A Fish Story - Tufts University School of Dental Medicine

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M A G A Z I N E O F T H E T U F T S U N I V E R S I T Y D E N TA L A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N
OPEN
VOL. 11 NO. 2
DENTAL MEDICINE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2007
Mount Pleasant Country Club
369 Cross Street
Boylston, Massachusetts
Tufts Dental alumni, faculty and friends
are invited to participate!
ALL PROCEEDS BENEFIT THE DENTAL
ALUMNI STUDENT LOAN FUND
OUTREACH
TO AFRICA
For more information, call the Office of Dental Alumni
Relations at 617.636.6773 or email
[email protected].
Please complete the registration form and enclose
your check, made payable to Tufts University Dental
Alumni Association, and mail to:
PHOTO BY JEFF BAUM
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consider a $100 donation to help future students
of Tufts Dental and be listed as a tournament
sponsor in the Tufts Dental Medicine magazine.
In rural Zambia, far from
paved roads, power grids and
dental clinics, Tufts is helping
to create opportunities in a
nation overwhelmed by AIDS
and poverty. For more on the
story, turn to page 28.
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A Fish Story
Or how we can grow our own
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SUMMER 2007
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2007–2008
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SEPTEMBER 17
NOVEMBER 1
MARCH 2008
MAY 2–4, 2008
Dental Alumni Association’s
25th Annual Wide Open Golf
and Tennis Tournament
11 a.m. shotgun start; tennis
tournament: 2 p.m.; reception:
4 p.m.; dinner: 5 p.m.
Alumni reception in conjunction
with the annual meeting of
the American College of
Prosthodontists
Westin Kierland Resort and Spa
Rainmakers A
Scottsdale, Arizona
Tufts Dental Alumni outing
at the Boston Red Sox Spring
Training, date TBA
City of Palms Park
Fort Myers, Florida
Dental Homecoming and
Reunion Weekend 2008
Tufts School of Dental Medicine
and Langham Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
NOVEMBER 27
SEPTEMBER 28
Alumni reception at the annual
meeting of the American Dental
Association
Hilton San Francisco
Continental Parlor 8
San Francisco, California
5:30–7 p.m.
Dinner: 7 p.m., location TBA
OCTOBER 11
with the annual meeting of the
American Association of Oral
and Maxillofacial Surgeons
Hilton Hawaiian
Village Beach Resort and Spa
South Pacific 2
Honolulu, Hawaii
Greater New York
Dental Meeting
Marriott Marquis Hotel
New York City
6–7:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY 1, 2008
with Yankee Dental Congress 33
Westin Boston Waterfront
5:30–7 p.m.
2007 WIDE OPEN Tournament
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MARCH 11, 2008
MAY 18, 2008
Student/Alumni Networking
Session, sponsored by the
Dental Alumni Association
for second-, third- and fourthyear students. Alumni
volunteers needed. Email
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One Kneeland Street
5:30–8 p.m.
Tufts University’s 152nd
Commencement
Medford/Somerville campus
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reception, dinner and lecture
Penn Club
New York City
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OCTOBER 29
American Academy of
Periodontology
Renaissance
Washington DC Hotel
Meeting Room 8
Washington, D.C.
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RECEPTION
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TENNIS TOURNAMENT
2 to 4 p.m.
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And now they are dentists,
from left, Michelle Anderson,
Cyrous Ardalan, Melanie Arruda
and Justin Au, all members of
the Class of 2007.
AWARDS DINNER
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Dental Medicine
PHOTO: JEFF BEERS
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CONTENTS
SUMMER
2007
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VOLUME
11,
N O.
F E AT U R E S
7 90-Minute Miracle
by Jacqueline Mitchell
Munch an apple a few hours after surgery?
That’s not a problem with a new generation
of implants.
10 In Demand
by Julie Flaherty
Everyone, or so it seems, wants to study at
Tufts Dental School. The reason often comes
down to one person.
22 Teen Angels
by Julie Flaherty
Tufts reaches out to an elusive patient
population that often falls through the
cracks of the oral health-care system.
26 Lessons from a Golfer
by Susan Lebel Young
A daughter learns that her father’s greatness
comes from an open heart.
28 Renewal
Tufts is changing lives in
rural Zambia.
COVER STORY
16 A Fish Story
The zebrafish swimming
about your home aquarium
perform a nifty biological
trick that is helping scientists
figure out how we can grow
our own replacement teeth.
On the cover: Dental researcher Pamela Yelick and the zebrafish that know
a thing or two about growing teeth. PHOTO BY JOHN SOARES
PHOTO: O LOUIS MAZZATENTA/GETTY IMAGES, ILLUSTRATION: TIM CARROLL
D E PA R T M E N T S
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3
5
31
42
43
45
Letters
From the Dean
Word of Mouth
On Campus
University News
Beyond Boundaries
Alumni News
summer 2007
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LETTERS
ANTICIPATION
I look forward to reading each issue of Tufts
Dental Medicine, which keeps distant alumni
like me informed of current student and faculty programs and activities. The magazine,
from the featured articles, often focusing
on cutting-edge clinical, research and academic developments, to the excellent photography, is a pleasure to read. The magazine
places Tufts Dental a step forward in comparison with others and makes me proud to
be an alumnus.
john h. horton, d57
professor emeritus
and former head, periodontics
the ohio state university
college of dentistry
AN INSPIRATION
I am a D88 graduate and read your article
about Dr. Catherine Hayes (“The Greater
Good,” Winter 2007). I knew Dr. Hayes in
dental school and always admired her
unique and pioneering decision to go into
public health at a time when those words
were never uttered in the One Kneeland
Street building! Through her volunteer
work in Latin America, she inspired my
decision to move into community dentistry here in Nicaragua. Thanks for your
great articles. Paz y salud.
belinda forbes, d88
managua, nicaragua
THE GOOD LIFE
As for life after graduation from Tufts, it
couldn’t be better! I’m working in a tiny
town, Talkeetna, Alaska, at a community
health center. I’m the only dentist in the
health center in a community with a lot of
different needs. I’m working here because I
was a National Health Service Corps Scholar, and I couldn’t imagine a better place to
finish my commitment. The job is more
than fulfilling, and the social and political
aspects of working in a rural community
health center keep me on my toes.
Here’s a neat connection: The American
Dental Association’s first woman president,
Geraldine Morrow, D56, works in Alaska. In
fact, when the people in my community
desperately needed dental care, but didn’t
have a dentist, Dr. Morrow drove from
Anchorage once a month and worked for a
week at a time at the clinic where I am currently employed. My assistant said Dr. Morrow and I did a lot of things similarly. I like
to think it was that Tufts connection.
christina dahlke, d05
talkeetna, alaska
GREAT SHOTS
We received such an overwhelmingly positive response to Roger Galburt’s photo
essay (“Eye on America,” Winter 2007),
that we’d like to showcase other stunning
photography by Tufts Dental alumni, faculty, students and staff in future issues of
the magazine. Send us your images (karen.
[email protected]) and tell us a little about
when and where you took the photograph.
Digital images must be at least 2550x3300
pixels to be printed. If you’d like to mail us
a print, send it to Karen Bailey, Tufts Publications, 80 George Street, Medford, MA
02155.
GOLD MEDAL
Tufts Dental Medicine won a Gold Medal for
periodical staff writing for external audiences from the Council for Advancement
and Support of Education (CASE) in the
2007 national Circle of Excellence contest.
The gold medal is the highest award in university and college publishing.
In addition, university photographer
Melody Ko’s cover photo of Sarah Dill in
her father Mike Dill’s dental office (“In
Balance,” Winter 2006), won an honorable
mention in the 2007 Journalism Awards
contest sponsored by the International
College of Dentists, USA Section.
TALK TO US Tufts Dental Medicine welcomes letters, concerns and suggestions from all
its readers. Address your correspondence, which may be edited for space, to Karen Bailey,
Editor, Tufts Dental Medicine, Tufts University Office of Publications, 80 George St., Medford,
MA 02155. You can also fax us at 617.627.3549 or e-mail [email protected]
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DENTAL MEDICINE
vo l u m e 1 1 , n o . 2 s u m m e r 2 0 0 7
Executive Editor
Dr. Lonnie H. Norris, Dean
School of Dental Medicine
Editor
Karen Bailey
Alumni Editor
Dr. Vangel R. Zissi, D62, DG67
Art Director
Margot Grisar
Designers
Betsy Hayes, Carolynn DeCillo
Contributing Writers
Karen Cirrito, Julie Flaherty, Jacqueline Mitchell
Contributing Editors
Beth Horning, Leslie Macmillan
Editorial Advisors
Maria Tringale, Director
Dental Development and Alumni Relations
Karen Cirrito, Associate Director
Mark Gonthier, Associate Dean
Admissions and Student Affairs
Mary-Ellen Marks, Faculty Secretary
Dental Alumni Asso ciation
President
Dr. Nicholas T. Papapetros II, D91
Secretary
Dr. Norman H. Diamond, D57, DG64
Assistant Secretary
Dr. John Ficarelli, D73
Treasurer
Dr. Janis B. Moriarty, D94
Directors
Drs. Cherie Cahillane Bishop, D94; Peter A. Delli
Colli, A69, D73; Mostafa H. El-Sherif, DI95;
Joseph P. Giordano, D79, DG84; John J. Millette, D91;
Tofigh Raayai, DG77, DI82
Ex-Officio
Past Presidents: Drs. Robert B. Amato, D80, DG83;
Janis B. Moriarty, D94; Lisa Vouras, D89
Dental M Club Chair
Dr. John Ficarelli, D73
Historian
Dr. Charles B. Millstein, D62
University Liaison
Dr. Thomas F. Winkler III, A62, D66
Chapter Presidents
Dr. Mary Ellen Sullivan Chalmers, D80, California
Dr. Debbie Lee, D94, New York
Dr. William N. Pantazes, D90, Florida
Dr. John A. Vrotsos, DG82, Greece
Tufts Dental Medicine is published twice annually by Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine, the Tufts University Dental Alumni Association and the Tufts University
Office of Publications. The magazine is a publication
member of the American Association of Dental Editors.
Send correspondence to: Editor, Tufts Dental Medicine,
Tufts University Office of Publications, 80 George St.,
Medford, MA 02155.
Telephone: 617.627.2126; Fax: 617.627.3549
FROM THE DEAN
Head of the class
dental medicine has become a highly desirable profession. high numbers
of prospective students are applying to U.S. dental schools, where applications have
risen annually since 2002. Tufts University School of Dental Medicine is no exception. The school received 1,995 applications for the D.M.D. class that entered in
the fall of 2003. The news gets better. This past academic year, we received 4,268
applications for the 165 slots in the D.M.D. class that arrives in August. That’s a 113
percent increase over six years. The number of applicants to Tufts is at its highest
level since 1976, when 3,866 applied for admission. (See related story, page 10).
Of significance for Tufts Dental School
is the fact that we have continued to elevate
our academic standards to attract the best
and the brightest. This year, the percentage
of our applicants who met admissions criteria and were accepted to our D.M.D. program was at an impressive 7 percent
selectivity rate. In addition, a higher percentage of applicants are choosing Tufts
over other dental schools. Over the last
few years, children of our school’s alumni
have become more interested in a dental
career, and our increased enrollment of
legacies reflects this trend.
Our strategic planning efforts are producing results, making Tufts University
School of Dental Medicine a desirable destination for prospective dentists. We have
worked hard to improve all aspects of our
school, including student services, the
number and quality of our faculty, our
curriculum, technological innovations,
clinic operations and community outreach
programs.
During the latter half of the 20th century,
national application trends fluctuated wildly,
ranging from 4,644 applicants in 1959 to a
high of 15,734 in 1975. A precipitous decline
followed, bottoming out at 4,996 applicants
in 1989. Between 1989 and 1997, the U.S.
dental school applicant pool grew by 97
percent, to 9,829. After 1997, applications
declined 30 percent, until 2002. For the class
that will graduate in 2010, there were in
excess of 12,400 applicants.
The roller-coaster of application trends is
a natural extension of other demographic
data. When the wave of baby boomers
entered college and graduate school between
the late-1960s and the mid-1970s, dental
schools saw their application numbers swell.
More undergraduates were earning degrees in
the biological sciences, making dentistry an
attractive career option. Federal student loan
and scholarship programs and federal construction and capitation grants supported
enrollment increases. And the burgeoning
U.S. population also created a demand for
health-care professionals.
The declines in dental school applications that occurred during the late 1970s
and throughout the 1980s were a result of
the perception that the country was educating more dentists than patients would
ever need, as well as the termination of
federal support for efforts to further stimulate enrollment increases in the health
professions schools and competition from
other sectors of the job market that offered
more immediate income gratification. By
1993, six dental schools had closed, and
another closed in 2001.
Now, as other career opportunities have
waned, dental medicine has re-emerged as
a respected, reliable, rewarding and desirable
profession. In the past decade, dental schools
have opened in Florida, Arizona and Nevada.
In the coming years, three more are scheduled to open in North Carolina, Arizona
and California.
The timing couldn’t be better. The dentist-to-population ratio is on the decline. In
2005, there were 59 dentists for every
100,000 Americans. The American Dental
Education Association (ADEA) predicts
the dentist-to-patient ratio will decrease
even further, to 55 dentists per 100,000
people, by 2020. In addition, ADEA estimates that between 2014 and 2027, more
dentists will leave the workforce than enter
it (see graph, page 4).
But perhaps the biggest draw of a career
in dentistry is the ability to have it all—a
rewarding professional life in balance with
family and parenting responsibilities. In
fact, nearly 90 percent of students surveyed
by ADEA in 2006 said that the ability to control their work schedule was the number one
reason they wanted to become dentists (see
graph, page 4). Other upsides include:
A respected profession with long-term
job security
■ Interaction with people and gratification in seeing positive outcomes in a
relatively short time
■ The ability to make a difference
■ Geographic flexibility in choosing
where to practice
■ Myriad career paths, including private
practice, business, public health, academic
administration, teaching and research
■ A good educational investment, with
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FROM THE DEAN
WHY STUDENTS CHOOSE DENTISTRY, 2006
Control of time
Service to others
Self-employment
Income potential
Enjoy working with hands
Variety of career options
Community status/prestige
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
% of Students
SOURCE: American Dental Education Association
$3 million for financial aid to offset
student indebtedness and create
opportunities for a highly qualified,
diverse student body to receive a Tufts
dental education
■ $3 million to expand community
outreach endeavors, providing access
to care and ingraining in our students
the responsibility of caring for the
underserved
■ $12 million for the Tufts Dental Fund,
monies that provide resilience against
unknown contingencies and stabilize the
school’s daily operations
■
ESTIMATED CHANGES IN NUMBER OF DENTISTS
IN THE WORKFORCE, 1995 – 2040
1995
2006
2014
From 2014 to 2017,
it is predicted that more
dentists will leave the
workforce than enter it.
2023
2027
2040
-1,500
-1,000
0
-500
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
Assumptions: Number of graduates remains at 4,850 after 2007, and retirement age is 65
SOURCE: American Dental Education Association
predictable income in a reasonable number
of years after graduation. In fact, the net
hourly income of dentists exceeds that of
family practice physicians, general internists
and pediatricians. The average net income
of full-time dentists in private practice
has increased 117 percent since 1990,
according to ADEA.
■ Increased interest in recent scientific
literature linking good oral health to
overall well-being
■ Positive publicity on implantology
and oral health research in salivary
diagnostics, stem cell and gene therapy
and regeneration of teeth
summer 2007
The popularity of a career in dental
medicine comes at a most opportune time
for our school, which has embarked on a
$40 million fund-raising campaign to
advance its mission. The priorities of the
Beyond Boundaries campaign are:
$16 million to add five floors to One
Kneeland Street to improve clinical space,
expand the simulation clinic, upgrade
continuing education, add to teaching and
office space and advance technology
■ $6 million for endowed professorships
and competitive salaries to recruit, develop
and retain quality faculty
■
To maintain our standing as a highly
desirable institution at which to receive topnotch clinical and research training, our
school must continue to be in a leadership
position with a stimulating academic environment. The Beyond Boundaries campaign
will help us do just that.
On behalf of our students, staff and
faculty, I extend our sincere appreciation to
our alumni for their support. With our
combined efforts and resources, we will
build an even stronger school for the next
generation.
lonnie h. norris, d.m.d., m.p.h.
A SCAN OF PEOPLE & EVENTS
WORD OF MOUTH
Nancy Johnson, a hygienist with the
Tufts Community Dental Program, is an
“oral health hero” to the kids she serves
in western Massachusetts.
Oral health heroes
“got my toothpaste, got my brush. i won’t hurry, i won’t rush.
Making sure my teeth are clean front and back and in between. When I
brush for quite a while, I will have a happy smile.” Twenty-five preschoolers warbled this dental ditty to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
before an audience of dental care providers, legislators and health-care
advocates in Massachusetts.
The performance was part of a celebration earlier this year to kick off
the BEST Oral Health Program, a new early childhood preventive dentistry
initiative for preschoolers in western Massachusetts. Tufts School of Dental Medicine—represented by Dr. Catherine Hayes, D87, chair of the
Department of Public Health and Community Service, and Dr. John
Morgan, director of the Tufts Dental Facilities Serving Persons with Special Needs—was recognized for helping to implement the program. Nancy
Johnson, a hygienist with the Tufts Community Dental Program, was
among those honored as “oral health heroes.”
Not many parties have dentistry going on across the hall, but at this
one—held at the Early Childhood Centers of Greater Springfield—teeth
cleaning was a main attraction. The mobile dentistry unit next door, staffed
by dentists and hygienists from the Tufts Community Dental Program and
the Oral Health Impact Project, is the heart of the BEST (Bringing Early
Education Screening and Treatment) Oral Health Program.
“The parents think it’s great,” said Arlene Click, a teacher at the
early childhood center who brought five children to the portable dentistry
unit for checkups. “I brought them all at once so they can see what happens and won’t be afraid.”
The first state-funded program of its kind, BEST provides dental care
to Hampden County’s preschoolers. And they need it. Kids in Greater
PHOTO: JODI HILTON
Springfield develop tooth decay—already
the most common childhood disease in the
United States—at twice the national rate.
Statewide, a 2004 survey by the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children found that half of all third-graders
already have tooth decay, and a quarter of
those kids attend school with severe,
untreated oral infections. Apart from interfering with schoolwork, good nutrition and
social interactions, poor oral health is linked
to other chronic illnesses such as heart disease
and diabetes.
“Some children have already had bad
experiences at the dentist, and a lot of dentists
don’t want to see kids this young, so we’re
removing those barriers,” said Johnson,
dressed in bright, kid-friendly scrubs.
The BEST program addresses those barriers and others through regular visits to
early childhood centers. On-site visits during
the school day mean children can receive
regular dental screenings, treatment, preventive care and education in a familiar place,
without their parents having to take time
off from work or scramble for transportation—two reasons many children go without
regular dental care.
“This is a novel project,” said Hayes, the
Delta Dental of Massachusetts Professor in
Public Health and Community Service at
Tufts. “It’s an opportunity to demonstrate
that this is a feasible way to get dental service
to kids in need.”
With state funding for the first time in fiscal year 2007, the program will reach some
7,000 kids in Greater Springfield this year,
according to Frank Robinson, executive director of Partners for a Healthier Community
and vice chair of the statewide Oral Health
Task Force. The program’s advocates hope
BEST will serve as a model for similar initiatives across the state and even the country.
Robinson, who served as the event’s
emcee, recognized the collaborative efforts of
Tufts School of Dental Medicine, Springfield
College, Boston University and several advocacy groups to launch the BEST program.
See Oral health, page 6
summer 2007
WORD OF MOUTH
A SCAN OF PEOPLE & EVENTS
Brushing up on history
when surveyors at mit asked americans
in 2003 what they considered the one
invention they could not live without,
the number one answer was not the automobile or the cell phone, but the toothbrush. So who gets
credit for bringing brushing into
being?
According to
the Dr. Samuel D.
Harris National
Museum of Dentistry, there are
examples of Babylonians using frayed
twigs to rub their
mouths clean as early
as 2500 B.C., although
the ancient Chinese,
circa 1500 A.D., were the
first to craft brushes just for the teeth,
using bamboo or bone for handles and the
neck hairs of Siberian boars for bristles.
An Englishman, William Addis, created
the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780;
he came up with the design while in prison,
or so the story goes. Many American companies followed suit after 1885. But the
modern toothbrush didn’t take form until
CARE FOR ALL
the creation of Nylon in 1938 by DuPont,
which marketed its Nylon-bristled product
under the name “Dr. West’s Miracle Tuft
Toothbrush.” While
the synthetic filaments stayed cleaner
and lasted longer
than boar hair,
they were still
much stiffer than
today’s soft tufts,
and off-putting to
many a mouth. In
fact, most Americans
didn’t brush their
teeth until after
World War II, when
soldiers who had been issued
toothbrushes and told to brush regularly brought their regimen back home.
Although there were motor-driven
toothbrushes as early as the 1930s, it took a
couple of decades for mechanized brushing
to catch on. In 1961, the “Broxodent,” one
of the first corded electric toothbrushes,
was introduced in the United States by
Squibb Co., and soon, cordless electric
toothbrushes followed. By 1964, there were
70 different kinds of electric toothbrushes
on the market.
—Julie Flaherty
TO REINFORCE ITS COMMITMENT TO
increase access to oral health care
for low-income individuals, the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS) has
approved a resolution encouraging
its more than 4,000 member dentists to enroll in the MassHealth
(Medicaid) dental program. The
action was taken on May 11 at the
143rd annual session of the MDS
House of Delegates, held in Boston.
“Reducing some of the barriers in
obtaining dental care is critical to the
overall health of every citizen,” said
MDS President Andrea Richman, D78.
In addition to the MassHealth
resolution, the MDS has initiated
other programs to help underprivileged families receive dental care.
These include purchasing a mobile
dental van that provides free oral
care to children ages 18 and younger
(see “Teen Angels,” page 22) and
creating the MassDentists CARE
(Combining Access with Reduced
Expense) program, which provides
children who don’t qualify for
MassHealth with reduced-cost
oral health care.
OVERHEARD
“Life as a successful ballplayer is the best in the world.
Dentistry is more grounded.
It gives you a great sense of community.”
JIM LONBORG, D83, THE FIRST BOSTON RED SOX PITCHER TO WIN THE
CY YOUNG AWARD, IN THE JULY 2 ISSUE OF SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
Oral health, continued from page 5
“Without that collection of resources, we
couldn’t have pulled this off,” he said, inviting
representatives from each institution, including John Morgan and Nancy Johnson, to
officially kick off the three-year pilot program
with a “floss-cutting ceremony.”
“Tufts’ attention to needy populations
goes back at least a generation,” said State
summer 2007
Rep. John W. Scibak (D-South Hadley),
chair of the state’s oral health caucus. Scibak
and his colleagues, Sen. Gale D. Candaras
(D-Wilbraham) and Sen. Stephen J. Buoniconti (D-West Springfield), were also honored for their efforts to obtain state funding
for the program. Candaras, in turn, awarded
oral health hero citations from the Commonwealth to five citizens, four early child-
hood educators and Tufts’ Nancy Johnson.
“These Tufts hygienists are incredibly
dedicated. They know the community; they
know the school systems, and they know the
best way to reach kids,” said Hayes. “Tufts
has been out in the community for such a
long time. Now others are seeing the needs
of the community are great, and Tufts will
be there in a leadership role.”
ILLUSTRATION: TIM CARROLL
Munch an apple the same day as the surgery? Zygomatic implants make that possible
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for more than 30 years, dan nagel was
afraid to go swimming. It wasn’t a fear of
drowning or too many screenings of
“Jaws” that kept the 50-year-old Worcester, Mass., resident out of the water.
Nagel was afraid of losing the dentures
he had worn since the age of 17. The
impact they had on his life wasn’t confined to the beach. The dentures limited
what he could eat, affected his speech
and undermined his confidence.
Today, Nagel is no longer afraid to
swim—or careen about on a jet ski for
that matter. He never has to stifle
another sneeze, and there is no cob of
BY JACQUELINE MITCHELL
PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID CARMACK
For the first time in more than 30 years,
Dan Nagel can munch with abandon.
“Patients who have tried absolutely everything else—who have had
dentures, who have had implants fail, who have had bone grafts
fail—get to leave here with teeth the same day.” —MARIA PAPAGEORGE
corn he can’t conquer. In a single day in
May, Nagel received a brand new set of teeth
supported by zygomatic implants, a groundbreaking alternative to traditional dental
implants, which often require months of
preparation and procedures before they can
be placed.
“With the dentures, there wasn’t a lot I
could do, and there wasn’t a lot I could eat,”
Nagel said. “I can eat anything now—even
crunchy things.”
After a severe gum infection cost Nagel all
his teeth as a teen, he suffered severe bone
atrophy in both his upper and lower jaws, a
common side effect of tooth loss and of denture-wearing. That lack of bone made him
ineligible for traditional dental implants,
which are affixed to or supported by posts
implanted in the maxilla, the upper jaw bone.
Nagel was, however, a prime candidate
for a new implant technique now offered at
Tufts. Zygomatic implants are inserted into
the zygoma, the medical term for the cheekbone. The technique was first introduced 10
years ago by Swedish orthopedic surgeon
Per-Ingvar Branemark, who also invented
the traditional dental implant procedure in
the 1950s. In 2004, Branemark invited Dr.
Maria Papageorge, D82, DG86, G89, professor
and chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery;
Dr. Robert Chapman, D67, DG74, professor
and chair of prosthodontics and operative
dentistry; and Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80,
to the Branemark Osseointegration Center in
Bauru, Brazil, to join a worldwide, multicenter study to test the novel approach over
the next three to five years.
Prior to his new permanent teeth being
attached, Dan Nagel’s X-rays show four
“conventional” implants on the bottom and
four zygomatic implants on the top.
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine is now one of a small number of centers
around the country offering zygomatic
implants to eligible patients.
Though similar in some ways, zygomatic
implants are a far cry from the monthslong ordeal for traditional implants—which
can require multiple surgical procedures
and an 18- to 24-month waiting period before the procedure is completed. Moreover,
zygomatic implants can be an option for
patients who already have experienced failure
with the bone grafting traditional implants
sometimes require.
“The results so far are very promising and
encouraging,” said Papageorge, who performs
the surgical portion of the implant process.
“The procedure is like the traditional
[implant], but more complex in both the surgical and prosthetic arenas.”
Osseointegration, the process by which
bone adheres to the titanium implant, is the
same no matter where the implant is
inserted. But because of the zygoma’s
anatomic location, just below the eyes, Chapman and Papageorge take great pains to
determine the placement of the titanium
posts, which are 4 millimeters in diameter
and can be 30 to 52 millimeters long.
“We do virtual surgery,” Chapman said.
“We have everything pre-planned so the
patient will look and function normally.”
With the patient fitted with a plastic denture, the team of dentists scans the patient’s
head and jaw to determine exactly how much
bone there is to work with. Using the CT
images, the oral surgeons and the prosthodontists virtually place the implants on the
computer screen, using the denture as a guideline. Together, the team determines the angles
and exit points for the titanium posts that will
yield the most stability for the prosthodontics
and best function for the patient. And, Chapman said, best function includes the look and
feel of the patient’s new teeth, as well as his or
her ability to speak clearly.
“It’s a real partnership” between the prosthodontics and oral surgery teams, said
Chapman. “The collaboration between the
teams ensures the best possible outcome for
the patient.”
With the patient under general anesthesia,
the surgeon inserts the titanium implants
through the mouth, into the upper jaw,
through the maxillary sinus and into the zygomatic bone. Placing four posts is a 90-minute
outpatient procedure. Later that same day,
the prosthodontics team fits the patient with a
temporary, but fully functional, fixed bridge.
The patient can eat an apple on the way home
from the surgery. After three months of bone
healing and growth, the patient receives his or
her permanent porcelain teeth, cast from the
temporary fixed bridge.
Papageorge and Chapman are currently
training their postgraduate students—oral
and maxillofacial surgery residents and
prosthodontic fellows—to perform the zygomatic implant procedure.
The duo is also sharing their expertise with
others around the world. In March, Papageorge gave a presentation on zygomatic
implants at the annual meeting of the Academy
of Osseointegration in San Antonio, Texas. In
June, Papageorge and Chapman spoke about
the procedure at Huashan Hospital, the teaching hospital at the Medical College of Fudan
University in Shanghai, China.
“Every dentist out there has struggled
with patients they can’t fit with dentures,”
Papageorge said. “Patients who have tried
absolutely everything else—who have had
dentures, who have had implants fail, who
have had bone grafts fail—get to leave here
with teeth the same day.”
That’s a feeling that Dan Nagel can’t quite
get over.
“It was a pretty scary move, but in the
end it was well worth it,” he says. “I am in
awe of my teeth.” TDM
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vanessa hazbun had never seen snow. a native of florida, she had hoped
she might catch some flakes when she came to Boston for her February interview
at Tufts Dental School. As it turned out, she arrived in time for the biggest snowstorm in years, which left four-foot-high snow banks and closed down the
school. Her appointment was cancelled. “I was devastated,” Hazbun said. “I
called my mom crying. She said, ‘It wasn’t meant to be.’ ”
The next morning, the phone in her hotel
room rang. It was Mark Gonthier, the associate dean for admissions and student affairs.
He told her: “You’re not going to be in school
on a normal day, and I’m not going to be
wearing a business suit, but if you do want to
come over…”
He gave her a private tour of the school
and found some dental students who just
happened to be in the building working on a
project and could chat with her. Today she is
a proud member of the Class of 2009.
So why did she choose Tufts? “The school
was amazing,” she said. “But it was Mark.”
She had met deans of admissions at other
schools who had been uptight. “Mark wasn’t
like that at all, and I think that really made
the difference,” she said. “I knew Tufts had the
prestige. When I met Mark, that was it. I
thought, I want to be in a school where they
treat you like a human being, not like they are
better than you.”
Inevitably, students find Gonthier’s
unstuffy but competent manner represents
what life at Tufts School of Dental Medicine
is all about. And word has gotten out.
Nationwide, applications to dental schools
through the Associated American Dental
Schools Application Service, which is operated by the American Dental Education
Association, were up 6.5 percent this year,
but applications to Tufts Dental School
increased by almost 14 percent.
At the same time, Tufts is now slightly
more selective than the University of Pennsylvania, one of its main competitors. And the
percentage of accepted students who enroll at
Tufts is equal to the yield at Columbia University. Colleagues credit Gonthier, who has
been guiding admissions at the dental school
for 17 years, with having a big hand in that.
SUBSTANCE, NOT GLITZ
When Mark Gonthier invites a prospective
dental student to come to Tufts for an interview, he does something that no other dental
school has done. Instead of a stylish brochure
with airbrushed photos and marketing language, he mails them a 177-page book of
photocopies that answers most any question
they may have about the D.M.D. program,
down to what rooms the classes meet in.
“We could do the slick book, but they get
turned off,” he said. “They are aware of the
manipulation of branding and images. This
appeals to them because it’s real and genuine.”
When he meets prospective students,
Gonthier doesn’t try to intimidate them
with a lecture on the school’s prestige.
Instead he tells them: “Here are the things
you’re going to complain about during the
four years you are here.”
He acknowledges that the cost of living in
Boston is outrageous, and considering that 60
percent of applicants are from a state where it
is summer six months out of the year, they
might be cold sometimes. He also talks candidly about the school’s flaws, few that they are.
“I am not going to sell our students a
used car that doesn’t work,” he said. “I have
to live with them for four years.”
On-site interviews are a mandatory part
of the admissions process for Tufts Dental
School. When applicants are invited for an
interview, they are told to anticipate challenging questions that will inform the
Admissions Committee about their skills
and motivations. They are evaluated on
their intellectual and professional maturity,
interpersonal skills, ability to communicate
and even evidence of their compassion.
“The challenge is that dental students are
really required to do it all,” Gonthier said.
“They have to be pretty astute academically;
Applications to Tufts’ D.M.D. Program, 1991–2007
NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS
4,500
4,000
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,395
2,000
1,500
1,000
500
2,647
2,922
2,838
2,667
2,256
2,120
99-00
00-01
1,788
1,184
2,038
1,995
01-02
02-03
1,379
0
91-92
92-93
93-94
APPLICATION CYCLE
summer 2007
94-95
95-96
96-97
97-98
98-99
Gonthier with
Yvonne Lee, D07
“I USED TO THINK THAT PART OF MY JOB WAS TO
MAKE STUDENTS HAPPY,” GONTHIER SAID. NOW HIS GOAL IS TO
to say goodbye to him. “I thought that was
amazing. It just made it more personal. You
didn’t feel like a face in the crowd.”
Adam Fasoli, D10, was just as surprised
when Gonthier called him prior to his interview to make sure he had gotten to town OK
during a snowstorm. “I would almost go so
far as to say that if I hadn’t had a place to stay,
he might have said, ‘Stay at my place.’ ”
Gonthier majored in sociology at Reed
College in Portland, Ore., and earned his
master’s degree in public management and
policy from Carnegie Mellon University in
1985. He spent a year working for a small
nonprofit focused on refugee resettlement and English language instruction. Unsure of where he
wanted to end up, he took a job at
Tufts University, first as assistant
director of administration for the
Office of Summer Sessions, and
later at the Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences. Although he thought
it was a long shot, in 1990 he
applied for the position of director
of admissions at the dental school. With the
support of Associate Dean Jay Stinson, now
emeritus, who had to convince others that
the young man would be a good fit,
Gonthier got the job. He was appointed
assistant dean in 1995 and promoted to
associate dean in 2001.
“MAKE THEM AS HAPPY AS POSSIBLE,
ACKNOWLEDGING THEY ARE IN DENTAL SCHOOL.”
they have to have a good chair-side manner,
and they have to have common sense.” The
latter will come into play when they are running a practice and have to manage patients
and employees.
A few students are weeded out because
they are so anxious or nervous that they would
not be able to make patients comfortable.
“And there are some who are so boorish and
4,268
3,744
2,956
2,322
03-04
04-05
05-06
06-07
SOURCE: TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL
MEDICINE OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS
self-important—if this is how they are on
their best behavior, we don’t want them on the
routine day,” Gonthier said.
THAT PERSONAL TOUCH
Prospective students arrive with their own
lists of concerns. Some worry that because
Tufts is the second largest dental school in the
country (approximately 160 students in each
class), they will get lost in the crowd. “We
spend a lot of time on personalizing the
experience,” Gonthier said. If a student
attended UCLA as an undergraduate, Gonthier might have a fourth-year dental student
from California conduct the interview.
Gonthier usually knows so much about the
applicants, he makes them feel like they have
been Tufts students for years.
“As large a class as it is, you didn’t feel like
you were going to be left behind,” said Michael
Paisner, who is one of 161 students in the
Class of 2010. Meeting with Gonthier “made it
seem like there was going to be a lot on our
plate, but it was going to be organized.”
Paisner recalls getting a voicemail from
Gonthier a couple days after his interview,
saying he was sorry he hadn’t gotten a chance
THE GO–TO GUY
As the head of admissions, Gonthier does
more to shape the face of the student body
than anyone else. As the head of student
affairs, he is also responsible for keeping a
smile on that face. But over the years, he has
come to know there are limits. “I used to
think that part of my job was to make students happy,” Gonthier said. Now his goal is
to “make them as happy as possible, acknowledging they are in dental school.”
In other words, students may find the
academics even more challenging than they
imagined, but it helps when Gonthier
remembers them, greets them in the hall by
name and takes the time to talk with them.
“Without him, the class wouldn’t be as
well put together, as unified as it is,” Fasoli
said. “He really helps hold things together.
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A CAREER AND A LIFE
EVERYONE, IT SEEMS, WANTS TO BE A DENTIST. APPLICATIONS TO U.S. DENTAL
schools have been increasing steadily in recent years—about 78 percent
since 2001. The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) estimates
that 12,475 people applied to U.S. dental schools for the 2006 entering
class, putting applications at their highest rate since the late 1970s.
“Getting into dental school has become much more competitive,”
said Dr. Richard Valachovic, executive director of ADEA and a member of
the Tufts School of Dental Medicine Board of Overseers. “During the late
1980s, there were about 1.3 applicants per dental school first-year slot.
Now it’s approaching three per slot.”
Dentistry, he said, is very appealing to students of the “millennial
generation,” or those who were born after 1981. “Many students tell the
same story of how they decided to become dentists. They grow up
thinking, ‘I want to be a doctor.’ But after looking at what being a physician entails, and the hardships it means on a day-to-day basis, they end
up thinking, ‘I want to be a doctor, but I want to have a life.’ ”
Adam Fasoli, D10, was discouraged from becoming a physician by
every doctor he knew, including his father, Robert Fasoli, M73. He
tried his hand at hospital administration, working in a few different
departments, but he knew right away that it wasn’t for him. “It really
wasn’t the kind of health care I wanted to do,” he said. “What I did
like about medicine was being involved with patients and having your
own practice. I hated the bureaucracy of the hospital.”
In dentistry, students can begin practicing after four years of study,
unlike medicine, which requires a hospital residency after four years
of medical school. Dentists typically have more flexible hours than
physicians, who may be based at hospitals or have to respond to
emergency calls.
Meghann Foley, D10, is getting married this summer and plans
to start a family one day. The lifestyle of a dentist appeals to her.
“You can leave at five and still feel like you put in a good, solid work
day,” she said.
As far as compensation, dentists can expect to make significantly
more than other health-care professionals, even physicians. Why are
dentists so well paid? They are in demand. Seven dental schools
closed their doors in the 1980s and 1990s, in part because everyone
expected oral disease to decrease with the widespread fluoridation of
Applications to U.S. Dental Schools
for Graduation Years 1955-2010
NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS
18,000
15,734
15,000
12,475
12,000
9,829
9,000
10,696
6,000
3,000
4,996
4,644
0
1955
1960 1965 1970 1975
GRADUATION YEAR
1980
1985
1990
1995
2000
2005
2010
SOURCE: AMERICAN DENTAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
the water supply, thereby reducing the need for dentists.
“We reduced the total output of dental schools in the United
States by about 40 percent,” Valachovic said. Yet dental caries
continues to be a widespread problem in children, and adults who
are living longer continue to require care. “As it turns out, the
demand for dentistry went up significantly at a time when people
thought it was going to decline,” he said.
When ADEA surveys dental students each year about why they
went into dentistry, students inevitably say their primary motivation
is that they care about people and they want to make society better.
“This generation is not only saying that, [but] they also want a good
income and lifestyle that works for them,” said Anne Wells, the associate executive director for application services at ADEA. “They are not
shy about saying I can have a good career and also have a good
income and have time for my family and personal interests as well.”
People aren’t abandoning medical schools, however. Applications
there have also gone up, just not at the rate of dental school applications. All the health professions schools took an applications dip in
the early 1990s, presumably because the dot-com boom was luring
away talented people who otherwise would have been attracted to
—Julie Flaherty
the health professions.
Anything you need, he has information
about it. If he’s not intimately familiar with it,
he knows someone who is.”
Meghann Foley, D10, second-year class
president, describes Gonthier as having “a
good sense of everything going on around
him.” He recently recruited her and seven
other students for a focus group. She didn’t
expect to see him at the meeting, because
Gonthier, shown here with Felipe Salinas,
D07, does more to shape the face of the
student body than anyone else.
he didn’t need to be there. But then he
appeared, carrying eight soft drinks. “He
remembered to bring one for each of us,”
she said. “Then he ran off to his next task.
“He’s focused, but he multi-tasks on
everything. He knows alums; he knows the
students; he knows the clubs, the class
boards, the admissions—he kind of has a
hand in everything. That says a lot about his
leadership,” Foley said.
He also leads by example. He encourages
students to take the stairs and leave the elevators available for the patients to use.
A multi-tasker who appears to be
everywhere at once at One Kneeland
Street, Gonthier, left, spends a few
moments in a class with Lauren
Castro and Debbie Derisse, both D09.
Below, a hallway chat with Benjamin
Chan, D10.
“HE’S FOCUSED, BUT HE MULTI-TASKS ON EVERYTHING.
HE KNOWS ALUMS; HE KNOWS THE STUDENTS; HE KNOWS
THE CLUBS, THE CLASS BOARDS, THE ADMISSIONS —
HE KIND OF HAS HIS HAND IN EVERYTHING.
THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT HIS LEADERSHIP.”
“That’s where you find him, on the staircase,” said Foley, who sometimes bumps into
a nearly-out-of-breath Gonthier zipping
from floor to floor at One Kneeland Street.
“He is very much one of those people who
practice what they preach.”
The average age of the class has increased
to about 25. Gonthier sees it as a positive
thing, as the emotional maturity of an older
student is generally more advanced as well.
“They are not going to spend this kind of
money without knowing this is what they
want to do,” he said.
Older students sometimes come with
spouses or children in tow, a fact that has not
gone unnoticed at the school. The Family
Welcome Day, an annual festive event for
students and their families, is indicative of
the school’s attitude, and a reminder that
dentistry itself is a family-friendly profession.
If Tufts does lose a prospective student to
another school (the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and the Uni-
versity of Southern California are Tufts’
main competitors), it is often because of a
desire to be closer to family members or a
fiancé. The cost of attending a private school
like Tufts is also a factor.
But many students choose Tufts because
they know that when they graduate, they
will have the skills and experience they need
to start practicing immediately. “We are a
school that does a really good job of educating clinicians,” Gonthier said.
Students quickly realize this. “Lots of
[graduates from other schools] have to do
residencies in general dentistry” before they
are skilled enough to work in a practice,
Fasoli said. At Tufts, he said, “almost the first
day, they were giving us our hand pieces.”
At the same time, Tufts’ growing dedication to research is only adding to the
school’s reputation. “Students are becoming
brighter and brighter—therefore, they know
they need to do research to be competitive
for postgraduate study,” Gonthier said. “We
have so many students interested in summer research; this year we had double
or triple the number of applications for
summer research that we typically do.”
Fasoli has no doubt that Gonthier himself
is a Tufts point of pride. He was interviewing
at a Midwest dental school when the admissions director asked him where else he was
applying. When he replied “Tufts,” the interviewer began telling him what a fabulous
admissions guy Tufts is blessed to have.
“We’ve been trying to get him to come here
for years,” he said. TDM
Julie Flaherty is a senior health sciences
writer in Tufts’ Office of Publications. She
can be reached at [email protected].
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Schools of hardy zebrafish are
teaching researchers plenty about
tooth regeneration.
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A biologically elegant minnow
is helping researchers decipher how
we can grow our own replacement teeth
danio rerio is an unassuming fish, content to live out its life in the warm,
sluggish tributaries of the Ganges River in East India and Burma. A small freshwater
minnow, D. rerio never gets longer than three inches, and its distinctive horizontal blue
stripes give the fish its common name, zebrafish.
A hardy, mellow species, zebrafish are popular low-maintenance aquarium fish.
Beyond the fish bowl, they offer an elegantly simple model for scientists to study
development and genetics. The females lay large numbers of transparent eggs that
grow into adult fish in just two to four days. Since the 1970s, researchers have learned
volumes about vertebrate development and the genes involved in the process by
observing the humble little zebrafish.
“Zebrafish are a beautiful model system,” said Pamela C. Yelick, G89, associate professor of oral and maxillofacial pathology at Tufts School of Dental Medicine. “You can
do anything with them.”
BY JACQUELINE MITCHELL PHOTOS BY JOHN SOARES
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Though it serves as a terrific model, the
zebrafish does have at least one feature not
seen in many other vertebrates. It continuously sheds and regenerates its teeth over the
course of its one-year life span. That’s the
biological trick Yelick and her team of
researchers are trying to figure out. If they’re
successful, it could open a whole new array
of treatment options for patients who lose
their teeth.
GENETIC TYPOS
On the eighth floor of the M&V building on
Tufts’ Boston campus, Yelick sprays her shoes
and hands with disinfectant before opening
the door to the room where 2,000 three-liter
tanks currently hold 5,000 zebrafish. Eventually, her school of zebras will number
20,000 fish. She shows off the high-speed
dishwasher for sanitizing lab tools, the incubators and brand new chemical hood that
outfit her new lab space, and then frowns a
bit at the leaky ceiling.
“We’re still perfecting things. It’s a new
group, a refreshing environment,” Yelick
said of the research team she has assembled
since she arrived at Tufts Dental School last
fall. So far, she has two researchers—and
zebrafish facility manager Caitlin Stewart
Swift—dedicated to identifying the genes
responsible for tooth regeneration in
zebrafish. To do that, the
researchers perform what is
known in the biz as a “thirdgeneration genetics screen” for
craniofacial mineralized tissue
defects in the families of
zebrafish they’ve carefully bred
and raised.
The scientists expose an adult
male fish to a chemical that will
induce a single base-pair mutation—essentially a one-letter
typographical error in the DNA sentence—in
each of his sperm cells. When these sperm
fertilize unaltered, or wild-type eggs, the resulting fish each possess the same genetic typo.
When this generation of fish is crossed with
each other, some portion of them will possess
the physical characteristic the DNA typo controls. By comparing these mutants’ DNA to
that of normal zebrafish, the Tufts researchers
will be able to determine which genes govern
Nobelist Wally Gilbert
introduced Pamela
Yelick to the zebrafish.
“The old view of the scientist is
of someone who works alone at a bench,
but that person is not going
to be a successful researcher.”
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—PAMELA C. YELICK
the tooth replacement process.
The team’s goal is to devise gene therapies
that will stimulate replacement tooth formation in people who have lost teeth due to
disease or injury.
“A lot of people are born without teeth or
lose them due to periodontal disease,” Yelick
said. “It’s very important to have healthy
teeth, not only for esthetics, but for the systemic health of the entire body.”
So Yelick is also working to grow replacement teeth in the lab. At the next bench over
from the zebrafish team, the three-person
tissue engineering group—Yan Lin, Ph.D.,
Weibo Zhang, D.M.D., Ph.D., and Wan-Peng
Xu, D.M.D, Ph.D.—seeks to grow mammalian replacement teeth from postnatal
dental stem cells.
“The two sides have a lot of interaction.
They learn from one another. We have a
SPITTING IMAGES
AN EXHIBIT ABOUT DENTAL BIOENGINEERING OPENED IN JUNE AT THE DR.
Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistr y, an affiliate
of the Smithsonian Institution in Baltimore, Md. It features
the work of Tufts dental researcher Pamela Yelick, G89,
including images of the tiny
crowns her team grew in the lab
and a sample of scaffolding on
which they grew. The exhibit,
“Bioengineering: Making a New
You,” tells the stor y of tooth
replacement technology from
ancient Egypt to the dental clinic
Clockwise from above: Ancient
of the near future.
Egyptians replaced teeth by using
An interactive feature uses
gold wire to attach the crown from
a donor tooth to their own teeth; in
silver pinballs from the arcade
the first step to growing a new tooth,
game and a magnet to demonadult dental stem cells organize; one
strate how stem cells come
of the first successful single-tooth
together before organizing into
replacements using an artificial
new tissues.
implant was performed in 1938.
“It’s a good way to illustrate
the first steps cells go through,”
said Dr. Scott Swank, the exhibit’s curator. “We wanted to cover the
things that the completion of the Human Genome Project opened up.”
Another display features the work of dental researchers at the
National Institutes of Health and elsewhere who are bioengineer-
unique combination of scientists here, which
is a great advantage,” Yelick said. “The old
view of the scientist is of someone who works
alone at a bench, but that person is not going
to be a successful researcher.”
The tissue engineering team’s work builds
on research Yelick conducted as a scientist at
the Forsyth Institute in Boston, where she
worked before she came to Tufts. Her team—
which included J.P. Vacanti, one of the fathers
of the field of tissue engineering—grew the
world’s first bioengineered tooth crowns from
postnatal porcine dental stem cells in 2002.
As they reported in the Journal of Dental
Research, Yelick and her colleagues removed
third-molar tooth buds—young teeth in the
soft-tissue phase prior to mineralization—
from the jaws of six-month-old pigs. The
use of these postnatal cells neatly avoids the
controversy surrounding embryonic stem
cells. The researchers separated the cells from
ing the salivary gland to produce
the proteins missing in people with
chronic diseases like diabetes.
“Bioengineering: Making a New
You” is the third installment in the
museum’s “Your Spitting Image”
series on cutting-edge dental
research. The entire series, including
the first and second installments,
“Saliva: A Remarkable Fluid”
and “Forensics: Solving
Mysteries,” will remain open
as a permanent display.
“Your Spitting Image” is
the first museum exhibition
to highlight the Human
Genome Project and its impact
on dentistry and oral health.
In addition to George Washington’s lower denture, dating
back to 1795, the museum
also includes exhibits on
African Americans in dentistry,
women in dentistry, sports
dentistry and animal dentistry. The museum boasts the world’s
only “Tooth Jukebox,” which plays vintage commercials for toothpaste and other oral hygiene products from the 1950s through
today. For more, go to: www.dentalmuseum.org.
each other and then seeded the dissociated
cells onto biodegradable scaffolds shaped
like human incisors. The seeded scaffolds
were then implanted into lab rats. After 20
weeks, the scientists found small crowns, just
two millimeters by two millimeters, but
already resembling natural porcine third
molars. At 30 weeks, the crowns contained
dentin and thick layers of enamel. The
researchers also found that their engineered
teeth contained other recognizable tooth
structures and that the tissues had organized
themselves just as they would have in nature.
“The cells retained the knowledge of how
to form tooth crowns beautifully,” Yelick said.
The teeth, however, remained tiny and never
filled out the tooth-shaped scaffolding on
which they’d been raised. “We’re still trying to
learn how to grow teeth of a particular size
and shape,” she noted.
To do that, Yelick’s research team at Tufts is
working to learn more about the progenitor
cells, the dental stem cells isolated from the
tooth bud. They hope to determine exactly
which combination of the various types of
cells found in the tooth bud will grow into the
most robust replacement teeth.
Yelick’s tissue engineering group is also collaborating with David Kaplan, professor and
chair of biomedical engineering at Tufts School
of Engineering and director of the university’s
Tissue Engineering Resource Center. An expert
in designing scaffolding from natural materials,
Kaplan and his team customized a silk scaffold
for Yelick’s bioengineered teeth. The engineers
considered a wide range of material properties
that would produce the best teeth—size, shape,
strength and stiffness, among others. But one
factor, biodegradability, seemed most important, Kaplan said.
“In her earlier work, when she grew teeth
that were too little, that indicates the scaf-
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folding degraded too quickly,” Kaplan said.“It’s
our task to design and form protein-based
scaffolding that will degrade very slowly to
match her needs better.”
Yelick has already gone through one round
of in vivo testing with Kaplan’s scaffolding.
“Now, we’re looking at all the data and seeing
what happens next,” he said.
DAILY SURPRISES
After graduating from Smith College in 1979
with a B.A. in biochemistry, Yelick considered medical school. One of seven children
Harvard’s BioLabs, where Wally Gilbert, a
Nobel Prize-winning molecular and cellular
biologist, introduced her to the zebrafish.
As an assistant professor at Forsyth, Yelick
developed zebrafish as a model for craniofacial development. She identified a novel gene
receptor, known as ALK 8, and determined
that it plays a significant role in craniofacial
development, including the teeth. Then, in
1999, she attended a tissue engineering seminar given by J.P. Vacanti, then chief of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Yelick wondered if Vacanti’s approach to
the dental stem cells inside of them later. These
adult stem cells can give rise to enamel, bone,
muscle, blood, any of the connective tissues.
The main market would be for autologous
donations—that is, you’d save your own teeth
for your use later—but the scientists could
find donor tissues to match anyone’s needs.
“Some companies are already doing it,”
Yelick said. “We think we can do it better. We
are committed to utilizing cells, not just
banking them and forgetting them.”
She also hopes her collaboration with
Kaplan’s lab will be the first of many such
interdisciplinary partnerships. Within the next year,
the zebrafish lab will be ready
to handle large-scale experimental screenings. Using the
same techniques Yelick’s
team uses to investigate the
genes responsible for tooth
regeneration, researchers
from other disciplines could
screen for just about any characteristic that
interests them, and then work backward to
discover what genes and growth factors influence that particular trait.
“I would love for others to become involved
and maximize the utility of the mutant fish,”
says Yelick. “The zebrafish is so useful.” TDM
“I anticipate that tissue-engineered
replacement teeth will be clinically
available shortly.”
—PAMELA C. YELICK
who grew up in Framingham, Mass., she had
role models in her brother, a urologist, and in
her sister, an obstetrician/gynecologist. But
Yelick knew she preferred the bench to the
bedside, so she pursued her Ph.D. in molecular biology at Tufts instead.
“I just fell in love with research along the
way,” Yelick said. “It’s a much richer profession than I had anticipated. Even now, it
surprises me every day. I’m thrilled to be
here. It’s really fun to be back [at Tufts].”
Her graduate work—under the tutelage of
Susan Ernst, professor of biology, and Norman Hecht, now the William Shippen Jr.
Professor of Human Reproduction at the
University of Pennsylvania—focused on
spermatogenesis, haploid gene expression
and development.
“With that background, I could take my
training to any system,” said Yelick. And she
did. As a postdoc at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, she studied teratocarcinoma,
malignant cells that arise in the germ layer,
research during which Yelick became intimately acquainted with stem cells. Then,
in 1991, she became a research associate at
engineering soft tissues, such as the liver and
intestine, could be used to regenerate teeth.
“We found that, in fact, it could,” Yelick
said of their groundbreaking research. “I
anticipate that tissue-engineered replacement teeth will be clinically available shortly.”
In addition to starting up her new lab at
Tufts, Yelick is considering becoming involved
with tooth banking. Similar to cord blood
banks, tooth banks would collect lost teeth—
mainly baby teeth and wisdom teeth—to use
Jacqueline Mitchell is a senior health sciences
writer in Tufts’ Office of Publications. She can
be reached at [email protected].
Yelick and Weibo Zhang, a researcher in
the tissue engineering group. Facing page:
The rows of tanks that hold 5,000 zebrafish.
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Hector Martínez,
a resident in pediatric
dentistry, tends to a teen
patient in the Massachusetts
Dental Society van.
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For this hugely overlooked population,
a community partnership brings smiles on wheels
TEEN
Angels
at 17, she’s a typical teenager. she wears skinny jeans and a
stylish haircut. She’s also missing a filling in one of her molars—but hey,
that can be fun place to tuck your chewing gum.
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can see a little indent, and I’m like, ‘Cool,’ ” she says.
“I take it out, and I
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Her dental woes
are more serious than she lets on. She has abscesses on both sides of her
mouth and is in danger of losing teeth and permanently distorting her
shy smile.
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It’s easy to see how teens fall through the cracks when
it comes to dental health. They are too old to receive services through
programs like Head Start, too young to pay for their own care, and too
busy being teenagers to think much about it.
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But Boston-area teens like
her are getting some attention through a partnership with Tufts School
of Dental Medicine’s Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Boston
Asian: Youth Essential Service (YES) and the Massachusetts Dental
Society Foundation. In June, she was one of 42 YES teens who
took advantage of a four-day marathon of dental treatment
provided by Tufts dentists just for young people.
BY JULIE FLAHERTY PHOTOS BY ALONSO NICHOLS
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“Even though the teens are not adults,
they have urgent adult dental needs, including extensive restorations, root canal therapy
and extractions,” said Dr. Laura CamachoCastro, DG83, an associate professor and
director of the postdoctoral program in
pediatric dentistry.
How Tufts dentists tracked down this elusive
and notoriously private teenage population—
and convinced it to sit in the dental chair—is a
lesson in trust and persistence. One snowy January day, Camacho-Castro and Ginger Burns,
the Tufts pediatric hygienist, were walking along
Harrison Avenue in Boston and talking about
potential community outreach projects. They
noticed a sign for the Boston Asian: Youth
Essential Service and went in.
In the 32 years since it was founded, YES
has developed a special relationship with local
young people. Its new building has a computer
studio and a hip lounge area. There are workshops in arts, crafts and multimedia. There is
GED and SAT tutoring, job placement and all
kinds of counseling. If a teen needs health care,
YES has a relationship with Tufts–New England Medical Center’s adolescent clinic and
with community health centers. But if a teen
had problems with his teeth, it was usually the
hospital emergency room for him. Most of the
YES teens do not have dental insurance or
receive routine preventative dental care.
When YES Executive Director Jane Leung
heard the visitors were from Tufts School of
Dental Medicine—and were looking to
increase community pediatric dental outreach—she was overjoyed. “It was just amazing that they came along and offered us
something that we’ve always wanted,” she
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Clockwise from top left, resident Htet
Htet, D05, making notes about her
patient; Ginger Burns, left, and Laura
Camacho-Castro review the day’s
appointments; and the MDS van.
said. “If someone were to offer us a yacht, we
wouldn’t be as happy.”
Burns began meeting with groups of the
teens in monthly dental awareness workshops,
answering their questions about brushing,
teeth whitening and making their smiles look
good. Leung credits the Tufts hygienist with
knowing how to talk to teens. “They are very
anxious about things they don’t know,” she
said. “People are very important. If you offer
something they want, but they don’t like you,
they won’t take it. But they like Ginger.”
Teens would leave the meetings carrying
free toothbrushes and toothpaste, prompting
their friends to ask, “Where did you get that?
Can I get one?” More teens started showing
up. “Kids helping kids—that’s one of our
goals,” Burns said.
Burns and Camacho-Castro saw how great
the need for care was. One day a young man
complained of a toothache, and asked the
YES staff for a Tylenol. The pain had kept him
from eating and sleeping for days. Burns told
him to come the next morning to Tufts’ pediatric dental clinic, where his tooth was treated
and saved from extraction.
The teens clearly needed major restorative
care, the kind you can’t provide out of a
portable dental chair. So Burns called up the
Massachusetts Dental Society Foundation,
which recently had launched its Mobile
Access to Care (MAC) Dental Van. The 38foot van, acquired through a grant from
Procter & Gamble, has two operatories
packed with state-of-the-art equipment. It is
designed to travel across the state, providing
free dental services to children up to age 18
who are in greatest need of oral health care.
The fact is that dental outreach to children
is usually aimed at the grammar school set,
while older children get scant attention.
Although their needs may be just as urgent,
“they’re not cute anymore,” said Ellen Factor,
MAC project manager, who after hearing
Burns’ case, agreed to bring the van to the
YES location for four days in June. “Some of
them are so used to being in pain, they don’t
even really know they are in pain,” she said.
“It’s just their way of being.”
Tufts pediatric dentistry residents and faculty would provide the dental treatment, and
all the care on the van would be free. The next
challenge was reserving not one but four parking spaces in downtown Boston for the better
part of a week. But anyone who knows Burns
The team that made it happen, from left,
Emad Al-Badawi, DG04, assistant clinical
professor of pediatric dentistry; residents
Moaz Attar, Gisela Velásquez, Mina
Blandon and Htet Htet; hygienist Ginger
Burns; YES Executive Director Jane Leung;
Laura Camacho-Castro, director of the
postdoctoral program in pediatric dentistry;
and Debby Ho, assistant to Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Salvatore F. DiMasi.
“S
ome of them are so used
to being in pain; they don’t
even really know they are in pain.
It’s just their way of being.”
—ELLEN FACTOR, MDS
knows that she gets what she sets her mind on.
“Watch it happen,” said Barbara Rubel, director of community relations at Tufts, who had
worked with Burns before. A few days later,
Burns called Leung. “I’ve got them!” she said.
WORKING IN A WINNEBAGO
On Tuesday morning, the first day of care,
Denny Ching, Mayor Thomas Menino’s community liaison, personally places traffic cones
to reserve the van’s space. On board, things
operate like any other dental practice, although
the van, a genuine Winnebago, bounces ever
so slightly as people move around.
The teens arrive for their appointments
on time, in large part because of Trinh Britton,
one of the YES youth counselors. She worked
closely with Camacho-Castro and Burns to
sign up the young people, get permission slips
signed by parents, create files on each confirmed patient so that patient information
could be entered into the computer ahead of
time, give them appointment cards, and then
call them the day before and on the day of
PHOTO: MICHAEL HENRY
their appointment to prevent no-shows.
Britton uses a walkie-talkie to tell another
youth counselor the dentists are ready for the
next patient. She tells one of the young patients
to check out the computer screen, where her
friend’s X-ray suddenly appears.“Isn’t it cool?”
They try to keep the mood cheerful, even
though they are finding some serious dental
problems. The young adult mouth goes
through a lot of abuse. As teens reach
puberty, hormone fluctuations can cause
more blood to circulate in gums, leaving
them swollen, red and tender. With Mom and
Dad no longer packing lunch, teens may
adopt a diet high in French fries, candy bars
and other plaque-inducing starches and
sugar. (The average teenage boy drinks 26
ounces of soda a day—that’s 22 teaspoons of
sugar.) Many teens who play contact sports
don’t have mouth guards, or if they do, they
don’t know how to keep them clean. And as
fashionable as mouth piercings are, studs in
the tongue or lip can chip teeth, scrape gums
and cause serious infections.
Eating disorders are another unfortunate
reality among teens. “I’ve had a couple of
patients where I had a suspicion that they
were bulimic,” Dr. Mina Blandon, one of
the dental residents, says of past patients.
“The acid erodes away the back of the teeth,
so you see a pattern.”
The pediatric dentists appeal to a common trait of adolescence—vanity—to
approach the subject of oral health. The
teens “will say something like, ‘I’m going to a
senior prom—can you fix this?’ ” says Dr.
Gisela Velásquez, another resident. “They
want to look nice.”
This is the age when adult dental problems begin, but it is also when teens are
asserting their independence and making
their own choices, which makes this a perfect
point to reinforce good oral hygiene. “When
they get into adulthood, they’ll retain those
habits that we hope we’ve gotten through to
them,” Blandon says.
In return, the Tufts pediatric dental residents get an opportunity to work with teen
patients, give back to the community—and
catch up on fashion trends.
“Is black still in?” asks Blandon, looking at
one teen’s manicure. “I’m still seeing the dark
nail polishes.” The 31-year-old finds it easy to
connect with her adolescent patients. “I still
like the same things they do,” she says. Shoes,
hairstyles and purses are all conversation
starters during dental appointments, “especially the shoes,” Blandon says.
So far, every patient will need a follow-up
visit for dental work. Some will need X-rays of
their wisdom teeth. Burns takes out her business card, writes her cell phone number on the
back and hands it to a patient. “We have to
close the health-care loop,” she says, acknowledging that too often, community service
projects don’t include follow-up care plans.
One young woman makes her appointment for 10 a.m. on Friday, and then quickly
changes her mind. “No, no, no—11,” she
says. School is out, after all, and there is a lot
of sleep to catch up on. TDM
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LESSONS
golfer
from a
BY SUSAN LEBEL YOUNG
ray lebel, d51, a noted oral surgeon, has won the maine state amateur golf
tournament six times, holding the national record for the most club wins. But as
those closest to him would agree, his greatness goes far beyond the golf course. This
piece, adapted from Lessons from a Golfer, in which Susan Lebel Young, the oldest
of his seven children, chronicles his recovery from heart surgery, shows just how far.
As I approached the entrance to Dad’s
room, I spotted a nurse next to him. Was her
name badge hard to read, or was I not seeing
straight? Squinting, I could barely make it
out, with its tiny black letters under shiny
clear plastic, backed in bright white. Was it
Margaret, or Maggie, or, perhaps, Mary? I’ll
call her Mary. It appeared to me that Mary
was rough with Dad, throwing his body from
one side to the other. I wanted to shout,
“Hey watch it there, Mary, what do you think
you’re doing? Be careful, he’s just had openheart surgery, you know.”
I went on watching, and finally Mary
spotted me. She spouted, “Ya?”
Again, I boiled. I imagined telling her,
“What do you mean, ‘ya?’ I’m here to see how
my father’s doing. I want you to tell me what
kind of night he had, MARY! I want to know
if he’s still on the critical list. What do you
mean, ‘ya?’”
And then I remembered that this very
man—whose life I was here to honor—had
taught me a lesson or two. Dad had taught
me about respect. He had said, “You know,
you have to value your opponent. You don’t
really play against your rival anyway. You
play the course; the course is your competitor. So you have to stay focused on what’s
right and not get thrown off. Any other contender can hit a great shot or a terrible shot,
can be talking to you or swearing, can even
be throwing clubs; none of it matters. What
matters is that you get your own job done,
and you do what’s best.”
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The course of Dad’s recovery, or perhaps
my own present mind state, was the challenger, not Mary. Mary was just another
player. We were playing equivalent courses,
and as I could tell from a quick scan of the
Special Care Unit, with its patients hovering
on the edge of life, hers was difficult, too.
So I approached her.“I just want to tell you
how hard I see you’re working here,” I said. “I
see how you care for people, and I want you to
know that my family really appreciates all the
attention you’re giving my dad.”
Mary smiled for the first time. She replied,
“Gee thanks. Let’s go see how he’s doing.”
Then, as if affirming our common goal,
she glanced at the monitors, checked his vital
signs, picked up the catheter bag, read levels
on saline solutions, and plumped his pillow.
•••
Dad’s inner strength and his regard for
people remind me of an old story about
human personality:
In trying to convey the concept of true
nature, a teacher asked his young student,
“What do you get when you squeeze an
orange?”
“Orange juice” was the quizzical reply.
“Right. What if a kind mother squeezes
the orange—what will come out?”
“Orange juice.”
“Right. What if an angry father squeezes
the orange—do you still get orange juice?”
“Yes, orange juice.”
“Right. Now what do you get when you
squeeze a lemon?”
“Lemon juice?”
“Yes. So if you squeeze an orange will
you ever get lemon juice?”
“No,” replied the youngster.
“If you squeeze a lemon will you ever get
orange juice?”
“No.” The game was becoming exasperating. “If you squeeze a lemon, you’ll get lemon.
If you squeeze an orange, you’ll get orange.
Period!”
“So it is with our true nature,” the teacher
explained. “People are who they are, whether
they are being squeezed by stress and misfortune or whether life is going along easily
and pleasantly. We often try to blame the situation or another person for our reactions,
but when people get squeezed, who they
really are comes to the surface. Especially
under pressure, our inner essence arises.”
•••
That’s how it was with Dad. Challenged by
seven-way coronary bypass surgery, he considered the needs of others. Plagued with a
loud roommate, he was kind. His most fundamental human impulse was an open heart.
When circumstances squeezed Ray Lebel,
what emerged was Ray Lebel.
And Dad’s essence had not been lost on
his children. Because he had touched us, we
then could touch our own children, as well as
coworkers, friends, strangers in the grocery
store. We could even touch Mary. TDM
Editor’s note: Lessons from a Golfer is
available from Just Write Books, 47 Main
Street #3, Topsham, Maine 04086. For more
information, go to www.jstwrite.com. Dr.
Lebel loves to hear from his Tufts Dental
classmates. He can be reached at
[email protected].
Clockwise, from left, the author’s first swing
with her dad; Ray Lebel at his graduation from
Tufts Dental School in 1951; and at a family golf
outing, Ray Lebel, left, with his son, Mark R. Lebel,
D97P; and his grandson, Mark R. Lebel Jr., D97.
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In rural Zambia, a sustainable partnership offers health and hope
rene
Maxwell Gallaba,
the liaison between Tufts
and Zambian officials,
spends a playful moment
with the kids.
wal
BY JACQUELINE MITCHELL PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEFF BAUM
nearly 8,000 miles from home, the
dentists worked tirelessly over what should
have been winter vacation. The children, most
of whom had dressed up for the occasion, lay
down on their school desks and opened wide.
Shining L.L. Bean camping headlamps into
the patients’ mouths, the American dentists
provided basic dental care to as many patients
as they could during a 10-hour day. For three
years running, delegations of Tufts dentists,
students and volunteers have traveled to the
southern African nation of Zambia to provide
oral health care to people who otherwise
would not get it.
Dr. John Morgan, director of the Tufts
Dental Facilities Serving Persons with Special
Needs, and this year’s volunteers treated children at the Kasisi Children’s Home, the Lechwe
Lodge and the Chikoka Community School.
While most of the procedures were routine —
screenings, cleanings, fillings and extractions—
it was the working conditions that were
radically different, said Justin Au, D07. The
dentists treated kids in their classrooms or
even outside in the open air. A portable dental
unit provided suction—though less powerful
suction than in a U.S. clinic—but that also
depended on the region’s sometimes-unreliable
power sources.
“There were some blackouts. We take
things like running water and electricity for
granted,” said Au. “It really gave me a different perspective on the world.”
Three years ago, during the summer before
their senior year, Sam Merabi and Ryan Escudero, both D05, asked Morgan to serve as faculty
advisor for the first oral health mission to
Zambia. Together, Merabi, Escudero and Morgan worked their way through the long list of
things they’d need to do to make such a trip
possible: figure out licensure regulations for
American dentists and dental students, procure
equipment and supplies. But first, Morgan
said, the Tufts contingent had to identify a
patient population to treat.
With 85 percent of Zambians living in
poverty, there was no shortage of candidates.
Roughly the size of Texas, Zambia is home to
12 million people. As in many developing
nations, Zambia’s population is increasingly
urbanized as young people move to cities
looking for industrial jobs. Still, more than
half of all Zambians eke out their living as
subsistence farmers in the nation’s vast rural
areas, far from paved roads, water mains,
power grids and dental clinics.
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John Morgan greets children and
a member of the Little Sisters of
Mary Immaculate at the Kasisi
Children’s Home, 30 miles outside
of Zambia’s capital city.
mission this December. Though the roster for
that trip is full, Morgan is always seeking
people who can lend their expertise. “You
don’t have to go to Zambia to make a difference,” he said.
“We felt that
to return to
And Zambia, like many other African nations,
this patient
has been hit hard by the AIDS virus. A generation of adults has died from the disease,
population
leaving more than one million children—
many of whom are HIV-positive—living in
over a period
orphanages. Merabi and Morgan decided to
of time would
target some of these children and forged an
alliance with the Kasisi Children’s Home, run
yield more and
by the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate, a
Polish Catholic order, 30 miles from Lusaka,
more people
Zambia’s capital city. In December 2004, Merabi, Escudero and Morgan made the first
with less and
Tufts trip to Zambia over the winter break.
less disease.”
The trio was accompanied by six other volA MILLION ORPHANS
unteers, including Dr. Kerry Maguire, a former Tufts faculty member, and her husband,
Dr. Tom Stossel, a physician.
“We found that the people really wanted to
work with us,” Morgan said. “We felt that to
return to this patient population over a period
of time would yield more and more people
with less and less disease. That cycle was
appealing to us.”
So Morgan, Maguire, Stossel and Pat
Campbell, former executive associate dean of
the dental school, who volunteered on the
second trip, have created a sustainable partnership between Zambia and Tufts School of
Dental Medicine. The nonprofit organization, Options for Children in Zambia, facilitates annual service trips to the impoverished
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—JOHN MORGAN
nation. Zambian resident Maxwell Gallaba, a
friend and Options volunteer, coordinates
activities on the ground and facilitates communication between Zambian officials and
the American volunteers. Gallaba came to the
dental school in April to talk about the oral
health project with alumni and other members of the Tufts community.
“None of this would have been possible
without the assistance of Max,” said Morgan,
who stressed the importance of working
within the country’s infrastructure. In July,
Morgan traveled to Zambia to become better
acquainted with the national medical system and to lay the groundwork for the 2007
SUCCESS STORIES
Morgan is also interested in collaborating with
Tufts School of Engineering and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine on water
and agriculture projects.“This is not just a dental project. It’s hard to separate economics and
health. I’d like to develop cross-university collaborations that could potentially improve the
quality of life in rural Zambia,” he said.“We’re
very grassroots, and that’s the way we feel we
are most effective.” Morgan actually has clear
evidence of exactly how effective the project has
been to date, thanks to the volunteers’ careful
record-keeping. The numbers show declining
oral disease in the schools and orphanages the
team visits each year. The percentage of kids
needing urgent care has dropped, while the
number of kids receiving routine cleanings
and fluoridations continues to rise.
“In the rural area near Kafue, we used to see
mostly adults with toothaches,” Morgan said.
“Now, these same adults are bringing their
kids in, mainly for preventative care. So we
hope those kids will avoid the more serious
dental problems their parents have faced.”
Volunteering in Zambia is “one of the most
meaningful things I have ever done,” said Dr.
Gülsün Gül, MPH04, assistant professor of
general dentistry at Tufts.“It makes a huge difference when I talk to my students about social
responsibility.”
During her 10 days with the mission last
winter, Gül distributed “tons of toothbrushes,”
while Justin Au gave oral health presentations
aided by a green frog hand puppet. She estimates the team screened more than 140 children and applied sealants for 40 or 50 of them.
Gül’s husband—an investment manager and
unofficial trip photographer—accompanied
her, his bags bulging with art supplies purchased back in Boston. It was not long before
the orphans, as is the custom when children
address adults, began calling the couple Mami
and Tati, the Zambian version of Mommy
and Daddy.
“I just wished I could take them all home,”
Gül said. TDM
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The intersection of lab work and clinical practice by Jacqueline Mitchell
Bates-Andrews Day
from the clinics at one kneeland street to a village in zambia,
the research showcased at this year’s Bates-Andrews Day had widereaching implications. On March 7, 25 students––21 undergraduates
and four postgraduates––presented their work to the research committee, composed of 14 faculty members and four student judges.
“Developing these critical thinking skills will be invaluable to them
in their lives as clinicians,” said Dr. Jonathan Garlick, professor of oral
and maxillofacial pathology and a faculty mentor to several of this year’s
student researchers.
James Murphy, D09, presented the work he did in Garlick’s lab last
summer. Using a cell line isolated from a population of highly invasive
cells, Murphy studied the micro-environmental conditions under
which certain oral carcinoma cells can and cannot survive. His project
won the Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU) Hilde Tillman Award.
“Jim is a really good observer, and he really brought a lot of himself
to the bench,” said Garlick.
Murphy, who had not done research before, was inspired to take on
the challenge by Winna Goldman’s presentation on her research—also
in Garlick’s lab—at last year’s Bates-Andrews Day. Goldman, D08, also
presented research this year. Her project,
“Tumor Stroma Impact in Progression of
E-cadherin-deficient Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” won the Research Committee
Award for Basic Science Research.
Moonyoung Lee, A05, D09, studied how
various bacteria produce acid—which in
turn leads to dental caries—under different
conditions. Collaborating with Anne Tanner
at the Forsyth Institute, Lee isolated bacteria
from children with severe caries. Then Lee
cultured these bacteria on neutral (pH 7)
agar plates and slightly acidic (pH 5) ones,
measuring the change in pH each hour over
seven hours. He found that while two streptococcus species worked faster in slightly
acidic conditions, S. mutans—the leading
cause of childhood caries—was an aggressive acid producer under any conditions.
In the second part of the study, Lee
grew eight different streptococcus species
in four different solutions: no glucose, a 1
percent glucose solution, regular soda and
diet soda. Lee found that five of the streptococcus species produced about the same
amount of acid whether they were cultured in diet or regular soda.
Though Lee’s research required him to
work around the clock during during his alltoo-brief summer vacation, he doesn’t regret
the time spent in the lab. “All dentists should
be research-oriented,” Lee said. “Keeping
up with new science and technology, that’s
how we offer the best care to our patients.”
Second-year student Amanda Jones
wanted to know if poor nutrition could be
linked to domestic violence. Using records
from Tufts’ Dental Outreach to Survivors
(DOTS) program, Jones compared the
nutritional status and body mass index
(BMI), a measure of body fat based on
height and weight, of patients with histories of intimate partner violence to that of
the general population. She found that
See Bates Day, page 32
Clockwise from top: Justin Au, D07,
chats with Dr. Michael Kahn and Dr.
Lynn Solomon about his work in Zambia,
while behind them, Puja Shah, D07,
describes her research to Dr. Kanchan
Ganda; Winna Goldman, D08, and Dr.
Alvar Gustafson; and Sarah Stipho, D08,
and Shadi Mohammadi Araghi, DG07.
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Bates Day, continued from page 31
patients from the DOTS program were,
in fact, more likely to have poor nutrition
and unhealthy BMIs than patients from the
general population. Her project won the
Massachusetts Dental Society and American Student Dental Association Public
Health Award.
Jones spent more than two years at the
bench as an undergraduate and is one of
five Dean’s Research Honors Scholars in her
class. She isn’t planning on a research
career, but believes her research experience will enhance her dental career.
“I want to become a clinical dentist,
but I’ll be able to evaluate studies. I know it
will make me a better dentist,” said Jones.
In her keynote address titled “Dental
Tissue Engineering: The Future is Here,”
Pamela Yelick, G89, director of the Division
of Craniofacial and Molecular Genetics in
the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial
Pathology, gave an overview of her work to
engineer biologically equivalent replacement teeth, a goal she thinks could be
reached within five years (See “A Fish
Story,” page 16).
“You probably appreciate the need more
than I do,” Yelick said to the audience filling
Merritt Auditorium. “But 74 million American adults are implant candidates, which
can cost $12,000 per tooth.”
In 2002, Yelick, then at the Forsyth Institute, was the first to produce mammalian
tooth crowns, containing both dentin and
enamel, by using tissue engineering. But
Yelick’s research group lacked control over
the size and shape of the resulting teeth.
Now at Tufts, Yelick and her team are using
zebrafish—which shed old teeth and grow
new ones throughout their lives—to identify the genes that influence replacement
tooth formation.
In all, 11 research projects received
awards at Bates-Andrews Day. The dental
school has hosted Bates-Andrews Day
annually since 1935. The event is co-sponsored by the George A. Bates Society,
named for an alumnus and popular
instructor, and the Robert R. Andrews
Research Honors Society, a student-run
organization honoring the distinguished
researcher and dental surgeon.
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THE 2007 WINNERS
THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS WERE RECOGNIZED
Overall Pre-doctoral Table Clinic: Michael Hull,
AT THIS YEAR’S EDITION OF BATES-ANDREWS
D08, “Significance of Autologous Fat Graft
RESEARCH DAY:
Placement following Disk Removal in the
First Place for Oral Presentation by an M.S.
student (tie): Moaz Attar, “In vitro Bonding
Strength Evaluation between Mineral Trioxide
Temporomandibular Joint,” done with faculty
mentor Gerard Kugel in conjunction with Mark
Piper (private practice)
Aggregate (MTA) and Tetric Ceram, Compoglass,
Second Place for Pre-doctoral Table Clinic
Vitra-bond and Opti-bond,” and Fabio Mazzocco,
(cash prize donated by Jess Kane, David Tesini
“Prospective Evaluation of the Use of Motorized
and Nancy Jo Soporowski): Sunghwan Ko,
Ridge Expanders in Guided Bone Regeneration
D09, “Role of Proinflammatory Cytokines in
for Future Implant Sites”
Sjögren’s Syndrome,” done with faculty mentor
Best Postgraduate Poster Presentation (cash
Driss Zoukhri
prize donated by Jess Kane, D74, DG76;
Third Place for Pre-doctoral Table Clinic (cash
David Tesini, D75, DG77, G79; and Nancy Jo
prize donated by Jess Kane, David Tesini and
Soporowski): Shiow-Jiin Jaw (Pediatric Dentistry),
Nancy Jo Soporowski): Marjan Askari, D09,
“In vitro Disinfection of Primary Teeth Root Canal
“Development of Antibodies in Chicken to
Utilizing Er,Cr:YSGG Laser vs. 5.25% Sodium
Elucidate the Complex Role of WW45 in
Hypochlorite by Measuring the Presence of
Rankl-induced Osteoclast Differentiation,”
Enterococcus Faecalis”
done with faculty mentors Paul Leavis and
Best Scientific Research Presentation by A Fourth-
Paloma Valverde
year Student (Andrews Society Award): Justin Au,
Research Committee Award for Basic Science
D07, “Public Health in Zambia”
Research: Winna Goldman, D08, “Tumor Stroma
Procter & Gamble AADR Traveling Fellowship
Award (2 awards): Richard Dickinson, D09,
and Sarah Stipho, D08, “Vickers Hardness
Impact on Progression of E-cadherin-deficient
Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” done with mentor
Jonathan Garlick
and Compressive Strength Testing of Silk-based
Massachusetts Dental Society and ASDA Public
Biomaterial,” done with faculty mentors Gerard
Health Award: Amanda Jones, D09, “A Compara-
Kugel, D85, L93, associate dean for research,
tive Assessment of Nutrition Status of Patients
and David Kaplan, professor and chair of bio-
with Intimate Partner Violence History,” done
medical engineering at Tufts School of Engineer-
with faculty mentor Gülsun Gül
ing; and Dean Tiboris, D09, “Gene Expression
of Dental Pulp Cells in Three-dimensional Silk
Scaffolds,” done with faculty mentor Petros
Damoulis, DG91, DI05
ADA/Dentsply Student Clinician Award for Best
Omicron Kappa Upsilon (OKU) Hilde Tillman
Award: James Patrick Murphy, D09, “Microenvironmental Control of Cell Survival in E-cadherindeficient Oral Carcinoma Cells,” done with faculty
mentor Jonathan Garlick
PASSAGES
IN AN ANNUAL RITE OF PASSAGE FOR SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS, THE CLASS OF D09 DONNED
the traditional white coat, symbolizing the patient-care phase of their dental
education, during the Clinical Advancement/White Coat Ceremony, held on March
10 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston. Approximately 600 family members,
faculty and staff turned out to celebrate the 154 students in the class in the event
that marks the transition of pre-doctoral students from basic science, biomedical
science and pre-clinical education to the responsibilities of delivering patient care
in the school’s clinics. Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow gave introductory
remarks, and Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs Mark Gonthier
was given an honorary white coat by a unanimous vote of the class.
Science students from
the Jewish Community
Day School get up close
and personal with stem
cell research. Below,
Dr. Jonathan Garlick and
students examine a plate
of stem cells.
Inquiring young minds
dr. jonathan garlick met with a few
raised eyebrows when he decided to bring
his daughter Chera’s seventh-grade science
class into his stem cell research lab for a reallife science experience.
“There was a lot of skepticism among my
lab members when I told them what I wanted
the kids to do, because it was very hands
on,” said Garlick, director of the Division of
Cancer Biology and Tissue Engineering at the
dental school. But the middle school
students followed his lab protocols
exactly, using pipettes to separate stem
cells onto plates, scrupulously avoiding any contamination. Two weeks
later, he was able to bring the plates to
their classroom, where the students
stained them and saw for themselves
how the stem cells had proliferated.
Garlick has been working with students at the Jewish Community Day
School in Watertown, Mass., for two
years as part of a science enrichment
program he developed. His take: You
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don’t have to wait until kids are in high
school or college to let them conduct real
experiments in a professional setting. “You
can take seventh graders and do this,” he
said. “This is really a very good age because
they have the curiosity and dexterity—those
are the only things they need. And the motivation, of course.”
As one of the students commented afterward: “Anyone can grow skin.”
The students were also old enough to
appreciate the controversial topic of stem
cell experimentation, which is central to Garlick’s work. He prefaced their lab time with a
conceptual discussion about stem cells, their
biological importance and the ethical and
political issues surrounding their use.
The students were able to associate what
they saw on their tissue culture plates with the
potential for treating cancer and other illnesses. “Kids who are 12 years old feel
immortal, but every [student] had someone
in the family who had been affected by some
type of disease,” he said. “Their experience
becomes very personal and very meaningful.”
Garlick has done similar outreach at the
Gann Academy in Waltham, Mass., which
his son, Jesse, 15, attends. He has also spoken
on human embryonic stem cell research with
dental groups. Whatever the audience, he
presents the issues and lets his listeners come
to their own conclusions.
“When they understand the science, they
immediately begin to formulate their own
ethical perspective on the use of human stem
cells,” he said. “And they feel very empowered
to do so, once they have the knowledge base.
It’s like this ‘ah-ha’ moment.” —Julie Flaherty
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Tufts Dental
Class of 2011
WHO THEY ARE
Applications
4,268
(14% increase over D10)
Interviewed
444
Accepted
293
Total GPA
3.40
Science GPA
3.32
Men
51%
Women
49%
Dentists in the ballpark
the students in tufts’ alpha omega chapter sponsored their second annual
Tooth Day at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, on July 17, when they handed out more
than 500 brushes and paste and screened more than 100 fans for oral cancer. They found premalignant lesions in two Fenway Park employees, who were scheduled to come to Tufts for biopsies. During the pre-game ceremony, the Alpha Omega chapter was named “Chapter of the Year”
for the second consecutive year, and Heidi Birnbaum, D08, the chapter’s immediate past president, stood on the mound and tossed the ceremonial pitch to start the game. The tooth fairy didn’t smile on Red Sox Nation that night, however. They lost to the Kansas City Royals, 9-3.
TOP FEEDER SCHOOLS
Tufts University
Boston University
Adelphi University
Boston College
2
UC–Irvine
University of Florida
1: Terry Moniz, D08, gives a dental welcome to the Fenway
Park crowd; 2: Sarah Stipho, Amanda Kopacz and Heidi
Birnbaum, all D08, screen a Sox fan; 3: Stipho, Jonathan
Albaugh, D08, Kopacz and Dr. Karen Wallach, D85, assistant
clinical professor, examine some Navy men.
UMass–Amherst
University of Miami
University of Michigan
1
Pacific Union College
Providence College
UC–San Diego
University of Houston
WHERE THEY COME FROM
2%
Mountain
States
7% International
7% Midwest
10% South
11%
Florida
13%
West Coast
36%
New England
14%
Mid Atlantic
SOURCE: OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS AND
STUDENT AFFAIRS
3
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NOTEWORTHY
Marjan Askari, Lauren Castro and
Doug Laliberte, all D09, have been
awarded scholarships from the American Dental Association in recognition
of their academic accomplishments.
Askari and Laliberte received the ADA
Foundation Dental Student Scholarship
and Castro the ADA Foundation Minority
Dental Student Scholarship.
Elizabeth Austin is the dental school’s
new web content specialist. She
earned a B.S. in information design
and corporate communication from
Bentley College and most recently was
the assistant director of web and electronic communication at Lasell College
in Newton, Mass. Austin oversees all
content and development projects
for the Tufts Dental website:
http://www.tufts. edu/dental.
Moira Casey, D11, research coordinator
for Athena Papas, professor of general
dentistry, won the J. Morita Corp. Junior
Investigator Award in Geriatric Oral
Research for the abstract “Root Caries
Prevalence in Hypertensive, Sjögren’s
Syndrome and Healthy Women” at the
annual IADR/AADR meeting, which took
place in New Orleans in March.
Beth Conant, the dental school’s budget
and fiscal officer, has been promoted to
director of finance and administration.
She holds a bachelor’s degree from
Babson College and an MBA from Bentley
College. Prior to coming to the dental
school in May 2006, she held positions
of increasing responsibility in the hightech sector, most recently as senior
financial analyst with OpenPages Inc.
Carvelle McAlpin (dental clinic registration) and Patricia Morrow (endodontics)
were chosen by their colleagues to
receive this year’s Golden Crown Award
for outstanding performance by a staff
member. The criteria for the annual
HPSP DINNER
Graduating seniors who attended the dental school through the Health Professions Scholarship
Program (HPSP) were feted at a dinner on May 3 at Maggiano’s restaurant in Boston’s North
End. The students received a military dental insignia and National Defense ribbon. The U.S.
Army recruiters, who helped sponsor the event, received certificates of appreciation. Dr.
Charles Rankin, D79, DG86, a former Air Force dentist who is now a professor of endodontics
at Tufts, serves as an advisor to the HPSP program, which provides students with full-tuition
scholarships. This year, the program had 39 members, 10 of whom graduated in May. After
graduation, they are commissioned as captains in the U.S. Army or the U.S. Air Force or
lieutenants in the U.S Navy. Shown here, from left, Amanda Weigand, D07, U.S. Army,
co-president of HPSP; Susannah M. Mitchell, D08, U.S. Army, co-president-elect of HPSP;
and Jenny Liang, D08, U.S. Navy, co-president-elect of the Tufts program.
award, now in its 12th year, includes
expertise, exceptional interaction
with others, continuous improvement,
resourcefulness and leadership. The
School of Dental Medicine and its
satellite facilities employ about 200
non-faculty staff members. About 100
staff members attended the Golden
Crown luncheon on June 18 in the
Becker Alumni Center.
Four Tufts Dental students were recognized during the 2007 Yankee Dental
Congress in Boston. Ryan Smart, D07,
received the American College of Dentists Award; Farbod Parvinjah, D07,
and Melissa Bouvier, D07, received
the MDS Foundation/GE Healthcare
Financial Services Louis J.P. Calisti
Scholarship. Caroline Young, D07,
received the Massachusetts Dental
Society Matthew Boylan Scholarship
Fund award, given to a Massachusetts
resident and dental student who has
provided distinguished service to
organized dentistry and the community.
A team from Tufts Dental participated
in the Larr y Kessler 5K Road Race
on June 3 in Boston, raising $1,246
to support the ser vices and programs
of the AIDS Action Committee. The race
is named for the AIDS Action Committee’s founding director. Mike Brown,
D09, won the race in a time of 17
minutes, 31 seconds. Other Tufts team
members included David Chan, Michael
Butera, Lisa Higgs, Shannon Holer,
Samir Patel, Peter Shin and Laleh
Sotoodeh, all D10, and Associate
Dean for Admissions and Student
Affairs Mark Gonthier.
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Senior awards
MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2007
received national and alumni
awards during the Graduation
Awards Dinner, which took place
on May 9 at the Westin Copley
Place in Boston. Approximately
425 people attended the 14th
annual recognition dinner,
including 150 of the 161 graduating seniors. The dinner is
sponsored by the Tufts Dental
Alumni Association.
Dr. Justin Lee Altshuler, D46,
and Bernice Lee Altshuler Family
Prize Fund for Community
Service: Jose Antonio Torres
Dr. Justin Lee Altshuler, D46,
and Bernice Lee Altshuler Family
Prize Fund for Ethics: Michelle
J. Anderson
Dean’s Award for Distinguished
Performance in Pharmacology:
Emilie Mae Troupe
Gentle Dental Senior Endowed
Prize Fund for Exceptional Chairside Manner: Jared Adam Geller
Organization of Teachers of Oral
Diagnosis Award: Diba Dastjerdi
ORAL AND
MAXILLOFACIAL
SURGERY
Alumni Clinical Excellence Award
in Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery: Marcin Jarmoc
Dental Student Award:
Justin J. Au
IMPLANTOLOGY
Dr. S. Walter Askinas Endowed
Prize Fund for Integrity and
Citizenship: Justin J. Au
Academy of Osseointegration
Outstanding Dental Student in
Implant Dentistry Award:
Kenneth Armen Blais
American Dental Society of
Anesthesiology Horace Wells
Senior Student Award:
Ryan James Smart
Jack Frommer Award for
Excellence in the Morphological
Sciences: Nicole Pui-Ming Chiu
International Senior Class Award
for Outstanding Peer Support
and Leadership: Sachin Rastogi
American Academy of Implant
Dentistry Dental Student Award:
Inna O. Komarovskaya
Robert E. O’Neil, D51, Prize
in Oral Surgery: Sartaj Singh
Banga
ENDODONTICS
Presidential Award for
Citizenship and Public Service:
Tomas Jose Ballesteros IV
Dental Implant Student Award:
Nicholas J. Murray II
ORAL PATHOLOGY
International Congress of
Oral Implantologists ICOI/
Sullivan-Schein Dental Predoctoral Achievement Award:
Jacques Benchimol
American Academy of Oral and
Maxillofacial Pathology Senior
Student Award: Whitney
Elizabeth Goode
BASIC SCIENCES
Alumni Clinical Excellence
Award in Endodontics: Amanda
Kaye Backstrom
in Oral Pathology: Christina
Catherine Coppolino
GENERAL DENTISTRY
American Association of
Endodontists Student Achievement Award: Sachin Rastogi
Academy of General Dentistry
Senior Student Dental Award:
Lewis Benjamin O’Shea
Lester P. Goldsmith Endowed
Prize Fund in Endodontics:
Lee Ann M. Cote
in General Dentistry: Michael
Adam Cooper
ETHICS,
PROFESSIONALISM
AND CITIZENSHIP
in Geriatric Dentistry: Michelle
J. Anderson
American Association of Women
Dentists Dr. Eleanor J. Bushee
Senior Student Dental Award:
Jennifer Kathleen Kluth
American Academy of Craniofacial Pain Award: Ning Zhang
American College of Dentists
Award: Ryan James Smart
American Academy of Oral and
Maxillofacial Radiology Achievement Award: Narayani K. Baliga
American Student Dental
Association (ASDA) Award for
Excellence: Seema Chawla
American Academy of Orofacial
Pain Outstanding Senior Award:
Brian P. Hoffman
International College of Dentists
Student Leadership Award:
Sam S. Shamardi
American Equilibration Society
Senior Award: Eirleen Yong-Ju
Hyun
Pierre Fauchard Academy Senior
Student Award: Juliana
Hsiao-Yin Hsu
American Academy of Dental
Practice Administration and
AADPA Endowment & Memorial
Foundation 17th Annual Award
in Four-Handed Dentistry:
Richard D. Gilmore
Association of Tufts Alumnae
Senior Award: Renee Michelle
Osofsky, A03
Class of D2002 Endowed Prize
Fund for Peer Support and
Leadership: Ryan James Smart
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LEADERSHIP
American Academy of Oral Medicine Certificate of Merit Award:
Ryan James Smart
ORTHODONTICS
American Association of Orthodontists Award: Reema Dhingra
Everett Shapiro, DG49,
Endowed Prize Fund in Orthodontics: Jeong-Yeon Choi
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
Alumni Clinical Excellence
Award in Pediatric Dentistry:
Peter T. Phan
Certificate of Merit AAPD
Predoctoral Student Award:
Kayee Siu
Jeong-Yeon Choi, D07, center,
received the Everett Shapiro, DG49,
Endowed Prize Fund in Orthodontics,
presented to a graduating student
who has demonstrated aptitude in
orthodontics. The award also recognizes the recipient’s highest professional standards, leadership, ethics
and scholarship, attributes lived and
taught by Dr. Shapiro during his long
and accomplished career. Shown with
Choi are, from left, Dean Lonnie H.
Norris, DG80; Arnelda Shapiro, her
son, Alan, and Barry Briss, D66,
DG70, chair of orthodontics.
PERIODONTOLOGY
in Periodontology: Jared Adam
Geller
American Academy of
Periodontology Dental Student
Achievement Award:
Valerie A. Zaenchik
Northeastern Society of
Periodontists Award: John Lo
Quintessence Award for Clinical
Achievement in Periodontics:
Jonathan Charles Boynton
PERSONAL AND
PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Alpha Omega Graduating
Senior Student Award: Jacques
Benchimol
Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80,
and Dr. Donna M. Norris Senior
Endowed Prize Fund for Achievement, Professionalism and
Strength of Character: Avis
Lorraine Barker
Dr. Frank Susi, DG67, Endowed
Prize Fund: Ryan James Smart
PHOTO: J.D. SLOAN
Dr. Frederick A. Romberg, D29,
Endowed Prize Fund Recognizing
Outstanding Personal and
Professional Growth during the
Four Years of Dental Education:
Peter T. Phan
PUBLIC HEALTH
DENTISTRY
Academy of Dentistry for
Persons with Disabilities
Student Award: Thien Cong
Nguyen
in Public Health Dentistry:
Aurora R. Alva Chirinos
American Association of Public
Health Dentistry Dental Student
Recognition Award for Achievement in Community Dentistry
and Dental Public Health:
Sangeeta Shenoy Mehta
Dr. Esther Kaplan Colchamiro,
D42, and Ralph Colchamiro
Endowed Prize Fund for
Community and Public Health:
Jasmin L. Henville
RESEARCH
Biologists Award: Sopheap Tang
Dr. Harold Berk Endowed Prize
Fund for Excellence in Research:
Trang T. Le
Erling Johansen, D49, Senior
Student Research Endowed
Prize Fund: Ryan James Smart
Quintessence Award for
Research Achievement:
Justin J. Au
American Academy of Esthetic
Dentistry Student Award of
Merit: Vachik Danoukh
American College of
Prosthodontists Undergraduate
Achievement Award: Matthew
Brian Hallas
Dr. and Mrs. Albert J. Kazis
Endowed Prize Fund in Crown
and Bridge: Lori A. Noga
Dr. Joseph E. Primack, D42,
Endowed Prize Fund in Prosthodontics: Jeffrey Michael
Segnere
RESTORATIVE
DENTISTRY
A. Albert Yurkstas, D49,
Endowed Prize Fund in Complete
Denture Prosthodontics:
Kayee Siu
Academy of Dental Materials
Annual Student Award:
Caroline Pronesti Young
Academy of Operative Dentistry
Award: Cindey Nhung Pham
Joseph R. Evans Endowed Prize
Fund in Clinical Operative
Dentistry: Iu Jong Lu
Quintessence Award for Clinical
Achievement in Restorative
Dentistry: Nicole Pui-Ming Chiu
Rudolph Hanau Award for
Excellence in Prosthodontics:
Vladimir Radovan Jovic
in Restorative Dentistry: JudyChia Ling Tsai
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occlusion at the second annual
Fudan/Tufts International Symposium
in Shanghai in May.
ENDODONTICS
Robert Amato, D80, DG83, associate
clinical professor, attended the April
meeting of the American Association
of Endodontists in Philadelphia as the
District 1 director.
Virginia Karapanou, DG94, D01,
DG07, associate professor, gave a
presentation on her translational
research on “Interleukin-8 and Tumor
Necrosis Factor-alpha Levels in Gingival
Crevicular Fluid of Teeth with Acute
Pulpitis” at the annual meeting of the
American Association of Endodontists
in Philadelphia on April 27. She argued
that interleukin-8 could be a strong
biomarker for irreversible pulpitis. She
plans to pursue further research in this
area to identify and quantify the key
substances involved in the pathogenesis of pulp pain and inflammation in a
non-invasive manner for accurate
diagnosis of the pulp status. Identification of such substances might help
clinicians foresee the outcome of the
inflammatory response for appropriate
treatment.
Leslie Miller, associate clinical
professor, published an article,
“Using the Microscope in Conventional
Endodontic Treatment,” in the spring
2007 issue of the Journal of the
Massachusetts Dental Society.
Charles Rankin, D79, DG86, professor, published “A Case Report of a
Patient with Raynaud’s Phenomenon
Undergoing Multiple Endodontic Procedures” in the Journal of Endodontics
(2007, 33:2, 187-190).
GENERAL DENTISTRY
Brijesh Chandwani, instructor,
completed a 300-hour course,
“Structural Acupuncture for Physicians,”
at Harvard Medical School in June.
Leopoldo Correa, assistant professor,
presented a lecture on “Oral Appliances for Obstructive Sleep Apnea:
The Dentist’s Role in the Treatment
of Sleep-disordered Breathing” to the
pulmonary medicine department at
Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H.,
on May 29. He has been appointed a
member of the steering committee of
the Sleep-related Breathing Disorders
Section of the American Academy of
Sleep Medicine.
Presentations:
■ “Bruxism and Temporomandibular
Disorders: A Strong Link,” B. Chandwani, C. Ceneviz, S. Scrivani and N.
Mehta, 2007 annual conference of the
American Association of Orofacial Pain.
■ “Case Series: Phantom Tooth Pain,”
B. Chandwani, G. Maloney, S.
Scrivani and N. Mehta, 2007
annual conference of the American
Association of Orofacial Pain.
■ “Tumors and Facial Pain,” S.
Scrivani, B. Chandwani, N. Mehta
and R. Kulich, 2007 annual conference
of the American Association of
Orofacial Pain.
■ “Assessment of Sleep Disorders
in Patients with Chronic Orofacial
Pain,” S. Scrivani, S. Lobo-Lobo,
B. Chandwani, R. Kulich and N.
Mehta, 2007 annual conference
Orofacial Pain.
Publications:
■ S.J. Scrivani, L. Becerra, A. DaSilva,
E. Moulton, G. Pense, S. Morris, M.
Aiello-Lammens and D. Borsook,
“Functional Brain Imaging of Facial
Pain; Functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (fMRI) Studies of the
Trigeminal System,” Oral Surgery,
Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral
Radiology and Endodontology, Vol.
103, No. 6, June 2007.
■ S.J. Scrivani, R.J. Kulich, N.
Bindayel, B. Chandwani and N.R.
Mehta, “Neuropathic Pain Scale Base
Rate for Orofacial Pain Population,”
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral
Pathology, Oral Radiology and
Endodontology, Vol. 103, No. 6,
June 2007.
■ B. Chandwani, G. Maloney, N.
Mehta and S. Scrivani, “Chronic
Daily Headache: Case Report of
One Subgroup,” Journal of the
Massachusetts Dental Society,
Spring 2007.
PROMOTIONS
Louis Farrugia, D66, to associate
professor.
Ronald Kulich to associate professor.
Kathryn Ragalis, D92, to associate
professor.
Noshir R. Mehta, DG73, DI77,
professor and chair and director
of the Craniofacial Pain, Headache
and Sleep Center, and other dental
school faculty presented a one-week,
hands-on course to a group of international dentists at the Craniofacial Pain
Center in June. Mehta led a delegation
to China and lectured on craniofacial
FACULTY NOTES
Paul Trombly, D85, to associate
clinical professor.
ORAL AND
MAXILLOFACIAL PATHOLOGY
Jonathan Garlick, professor and
director of the Division of Cancer
Biology and Tissue Engineering, has
summer 2007
received a five-year grant from the
National Institute of Dental Research
to build three-dimensional tissues
using human embr yonic stem cells.
The research project, “Bioengineered
Oral Mucosa from Embr yonic Stem
Cells for Regenerative Medicine,” will
investigate how these primitive cells
can be directed to become oral
mucosal tissues. He is working with
another grant from the U.S. Army
Institute of Surgical Research to help
develop a new therapeutic wound-care
gel that can accelerate the healing of
battlefield or chronic wounds. Garlick
and a collaborative healing group,
headed by Microbion Corp., are supported by the $500,000 grant in their
studies of the properties of these new
therapeutic agents. He will help establish the biological effects of bismuththiol released from the wound-care gel
by determining parameters of biological response following wounding of in
vitro skin equivalents. Garlick was
appointed chair of the Translational
Technologies and Resources Committee of the Clinical-Translational
Sciences Award Oversight Committee
at Tufts School of Medicine. The
Center for Integrated Tissue Engineering (CITE), established by Garlick and
run by Christophe Egles, assistant
professor, has been awarded several
grants to use engineered human tissues to study the safety and efficacy
of new therapeutic products. Those
grants are from Organogenesis Inc.,
Biogen-Idec Inc., Procter & Gamble,
Magen Inc. and Johnson & Johnson.
On April 26, CITE hosted a group of 35
medical oncologists from Mexico who
toured the labs to learn how 3D tissues are being applied to study cancer
biology at the Tufts Cancer Center.
In addition, members of the 50-year
Tufts Dental alumni group visited CITE
on May 4 to learn about the latest
advances in stem cell technology.
Presentations:
■ “Human Tissue Models for
Screening: Ready for Prime Time?,”
World Pharmaceutical Congress, June
2007.
■ “Moving 3D Tissue Biology into HighThroughput,” Millipore Inc., May 2007.
■ “Tumor Stroma Impact on
Progression of E-cadherin-deficient,
Squamous Cell Carcinoma,” W.
Goldman, A. Alt-Holland, Y. Shamis,
T. DesRochers, C. Egles, J. Marchand
and J. Garlick, AADR Meeting, New
Orleans, 2007.
■ “Stromal-epithelial Cross-talk
Modulates Malignant Progression of Ecadherin-deficient Carcinoma Cells,” W.
Goldman, A. Alt-Holland, W. Zhang, A.
Margulis, Y. Shamis, T. DesRochers, J.
Marchand and J. Garlick, AADR
Meeting, New Orleans, 2007.
■ “The Activated Keratinocyte in
Wound Repair,” New Jersey Medical
School, graduate course in cell injury,
April 2007.
■ “The Politicized Science of
Embryonic Stem Cell Research,”
Gann Academy High School, Waltham,
Mass., February 2007.
■ “Engineering Human Oral Mucosa to
Treat Oral Disease,” American
Academy of Dental Sciences, Boston,
October 4, 2006.
■ “Stromal-epithelial Cross-talk
Modulates Malignant Progression
of E-cadherin-deficient Carcinoma
Cells,” W. Goldman, A. Alt-Holland,
W. Zhang, A. Margulis, Y. Shamis, T.
DesRochers, J. Marchand and J.
Garlick, American Association for
Dental Research, 2006.
■ “E-cadherin Suppression Increases
Carcinoma Cell Invasion Linked to
Cytoskeletal Alterations,”A. Alt-Holland,
W. Zhang, A. Margulis, Y. Shamis, T.
DesRochers, K. Riley, I. Herman and J.
Garlick, American Association for
Dental Research, 2006.
■ “Perspectives on Constructing and
Deconstructing 3D Tissue Models of
Human Cancer,” J. Garlick, American
Association of Cancer Research annual
meeting, 2006.
■ “E-cadherin Suppression Is Coordinated with Altered Actin Dynamics and
a Highly Motile, Invasive Phenotype,”
A. Alt-Holland, W. Zhang, Y. Shamis,
T. DesRochers, A. Margulis, K. Riley,
I. Herman and J. Garlick, American
Association of Cancer Research annual
meeting, 2006.
■ “E-cadherin Suppression Is Coordinated with Elevated FAK Expression
and Redistribution Leading to a Highly
Motile, Invasive Phenotype,” A.
Alt-Holland, Y. Shamis, W. Zhang, T.
DesRochers, A. Margulis, K. Riley,
I. Herman, N. Fusenig and J. Garlick,
Society for Investigative Dermatology,
2006.
■ “Transepithelial Migration of Tumor
Cells in Pre-cancer: A Novel In Vitro,
3D Human Tissue Model,” A. AltHolland, Y. Shamis, T. DesRochers,
W. Zhang, A. Margulis, N. Fusenig and
J. Garlick, Society for Investigative
Dermatology, 2006.
Publications:
■ K. Lefort, A. Mandinova, P. Ostano,
V. Kolev, V. Calpini, I. Kolfschoten, V.
Devgan, J. Lieb, W. Raffoul, D. Hohl, V.
Neel, J. Garlick,
G. Chiorino and P. Dotto, “Notch1 Is
a p53 Target Gene Involved in Human
Keratinocyte Tumor Suppression
through Negative Regulation of
ROCK1/2 and MRCK Kinases,”
Genes and Development, 2007.
■ W. Zhang, A. Alt-Holland, A.
Margulis, N.F. Fusenig, U. Rodeck
and J.A. Garlick, “E-cadherin Loss
Promotes the Initiation of Squamous
Cell Carcinoma Invasion through
Modulation of Integrin-mediated
Adhesion,” Journal of Cell Science,
119(2): 283-291, 2006.
■ J.A. Garlick, “Engineering Skin to
Study Human Diseases: Tissue Models
for Cancer Biology and Wound Repair,”
Advances in Biochemical Engineering/
Biotechnology, Special Volume: Tissue
Engineering; eds. Kyongbum Lee and
David L. Kaplan, Springer-Verlag.
Michael Kahn, professor and chair,
published the 12th edition of Your
Pocket-Size Dental Drug Reference:
The Handbook of Commonly Used
Medications Useful in the Management
of Oral Disease and Conditions. He
edited the oral medicine section of
the Drug Information Handbook for
Dentistry, 12th edition (Lexi-Com Inc.,
2007–08.) He was the course director
for the dental school’s second annual
Oral Cancer Symposium on June 15,
when he gave presentations on
“Liquid-based Cytology in the Oral
Cavity” and “Update on Oral Cancer
Screening.” At the symposium, six
other oral cancer clinicians and
researchers gave presentations,
including Jonathan Garlick, professor
and director of the Division of Cancer
Biology and Tissue Engineering, on
“Engineering Three-dimensional
Tissues to Study Oral Cancer.” Kahn
participated in an oral examination
and oral cancer screening event held
at the Wrentham Senior Center on April
14, and was awarded a plaque and
certificate for his continued support of
and participation in Neponset Valley
oral cancer screenings for seniors who
cannot afford private-practice
dentistry. He was selected to serve on
the National Board Dental Examination
Part 1 Microbiology-Pathology test
construction committee for the next
five years and has agreed to serve on
the American College of Prosthodontists’ Oral Cancer Education/Screening
Task Force.
Presentations:
■ “Oral Manifestations of Behcet’s
Disease,” American Behcet’s Disease
Association national conference, Las
Vegas, Nev., April 29, 2007.
■ Completed two-year series of
education courses and local dental
society presentations on oral cancer
and risk management, with Barry
Regan of EDIC, in Randolph, Mass.,
March 13, 2007, and in Pittsburgh,
Pa., April 12, 2007.
■ “Early Cancer Warning System,”
Caritas Norwood Hospital, Norwood,
Mass., April 10, 2007.
■ “Histological Diagnostic Pitfalls and
Dilemmas of Oral and Maxillofacial
Pathology,” a short course presented
with Dr. Craig Fowler, United States
and Canada Academy of Pathology,
San Diego, Calif., March 30, 2007.
■ “Jaw Cysts,” Woonsocket Dental
Society, Providence, R.I., February 20,
2007.
■ “Oral Cancer Screening: The
Problem and Emerging Technologies,”
Charlotte and Raleigh, N.C., January
18 and 19, 2007.
■ “Oral Pathology Short Stories and
Tales,” a continuing education course,
Connecticut State Dental Association,
Plantsville, Conn., January 10, 2007.
■ “Oral Pathology Update,” Limited to
Endodontics group practice, Brookline,
Mass., December 19, 2006, and the
21st Century Study Club, Concord,
N.H., January 5, 2007.
Publications:
■ M.A. Kahn, “Oral Cancer: What to
Look for,” Inside Dentistry, March
2007.
■ M. Lucca, K. Shastri, M.A. Kahn
and M. Papageorge, “Clinician’s
Corner: A Clinico-Pathologic
Correlation: Synovial Chondromatosis,”
Journal of the Massachusetts Dental
Society, 55(3): 44-46, Winter 2007.
■ M.A. Kahn and J. Epstein,
“Optimizing the Oral Cancer
Evaluation,” Compendium of
Continuing Education in Dentistry
(Supplement 1) 28:1; 3-10,
January 2007.
Lynn Solomon has joined the
faculty as an assistant professor.
She completed her dental degree,
a residency in oral and maxillofacial
pathology and a master’s in oral
sciences at the State University of
New York at Buffalo School of Dental
Medicine. In 2002, she joined the
faculty of SUNY-Buffalo as an assistant professor in the Department of
Oral Diagnostic Sciences. During her
tenure there, she ser ved as director
of the Oral Medicine Clinic, and, most
recently, as director of oral radiology.
In addition, she was an oral pathology
consultant for the Department of Dentistr y and Maxillofacial Prosthetics at
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo and the Veterans Administration of
Western New York Healthcare System.
During her time in Buffalo, the Dental
Student Association bestowed upon
her the infrequently given William M.
Feagans Award for displaying the
“finest aspects of academic dentistr y,
an appreciation of the demands of
real-life dentistr y and recognition of
the many challenges of a student’s
life.” Solomon is a diplomate of the
American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology. She has conducted
research and published on oral
diseases diagnosed with immunofluorescence microscopy, the role of p63
proteins in autoimmune disease and
immunoassay diagnostic techniques.
She has been appointed to the ADA
Council on Dental Accreditation site
visit team for oral and maxillofacial
pathology residency programs.
Pamela Yelick, G89, associate
professor, has accepted an invitation
from the NIH Center for Scientific
Review to serve a four-year term on
the Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Study Section.
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL
SURGERY
Constantinos Laskarides, DG03,
assistant professor and director of
the pre-doctoral program in oral
surgery, attended the 2007 research
summit of the American Association
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in
Chicago in May.
Presentation:
■ “Mandibular Fractures, Etiology,
Diagnosis, Treatment,” Tufts–New
England Medical Center and Boston
Medical Center otolaryngology
departments, May 2007.
Lonnie H. Norris, DG80, dean and
professor, was honored by the
Mattapan Community Health Center
at its 11th annual “Rock the Boat”
fund-raising gala on April 28. Norris
received the 2007 Community Health
Pinnacle Award for “exemplifying strong
leadership in community health care”
and for his “outstanding work in community-focused oral health.” The Mattapan Community Health Center is a
comprehensive health delivery organization that serves individuals from the
Mattapan, Dorchester, Roxbury and
Hyde Park neighborhoods of Boston
as well as Brockton, Randolph and
Stoughton. The center, established
in 1972, serves more than 7,000
individuals each year.
Maria Papageorge, D82, DG86, G89,
professor and chair
Presentations:
■ “Zygoma Implants: A Surgical
Alternative for Reconstruction of the
Atrophic Maxilla,” Academy of
Osseointegration, San Antonio, Texas,
May 2007.
Atrophic Maxilla,” the Robert B. Shira
Lecture for Tufts University Dental
Alumni Association’s 2007 Reunion,
May 2007.
■ “Diagnosis and Pre-operative
Treatment Planning for Endosseous
Implants,” Huashan Hospital,
Fudan University, Shanghai, China,
May 2007.
Atrophic Maxilla,” Huashan Hospital,
Fudan University, Shanghai, China,
May 2007.
■ “Reconstruction of Function Using
Osseointegrated Implants in Patients
with Mandibular Defects,” International
Master Course on Implantology, Paris,
France, December 2006.
Publication:
■ M.B. Papageorge, “Etiology of Oral
Cancer in the Young Patient: Is Tongue
Cancer Becoming the Other Cancer in
Women?,” a chapter in Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery Clinics of North
America, 19(2): 163-171, 2007
Morton Rosenberg, D74, professor
Presentations:
■ “Oral Conscious Sedation Section
1303 Permit Preparation,” an 18-hour
course, Arizona Dental Society,
Scottsdale, Ariz.
■ “Pediatric Anesthesia
Considerations in General Anesthesia
and Moderate/Deep Sedation Update
and Review,” American Dental Society
of Anesthesiology, Chicago, Ill.
■ “Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen Sedation and
Dangers of Pediatric Sedation in
Assistant Review Course in Outpatient
Dental Sedation,” American Dental
Society of Anesthesiology, Chicago, Ill.
■ “Practical, Effective Enteral Sedation
in Dentistry: Anxiolysis” and “Moderate
Sedation: Enteral Modalities,”
Anesthesiology, Chicago, Ill.
Marquette University School of
Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wisc.
■ “SimMan Simulation Course:
Respiratory and Cardiovascular
Complications during Sedation” and
“Anesthesia: Recognition and
Management,” Sinclair College,
Dayton, Ohio.
■ “Medical Emergencies in the Dental
Office,” Yankee Dental Congress,
Boston, Mass.
■ “Sedation/Anesthesia: A
Comprehensive Review,” Grand
Rounds, Department of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery, Albert Einstein
College of Medicine, Montefiore
Hospital, Bronx, N.Y.
Anesthesiology, Las Vegas, Nev.
■ “Pediatric Sedation/Anesthesia and
Nitrous Oxide-Oxygen Sedation:
Anesthesia Assistant’s Course,”
Anesthesiology, Las Vegas, Nev.
summer 2007
ON CAMPUS
FACULTY NOTES
■ “The Medical Emergency Kit,” RDH
Study Club, Caritas Norwood Hospital,
Norwood, Mass.
■ “High Fidelity Human Simulation
Program for Pediatric Sedative
Emergencies,” American Academy
of Pediatric Dentistry, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Kalpakam Shastri, DG05, assistant
professor.
Presentation:
■ “Prevention and Management of
Surgical Complications for the Non-oral
Surgeon in the General Office,” a continuing education course presented
with Morton Rosenberg, Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine,
May 2007.
Publications:
■ A. Naimi, K. Shastri and M.
Rosenberg, “What Every Dentist
Should Know about Malignant
Hyperthermia,” Journal of the
55(4):34-37, 2007.
■ M. Lucca, K. Shastri, M. Kahn and
M.B. Papageorge, “Clinico-Pathologic
Correlation (Synovial
Chondromatosis),” Journal of the
55(3):36-38, 2006.
Departmental Presentations:
■ “A New Approach in Young Patients
Presenting with the Severely Atrophied
Maxilla,” P. Domingos Ribeiro, M.B.
Papageorge, K. Shastri and L.E.
Padovan, 28th annual meeting of the
American College of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgeons, Orlando, Fla.,
April 2007.
■ “Immediate Load of the Severely
Atrophic Maxilla with Zygomatic
Implants,” S. Hate, M. Gatti, M.B.
Papageorge and R. Chapman, Nobel
Biocare World Conference, Las Vegas,
Nev., May 2007.
■ “The Use of Nobel Guide for
Immediate Load,” S. Hate and M. ElGhatti, Nobel Biocare World
Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., May
2007.
■ “Comparison of Implant Referral
Patterns in the General Dental
Population of 2 Regional Sub-groups,”
S. Hate and M.B. Papageorge, Nobel
Biocare World Conference, Las Vegas,
Nev., May 2007.
■ “A New Approach in Young Patients
Presenting with the Severely Atrophied
Maxilla,” P. Domingos Ribeiro, M.B.
Papageorge, K. Shastri and L.E.M.
Padovan, Nobel Biocare World
2007.
■ “Immediately Loaded Implants
Installed in Iliac Bone,” N. Demetriades, R. Khader, M.A. Matsumoto,
P. Domingos Ribeiro and I. Malaquias
Sartori, Nobel Biocare World
Conference, Las Vegas, Nev.,
May 2007.
■ “The Use of Dental Implants for
Auxiliary Stability for Orthognathic
Surgery: Purpose of a Reverse
Treatment,” D. Chang, P. Domingos
Ribeiro, H. Nary Filho and R. Higa,
Nobel Biocare World Conference, Las
Vegas, Nev., May 2007.
■ “Mandibular Reconstruction with
Free Bone Graft and Rehabilitation
with Osseointegrated Implants in an
Immediate Load System,” E. Sanches
Gonçales, J. Kraus, P. Domingos
Ribeiro and R. Yoshio Kawakami,
Nobel Biocare World Conference,
Las Vegas, Nev., May 2007.
■ “The Use of Zygomatic Fixations for
the Treatment of a Malunion Following
a Le Fort I Osteotomy,” D. Callahan,
P. Domingos Ribeiro, H. Nary Filho,
A.C. Fiuza Dekon and I. Matias Sartori,
Nobel Biocare World Conference, Las
Vegas, Nev., May 2007.
■ “Retrospective Study of the Use of
Zygomatic Fixations on Rehabilitation
of Atrophied Maxillas,” M. Lucca,
P. Domingos Ribeiro, H. Nary Filho,
H. Erig Lima and M. Dapievi Bresaola,
Nobel Biocare World Conference,
Las Vegas, Nev., May 2007.
■ “Aesthetic and Function
Rehabilitation in Anterior Area with
Restriction of Indication,” J. Pita, I.
Mattias Sartori, H. Nary Filho and P.
Domingos Ribeiro, Nobel Biocare World
2007.
■ “Immediate Loading of Zygomatic
Implants in the Severely Atrophic
Maxilla,” S. Hate and M. Gatti, 12th
annual Northeast Postgraduate Implant
Symposium, University of Connecticut,
November 10, 2006.
■ “Reconstruction of Craniofacial
Function Using Osseointegrated
Implants in Patients with Mandibular
Defects,” N. Demetriades, 12th annual
Northeast Postgraduate Implant
Symposium, University of Connecticut,
November 10, 2006.
ORTHODONTICS
Norman Diamond, D57, DG64,
associate clinical professor, received
the Dr. Frederick Moynihan Memorial
Award from the Massachusetts Dental
Society at its annual Yankee Dental
Congress luncheon on January 26.
Lokesh Suri, DI01, DG03, assistant
professor, has achieved diplomate
status with the American Board of
Orthodontics.
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
Emad Al-Badawi, DG01, G04,
assistant clinical professor, received
his D.Sc. degree from Boston
University in May.
summer 2007
Stanley A. Alexander, D75A, professor
and chair, presented a lecture on
“Growth and Development and
Management of the Developing
Dentition” to the Oral Health Program
of the Rhode Island Department of
Health on June 22.
Laura Camacho-Castro, G83, associate professor and director of the postdoctoral program in pediatrics, gave
a lecture on “The Most Common
Pediatric Dentistry Problems: Practical
Approach for the General Practitioner”
on May 29 at Journees Dentaires Internationales du Quebec.
Cheen Loo, assistant professor, has
achieved diplomate status with the
American Board of Pediatric Dentistry.
Christina Zervou, DG99, G99, DI07,
assistant professor and director
of the pre-doctoral program in
pediatric dentistr y, lectured at the
Yankee Dental Congress on “Infant
Oral Health Care.” She also provided
dental and health education to
elementar y and middle school
students at the Salemwood School
in Malden, Mass., in Februar y.
PERIDODONTOLOGY
Petros D. Damoulis, DG91, DI05,
associate professor and director of
advanced and graduate education, is
the co-principal investigator for a
research project on “Bacterial Immunomodulation in Periodontitis,” which was
funded by National Institute of Dental
and Craniofacial Research in March.
The other PI is Linden Hu, associate
professor of medicine at Tufts.
Presentations:
■ “Osteogenic Differentiation
of Human Mesenchymal Bone Marrow
Cells in Silk Scaffolds Is Regulated
by Nitric Oxide,” P.D. Damoulis, D.E.
Drakos, E. Gagari and D. Kaplan,
the Second Conference on Skeletal
Biology and Medicine, New York,
N.Y., 2007.
■ “Biologic Principles in Periodontal
Regeneration: Bridging the Gap with
Tissue Engineering,” Athens University
School of Dentistry, Department of
Periodontology, Athens, Greece,
December 2006.
Publications:
■ T.J. Griffin, W. Cheung, A. Zavras
and P.D. Damoulis, “Postoperative
Complications following Gingival
Augmentation Procedures,” Journal of
Periodontology, 77: 2070-2079, 2006.
■ D.E. Drakos, T.J. Griffin and P.D.
Damoulis, “Root Coverage of Multiple
Recessions with an Acellular Dermal
Matrix: Clinical Approach,” Odostomatologiki Proodos, 60: 294-305,
2006 (Greek).
■ T. Carmack, D. Tiboris, J.M. Winglee,
E. Gagari and P.D. Damoulis, “Nitric
Oxide Inhibition Regulates Gene
Expression in Dental Pulp Cells,
Journal of Dental Research, 86
(Spec. Issue A) #301, 2007.
■ J.M. Winglee, D. Tiboris, T. Carmack,
P.D. Damoulis and E. Gagari, “Stem
Cell Factor Inhibition Regulates Dental
Pulp Cell Gene Expression,” Journal of
Dental Research, 86 (Spec. Issue A)
#302, 2007.
■ P.D. Damoulis and E. Gagari,
“Human Dental Pulp Cells Express
High Levels of Follistatin,” Journal of
#784, 2007.
■ D. Tiboris, T. Carmack, J.M. Winglee,
R.C. Preda, D. Kaplan, E. Gagari and
P.D. Damoulis, “Gene Expression of
Dental Pulp Cells in Three-dimensional
Silk Scaffolds,” Journal of Dental
Research, 86 (Spec. Issue A) #1451,
2007.
■ A.C. Yen, P.D. Damoulis and A.S.
Papas, “Effects of Selective
Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitor (Celecoxib)
on Chronic Periodontitis,” Journal of
#2502, 2007.
Richard Doff, D72, assistant clinical
professor, and Vincent Mariano, D82,
assistant clinical professor of prosthodontics and operative dentistry, were
named 2006 Volunteer Heroes by the
Massachusetts Dental Society. Laura
Glicksman, D98, DG00, was also
among those recognized.
Paul A. Levi Jr., D66, DG71, associate
clinical professor, received the 2007
Educator Award from the American
Academy of Periodontology in
recognition of outstanding teaching
and mentoring in periodontics.
PROMOTION
James Hanley, D75, DG79, to associate professor.
PROSTHODONTICS AND
OPERATIVE DENTISTRY
Philip Koralishn, associate clinical
professor, and Timothy Hempton,
associate clinical professor of
periodontology, presented a course
titled “Charting and Documentation
Workshop” at the Yankee Dental
Congress in Boston on January 25.
Gerard Kugel, D85, L93, professor and
associate dean for research
Presentations:
■ “Porcelain Laminate Veneers,”
New Mexico Dental Meeting,
June 9, 2007.
■ “Esthetic Dentistry: Maintaining Your
Smile,” New York State Dental
Meeting, Verona, N.Y., May 12; Ohio
State University Dental School alumni
Lecture, May 5; Vermont Dental
Society, April 13; New Hampshire
Dental Society, March 17; Pacific
Dental Meeting, Seattle, Wash.,
March 10; Chicago Midwinter
Meeting, February 22–25, 2007.
■ “Esthetic Materials and Techniques,”
Australian Dental Society, February
8–10, 2007.
■ “Porcelain Laminate Veneers,”
Yankee Dental Congress, Boston,
January 25–27, 2007.
■ “Tooth Whitening: Fact vs. Fiction,”
Denver Midwinter Meeting, Denver,
Colo., January 18–20, 2007.
Publications:
■ G. Kugel, S. Ferreira and R. Perry,
“Composites and Whitening: How and
When to Combine Treatments,” Journal
of Functional Esthetics and Restorative
Dentistry, Series 1, Number 1, pages
30–34.
■ G. Kugel. T. Klettke, J. Goldberg,
J. Benchimol, R. Perry and S. Sharma,
“Investigation of a New Approach
to Measuring Contact Angles for
Hydrophilic Impression Materials,”
Journal of Prosthodontics, Vol. 16,
Issue 2, pages 84–92, March/April
2007.
■ A.R. Yazici, A. Khanbogadhi and
G. Kugel, “Effects of an In-office
Bleaching System (ZOOM) on Pulp
Chamber Temperature in vitro,” Journal
of Contemporary Dental Practice, Vol.
1, Issue 8(4), pages 19–26, May
2007.
■ A.R. Yazici, G. Kugel and G. Gul,
“The Knoop Hardness of a Composite
Resin Polymerized with Different Curing
Lights and Different Modes,” Journal
of Contemporary Dental Practice, Vol.
1, Issue 8(2), pages 52–59, February
2007.
■ G. Kugel, J. Petkevis, S. Gurgan
and E. Doherty, “Separate Whitening
Effects on Enamel and Dentin After
Fourteen Days,” Journal of
Endodontics, Vol. 33, Issue 1, pages
34–37, January 2007.
■ G. Kugel, S. Ferrira, J. Towers and
R.W. Gerlach, “At-home Professional
Bleaching of Tetracycline Stain: Five
Year Recall,” Journal of Dental
Research, 86, (Special Issue A): 0123,
2007. Also presented at the 2007
for Dental Research, New Orleans,
March 2007.
■ R. Perry, G. Kugel, T. Duong and
L.T. Tran, “Microleakage Testing in
vitro Using Three Different Bases
Under Composites,” Journal of Dental
Research, 86 (Special Issue A): 0366,
March 2007.
■ R.A. Dickinson, S. Stipho, D. Kaplan,
G. Kugel, H.J. Kim and G. Leisk,
“Vickers Hardness and Compressive
Strength Testing of Silk-based
Biomaterial,” Journal of Dental
March 2007.
■ J.M. White, M.A. Hull, G. Kugel
and T. Shatkin, “Two-year Retrospective
Analysis of Fixed Prosthetics Supported
by MDI Implants,” Journal of Dental
March 2007.
■ M. Del Mastro, Z. Armoush, A.
Aboushala, E. Doherty and G. Kugel,
“Retention of Fiber Posts Cemented
with a New Delivery System,” Journal
of Dental Research, 86 (Special Issue
A): 1553, 2007. Also presented at
the 2007 meeting of the American
Association for Dental Research,
New Orleans, March 2007.
■ R. Perry, G. Kugel, E. Appelin and
B. Green, “Detail Reproduction of
Impression Materials on a Wet
Surface,” Journal of Dental Research,
86 (Special Issue A): 1626, 2007.
Also presented at the 2007 meeting
of the American Association for Dental
Research, New Orleans, March 2007.
■ R. Perr y, G. Kugel, B. Green and E.
Appelin, “Effects of Various Adhesive
Materials on Implant Coping Torque
Strength,” Journal of Dental
Research, 86 (Special Issue A):
1477, 2007. Also presented at
the 2007 meeting of the American
■ R. Perry, G. Kugel, S. Araghi
and N. Tayari, “Tensile Strength
Comparison of Three Different
Obturation Posts in vitro,” Journal of
Dental Research, 86 (Special Issue A):
1627, 2007. Also presented at the
2007 meeting of the American
■ G. Kugel, R. Perry, S. Sharma
and S. Ferreira, “Evaluation of CAD/
CAM-generated Y-TZP Posterior Fixed
Partial Dentures,” Journal of Dental
March 2007.
■ M. Hull, M. Piper and G. Kugel,
“Significance of Autologous Fat Graft
Placement in the Temporomandibular
Joint,” Journal of Dental Research,
86 (Special Issue A): 2908, 2007.
Also presented at the 2007 meeting
of the American Association for
Dental Research, New Orleans,
March 2007.
■ R. Perry, G. Kugel, P. Stark, E.
Doherty, J. Towers and J. Orfanidis,
“Compressive Strength Analysis:
Precision Milling of Unsupported vs.
Supported Y-TZP,” Journal of Dental
March 2007.
PROMOTIONS
Flaviano DiFalco to associate clinical
professor.
Robert Doherty to professor.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Catherine Hayes, D87, the Delta
Dental Professor and chair, was
co-author of a paper that won the
2007 Daniel M. Laskin Award for the
most outstanding article published
in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery in 2006 from the American
Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons. The paper, “Severe
Odontogenic Infections, Part Two:
Prospective Outcomes Study,”
appeared in the July 2006 issue
of the journal.
Publications:
■ R. Badovinac, M.M. Werler, P.
Williams, K. Kelsey and C. Hayes,
“Folic Acid-containing Supplement
Consumption during Pregnancy and
Risk for Oral Clefts: A Meta-analysis,”
Birth Defects Research Part A:
Clinical and Molecular Teratology,
79(1): 8-1, January 2007.
■ C. Hayes, C. Palmer and A. Must,
“Dietary Assessment in Young
Children: FF vs. 24-hour Recall,”
Journal of Dental Research,
abstract, 2007.
■ J. Soncini, N. Maserejian, F.
Trachtenberg, M. Tavares and C.
Hayes, “Longevity of Amalgam vs.
Composite/Compomer Restorations
in Posterior Primary and Permanent
Teeth in the New England Children's
Amalgam Trial,” Journal of the
American Dental Association,
138(6):763-72, June 2007.
Carole Palmer, G69, professor,
is the editor of a new textbook,
Diet and Nutrition in Oral Health
(Prentice Hall, second edition,
2007). The book is a comprehensive
text that encompasses nutritional
implications for dental practice. It
contains clinical applications and
counseling skills, and outlines
goals, objectives and relevancy to
dentistr y sections within each chapter.
Palmer and Medha Singh, DG04, G05,
assistant professor, are co-authors of
a chapter on “Diet and Nutrition in
Sjögren's Syndrome” for Nutrition
and Rheumatic Disease (Humana
Press, in press). Her peer-reviewed
article on “Dental Considerations for
the Person with Diabetes: In on the
Cutting Edge,” is scheduled for publication in the American Dietetic Association's Diabetes Care and Education
Practice Group newsletter.
Presentations:
■ “The Diet Dilemma: Current Issues
in Nutrition/Oral Health Research,”
Boston University School of Dental
Medicine research seminar,
May 30, 2007.
■ “Diet Assessment in Dental
Research,” Boston University
Department of Pediatric Dentistry,
April 17, 2007.
■ “The Diet Dilemma: Current
Issues in Nutrition and Oral Health
Relationships,” American Association
of Dental Research, Boston section,
November 15, 2006.
■ “What Does Preventive Dentistry
Really Mean in 2006? Dietary
and Nutritional Implications,” a
half-day course, Massachusetts
Dental Assistants' Association,
Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.,
October 22, 2006.
Medha Singh, DG04, G05, assistant
professor, was a finalist for the J.
Morita Geriatric Award presented by
the Geriatric Oral Research Group
of the International Association of
Dental Research for her project,
“Comparison of Periodontal Status
in Sjögrens, Hypertensive and
Healthy Women,” done under Athena
Papas. Singh presented her abstract
for the award at the 85th general
session of the IADR in New Orleans
in March.
Publication:
■ M. Singh, A.S. Papas and R.W.
Gerlach, “Comparison of Periodontal
Status in Sjögrens, Hypertensive and
Healthy Women,” Journal of Dental
Research, 86 (Special Issue A):
Abstract 958, 2007.
Hilde Tillman, D49, professor,
was recognized by Alpha Omega
International for “her contributions
in the field of geriatric dentistry as
a scholar and educator in addition to
her dedication to Alpha Omega and
the Maury Massler Geriatric Clinic.”
APPOINTMENT
Natalie Hagel to assistant professor.
PROMOTION
John Morgan, director of the Tufts
Dental Facilities Serving Persons with
Special Needs, to associate professor.
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UNIVERSITY NEWS
THE WIDER WORLD OF TUFTS
Mating games
Firefly courtship is a tale of passion, betrayal and empty hook-ups
one summer evening in north carolina,
while lazing in her backyard, Sara Lewis
saw glimmers of her future career. The fireflies were putting on a magnificent show—
the males madly flickering as they cruised
the air, the females, less numerous and hidden in the grass, winking back. Lewis was
then studying coral reef ecology at Duke
University, and was fascinated by the
extreme competition for mates.
“I realized that the vast majority of fireflies I’d ever seen in my life were males, and
that they were all vying to get access to just
a few females,” says Lewis, now a professor of
biology at Tufts.
Photinus, the genus of fireflies common
in North America, became Lewis’s obsession. She has worked to unravel the intricacies of the insects’ courtship behavior for the
past 15 years. It is a tale of passion, betrayal
and empty hook-ups.
Firefly love is a matter of some urgency,
Lewis says. After a two-year larval stage, the
adults have just 14 nights in which to propagate before they die, and they go at it with
enviable focus. “They don’t eat, they don’t
sleep, they don’t watch TV,” Lewis says.
Because the world holds some 2,000 firefly species, many of them living side by side,
the insects have developed distinctive flash
patterns. The males of Photinus marginellus
flash once every three seconds, those of P.
Biologist Sara Lewis
stalks Photinus.
consimilis twice a second. The females, who
remain stationary in grass or low brush for
the entire two weeks, have their own
responses: P. marginellus blinks back almost
immediately, while coy P. consimilis waits
almost a full two seconds, if she replies at all.
What do lady fireflies want? The flashiest
males, of course. Using LEDs to mimic male
flash patterns, Lewis and her colleagues
found that females were more likely to
respond to males who displayed faster pulse
rates or longer flashes. The extra bling is one
of those gaudy accessories—like the peacock’s tail—that impress females but make
CAMPBELL CAMPBELL
RETURNS TO
TUFTS TO TUFTS
RETURNS
PATRICIA CAMPBELL, THE FORMER EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE DEAN AT THE
Patricia Campbell
School of Dental Medicine, has been appointed Tufts’ executive vice president. Currently vice president for finance and
administration at Boston public broadcaster WGBH, Campbell will return to the university on September 14.
She will be part of Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow’s
senior leadership team, with responsibility for financial
strategy and management, human resources, information
technology and facilities across the university’s campuses.
“We are absolutely delighted to welcome Patricia
Campbell back to the Tufts community,” Bacow said. “Her
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the guys more conspicuous to predators.
Female Photinus is not just being contrary. Lewis also found that flash patterns may
signal a male’s fitness as a father. Upon mating, the male Photinus firefly presents the
female with a nuptial gift, a package of sperm
and protein called a spermatophore. The
more protein dad donates, the better chance
those newly fertilized eggs have of hatching.
But a sexy signal doesn’t always mean he’s
a better provider. “Over evolutionary time,
males can develop ways of cheating,” Lewis
says. “He may have great-looking flashes, but
deliver a lousy nuptial gift. There could be
some other trade-off, or it could just be false
advertising.” It’s a question that she and her
colleagues continue to investigate.
This summer, Lewis is spending a month
studying the 20 to 30 species that live in
Japan. With so much variety in so small a
nation, she says, it’s no surprise the firefly
holds a special place in Japanese culture. The
Japanese word for firefly, hotaru, also means
harmony among living creatures. She hopes
to find out if males of Japanese species, like
their American cousins, offer nuptial gifts. If
so, she says, “it suggests we can’t look at the
courtship and mating behavior of fireflies
without taking into account this pretty
expensive gift.”
Courtship? Mating? Gifts? Is it possible
that fireflies could illuminate the human dating game? Alas, not very, Lewis says. “They
can shed light only on very general principles
about sexual selection and evolution.”
Whether an evening spent watching fireflies
can teach you anything about romance, then,
still depends on who you’re watching with.
inspirational leadership over eight years was instrumental
in creating a unified vision and mission for our School of
Dental Medicine. I am confident that she, like her predecessor Steve Manos, will help shape and support the
university’s academic mission of excellence in research
and teaching, and our commitment to quality, efficiency
and transparency in everything we do.” Manos is retiring
after 26 years with the university.
Campbell first came to Tufts in 1996 as executive
associate dean at the dental school, where she initiated
a strategic planning process that helped the school double the number of full-time faculty, expand its research
program and enhance patient care.
FIREFLY PHOTO: DAN PERLMAN
PROVIDING THE MEANS FOR EXCELLENCE
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
At the American Club in
Hong Kong, from left,
Noshir Mehta, Walter C.
Loh, Lonnie H. Norris and
Robert J. Chapman.
Behind Chapman is Ted
Williams’ signed Red
Sox jersey.
Gift of friendship
Alumnus supports Johansen scholarship fund
him with the Presidential Medal, one of the
university’s highest honors, for distinguished service. He received an honorary
degree from Tufts in 1987.
Walter Loh is a former overseer to Tufts
Dental School and currently serves as a
member of the China Regional Board of
the university’s International Board of
Overseers.
The Johansen Student Aid Fund was
established in 1995 by alumni, friends and
faculty to honor the Johansens for their
devoted service to the dental school. Annual
scholarships from the fund are awarded to
outstanding dental students who need
financial assistance to attend Tufts.
dr. walter c. loh, d83, has honored his longtime friend and
mentor, Dean Emeritus Erling Johansen, D49, and his wife, Inger
Johansen, with a $100,000 gift to support the Dr. Erling and Inger
Johansen Student Aid Fund at Tufts School of Dental Medicine. The gift,
Loh said, is his way of giving back to his alma mater and honoring the
Johansens, whom, he notes, contributed to his growth and success.
During a recent visit with Loh at the American Club in Hong
Kong, Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80; Dr. Noshir Mehta, DG73, DI77,
professor and chair of general dentistry; and Dr. Robert J. Chapman,
A63, D67, DG74, professor and chair of prosthodontics and operative
dentistry, must have felt like they were still in Boston. The club features
a Boston Red Sox Room, filled
with Sox memorabilia, including
legendary slugger Ted Williams’
signed team jersey. Loh’s dental
school classmate, Jim Lonborg,
was the first Red Sox pitcher to
win the Cy Young Award, which
he did in 1967, during the team’s
“Impossible Dream” season.
The Loh family’s ties to the
dental school are long and
PROGRESS REPORT
deep.
Contributions to Beyond Boundaries: The Campaign for Tufts have surpassed
Walter Loh’s father, Chou
Sung Loh, was a friend and
$666.8 million. Learn more about the $1.2 billion campaign and its impact at
benefactor of the School of
www.tufts.edu/giving.
Dental Medicine. Former Tufts
President Jean Mayer presented
summer 2007
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
PROVIDING THE MEANS FOR EXCELLENCE
Another way to support the school you love
are you 70 1 ¹2 years of age or older? are
you required to take distributions from
your IRA (Individual Retirement Account)
that you don’t need? Until December 31,
2007, you can make a donation to Tufts
University School of Dental Medicine by
directly transferring money from your
IRA—tax free.
The federal Pension Protection Act,
passed in August 2006, contains a provision
that encourages charitable giving by allowing donations of up to $100,000 from traditional and Roth IRAs, without undesirable
tax consequences.
Dr. Norbert Fraga, D47, is one alumnus
who already has taken advantage of this
unique opportunity. “An IRA donation is
more suitable, in my estimation, for anyone over age 70 1⁄ 2 because
any mandatory distribution is deducted from your adjusted gross
income,” he said.
Dr. Roderick Lewin, D57, who also made a gift of IRA assets
noted, “Even if you don’t need your minimum distribution, you’re
still paying taxes on it. This is a way to support Tufts that is very
tax-advantageous.”
Norbert Fraga, D47, at left, and Donna and
Roderick Lewin, D57
The IRA charitable rollover is a wonderful
way to give a gift to the dental school—and see
its benefits. Remember, you have only until
December 31 to take advantage of this opportunity. To make your gift and for more information, please visit
www.tufts.edu/giftplanning, or contact the Gift Planning Office by
phone at 1.888.PGTufts or by email at [email protected].
Please note that this information is not intended as legal advice, so
please consult with your tax advisor if you are considering this type of
gift. Restrictions may apply.
Thank you!
Tufts Dental School would not be what it
is today without you and your support.
More than 1,700 alumni, parents, friends, and students gave
$1.35 million between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007,
making this the best year yet for the Tufts Dental Fund.
C O M M U N I T Y. C A R I N G . C O M M I T M E N T.
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PHOTOS: J.D. SLOAN
STAYING CONNECTED
ALUMNI NEWS
Our special community
i am pleased to be writing to you as
president of the Tufts University Dental Alumni
Association. I would like to give special thanks
to Lisa Vouras, D89, our immediate past president, as well as the rest of the Executive Council of the Alumni Association for all their
contributions and dedication to our organization. I would also like to note that our newest
Executive Council member is Catherine Hayes,
D87, chair of the school’s Department of Public Health and Community Service. I know I speak for the Executive
Council when I say how important it is to have a current faculty member
on the council to keep the alumni body and the school closely connected.
Our school reunion was held May 4–6. Attendance and reunion giving
both broke records, proving that the school spirit and good feelings our
alumni have about our alma mater continue to grow. We were honored to
present Alumni Association awards to Roderick Lewin, D57; Vangel Zissi,
D62, DG67, A02P; and Maureen Lombard, director of clinical affairs.
I attended the Graduation Awards Dinner for the Class of 2007 on
May 9. It was exciting to see the dedication and passion that already exists
in the newest members of our alumni family.
This should prove to be another exciting year with plenty of alumni
events to bring us together. I hope that you are able to join us for our
Wide Open Golf and Tennis Tournament, which will take place on
September 17 at the Mount Pleasant Country Club in Boylston, Mass. I
am also looking forward to the annual
session of the American Dental Association
in San Francisco in September and attending
the Yankee Dental Congress at its new location, the Boston Convention and Events
Center, in January 2008.
I recently had the opportunity to learn
about the plans for the expansion of the
dental school. It’s hard to believe that over
the next couple of years, One Kneeland
Street will have five extra floors added to the
top of the current structure.
It is wonderful to see our dental school at
the forefront of cutting-edge technology.
Students now use paperless charts and digital X-rays. They are learning their skills in
an environment that will allow them to
transition easily to private practice.
I look forward to the coming year and
hope to see many of you, whether it is at the
school or at one of our many events around
the country.
Nicolas T. Papapetros II, D91
President, Tufts University Dental
Alumni Association
LOOKING FOR AN ASSOCIATE?
THE TUFTS ALUMNI ASSOCIATES PROGRAM (TAAP)
assists recent dental school graduates in finding
associateships with practicing alumni/ae. A continuing
effort of the Dental Alumni Association and the Alumni
Office, the program is a unique way to continue the
Tufts experience for both job-seekers and dental
alumni/ae practitioners. As one of the many benefits
of attending Tufts University School of Dental Medicine,
the alumni/ae network serves as a means of introduction and communication with alumni/ae who are
looking for associates. Those who have been involved
recognize that this program creates mutually beneficial
relationships.
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STAYING CONNECTED
Yankee Dental honors
wo tufts alumni, david g. stahl, d51, and norman diamond, d57,
DG64, A90P, were honored at this year’s Yankee Dental Congress in
Boston. Stahl received the 2007 James W. Etherington Award in honor of
his contributions to organized dentistry, including serving as president of
the New Hampshire Dental Society. Diamond was the recipient of the Dr. Frederick
Moynihan Memorial Award from the Massachusetts Dental Society.
Nearly 6,500 dentists were among the 27,798 participants at Yankee Dental, which
took place January 27–29 in Boston. The annual dental meeting is the largest in New
England. Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80, and Lisa Vouras, D89, president of the Tufts
University Dental Alumni Association, welcomed more than 1,000 dental alumni at
a reception on January 26 at the Boston Marriott Copley Place.
The 2008 Yankee Dental Congress will take place at the new Boston Convention
and Exhibition Center January 31 to February 2. The Tufts dental alumni reception
will be held on Friday, February 1, at the Westin Waterfront. For more information
about the 2008 Congress, go to www.yankeedental.com/attendees/index.cfm.
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CAREER COUNSEL: The Tufts Dental Alumni
Association hosted its eighth annual
Student/Alumni Networking Session in March,
and there was plenty of professional advice for
current students. Top from left: Cherie Bishop,
D94; Samuel Shames, D75; John Choi, D03; and
Richard McNulty, D79. Bottom: Lisa Vouras, D89,
front, president of the Alumni Association, and
Allison Norton, director of the Tufts Dental Fund.
SAVE THE DATE
The annual meeting of the American
Dental Association will take place in
San Francisco this year. Join Dean
Lonnie H. Norris, DG80, for a dental
alumni reception on Friday, September 28, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the
Hilton San Francisco, Continental
Parlor 8. Dinner will follow at a location to be announced.
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Top left: David Stahl, D51; top right: Richard Graham, A81, D85, and Doug Moll, A81, D85,
DG91; bottom: Members of the Class of D03, from left: Derek Bock, Vernon Koo, Nadeem
Merchant, Anokhi Dalia Bock, Anthony Lee, Lennox Lin, A99, Laurie Brown, Chris Chen and
David Au-Yeung
OUT AND ABOUT
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is happening near your seasonal residence!
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residences during the year and attend events in both locations. Sharing your seasonal
address with Tufts will help keep you informed about events happening where you live.
We enjoy keeping in touch. If you have a seasonal address, we want to be sure to keep
you connected throughout the year.
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SPRING SOX
eighty-five tufts dental alumni, family
and friends spent the afternoon watching the
Red Sox take on the Philadelphia Phillies
during a spring training game on March 3 in
Fort Myers, Fla. Attendees enjoyed a picnic
buffet before the game. Shown here is Bill
Pantazes, D90, president of the Florida chapter, and his daughters, Athena and Themi.
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THE NEW YORK DENTAL ALUMNI CHAPTER
held its spring meeting on March 28 at the
Penn Club in New York City. Michael Gelb,
D.D.S., A78, presented a lecture on “40
Percent of Your Patients Have a Sleep
Disorder.” Shown here are Harold Gelb,
D47, A78P, J83P, and Michael Gelb.
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ALUMNI NEWS
REUNION
GOOD TIMES, GREAT MEMORIES
reunion 2007 weekend kicked off on friday evening, may 5, with a “casino
Night” theme party at the Boston Harbor Hotel, featuring Vegas décor, a craps table and
a jazz trio. The weekend was packed with fun, food and memories. More than 600
alumni and their guests participated in reunion weekend, which also included a tour
of Fenway Park, a cooking class on “Selections from Our Famous Chocolate Bar,” class
dinners and dancing.
Two alumni were the featured lecturers at the continuing education program:
Catherine Hayes, D87, chair of the Department of Public Health and Community
Service, spoke on “How to Help Your Patients Be Tobacco-Free,” and Maria Papageorge,
D82, DG86, G89, chair of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, gave
the Robert B. Shira Lecture on “Zygomatic Implants: A Surgical Alternative for
Reconstruction of the Atrophic Maxilla.” (See “90-minute Miracle,” page 7.) Between
lectures, students guided alumni on tours of the school and talked about expansion
plans, which will add five more floors to One Kneeland Street.
The weekend culminated on Saturday evening at the Langham Hotel, where alumni
enjoyed individual class dinners and dancing. Dean Lonnie H. Norris, DG80, hosted
brunch for alumni and their guests at the hotel on Sunday morning.
Records were broken again this year for reunion giving. Reunion classes donated
nearly $430,000 to the Tufts Dental Fund this year, and a total of more than $1.4
million since their last reunion in 2002. The Classes of D62, D72, D77 and D87 each
set new gift records for their reunions. The 50th reunion class, D57, was the big winner, receiving both the Golden Crown Award for the largest five-year class gift, and the
Porcelain Bridge Award for the highest rate of participation among all reunion classes.
The Class of D77, celebrating its 30th reunion, won the Cusp of Excellence Award for
raising nearly $75,000 in reunion gifts for the Tufts Dental Fund this year.
Thanks go to the class leaders, who committed their time, energy and enthusiasm
throughout the year to ensure a successful reunion and a memorable experience for
their classmates.
—Karen Cirrito
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PHOTOS: J.D. SLOAN
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1: D57 Co-chairs Peter Kondon, Norman Diamond, Roderick
Lewin and Edward Pierce present their record-breaking gift to
Dean Lonnie H. Norris. The class won the Golden Crown and
Porcelain Bridge awards.
2: Elaine Kasparian, J58, J91P, J92P, D97P, DG01P;
Richard Federico; Joy Kasparian-Federico, J92, D97, DG01;
and Robert Watson, A59, D62
3: John Wolkowicz, D55, D91P, D97P, DG95P, DG00P; Hertha
Wolkowicz, D91P, D97P, DG95P, DG00P; Derek Wolkowicz,
D97, DG00; and Candace Wolkowicz, D98
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4: Louis Fiore, D62, and his wife, Jean
5: Dana Mandel and Matthew Ginsburg, both D02
6: John Lanzetta, D87, Christine Guerriero, Christina DiComes,
D87, and Sal Guerriero, D87
7: Members of the Class of D97 and their spouses on the trolley
headed for a tour of Fenway Park. Left side: Julie Putt, J94;
Michael Putt, D97; and John O’Horo, D97. Right side, front
to back: Mark Lebel, D97; Nicole Caron; Jenna Bagley Hrinda,
D97; Michael Hrinda, D97; Steve Luo, D97; and Derek
Wolkowicz, D97, DG00.
8: Marie Holliday, D77, Marivic Brecasio, Franklin Bailey, D77,
Brenda Howard, D77, and Sterling Beasley, D77
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9: Allen Friedman, D67, Elsie Friedman, Joan Saxonhouse, Jack
Saxonhouse, D67, Marjorie Stieglitz and Terry Stieglitz, D67, DG72
10: Isabelle and Alan DerKazarian, D57
11: Doris and Dick Magovern, D57
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REUNION
Service triple crown
the dental alumni association recognized three individuals—
Vangel Zissi, D62, DG67; Roderick W. Lewin, D57; and Maureen
Lombard, director of clinical affairs—during its annual luncheon
May 6 at the Langham Hotel in Boston. Lisa Vouras, D89, president of
the Alumni Association, presented the awards, honoring the recipients’
service to Tufts University, the School of Dental Medicine and the
dental profession.
Zissi, who was recognized for his 45 years of service to the dental
school, “has set a standard that is a model for our current and future
alumni,” his award certificate reads. A longtime clinical faculty member, volunteer and
leadership donor, he has served as a director
and president of the Tufts University Dental Alumni Association and co-chair of his
class reunion committees for the past 30
years. After serving in the U.S. Navy, including a tour in Vietnam, Zissi became the
first alumnus of the postgraduate endodontics program in 1967. He has directed the
continuing education program and served
as alumni editor of Tufts Dental Medicine
magazine since 1991.
Jared Geller, D07, the student in the
fourth-year class with the highest overall
academic achievement, was presented with
a cash award in Zissi’s name during commencement on May 20.
Lewin, a former associate clinical professor of oral pathology, “represents the best of Tufts University School of Dental Medicine: a skilled
clinician of the healing arts, with empathy and concern for his patients,
his colleagues and those in need both locally and globally,” according to
his award citation. A leadership donor, he was a co-chair of his 50th
reunion committee. He is co-director of projects for New Faces for Honduras and a member of both Cape Cares and the Cure International
Maxillofacial Reconstruction Team, all of which provide dental care to
the underserved in this country and abroad.
Marjan Askari, D09, the student with the highest first-year academic
achievement in the basic sciences, received a cash prize from the Dental
Alumni Association in Lewin’s name.
Lombard has been a member of the dental school’s clinical affairs
staff for 13 years, and was appointed director of the division in 2006. She
oversees 80 employees and $15 million in clinic revenue. She has served
on the school’s Golden Crown Committee, which annually recognizes
outstanding staff members.
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Top left: Marjan Askari, D09,
who received the basic sciences
achievement award, with Roderick
W. Lewin; top: Vangel R. Zissi
receives his award from Alumni
Association President Lisa Vouras;
bottom: Lisa Vouras and Maureen
Lombard, director of clinical affairs
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D47: Norbert Fraga, Harold Gelb, Morris Stone
D52: Ivers Rifkin, John Saunders, Edward Pierce
D57: FRONT ROW: Paul Szlyk, Martin Ungerleider,
Martin Schachter, Hersch Altman, Alan DerKazarian,
William Schmid, Robert Baker, Peter Kondon
MIDDLE ROW: Dick Magovern, Paul Ouellete, Ted Lyons,
Joseph Haggerty, Thomas Gworek, Tom Grady,
Eugene Fredey, Joseph Kenneally
BACK ROW: Robert Sainato, Joe Swirbalus,
John Reichheld, Norman Diamond, Nicholas Skaperdas,
Roderick Lewin, Agisilas P. Manickas
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D62: FRONT ROW: Louis Fiore, Philip Millstein,
Ed Russell, Joe Siracuse, John Gagliardi
BACK ROW: Robert Watson, Vangel Zissi, Philip Conti,
Charles Millstein, Sheldon Sullaway
D67: FRONT ROW: Jay Schwab, Jack Saxonhouse,
Richard Price, Terry Stieglitz, Abraham Haddad,
John Sarris, Ken Horowitz
MIDDLE ROW: John O’Brien, John Dreslin, Edward
Geschelin, Robert Murphy, William Accomando,
Allen Friedman
BACK ROW: John Mandel, Shaun Dowd, Irv Stanley,
Gennaro Cataldo, Vincenzo Castaldo, Martin Monast,
Charles Rounds Jr.
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D72: FRONT ROW: Les Muldorf, Edward Walk,
Andrew Alpert, Henry Talberth, John Corey
BACK ROW: William Lobel, David Prindiville,
Paul Bobinski, Philip Melnick, Richard Duff
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D77: FRONT ROW: Robert Guen, Suzanne Noel,
Franklin Bailey, Noshir Mehta, Franson Tom, Patti Punim,
Sterling Beasley, Marie Holliday
MIDDLE ROW: Rustam DeVitre, Christine Benoit,
Mark Lausier, Edward Ledden, Barbara Hauschka,
Carol Mann, Brenda Howard, Cheryl Hodge-Spencer,
Leslie Hunt-Driscoll, Janice Conrad, Howard Sorkin
BACK ROW: Richard Vachon, Charles Albee,
Richard Marchand, Carl Driscoll, Eliot Paisner,
Richard Harrison, Charles Greffrath, Carl Manikian,
Lorenzo Lepore
D82: FRONT ROW: Mark Bichajian, Lisa Emirzian,
Michael Tosatti, Peter McAllister, Kevin Kiely,
Robert Harrington, Tofigh Raayai, Marguerite Fallon,
Maria Papageorge, Alan Avtges
MIDDLE ROW: Edwin Helitzer, Vincent Mariano,
John Carpenter, Ray Weiss, Andrew Molak,
Edward Drysgula, Pamela Pappas, Roy Stracqualursi,
Clara Hyun, Walter Stone, Joseph Salusti
BACK ROW: Gerard Kinahan, Henry Seemann,
Michael Strassberg, Paul Bocciarelli, Ronald Johnson,
Steven Demetriou, Neal Rogol, David Mayer
D82
D87: FRONT ROW: Catherine Hayes, Marisol
Ruiz-Primavera, Christina DiComes, Denise Fedele,
Mary Karish-Dodge, Tina Liang, Vincenzina Racana,
Eileen Golway, Laurie Manthos, Jane Darviche
MIDDLE ROW: Stephen McKenna, Steven Andreasen,
Gregory Chotkowski, John Lanzetta, Sal Guerriero,
John Gomes, Stuart Daitch, Louis Stylos, Glen Davis,
David Samuels, Fadi Abdullah, Gus Hamrick,
Stephen MacDonald, James Indiveri, Jeff Cummings
BACK ROW: Daniel Ravin, Stephen Reichheld,
David Russell, Michael Fitzpatrick, Frank Bane,
Dennis Pezzolesi, Michael Pellegrini, Steven Mansfield,
Robert Sorrentino, Robert Erickson, Steven Frimtzis,
Glen Boleburn, Teddy Korin, Peter Simone, Gene Goetz
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D92: FRONT ROW: Mira Zinger, Keith Russell,
Rosie Angelakis, Chris McCartin, Debra Dobbs,
Farinoush Gaminchi, Taraneh Naghieh, Leslie Olton
MIDDLE ROW: Vincent Mastronardi, Valeria Meazzini,
Paul Lennon, Tal Morr, Ramesh Izedian, Cressida Joseph,
Mary Ellen Lukaswitz, Juan Jose Graham
BACK ROW: Joseph Marino, Robert DeFrancesco,
Peter Perera, Stephen Cohen, Paul Talkov, Thomas Varden
D97: FRONT ROW: John O’Horo, Derek Wolkowicz,
Shelagh Kavanagh, Katrina Wall, Katherine Lee Lughes,
Lenore Supnet, Femina Ali, Natalie Jeong, Viet Nguyen
MIDDLE ROW: Anita Bhatt, Vivian Sorkin, Michael Putt,
Tim McSweeney, Chris Maguire, Joy Kasparian-Federico,
George Pelayo, Ramin Bahram, Jenna Bagley Hrinda,
Laura Sullivan, Robert Sibilia, Mark Lebel, Steve Luo
BACK ROW: Farooq Nasserziayee, Ivan Serdar,
Traci Portnoff, Chris Francese, Brett Paredes,
Mary Jane Hanlon-Rogers, Will Beaber, Michael Hrinda,
Kevin Mischley, Michele Scrime, Kallen Hull
D02: FRONT ROW: Yelena Gutinchenko, Kateryna
Latypova, Catherine Moshirfar, Padideh Shafiei, Carla Blain,
Angela Karogiannis, Dana Mandel, Fotini Dionisopoulos
MIDDLE ROW: Abhayjit Bedi, Sandeep Cheema,
Katya Mauritson, Glenn Thompson, Mario Lucca,
Samantha King, Matthew Ginsburg, Dawn Thatcher
BACK ROW: Richard Price, Brian Maguire, Stanislav
Moline, Ann Kennon, Grace Dickinson-Branon,
Debra Edson, Hadley Creech, Lisa Cusson
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CLASS NOTES
Craig Marble
reports that he
is still pretty active working on
his tree farm and gardening.
He is also still very interested in
sports and is a huge fan of the
Oregon State baseball team.
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Lloyd Miller, A54,
who serves on
the Dental Board of Overseers,
received the 2006 Greater
New York Academy of
Prosthodontics Achievement
Award. He gave the opening
address at a meeting of the
European Academy of Esthetic
Dentistry in Zurich, Switzerland,
in May 2006.
D58
Paul A. Levi Jr.,
DG71, clinical
associate professor of periodon-
D66
tology at Tufts, received the
2007 Educator Award from
the American Academy of
Periodontology in recognition
of outstanding teaching and
mentoring in periodontics.
Michael
Silberman,
G73, is the executive
director of the Middle East
Cancer Consortium. He has
retired from the Faculty of
Medicine at the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology after
30 years of service as chair
of the Department of Anatomy
and Cell Biology, dean of the
school and chief scientist
for the Ministry of Health
in Jerusalem.
DG70
DG71
Paul A. Levi
Jr., see D66.
Jeffrey Brook
married Leslie
Shusterhoff in November
2005. He was appointed an
assistant clinical professor
of periodontics in the implant
department at New York
University College of Dentistry.
Brook’s son, Scott, was
accepted a hematologyoncology fellowship at Lenox
Hill Hospital in New York City.
Stanley Gersch is president
of the New Jersey Association
of Orthodontists. His son, Scott
Gersch, has joined his orthodontics practice in Westfield and
Linden, N.J.
Joel Pearlman, clinical
assistant professor of public
health and community service
at Tufts, authored a chapter
titled “Medical Care for Children
and Adults with Developmental
D74
Disabilities” for the second
edition of Dentistry, edited by
I. Leslie Rubin, M.D., and
Allen C. Crocker, Ph.D., and
published by the Paul H.
Brookes Publishing Co.
David Tesini,DG77,
G79, see D78.
D75
D75A
Paul
Desjardins
has taken a new position as
senior vice president for global
clinical and medical affairs at
Wyeth Consumer Healthcare
in Madison, N.J. He relocated
to Maplewood, N.J., from
Austin, Texas.
William McDonald reports
that he is still practicing at
least four days a week and
goes jogging or cycling six or
seven times a week.
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Joel L. Schwartz,
professor of oral
medicine and diagnostics at
the University of Illinois at
Chicago College of Dentistry,
has completed the Institute
for Teaching and Learning
(ITL) in the Health Professions
Program for Dental School
Faculty, a partnership between
the Academy for Academic
Leadership in Atlanta and the
University of Missouri–Kansas
City School of Dentistry.
“The ITL program increased
my ability to prepare questions
and set the agenda at
lectures,” Schwartz said. He
has been a dental educator,
clinician and basic science
researcher for nearly 30 years
and has published more than
90 peer-reviewed scientific
articles, reviews and chapters.
He is a member of a National
Institutes of Health study
review section for the National
Cancer Institute, and he has
been a reviewer for more than
a dozen major scientific publications and grant-funding organizations. Among his numerous
awards are a Distinguished
Achievement Award from
Harvard University and Scientist
of the Year Linus Pauling Award
in 1992. His primary research
interests are prevention, early
detection and enhancement of
cancer therapy for head and
neck tumors. After receiving a
D.M.D. from Tufts School of
Dental Medicine, Schwartz
earned a D.M.Sc. from Harvard
School of Medicine and a certificate in oral maxillofacial
pathology from Harvard School
of Dental Medicine. He was on
the faculty of Harvard School
of Dental Medicine, a scientist
at the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, a senior dental
research investigator at the
D76
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NIH, director of research at
Howard University and associate professor in the Department of Dentistry at New York
Medical College before going to
the University of Illinois at
Chicago in 2004.
Charles Albee,
D09P, has been
elected editor of the New
Hampshire Dental Society.
Franklin Bailey has retired
from the U.S. Naval Reserves
after 20 years. He moved from
Louisiana to Chico, Calif., in
August 2004.
Barbara Toomey Hauschka
is still practicing in Brookline,
Mass. Her husband, Peter, is
still doing bone and cancer
research at Children’s Hospital
in Boston. Their son, Andy, is
practicing dentistry in Charlotte,
N.C. Their daughter, Katherine,
is in culinary school, and their
son, Steve, is applying to dental
schools.
D77
David B. Harte,
A75, reports that
he helped organize another child
ID program in May in which kids
are videotaped, fingerprinted,
tooth-printed and have a DNA
cheek swab as part of the
Masonic Child Identification
Program (CHIP). The event
featured Mason, New England’s
only scent-discriminating dog,
which is trained to sniff out
toothprints. The dog, Harte says,
can track any child given a twoday head start, even through
rough terrain, with perfect
results, using a four-year-old
toothprint. Mason also can easily find a child in a group of 600
people. The CHIP program was
created by Harte, David Tesini,
D75, DG77, G79, and Jim
Lonborg, D83, and has received
D78
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Dr. Lorenzo Lepore, A74, D77, A03P, center, was one of seven
Tufts alumni to receive a 2007 Distinguished Service Award, the
highest honor of the Tufts University Alumni Association. Award
winners are recognized for their service to Tufts, their profession
and their community. He received the award on April 28 from
Sunny Breed, left, president of the Tufts University Alumni
Association, and Dr. Eric Gheewalla, A87, D91, DG93, right, chair
of the Awards Committee. Lepore serves on the board of corporators for Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford, Mass., and the
board of directors of Tri-City Mental Health and Retardation Center
Inc. He was a founding member of Medford Health Matters, a community health initiative. His company, Encore Etc. Inc., developed
MaestroMD, a one-of-a-kind system for sterilizing wind instruments
that are shared by students in school bands. He plays the clarinet.
He is a member of the Tufts University Alumni Council and the
Tufts Alumni Admissions Program, and has served as class agent
for the Fund for Arts, Sciences and Engineering. He is a clinical
faculty member at Tufts School of Dental Medicine and a member
of the Dental M Club Executive Committee.
awards from the National Center
for Missing and Exploited
Children. The child-identification
program is active in 22 states.
Maria Antonia Rabbio, DG85,
has written a novel, Uncommon
Bonds, which has been released
by Publish America and is available at amazon.com and Barnes
and Noble bookstores. The book
is the story of a dentist whose
seven-year-old adopted daughter,
Katie, is dying of leukemia. Her
only hope of survival is a bone
marrow transplant, but her
genetic heritage has made it
difficult to locate a donor.
Against all odds, her adoptive
father proves to be the right
match. Adopted himself, the
dentist attempts to trace
his own roots. Rabbio, who
received her postgraduate
certificate in endodontics from
Tufts in 1985, served 22 years
of active duty in the U.S.
Air Force Dental Corps. She is
an associate professor at the
University of Nevada at Las
Vegas School of Dental Medicine. She has lived in Las
Vegas for 11 years.
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CLASS NOTES
Joseph P.
Giordano, DG84,
was certified as a diplomate
of the American Board of
Orthodontics during the February
2007 clinical examination in
St. Louis, Mo. He is a member
Orthodontists, the American
Dental Association, the
Massachusetts Dental Society
and the Merrimack Valley District
Dental Society. He practices
orthodontics in Lawrence, Mass.
D79
Denise Caron and
her husband, Tony
McDonald, recently celebrated
their 25th wedding anniversary.
They have a daughter, Kate, 14.
Lisa Emirzian and Vincent
Mariano have two children, Alissa, 17, and Michael, 12. Mariano is an assistant clinical
professor at Tufts, teaching in
the postgraduate prosthodontics
program once a month. Emirzian
is also on the faculty, teaching
one day a month in the postgraduate esthetics program.
Robert D. Harrington
recently returned from a sevenmonth deployment to Iraq,
where he was assigned to a
Special Forces unit and provided
D82
dental care to the Iraqi army
and police. In 2004, he spent
five months in Afghanistan,
working with a similar Special
Forces unit. He has been promoted to lieutenant colonel and
is now in private practice.
Catherine Tapp Stewart is
moving to Whidbey Island,
Wash., this summer. She
returned to school and is now a
labor and delivery nurse.
Ed Howard and his
wife, Katherine,
welcomed their new daughter,
Grace, on May 5, 2006. Grace
joins her siblings, David,
Rachel, Michelle, Stephen and
Elizabeth. Howard lives
and practices in Cary, N.C.
Jim Lonborg, see D78.
D83
David Leader,
assistant clinical
professor of general dentistr y
at Tufts, has rewritten the
“Scleroderma and Dentistr y”
brochure for the National
Scleroderma Foundation. The
brochure targets those who
suffer from scleroderma, a
rare, chronic disease characterized by excessive deposits of
D85
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collagen in the skin or other
organs. Approximately 300,000
Americans have the disease.
Leader became interested in
the condition a few years ago
and learned that many dentists
cannot treat patients who
have scleroderma. Often,
scleroderma will cause the lips
and face to tighten, leading to
microstomia. This makes oral
health care much more difficult, and trips to the dentist
can be complicated and uncomfortable. Scleroderma can also
cause xerostomia and temporomandibular joint dysfunction.
Leader has become a regular
lecturer at national and
regional meetings, and is the
only dentist on the Medical
Advisor y Board of the New
England chapter of the
Scleroderma Foundation.
The word “scleroderma”
comes from two Greek words:
“sclero,” meaning hard, and
“derma,” meaning skin.
DG85
Maria Antonia
Rabbio,
president of the Suffolk County
Dental Society in New York. He
practices general dentistry in
Deer Park, N.Y., and chairs the
Council on Ethics for the New
York State Dental Association.
Brian Denichilo
and his wife, Vicki,
announce the birth of their
first grandchild, Victoria Maria,
on October 30, 2006. Their
daughter, Christina, married in
November 2005 and wasted
no time in starting a family;
she is enrolled in a dental
hygiene program.
Bradley Palter and his wife,
Deborah, live in Foxboro, Mass.
Their son, Nathaniel, is now
five years old. Palter is a partner
in a group practice in Wareham,
Mass.
D91
Farinoush
Gaminchi lives in
Los Angeles with her husband,
Fabrizio Dall’Olmo, DG97, and
their two children, Leila, 5, and
Matteo, 3. They are expecting
their third child in September.
D92
see D78.
D90
Kevin Henner
has been named
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Dara Chira, J89,
was certified as
a diplomate of the American
Board of Orthodontics in March
2006. She maintains a private
practice in orthodontics and
dentofacial orthopedics in
Burlington, Vt. She is the first
female orthodontist in Vermont
to attain her board certification
in orthodontics.
D93
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City
State
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Michelle SmithGoncalves and
her husband, Manny, have
expanded their family. They are
now a family of five with three
kids, Lina, Sabrina and Joseph.
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Nicholas Rizos,
A91, was chosen
as one of the top general
dentists in New Hampshire by
a peer vote conducted by
New Hampshire Magazine.
He practices in Bedford, N.H.,
and resides there with his wife,
Lynda, and sons, Christopher
and Robert.
D96
Vivian IbrahimSorkin practices
periodontics and implant
dentistry in Washington, D.C.,
with her husband, Art. They
have been married for five years
and have two children, Daniel,
4, and Gina, 18 months.
Viet Nguyen is married and
“comfortably numb” with three
children. Nguyen has just
opened a new Tufts-staffed
family dental center in Toronto
with four other Tufts alumni.
Visit their website: www. airportdental.ca.
D97
DG97
Fabrizio
Dall’Olmo,
see D92.
Ronald Katz
successfully
completed the 2007 oral
certifying examination and
is now a diplomate of the
American Board of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery.
Leonard Tau married Rita
Gildiner in Blue Bell, Pa., on
June 3, 2006. They had their
first child in May 2007. Tau
recently purchased a dental
practice in northeast Philadelphia called the Pennsylvania
Center for Dental Excellence.
D99
Abdul Abdulwaheed, E97,
started a private practice, Lux
Dental, at 505 Washington St.
in Quincy, Mass.
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Kateryna Latypova, DG05,
is thrilled to announce a new
addition to the family. Her
daughter, Amelia Iris Soler-Sala,
was born on May 15, 2005.
Ben Ross and his wife, Lynn,
are now living in Clarksburg, Md.
They have two sons under the
age of two. Ross is a staff
prosthodontist at the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center.
Heidi Pechter
married Dr. Monte
Reid Sichelman on January 20,
2007, at the Aventura Turnberry
Jewish Center in Aventura, Fla.
D03
Medha Singh,
G05, assistant professor of general dentistry at Tufts, has completed
the Institute for Teaching and
Learning (ITL) in the Health
Professions Program for Dental
School Faculty. The ITL is a collaborative partnership between
the Academy for Academic
Leadership in Atlanta and the
University of Missouri–Kansas
City School of Dentistry. Singh
received a certificate recognizing her successful completion
of this innovative program for
new faculty and those transitioning from private practice to
academia. “The ITL program is
designed to help health professions educators who are early
in their academic careers
become master teachers,”
said Dr. N. Karl Haden, president of the Acad- emy for
Academic Leadership. “The ITL
program has helped me become
a more focused, compassionate
and student-oriented teacher,”
Singh said. She grew up in India
and received her dental degree
from Maharishi Dayanand
University. She is a diplomate
of the American Board of
DG04
ALUMNA IS FIRST WOMAN
TO LEAD DENTAL SOCIETY
DR. ANDREA RICHMAN, D78, WHO PRACTICES GENERAL DENTISTRY
in Carlisle, Mass., has been elected the first woman
president of the Massachusetts Dental Society (MDS), a
statewide professional association
ser ving more than 4,500 member
dentists. Richman’s election took
place at the 143rd MDS annual
session on May 11 in Boston.
“It is a great privilege to
become the president of the
and indeed, its first woman
president,” Richman said. “I have
Andrea Richman
worked in the fields of science
and health care since my college days and am especially
pleased to be a leader in the profession now, as oral
health is becoming such an important part of the public
health agenda.”
A member of MDS for nearly 30 years, Richman has
ser ved as MDS president-elect, vice president and as
district trustee for the Metropolitan District Dental
Society, a component of the MDS. She has also ser ved
as a delegate to the MDS House of Delegates. She has
volunteered for the Yankee Dental Congress (YDC), the
fifth largest dental conference in the countr y, and was
general chair of the 25th anniversar y meeting in 2000.
Currently, she ser ves on the Women’s Leadership Task
Force, the YDC 33 Core Committee and on the board of
directors of the MDS Foundation. She is involved in a
number of professional dental organizations and is a
fellow of the International College of Dentists and the
American College of Dentists.
“In the last 30 years, I have noticed not only a
dramatic increase in the number of women entering the
dental profession, but also a steady increase in women
entering leadership roles in organized dentistr y,” Richman
said. “It is vital that women, especially new dentists, feel
connected to this profession so they may contribute their
ideas, expertise and talents.
“Dentistr y is an immensely rewarding profession, and
we have a continuing responsibility to advance access,
research, education and treatment options,” she said.
In addition to her Tufts dental degree, Richman also
holds degrees from the University of Vermont and the
University of Wisconsin.
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Periodontology and a recipient
of the American Academy of
Periodontology Foundation
Fellowship to the ITL program.
Singh has participated in a
number of research projects in
oral medicine and is currently
conducting periodontal research
in saliva hypo-function patients.
Chestine
Guevarra reports
that she finished her residency
program at Fort Sill, Okla., in
September 2006. She writes,
“The Army moved me to
Germany to be with my new
unit. However, when I got
there, my unit had left a week
before for Iraq, and now I’m
also here in Iraq for a year.
At least I was able to spend
two months in Germany before
I got deployed. I’m enjoying
militar y dentistr y. The nice
thing about being here is that
not only am I treating soldiers,
but also the foreign nationals.
Ver y interesting. You get to
barter dental treatment for all
kinds of interesting food.”
D05
DG05
Kateryna
Latypova,
see D02.
Tomas Ballesteros
IV received the
Tufts President’s Award for
Citizenship and Public Service
during ceremonies on April 20
on the Medford/Somerville
campus. In his introduction,
Dean Lonnie H. Norris praised
Ballesteros’ work with local
Hispanic communities and the
student members of the Tufts
chapter of the Hispanic Dental
Association: “Tomas is being
recognized for his efforts to
empower disadvantaged young
people with a sense of options
and possibilities.”
D07
Cyril Gaum mentored
hundreds of students
A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD AT THE DENTAL
school on June 8 for Dr. Cyril Gaum, a
noted endodontist who combined private
practice with a 40-year teaching career at
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
He died on March 2 in Stuart, Fla., of
complications from a stroke. He was 84.
More than 200 people attended the
ser vice in Merritt Auditorium, including
Gaum’s widow, Esther Gaum, Tufts President
Lawrence S. Bacow, university
trustees Thomas F. Winkler III,
A62, D66, and William Sellers,
A56, D60, dental school overseer Lloyd Miller, A54, D58,
and 30 family members and
friends from Canada and Florida. Vangel Zissi, D62, DG67,
was asked by Esther Gaum to
lead the service.
Born in Sydney on Cape BreDr. Cyril Gaum
ton on January 13, 1923, Gaum
earned his dental degree from Dalhousie
University in Halifax in1948. He practiced
in Sydney before he and his wife moved
to Boston. Gaum became the first formally
trained endodontist in New England in 1960,
when he earned a certificate in endoontics
from Boston University. In 1964, he co-founded a specialty group practice, Limited to
Endodontics Inc., which has grown from three
endodontists in one location to 19 endodontists practicing in six locations. His professional and personal styles were characterized
by integrity, empathy and generosity.
“His word was his bond. If he shook your
hand and looked you in the eye—enough
said, and you could take it to the grave,”
Zissi, clinical professor of endodontics and
a partner in Limited to Endodontics, told the
Boston Globe.
During the 47 years that Gaum devoted
to endodontics, he taught undergraduate
and postgraduate dental students,
conducted research, wrote for professional journals and textbooks and lectured
summer 2007
around the world. He chaired Tufts’
Department of Endodontics in the 1970s,
and when he retired in 1990, he was
named clinical professor of endodontics
emeritus. His advice to his students was
simple and straightforward: “Put yourself
in the chair. You be the patient. How do
you want the doctor to treat you? Those
were classic Gaumisms,” Zissi told the
Globe. Gaum derived great pleasure from
the success of his students,
several of whom joined him in
private practice, while others
became lifelong colleagues
and cherished friends.
He was a diplomate of the
American Board of Endodontics
and served as president of the
American Academy of Dental
Science, the Greater Boston
Endodontic Study Club and the
Cape Breton Dental Society. He
was a councilman and regent of the International College of Dentists, which presented
him with its District One Distinguished Fellow
Award in 2005.
He chaired fund-raising campaigns for
Dalhousie’s new dental school in 1958
and for Tufts’ Arthur A. Pearson Memorial
Endodontic Suite in 1975. Tufts dedicated
the Dr. Cyril Gaum Endodontic Clinic in his
honor in 1991, and presented him with
the dental school’s Distinguished Alumnus
Award the following year. In 1995, he was
inducted into the Canadian Academy of
Endodontics Hall of Fame.
Outside of dentistry, Gaum’s passion
was breeding and showing American
Quarter Horses.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two
sisters and many nieces and nephews. The
family asks that memorial donations be
made to the Dr. Cyril Gaum Endodontic Clinic
Fund, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111
or to the charity of the donor’s choice.
IN MEMORIAM
John J. Valluzzo, A36, D38
December 10, 2006
Brandon, Fla.
Jacob Shapera, D39
December 22, 2006
Rockville, Conn.
Daniel Yuill, D44
February 14, 2007
Lexington, Mass.
John Parillo, D47, D87P
February 24, 2007
Providence, R.I.
Algirdas Albert Yurkstas,
D49, DG56, J74P, J81P
November 23, 2006
Quincy, Mass.
Alexander Andrews, A42, D50
April 10, 2007
East Wareham, Mass.
Louis Himmelfarb, D50
February 20, 2007
Marblehead, Mass.
O. Walter Donnenfeld
at his solo exhibition
in 2000
Robert Rodgers, D52
March 28, 2006
Portland, Maine
O. WALTER DONNENFELD,
PERIODONTOLOGIST AND PAINTER
DR. O. WALTER DONNENFELD, DG54, CLINICAL
professor of periodontology emeritus, who
turned his attention to painting full time in
retirement, passed away suddenly in San
Diego on January 15. He was 83.
Donnenfeld graduated from New York
University’s College of Dentistry in 1948,
and by 1954, he had earned certificates in
periodontology from the U.S. Naval Dental
School and from Tufts, as well as completing a yearlong internship at Jewish Memorial
Hospital in New York City. An assistant professor of periodontology at Tufts from 1961
to 1966 and director of Tufts’ postgraduate
program in periodontology from 1978 to
1993, he also spent eight years in the sixties and seventies as professor and chair of
the divisions of periodontology at Northwestern University Dental School and the University of Florida College of Dentistry. He
PHOTO: MARK MORELLI
William Emerson, D53
February 20, 2007
Wellesley, Mass.
served as director of the American Board of
Periodontology from 1984 to 1990,
authored numerous articles in professional
journals, sat on more than a dozen professional committees and boards and worked
in private practice in Chicago and Boston.
When he retired from dentistry in 1994,
he explored his artistic muse full time, and
in October 2000, at age 76, he had his first
solo exhibition, which he called “Painting
Stories,” at The Copley Society of Boston.
“We’re all given a certain amount of energy,” he told Tufts Dental Medicine in 2000.
“And some of us have all this energy, and if
we’re not channeling it into something, if we
don’t spend it somehow, we go off the rocker, off the deep end.”
Private funeral services were held in
San Diego, where he had been living for
several years.
Paul Duffy, D52, A79P
February 22, 2007
Winchester, Mass.
Thomas Summerson Jr., D57
December 20, 2006
Presque Island, Maine
Marvin Gleken, D58
April 17, 2006
Randolph, Mass.
James Chalmers, A66, D70, J96P
May 6, 2007
Brighton, Mass.
John Jandinski, D72
February 22, 2007
Morristown, N.J.
Carole Alton, DI77
November 19, 2006
Pepperell, Mass.
William Missert, DG98
May 7, 2007
Natick, Mass.
summer 2007
ALUMNI NEWS
CONTINUING EDUCATION
SEPTEMBER 7
OCTOBER 10
NOVEMBER 3
Radiology Certification
Course (a hands-on course)
Dr. Audrey J. Furkart, Dr.
Richard W. Shea, Dr. Brian M.
Shea, Shannon Meloon Balletto
Infection Control Update
and Bioterrorism Challenges
Dr. John Molinari
Direct Posterior
Composites: The Next Level
(a hands-on course)
Dr. Simone Deliperi,
Dr. David N. Bardwell
OCTOBER 13
New Advances in Implant
Overdentures: Happiness
through Simplification
(a hands-on course)
Dr. Allen L. Schneider
SEPTEMBER 12
Dental Update for the
Entire Dental Team:
Medical Emergencies
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg
Management of Common
Soft Tissue Oral Lesions
Dr. Michael A. Kahn, Dr. Lynn
Solomon
Getting the Most Out of
Composites and Cosmetic
Dentistry: Solutions to Indirect
Porcelain Techniques
Dr. Paul C. Belvedere
Update for Clinical Care
in Pediatric Dentistry
Dr. Stanley Alexander,
Dr. Laura Camacho-Castro
Orthodontic Preparation
in Complex Restorative,
Esthetic and Implant TEAM
“Interdisciplinary” Therapy
Dr. Jackie Berkowitz
Nitrous Oxide Certification
Dr. Morton B. Rosenberg,
Dr. C.S. Maller
OCTOBER 20
SEPTEMBER 19
Bone Grafting: Sockets,
Ridges, Sinuses and More
(a hands-on course)
Dr. Dennis Thompson
Oral Surgery Update
Dr. Stuart E. Lieblich
SEPTEMBER 21
Practicing Smarter Not Harder
through Digital Technology
Dr. Charles D. Samaras
SEPTEMBER 26
Real World Endo Institute
(a hands-on course)
Dr. Dennis Brave, Dr. Ken Koch
SEPTEMBER 29
Crown Lengthening Workshop (a
hands-on course)
Dr. Emilio Arguello,
Dr. Catherine Moshirfar
NOVEMBER 14
Dental Update: Medical
Emergencies and the Prevention
and Management of Surgical
Complications for the Non-Oral
Surgeon in the General Office
Dr. Kalpakam Shastri
OCTOBER 31
Porcelain Veneers and Full
Ceramic Crowns: A Step-by-Step
Guide to Long-Term Success
(a hands-on course)
Dr. Simone Deliperi
NOVEMBER 2–3
Nitrous Oxide Certification
Dr. C.S. Maller
summer 2007
Get Hooked on Partials
Dr. William Lobel
DECEMBER 7–8
Anatomy for the General
Dentist: Essentials for
Obtaining Profound Anesthesia
for Reducing Pain and
Complications (lecture and
hands-on workshop)
Dr. Abdelghany Hassan
Abdelghany, Dr. Moataz M.
Shaban, Dr. Mohamed Hassan,
Dr. Aruna Ramesh
DECEMBER 12
Contemporary
Endodontic Topics
Dr. Robert B. Amato, Dr. Steven
P. Levine, Dr. Leslie I. Miller
NOVEMBER 16
DECEMBER 13–15
Esthetic Update
Dr. George Freedman
Alternative and Postural
Orthodontics for Children and
Adults (a hands-on course)
Dr. Marcel Korn
NOVEMBER 16
Innovations in Hygiene:
Better, Easier Clinical
Practice Dr. Fay Goldstep
OCTOBER 26–27
Taking in or Becoming an
Associate or Partner
Dr. Bernard B. Fink
Dental Risk Management:
Keeping Your Patients and
Staff Safe, Satisfied and
Healthy While Reducing
Malpractice Lawsuits
Dr. Paul J. Vankevich
The Restorative Dentist’s
Role in Implant Prosthodontics:
Team Approach
Dr. Allen L. Schneider
OCTOBER 24
Risk Management: Record
Keeping and Informed Consent
Barry Regan
OCTOBER 3
NOVEMBER 9
OCTOBER 19
SEPTEMBER 15–16
Forensic Science
(a hands-on course)
Dr. William M. Morlang
DECEMBER 5
NOVEMBER 7
OCTOBER 17
SEPTEMBER 14
NOVEMBER 30–
DECEMBER 2
NOVEMBER 17
The Art and Science of
Porcelain Laminate Veneers
(a hands-on course)
Dr. Yong Jeong Kim,
Dr. Alaaeddin Alwazzan
NOVEMBER 28
What I Forgot about
Pharmacology but
Wish I Remembered:
An Overview and Update
Thomas Viola, R.Ph.
All Continuing Education
courses are held on Tufts
University School of Dental
Medicine’s Boston campus,
unless otherwise noted.
For more information about
these and other upcoming
courses, contact:
DIVISION OF
CONTINUING EDUCATION
TUFTS UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE
One Kneeland Street
Boston, MA 02111
Telephone: 617.636.6629
Fax: 617.636.0800
Email: [email protected]
CALENDAR
2007–2008
sp orts for schol arship
SEPTEMBER 17
NOVEMBER 1
MARCH 2008
MAY 2–4, 2008
Dental Alumni Association’s
25th Annual Wide Open Golf
and Tennis Tournament
11 a.m. shotgun start; tennis
tournament: 2 p.m.; reception:
4 p.m.; dinner: 5 p.m.
with the annual meeting of
the American College of
Prosthodontists
Westin Kierland Resort and Spa
Rainmakers A
Scottsdale, Arizona
Tufts Dental Alumni outing
at the Boston Red Sox Spring
Training, date TBA
City of Palms Park
Fort Myers, Florida
Dental Homecoming and
Reunion Weekend 2008
and Langham Hotel
NOVEMBER 27
SEPTEMBER 28
meeting of the American Dental
Association
Hilton San Francisco
Continental Parlor 8
San Francisco, California
5:30–7 p.m.
Dinner: 7 p.m., location TBA
OCTOBER 11
Hilton Hawaiian
Village Beach Resort and Spa
South Pacific 2
Honolulu, Hawaii
Greater New York
Dental Meeting
Marriott Marquis Hotel
New York City
6–7:30 p.m.
FEBRUARY 1, 2008
with Yankee Dental Congress 33
Westin Boston Waterfront
5:30–7 p.m.
2007 WIDE OPEN Tournament
Registration Form
WIDE OPEN
MARCH 11, 2008
MAY 18, 2008
Student/Alumni Networking
Session, sponsored by the
for second-, third- and fourthyear students. Alumni
volunteers needed. Email
[email protected]
One Kneeland Street
5:30–8 p.m.
Tufts University’s 152nd
Commencement
Medford/Somerville campus
9 a.m.
Come join the Tufts University
Dental Alumni Association for the
25TH ANNUAL WIDE OPEN Tournament
Graduation year or affiliation with Tufts Dental__________________
Guest(s) name(s)____________________________________________
Address____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
Daytime phone______________________________________________
369 Cross Street
Email______________________________________________________
For more information on
these and other events,
contact the Office of
at 617.636.6773
or e-mail: dental-alumni@
tufts.edu.
Name_____________________________________________________
Cost includes lunch, tournament, reception and awards dinner.
GOLF TOURNAMENT
$300/person
My foursome will include:
[email protected].
2. ____________
______________________________________________
3. ____________
______________________________________________
4. ____________
______________________________________________
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111
OCTOBER 17
Annual fall meeting of the New
York Alumni Chapter, including
reception, dinner and lecture
Penn Club
New York City
6 p.m.
Schedule of Events
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9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
■
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Lunch included
OCTOBER 29
American Academy of
Periodontology
Renaissance
Washington DC Hotel
Meeting Room 8
Washington, D.C.
■
RECEPTION
4 p.m.
■
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
2 to 4 p.m.
■
And now they are dentists,
from left, Michelle Anderson,
Cyrous Ardalan, Melanie Arruda
and Justin Au, all members of
the Class of 2007.
AWARDS DINNER
5 p.m.
REGISTRATION
Golf Tournament
$300/person
School of
Dental Medicine
PHOTO: JEFF BEERS
Tennis Tournament
$200/person
____ Please check here if you would
like to be placed in a foursome.
My handicap is_______
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
$200/person
RECEPTION & AWARDS LUNCH
Cost is $75 for guests and non-competitors
PAYMENT:
_____ golfers
@ $__________
each = $_________
_____ tennis
@ $__________
each = $_________
_____ dinner only
@ $__________
each = $_________
_____ I will be unable to attend the 2007 WIDE OPEN,
but I’d be proud to be listed as a sponsor for my
$100 donation to the Student Loan Fund.
❒ My check for
$__________ is enclosed.
❒ Please charge $_________ to my
❒ MasterCard
❒ VISA
❒ Discover
Card #_______________________________________ Exp._________
Signature __________________________________________________
TOTAL ENCLOSED
$__________
Please mail this form and your check, payable to Tufts University Dental
Alumni Association, to Office of Alumni Relations, Tufts University School
of Dental Medicine, 136 Harrison Ave., Boston, MA 02111.
Registration confirmation and directions will be mailed to you prior to
the tournament.
M A G A Z I N E O F T H E T U F T S U N I V E R S I T Y D E N TA L A L U M N I A S S O C I AT I O N
OPEN
VOL. 11 NO. 2
DENTAL MEDICINE
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OUTREACH
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[email protected].
PHOTO BY JEFF BAUM
In rural Zambia, far from
paved roads, power grids and
dental clinics, Tufts is helping
to create opportunities in a
nation overwhelmed by AIDS
and poverty. For more on the
story, turn to page 28.
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RECEPTION
4 p.m.
■
TENNIS TOURNAMENT
2 to 4 p.m.
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5 p.m.
REGISTRATION
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Tennis Tournament
$200/person
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