ASDA Central Regional Meeting

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ASDA Central Regional Meeting

• Indianapolis, Indiana
• October 16-18, 2009

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Charles L. Steffel, D.D.S., M.S.D.

• American Dental Association
• Seventh District Trustee

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The Power of Organized Dentistry
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What is Organized Dentistry?

• Organized dentistry describes the combined
  efforts of all the organizations that work to
  positively contribute to the dental profession.
  It encompasses the efforts of ADA members, staff
  and supporters at the local, state and national
  level, known as the tripartite.

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Overview

• What is the American Dental Association?
• Who is the ADA?
• How is the ADA structured?
• What does the ADA do?
• Why should I belong to the ADA?

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What is the American Dental Association?

• Wikipedia
• The American Dental Association (ADA) is a
  professional association established in 1859 and
  has more than 157,000 members. Based in Chicago,
  the ADA is the world's largest and oldest
  national dental association and promotes good
  oral health to the public while representing the
  dental profession.

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What is the American Dental Association?

• ADA Vision Statement -
• The American Dental Association The oral
  health authority committed to the public and the
  profession.

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What is the American Dental Association?

• ADA Mission Statement -
• The ADA is the professional association of
  dentists committed to the public's oral health,
  ethics, science and professional advancement
  leading a unified profession through initiatives
  in advocacy, education, research and the
  development of standards.

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Who is the ADA?

• Over 157,000 members strong
• Over 72 market share
• AMA market share is only 26
• 80 general dentists 20 specialists
• medicine is the reverse
• 80 specialists - 20 general practice/internal
  medicine
• 77.5 male 22.5 female
• current dental school enrollment 55.4 male
  44.6 female

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Who is the ADA?

• Ethnic diversity of American dentists
• 83.7 Caucasian
• 9.0 Asian
• 3.9 Hispanic
• 3.4 Black

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Who is the ADA?

• Ethnic diversity of dental students
• 62.9 Caucasian
• 24.7 Asian
• 5.7 Hispanic
• 4.6 Black

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How is the ADA structured?

• Tripartite Membership -
• National American Dental Association
• State Indiana Dental Association
• Local Indianapolis District Dental Society

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How is the ADA structured?

• Governance
• House of Delegates
• Board of Trustees
• Officers
• Councils, Committees and Commissions

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How is the ADA structured?

• House of Delegates
• Supreme authority of the ADA
• Policy making body
• 464 delegates (and 464 alternate delegates)
• Chosen by 53 constituent societies, five federal
  dental services, and the American Student Dental
  Association (ASDA)
• Meets each year at the ADA Annual Session

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How is the ADA structured?

• Board of Trustees
• Managing body of the ADA
• Power to conduct all business of the ADA
• 17 Trustees, President-Elect and two
• Vice-Presidents (voting members)
• President, Treasurer and Executive Director
• (ex-officio, non-voting members)
• Speaker of House serves as parliamentarian

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How is the ADA structured?

• 17 Trustee Districts

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How is the ADA structured?

• 11 Councils
• All but two (CDEL and CSA) have one member per
  district
• 2 Committees
• Committee on the New Dentist
• Committee on International Programs and
  Development
• 2 Commissions
• Commission on Dental Accreditation
• Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations

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How is the ADA structured?

• CAPIR Council on Access, Prevention and
  Interprofessional Relations
• CAS Council on ADA Sessions
• CC Council on Communications
• CDBP Council on Dental Benefit Programs
• CDEL Council on Dental Education and Licensure
• CDP Council on Dental Practice
• CEBJA Council on Ethics, Bylaws and Judicial
  Affairs
• CGA Council on Government Affairs
• CM Council on Membership
• CMIRP Council on Members Insurance and
  Retirement Programs
• CSA Council on Scientific Affairs

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Access, Prevention and
  Interprofessional Relations
• Purpose is to broaden the scope of oral health
  care within the total health care system.
• Goals include preventive health interventions,
  such as community water fluoridation,the American
  Indian/Alaska Native Dental Placement Program and
  expansion of Give Kids A Smile Day into a
  year-round effort to ensure access to care.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on ADA Sessions
• To create and continuously improve every aspect
  of theAnnual Session, such as continuing
  education, exhibits and the House of Delegates.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Communications
• Dedicated to advising the ADA on the image and
  brand implications of Association plans,
  programs, services and activities to preserve and
  enhance the image of the ADA and the profession.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Dental Benefit Programs
• Promoting quality dental care through the
  development, promotion and monitoring of dental
  benefit programs for the public, as well as
  development and maintenance of coding taxonomies
  and quality assessment and improvement tools and
  methodologies.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Dental Education and Licensure
• Studies and makes recommendations on policy for
  dental and allied dental education dental
  licensure recognition of special areas of dental
  practice dental anesthesiology, continuing
  dental education. The Council also oversees the
  ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program
  (CERP)

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Dental Practice
• Enhance the personal and professional lives of
  the dental team. Address a wide range of small
  business topics including, starting, designing,
  staffing, managing, growing, selling and closing
  a dental practice. Promote dentist health and
  wellness, ergonomics and Going Green in the
  dental office.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Ethics, Bylaws and Judicial Affairs
• Enhance the ethical conscience of dentists by
  promoting the highest moral, ethical and
  professional standards. CEBJA publishes the ADA
  Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional
  Conduct

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Government Affairs
• Advocates for the profession on legislative and
  regulatory issues. Advises state and local
  associations, and is the ADAs liaison with
  agencies of the federal government, especially
  those agencies that employ dental personnel.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Membership
• Member recruitment and retention and other
  related issues. Monitors the development of
  membership benefits and services that respond to
  identified needs of members.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Members Insurance and Retirement
  Programs
• Oversees the ADA member group insurance plans,
  Members Retirement Program and is the
  Associations principal contact with the dental
  professional liability insurance industry.

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What does the ADA do?

• Council on Scientific Affairs
• Serves the profession and the public as the
  primary resource on the science of dentistry.
  Oversees the ADA Professional Product Review,the
  Seal of Acceptance Program and provides
  scientific oversight for ADA activities in dental
  standards, both for the United States (ANSI / ADA
  Standards) and internationally (ISO Standards).

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Why should I belong to the ADA?

• Its a Wonderful Life
• The famous 1946 Christmas movie directed by Frank
  Capra, staring James Stewart, Donna Reed and
  Lionel Barrymore
• A compassionate but despairing businessman is
  about to commit suicide. He no longer sees value
  in living until an angel shows him what life
  would had been like if he never existed.

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Why should I belong to the ADA?

• What if there were no ADA?
• The profession of dentistry would be without the
  ADAs leadership and resources in so many areas
  such as
• Advocacy Ethics
• Public Policy Materials Instruments
• Science Practice Management
• Standards Dental Benefits
• Accreditation International Relations
• Licensure Philanthropy

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Why should I belong to the ADA?

• Theres no doubt your experience with organized
  dentistry will be a result of the effort you put
  in. The results are the fruit of your labor
• Kevin Cook, D.D.S.
• 2009 graduate, University of Michigan School of
  Dentistry
• New Member, American Dental Association

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Questions and Answers