on HB 132 that the licensing division is underfunded, and
that the amount being spent on dentistry was nowhere close
to what we pay in licensing fees. So when we wanted
investigators to check on dental concerns, most of the
times they were busy serving other boards. It became clear
that the best way to improve the Board’s service to the
public by better regulation of the profession was to move
the Board to DCH.
That is the history. The process requires that the
legislature pass an enabling piece of legislation. In
anticipation of what can sometimes be a very interesting
process under the Gold Dome, our association and the
pharmacy association worked with the Governor’s office to
make the bill something that he would be willing to sign
if passed with no amendments. We will fast forward through
a lot of the minutia. However, suffice it to say, the
Secretary of State stood in opposition to the bill. His
concerns as stated in the House testimony on the bill,
were that he would not have enough money to run his
department with the dental and pharmacy fees removed. The
bill passed with a wide margin in the House and proceeded
to the Senate where the SOS was a former member.
Along the way, Senator Renee Unterman, who is also a
nurse, wanted to amend the bill to include the Georgia
nurses. The only problem was that the Governor was not
inclined to sign a bill that was counter to his original
understanding. This is where things started to get
interesting. Now you have the SOS, a former member of the
State Senate, and a sitting, well known and well respected
State Senator standing in the way of the process of
passing HB 132. You will be happy to know that both of
Macon’s senators, Mr. David Lucas and Mr. Cecil Staton
played key rolls in moving this bill. Their help was
crucial in allowing this bill able to move from a
subcommittee (where it could have died), to the main
committee in time to make the photo finish for this bill
to pass. It passed the Senate with only 8 dissenting votes
.
Now , the Secretary of State and Senator Unterman are not
happy with us. This was demonstrated by the testimony
given on the floor of the Senate. (You can call the
GDA for the link to listen to the testimony if you like).
We can hope that we can make peace with them for future
bills that will certainly come. This is where we come full
circle to it being very important to know the rest of the
Senate (or have the rest of the Senate to know us). Eight
senators voted against HB 132, we best work carefully to
talk to the eight and we need to make sure that we know
the other 46 even better. Bill passage is a lot about
relationships and you and only you can insure that the
voice of your profession is heard by making sure that YOU
have a RELATIONSHIP with YOUR representative.
PS
It’s all about relationships! If you happen to see Senator
Lucas or Senator Staton, Please thank them.
At our February meeting, the following people
were elected:
Alternate Delegate= Michael Wright
Chair of Delegation= Nancy O'Brien
ADA Delegation= Kara Moore
Vice President of Central District= Cameron Garvin
Treasury Report, April 2013
Balance Checking Brought
Forward
9562.67
Withdrawals
Macon Letter Svc February
Newsltr
554.05
Robins Event Center Mtg
Meal
1186.25
GDA,January HOD
Caucus
640.34
Deposits
February Mtg
Receipts
975.00
GDA 2013 Dues
Receipts
18147.00
Balance
Checking
26304.03
Money Market
Balance
4640.84
Total CDDS
Assets
30944.87
Respectfully submitted,
Don Benton
PS - I am proud of our District as we contributed $1,825
to the Macon Volunteer Clinic and $1,625 to Rehoboth Life
Care Ministries.
Feb.5,2013 EC Mtg,
Office of Michael Wright
Attending: Michael Wright, Ched Smaha, Kara Moore, Paul
Fraysure,Amber Lawson, Jay Harrington, Pinkney
Gilchrist, Amy Lee, Don Spillers, Ty Ivey, Deena
Holliman-Smith, Alfred Peters, Nancy O'Brien, Mike Loden,
Amy Loden, Lindsay Holliday, Kendrick Mathews,
Cameron Garvin, Vin Bhasin, Don Benton
Meeting called to order at 7:04 pm
Michael opened the meeting with comments regarding the
recently completed census noting that in actuality the
access is there it is the demand for services that is not
present. He encouraged all to review the findings as
printed in Action.
Minutes from Nov. EC meeting approved
Treasury report approved, Noted that our meeting expenses
are on the rise especially the Legislative Reception. The
general consensus after discussion is to look at other
venues to keep it competitive and attempt to slow the
increase. Discussion of the district effort on Feb.1 for
Give kids a smile day. Through the very generous work of
Margaret Moore and her staff as well as other
participating Drs. we provided an excellent day of service
to the community! Ways of improving for next year were
discussed as well in the hopes that we can expand on the
efforts gained this year.Motion made by Ivey
seconded and approved to have N. O'Brien head a committee
to coordinate refinement of our efforts to improve
outreach and exposure for GKAS in feb.2014.
Awards Cmt: D. Holliman-Smith no report Dental Education
Foundation: P. Fraysure noted that due to the economy
contributions are down and he requested that we help any
way we can to beef up the efforts to aid students with
financial needs.
Legislative Cmt: Amber noted our upcoming March 14 day at
the capital and pleaded for maximum participation to
remain number one in District participation! She will be
contacting select people to arrange carpooling in the next
couple of weeks. She also requested that an e-mail
reminder be sent to encourage more participation!
GADPAC: P.Fraysure: Noted that the PAC was recently in the
top 20 PACS for participation in contributions to
legislators. We need to remember to maximize our PAC
contributions to be effective in our relationships under
the gold dome.
BOT: See report ,Mike noted the new GDA staff member Meg
Robinson is on board and getting up to speed. ADA
Delegation: See Kara's Report
GDIS: Mike Loden commented that non-dues revenue is
dwindling and there may be a need for a dues increase.
Pres Michael noted a member request for a waiver of CDDS
dues for financial hardship. discussion followed,motion
made, seconded and passed to waive 2013 dues for this
individual. Pres Michael also noted that member Bruce
Shaver is eligible for Life Member Status.Motion made
seconded and approved to grant Life membership.
Kara noted that Tracy Gay from Dublin is now a member of
the Board of Dentistry taking an at-large
position.Congrats. Also noted that Steven Hill from Dublin
won the $1,000 prize for paying dues prior to the
Dec.deadline and he will be present at the base meeting to
accept his awarded check. Congratulations Steven! It pays
to pay up by Dec.31.
Nancy O'Brien gave report on public health and the Macon
Volunteer Clinic and will seek to help find ways the
District may be able to help. stay tuned in for more
details at next EC mtg .Don Spillers also mentioned
Rehoboth Ministry Clinic in Warner Robins and encouraged
participation as they have unfilled hours of operation
that could be staffed.
Old Business: Need to firm up date for the May CE
offering. Motion made seconded and approved to proceed and
Vin will get program and date for a Friday in May.Most
likely May 17 or 24.
New Business: Motion made seconded and approved to move
scholarship awards to the hygiene students' Honors day
program at the respective school. Advisory Board members
would be available to do presentation of award with our
Scholarship committee Chairperson. No further business
,meeting adjourned at 8:50 pm.
Respectfully submitted, Don Benton
The Central District is happy to present mandatory OSHA
training for your team members.
“Bloodborne Pathogen Training For the Dental Office “
Presented by : Ms Karen L Murphy, Stericycle Occupation
Safety Specialist.
When…May 17th, 10AM-12PM. 2 CE credits.
Where…Central Georgia Technical College, Macon
Cost…$15 Per team member in advance and $25 at the door.
Space is limited so please reserve your spots as soon as
possible.
This seminar provides mandatory OSHA training for
healthcare workers.
We would like to thank Ms Murphy, Stericycle and Patterson
Dental for making this seminar possible.
To reserve your spot please make your check out to Central
District Dental Society and mail it to:
Dr. Ched Smaha
151 Pierce Ave,
Macon, Ga. 31204
For questions regarding this event please contact Dr. Vin
Bhasin at (478) 932-0232 or bhasindmd@yahoo.com
President -- Michael Wright
President Elect -- Ched Smaha
Vice President -- Vin Bhasin
Secretary/Treasurer-- Don Benton
Editor-- Amy Lee
COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS
Awards -Deena Holliman Smith
Constitution/Bylaws- John Kuo
Dental Education Foundation- Paul Fraysure
Dental Health - Shirley Fisher , Grier Godfrey
(fluoridation liaison)
Finance - Kendrick Mathews
Forensics - Jason Mann
GADPAC - Paul Fraysure, Ty Ivey
Governmental Affairs - Amber Lawson , John Bowman (Board
of Dent. liaison) Ty Ivey
Membership Services - Jamie Mitchell
Recruitment and Retention - Katie Garvin
Oral Health in Institutional Settings - Grier Godfrey
Peer Review - Greg Burns
Public Relations - Lindsay Holliday ,Megan Johnson
Information Technology - Cameron Garvin
Workforce - Pinkney Gilchrist
Taskforce on Medicaid - Jim Hall, Alfred Peters
Constitution and Bylaws:
http://www.hollidaydental.com/cdds/Constitution-Bylaws2007.htm
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