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DENTAL TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Newspaper · U.S. Edition PRSRTSTD U.S.Postage PAID Permit#306 Mechanicsburg,PA DentalTribuneAmerica 213West35thStreet Suite#801 NewYork,NY10001 AD HYGIENE TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper · U.S. Edition upage 1Du page 1B u page 1C The many sides of xylitol The perfect primer on xylitol answers all your questions and concerns. Esthetic rehabilitation A multi-disciplinary approach to correct a pa- tient’s compromised dentition. What’s to come? Restorative-driven implant dentistry: the future is now. g DT page 2A (Photo/BostonUniversityGSDM) By Fred Michmershuizen, Online Editor Dental team from Boston University serves up smiles in Mexico and wonderful of an experience as the last one.” Other GSDM team members included Clinical Assistant Professor Dr. Frank Schiano, Robin Yamaguma and Ismael Montane. According to Held, the team worked both effec- tively and efficiently. “Dr. Schiano was a machine, pro- viding more treatment with his part- ner, RN and Dental Assistant Cree Bruins, than anyone of us could fath- om,” Held said. “While Dr. Schiano was reading the child’s records, Cree was preparing the child for treatment — they were a great chair-side team.” “Robin and Ish took turns work- ing outside, where they primarily concentrated on performing exams A team of volunteers from Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine (GSDM) recently conducted an outreach trip to Teaca- pan, Mexico, in which more than 250 underprivileged children were screened and treated. The outreach program is called Project Stretch. “This was my fifth mission and my third time in Teacapan,” said Kathy Held, assistant director of extramu- ral programs at GSDM and longtime Project Stretch volunteer. “Each year I say, ‘It can’t get any better than this, so I will quit while I’m ahead,’ but each year has proven to be as unique and atraumatic restorative treat- ment on deciduous teeth using hand instruments and glass ionomer filling material,” Held said. “They also took turns working inside, where they had a fully operational dental unit to com- plete procedures, including extrac- tions, amalgams and composites on permanent teeth.” “Ish worked like a real trooper through the day and Robin was always so gentle with the children,” Held said. “After an extraction one child turned to her and gave her a big hug. I was so proud of them.” “I was so impressed with the orga- nization of Project Stretch in Teaca- pan,” Schiano said. “They have made tremendous progress over the last six years, growing from a small mis- sion providing preventive services to a near-fully equipped dental clinic offering more involved and compre- hensive restorative care. Perhaps the biggest reward was seeing the successful efforts of previous teams, which helped me realize the differ- ence we were making in the lives of these children and their families.” HYGIENE TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper · U.S. Edition IMPLANT TRIBUNE The World’s Implant Newspaper · U.S. Edition CosmetiC tRiBUNe the World’s Cosmetic Dentistry Newspaper · U.s. edition May 2010 www.dental-tribune.com Vol. 5, No. 14 SpecialpNDc eDitioN Head west for the PNDC Some 9,000 den- tal professionals from around the globe will convene in Seattle for the 123rd annual Pacific Northwest Dental Conference (PNDC), to be held June 17 and 18. g See page 7A Readers replied We garnered a lot of feedback from an article that ran in the No. 12 edition and which also apppeared online. Take a peek to see what readers had to say about 'Where have all the periodontists gone?' by Louis Malcmacher, DDS, MAGD. g See pages 3A–6A ‘Where have all the periodontists gone?’ (Photo/Faberphoto, Dreamstime.com)