University of Toronto's Pediatric Specialty Program Celebrates 50 Years

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Dentistry is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Specialty Program in Pediatric Dentistry!

Please CLICK HERE to  read and download an open invitation to all pediatric dentists to join the Faculty for a special Pediatric Dentistry Graduate Program Alumni Day celebration on May 1, 2010.

Manitoba Pediatric Dentists Meet with CAPD/ACDP Executive Members

CAPD/ACDP President Louis-René Charette and Communications Committee Chair Steve Baylin travelled to Winnipeg on Saturday, January 30, 2010 to meet with our Manitoba colleagues. This was just one of the few nationwide meetings our current President has arranged, for the purposes of reaching out to current and prospective CAPD/ACDP members in an informal setting to air concerns, discuss current local events and promote the ever-growing persona and national voice of the Academy.

The breakfast meeting at the Winnipeg Delta Hotel coincided with the Manitoba Dental Association’s AGM. Discussions about possible future CAPD/ACDP AGM’s being held in Winnipeg, the structuring of a finite Manitoba Academy or Society of Pediatric Dentistry, recruitment of new members for the unaffiliated pediatric dentists, and the idea of CAPD/ACDP’s role to aid in the development of pediatric dental clinic care in the far North (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, and Yukon) were just some of the topics covered in the brief 90 minute meeting.

It was felt by the Academy’s President and Communications Chair, and hopefully by the Manitoba members present, that the meeting’s discussions and any future outcomes of the ideas presented would widen the scope of participation in the Academy by all Manitoba pediatric dentists in this Midwest Canadian region.

B.C. Society of Pediatric Dentistry News

CLICK HERE for a  summary of the Minutes from the 2009 BCSPD Meeting, held just after the CAPD/ACDP AGM at Victoria's  Inn at Laurel Point in September.

Alberta Society of Dental Specialists Launches Website

The Alberta Society of Dental Specialists launched their new website in the Fall 2008. Each specialty is represented, providing provincial/national news and events, editorials appearing monthly from each specialty, and patient information for each specialty category. There is a lot more on the ASDS site that has not been mentioned here....... Click here to see the site.

Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary Appoints New Chief

CLICK HERE to read the announcement of Dr. Warren Loeppky's appointment as  Site Division Chief of the Alberta Children's Hospital's Division of Dentistry.

IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia Elects CAPD/ACDP Past-President Dr. Ross Anderson

Congratulations to Dr. Ross Anderson for being elected (for a second time) President of Medical Staff of the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia! As such, he will sit again on the IWK Health Centre Board of Governors (the first time was 2000 - 2002). Dr. Anderson has put in countless hours and years as well as the current Chief of Dentistry, and Division Head of Pediatric Dentistry at the Faculty of Dentistry of Dalhousie University.

Halifax Chronicle Herald Prints Article on Damaging Effects of ECC - An Interview with Dr. Ross Anderson

CLICK HERE to read the article printed in October 2009 where the interviewer was apprised of the increasingly damaging effects of an uprise of ECC within our pediatric population.