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universities in Georgia are invited. The program is held on a Saturday.
The Dean of the SOD and SNDA members welcome the students.
Information is presented on admission, financial aid and minority
affairs. There is a keynote speaker, lunch, and tour. Dental students
serve as role models in making impressions and pouring casts of the
participants’ dentitions. There is a panel discussion also. The SNDA
members give t-shirts as mementos. There is not an official attendance
for 1999, but approximately 18 undergraduate students attended. In
2000, 18 undergraduate and 2 high school students attended. In 2001,
6 undergraduate, 22 high school and 22 middle school students
attended. The attendance reveals an increase in younger students and
a decrease in undergraduate students from 1999-2001. The decrease
in the undergraduates may be due to the lack of publicity on campuses
and in the communities. This decrease was not expected and MCG
will continue to attract this population through more aggressive
methods. The increase in secondary students is positive. At this level
students are provided the opportunity of early planning for a career
in dentistry. At the NDA convention in 2000 the IMPRESSIONS
Program was proposed as a national project. As of 2001 there are two
dental students enrolled that are former participants.
The IMPRESSIONS Program is one of many URM recruitment
efforts provided by the SNDA at the Medical College of Georgia
School of Dentistry. The primary goal is to establish a strong pipeline
of URM interested in attending dental school. As the only minority
student organization in the dental school, the SNDA is driven to
increase the number of URM that graduate from accredited dental
schools in order to practice in underserved rural areas. In doing so, it
is believed that the access to and quality of dental care for all minorities
will increase. Participants will continue to be tracked for several years
in order to assess whether the IMPRESSIONS Program influenced
their ultimate career paths.
33. Trends in Student Gender Composition During
UKCD Institutional History... 25 Year Perspective
Osborne, Paul B., University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, Skelton,
Judith NMI, University of Kentucky College of Dentistry
The purpose of this work is to document the changes in gender
demographics for each dental student class from the first class at
UKCD through the present first year class.
The 1962 Hollinshead report of the Commission on the Survey
of Dentistry in the United States in 1962 documented that women
represented a very small percentage of U.S. dentists compared to other
countries. It reported that in 1958, the United States dentists had but
a 1% representation of females compared to other countries lead by
Lithuania, Latvia, Finland and Russia where respectively 96%, 93%
80% and 71 percent of the profession were women. The University
of Kentucky College of Dentistry (UKCD) opened it’s doors in 1963
with a typically totally male class. Two years later, the first female
dental student was admitted with the 1965 entering class to set the
hallmark. Following a U.S. national trend, UKCD has seen a steady
increase in females graduating peaking in 1994 with 58.1% of the
class being women during a time when the class sizes were somewhat
diminished in overall student enrollments. As the College has returned
to more normal enrollment size in recent years, women graduates
stabilized roughly around 40%. Currently enrolled classes dropped
to 28.0% and 34.6% with the 4th and 2nd year classes, but a more
representative number with 41.2% and 48% enrolled in the 3rd and
1st year classes. The University of Kentucky has long supported the
national trend of increasing numbers of women in the profession of
dentistry and salutes their many contributions.
Women in the field of dentistry has greatly increased in the
past four decades. This increase has been mirrored at the University
of Kentucky College of Dentistry during this same time period and
continues with recently graduated classes and currently enrollees.
34. Retrospective Study of Oral Pemphigoid
Paek, Shirley E., University of Michigan School of Dentistry, D’Silva,
Nisha J., University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Gobetti, John
P., University of Michigan School of Dentistry
The purpose of this study was to review and reclassify BMMP
patients seen over the last five years in an Oral Medicine Clinical Practice.
Benign Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid (BMMP) is a
vesiculobullous autoimmune disease. BMMP occurs primarily in older
women. As the geriatric population increases, dentists will face the
challenge of diagnosing and managing BMMP patients. BMMP was
suggested to be reclassified by clinical presentation; Bullous
Pemphigoid (BP), Cicatricial Pemphigoid (CP), Oral Mucous
Membrane Pemphigoid (OMMP), and Ocular Pemphigoid. BP
exhibits epidermal lesions, CP affects multiple mucosal sites with/
without epidermal involvement. OMMP and Ocular Pemphigoid
involve oral or ocular membranes. The purpose of this study was to
review and reclassify BMMP patients seen over the last five years in
an Oral Medicine Clinical Practice. Data collected were: gender, age,
clinical signs, presence of Nikolsky’s sign, histopathology and
immunopathology results, oral symptoms, systemic presentation,
degree of severity and treatment. Results: Of 729 cases reviewed,
diagnosis of BMMP in 29 cases (4%). Of the 29 cases, 93% OMMP,
7% CP. 60% were female and 83% 50 years or older at onset. Common
sites were gingiva (90%) and buccal mucosa (30%). 63% exhibited
erosive or ulcerated lesions. 35% showed a positive Nikolsky’s sign.
84% of biopsied patients (25) diagnosed on histologic findings.
Immunofluorescence studies (18), 77% tested positive for antibodies.
59% had 2 or more lesions, controlled with topical steroids.
Conclusions: Most patients presenting to the dental office will exhibit
oral but no systemic lesions and hence would be classified as OMMP.
The data suggest that histopathologic evaluation is effective for
diagnosis. A larger population group would be required for a more
definitive conclusion. This study was supported by the University of
Michigan Student Research Program.
Most patients presenting to the dental office will exhibit oral
but no systemic lesions and hence would be classified as OMMP.
Histopathologic evaluation is effective for diagnosis.
35. Clinic Information System Technical Implementation
Pearson, Robert J., Oregon Health and Science University School of
Dentistry, Stewart, Denice CL., Oregon Health and Science University
School of Dentistry, Monner, Melissa, Oregon Health and Science
University School of Dentistry, Russell, Rose, Oregon Health and
Science University School of Dentistry, Lloyd, Mary, Oregon Health
and Science University School of Dentistry, Morita, Peter, Oregon
Health and Science University School of Dentistry, Clinton, Jack,
Oregon Health and Science University School of Dentistry
Purpose: To migrate a clinic management system from a
proprietary system developed in-house, to a commercially produced
software package that offers a greater degree of functionality,
flexibility, and security than the previous system.
Significance: Conversion from a school-developed clinic
information system to a more extensive commercially developed
system, is a process faced by many dental schools. Designing the
appropriate infrastructure is critical to the success of the conversion.
Methodology: 1) Assess old system: determine usage patterns;
hardware/software configurations for client and server side; and
growth metrics for the existing database; Determine approximation
of required resources (e.g., amount of disk, memory, and network
bandwidth); Determine data to be extracted. Script out and review
plan with staff. Obtain estimates on number of rows to be processed,
and establish data transition plan; Obtain from vendor DB object sizing
and growth estimates. 2) Create separate instances for testing,
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