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Murtuza Jaffari, DDS, said taking a one-patient-at-a-time approach has strengthened his connection to the important work of dentistry. When you’re going from appointment to appointment, day after day, it’s easy to lose sight of the individuals in the chair.

From speaking at dental schools across the country, leading dental students on global dental mission trips and welcoming predental students into his office, Daryn L. Lu, DDS, gives back any chance he gets.

Roberto A. Moreno, DDS, MAGD, has had several major accomplishments in his first 10 years of practice, including co-owning two practices and serving as president of the Iowa AGD.

January is a great time to start planning your continuing education (CE) goals for the year. Stay on top of your CE tracking to find out how close you are to earning Fellowship or Mastership awards.

AGD's Self-Instruction program now includes exercises based on AGD Impact articles. Designed to fit easily into your busy learning schedule, each AGD Impact exercise contains 10 questions and is worth one continuing education credit.

Records of payments from the healthcare industry to dental care providers are now publicly available. In this retrospective, observational study that was published in the latest issue of General Dentistry, Lee & Chuang characterize the amount and types of payments made in 2017, comparing the distribution of money across dental specialties.

With the 2020 U.S. presidential election looming, healthcare continues to be a top concern for the American public. During their 2019 annual meeting, the AGD House of Delegates adopted a paper clarifying AGD’s positions on key tenets of healthcare reform.

Welcome to This Week at AGD. We are excited to launch a new weekly newsletter to keep you apprised of AGD events, news in the world of general dentistry and information critical to your practice. This Week at AGD will replace AGD in Action, which was previously emailed every Wednesday.

Host an event in your community to screen people for oral cancer during April 2020, Oral Cancer Awareness Month.

In 2005, AGD began requiring PACE-approved program providers to submit CE credits for all AGD members directly to AGD. As of Jan. 1, 2017, providers were notified that they must use AGD’s online roster to submit CE hours earned by AGD members to AGD.

Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the application fee for national PACE approval will be $755, and the AGD National Approval Maintenance Fee will be $300.

PACE standards are designed to help continuing dental education providers follow best practices when planning and implementing dental education programs. Adhering to PACE standards will help providers offer quality dental education courses.

The AGD PACE Council recently updated the PACE definition of “Commercial Interest/Commercial Entity” in the PACE Lexicon of Terms found in the PACE Guidelines. This is the current definition:

PACE is designed to help continuing dental education organizations deliver quality educational courses to dental professionals. AGD knows this can be a daunting mission, especially for organizations just starting to build their programs, which is why AGD has a number of tools available to approved providers that will help them manage their programs.

The Academy of General Dentistry’s (AGD’s) House of Delegates recently installed new officers during its annual meeting, held in Chicago, Nov. 8–10. Connie L. White, DDS, FAGD, a general dentist from Kansas City, Missouri, was named president.

Michael A. Gordon, DDS, MAGD, received his DDS from the Indiana University School of Dentistry in 1989. He joined AGD in his senior year of dental school.

On July 27, 2019, the Tennessee AGD board passed a motion to help both Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry (MMC) in Nashville and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry (UT) in Memphis with their expanded functions dental assistant (EFDA) programs.

AGD’s “Three for Free” membership promotion is going on now! This is one of AGD’s most popular recruitment promotions of the year. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 2019, any new member who joins AGD for 2020 receives the rest of 2019 for free.

In this competitive professional world, it’s important to differentiate yourself. Remind eligible members to apply for the Fellowship or Mastership awards.

Plan your remaining continuing education (CE) for 2019 by browsing AGD’s online learning CE listings.