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Department of Oral and
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The OMS Newsletter
Mass General Hospital
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Summer 2014
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Volume 16, Issue 2
Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD
Chief of Service
Maria J. Troulis, DDS, MSc
Residency Program Director
Meredith August, DMD, MD
Sung-Kiang Chuang, DMD, MD, DMSc
R. Bruce Donoff, DMD, MD
Walter C. Guralnick, DMD
David A. Keith, FDSRCS, DMD
Edward T. Lahey, III, DMD, MD
Bonnie L. Padwa, DMD, MD
Zachary Peacock, DMD, MD
Cory Resnick, DMD, MD
Steven J. Scrivani, DDS, D.Med.Sc
Edward B. Seldin, DMD, MD
Jeffry R. Shaefer, DDS
GENERAL DENTISTRY
Agnes Lau, DMD
Chief of Division
OROFACIAL PAIN CENTER
Steven J. Scrivani, DDS, D.Med.Sc
Director of Orofacial Pain Program
David A. Keith, FDSCRS, DMD
Jeffry Shaefer, DDS, MS
SKELETAL BIOLOGY RESEARCH
CENTER
Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD
Maria J. Troulis, DDS, MSc
CENTER FOR APPLIED CLINICAL
INVESTIGATION
Sung-Kiang Chuang, DMD, MD, DMSc
PART-TIME FACULTY
John Buehler, DMD, MD
Richard Catrambone, DMD, MD
Robert S. Gilardetti, DMD, MD
Carol Lorente, DMD, PhD
Earle H. Rosenberg, DMD
Jennifer Smith-Williams, DMD
In this issue
Chief’s Corner by Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD: A series of
engaging meetings and lectures in innovative patient care
[read more]
Department Highlights: A review of milestones and
accomplishments by faculty, fellows and residents
[read more]
Resident News by Maria Troulis, DDS: Gratitude to residents,
staff and faculty [read more]
Division of Dentistry by Agnes Lau, DDS: Division member
professional activities and accomplishments [read more]
Center for Applied Clinical Investigation by Sung-Kiang
Chuang, DMD, MD, DMSc: Center celebrates 10 years, 10 peerreviewed publications [read more]
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pain by David A. Keith,
BDS, DMD, FDSRCS: A visit from Norway colleagues charged
with setting up a center in Bergen [read more]
Alumni News: New additions to Mass General families!
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OMS Grand Rounds
October 15, 2014
Surgery on the Scale of Tissue
Itself
Presented by
Richard Rox Anderson, MD
Professor of Dermatology,
Harvard Medical School, Director
Wellman Center for
Photomedicine, Mass General
November 6, 2014
Osteo Science Grants
Opportunities
Presented by
BU/Mass General/Tufts/OMS
Combined Grand Rounds at Mass
General
November 19, 2014
(Lecture to be confirmed)
For full details, please visit the
OMS Grand Rounds page.
Chief’s Corner
by Leonard B. Kaban, DMD, MD
On June 21, 2014 Maria Troulis, Suzanne Byrne and John McGillivray
organized the Annual Change Party at a new venue and surprised me by
combining it with a 70th birthday party and 20th anniversary celebration of
my tenure as chief of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) at Mass General
Hospital. I knew something was going to be different because of the change
of date to a Saturday evening and a change in location from the Exchange
Conference Center, which could not accommodate the number of guests.
I was overwhelmed by the event due to its size—almost 200 people—and
the distance that people traveled to be with us. We had former fellows,
residents and faculty from as far away as Japan (Haru Abukawa), Korea
(Jimmy Hyung and KG Hwang), Greece (Maria Papadaki), Germany
(Corinna Zimmermann), Nevada (Kathy Keeley), California (David Perrott
and Aljun Dela Rosa), Metropolitan Washington D.C. (Andrea Burke, Sang
Kim, Ali Attarpour) and New York (Ricky Elias).
I was also gratified by the correspondence I received from many other
residents, fellows and colleagues, from near and far, who could not attend
the event. There was tremendous camaraderie and lots of love in the room.
The generous contributions of our friends and alumni to the Education and
Research Fund in association with this event was also greatly appreciated by
the hospital and our faculty and residents.
As I have noted at many of our Change Parties, summer in academia is filled
with nostalgia for the graduating and departing residents and enthusiasm
and anticipation for the new interns, returning juniors and new chief
residents. In this respect, times do not change. It seems like each year is
better than the previous one and this year was no exception. We had a very
special group of residents.
A Fine Team
Under the leadership of chief residents Natalie Tung, Yedeh Ying and Amir
Laviv, a very busy year was managed efficiently and with great camaraderie
among the residents. Chris Pace, our pediatric CMF fellow integrated into
the group and functioned as a wonderful resource for the resident service.
Juniors Batya Goldwaser, Ricki Ortiz and Mariusz Wrzosek demonstrated
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terrific leadership qualities in managing the outpatient service and sedations as well as in supervising
and guiding the interns and externs in the clinic. Interns Jason Lee, Jason Schultz, Qian Yang and Ban
Nacy were an unusually mature, hardworking, enthusiastic and talented group. All together, they
melded into a fine team that was appreciated by the faculty and staff. They also received many written
compliments from patients and our colleagues on other services throughout the year.
Welcome to our incoming chief residents Batya Goldwaser, Ricki Ortiz and Mariusz Wrzosek; and juniors
Somi Kim, James Tagoni and Firat Selvi. I want to personally welcome Jeffrey Hajibandeh (Columbia
University), Ami Amini (University of Conn) and Mark Rowan (UCLA) as our new categorical interns and
Austin Be (Columbia) as our preliminary intern.
15th Pediatric Fellow
The Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Fellowship was started by David Perrott and me in 1996
with funding from the AO Foundation (Berne, Switzerland) and Synthes CMF (West Chester,
Pennsylvania). We have had 9 student research fellows who spent 1 year in the laboratory, including 4
HSDM students. Chris Pace is our 15th fellow.
Chris came to us via an unusual path from being a big rig truck driver in the Midwest, to college, dental
school and then OMFS training and service in the Navy. He had a very productive clinical and research
year and learned a lot about fountain pens. In his quiet, dignified, calm and laid back manner, Chris was
a dedicated, hard worker and contributed significantly to our program and the education of our
residents. He worked on several sialendoscopy projects with Maria Troulis, the continuous distraction
and navigation projects with Zach Peacock and Maria, and has been working with me to develop an
MGH distraction osteogenesis registry to carry out long term follow-up studies on our patients. Finally,
he is embarking on a project to assess voice quality in patients undergoing orthognathic surgery. He is
continuing the project this year, as well as working at Mass General in Danvers and the Lahey Clinic.
Chief Residents Graduate
All of our end of year events are a celebration of our graduating chief residents, and I would like to
recognize their hard work, dedication and enthusiasm. Mass General is a resident-centric hospital and
this is also true of the Department of OMFS. One of the unique aspects of Mass General is this close,
symbiotic relationship of trainees and faculty, where high quality patient care occurs as a result of the
seamless interaction of residents and faculty.
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Yedeh Ying was born in Pennsylvania but grew up in Singapore, which he considers home, and
Taiwan. He was educated in the US at Carnegie Mellon University where he was studying
engineering. Despite pressure from his family to become an engineer, he made a decision late in his
undergraduate years to pursue dentistry. He attended University of Pennsylvania Dental School and
then came to Mass General.
Yedeh was the first chief resident of the year—a difficult job, as are all the jobs on the first rotation
of the year. However, added on to the anxiety of moving to the next level personally, the first chief
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resident has to manage the new interns, a large number of rotating externs and the running of the
service administratively. This is a tall order.
From the days of his internship, I knew Yedeh would be a talented technical surgeon, so this was no
surprise. But he also rose to the occasion and managed the rest of the Chief Resident’s job—despite
the initial difficulty of losing the preliminary intern after two days.
Yedeh had a terrific year at BCH and as the private chief to complete his experience. He has grown
tremendously over the past 6 years and I am confident that Yedeh will become a leader in OMFS.
Yedeh moved to Portland Oregon to do a 2-year head and neck oncology fellowship at Legacy
Emmanuel Hospital and University of Oregon, where I am sure he will be a great success. He plans to
continue in an academic career. Congratulations Yedeh for a job well done.
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Amir Laviv came to us from Israel, Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. I have had many terrific
residents from this institution including at UCSF Nardy Cassap, who is now the Chief of OMFS at
Hadassah, and Eran Regev who is on the faculty at Haddassah. Eran also came here as a visiting
fellow a few years ago. At Mass General, we had Rizan Nashef from Hadassah and Leon Ardekian
from Haifa Rambam Medical Center, where he is now on the faculty. All of these residents have
pursued academic careers.
Amir did not disappoint; he maintained the high standards of his predecessors. It is quite difficult to
come to Mass General as a foreigner, to join a program midway through the 6 years and with English
as a second language. Furthermore, he started as a junior resident after having finished training in
Israel. This is to our benefit because Amir and his predecessors bring a different life experience and
a different perspective to the program.
Amir went to dental school at Tel Aviv University and trained in OMFS at Hadassah, where he
returned to the faculty. He was a hard worker, enthusiastic and dedicated. He quickly gained the
respect of all the residents and faculty and became an integral part of the group.
To top it off, Amir found time to get married and he and his wife had a baby this year. Amir
contributed greatly to the program. We are proud of him and grateful that he spent 2 years with us.
I am sure he will be a great success in Israel. We all wish him good luck, good health and great
happiness.
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Last but not least, Natalie Tung. We knew from the beginning that Natalie was a superwoman. She
had a baby 1 month prior to starting her internship and did not skip a beat, did not ask for any
special treatment; she just started and completed the year without any problems. An old fashioned
Mass General surgical resident.
Natalie was born in Vietnam and came here at age 10. She was the valedictorian of her high school
in Southern California, and went on to graduate from University of California Berkeley. During these
years she excelled in sports and was a varsity athlete in tennis, badminton and, hard to believe, a 3point specialist in basketball.
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She then went on to attend the UCLA Dental School. As many of you know, they have no grades at
UCLA but you can always tell the good students by how many EPAs (extraordinary performance
awards) they get. A top student will get around 15 and at most 20 EPAs. My recollection is that
Janice Lee, who you all remember had 25 EPAs, which was a record. Well Natalie had over 30.
Natalie is a natural born leader, she can dominate the room, she is well organized, and she runs a
tight ship. As chief resident she made good use of all these characteristics. She speaks in short
declarative sentences, she is very efficient in her presentations, and her orders to her residents are
very clear. In fact, her orders to Chris Pace and me were also very clear. For 4 months, I just did as I
was told by Natalie. This is the first such relationship I have had with a trainee since Maria Troulis
was the fellow and Janice Lee the chief resident.
Kidding aside, Natalie, despite my best efforts to convince her to stay in Boston, has joined the
faculty at University of Southern California in a combined OMFS Plastic Surgery Department. Jeff
Hammoudeh, one of our former residents, is the program director. I am sure she will be a great
success and make us all proud.
This was a great year with a great group of residents and I thank you all. I especially want to thank Maria
Troulis who for the past 15 years has been my close professional colleague and friend. The program
director job is one of the most difficult in academic surgery. With all the administrative burden and
complexities of our program it can be a thankless job. I think we should all stop and thank Maria when
we run into her, for all the work she does for the residents and the Department.
The Annual AAOMS Meeting in Hawaii this year was dedicated to Walter Guralnick. More to come in the
winter newsletter.
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Department Highlights
Dr. Cory Resnick (Mass General 2011) joined the faculty at Children’s Hospital Boston on November 1,
2013. Dr. Kaban notes the importance of the Children’s Hospital rotation with Bonnie Padwa, as the
chief of OMFS, John Mulliken and the support of John Meara. This rotation began in 1974 and was
unique at that time: OMFS was as an integral part of a combined OMFS and Plastic Surgery Service
established by Drs. Murray and Guralnick, with some resistance by their corresponding specialties, and
led by Dr. Murray. Dr. Kaban reports they had a few bumps in the road over the years but with John
Meara now the chief at Children’s Hospital, the OMFS has evolved into a terrific one and an opportunity
for our residents.
Dr. Resnick lectured on Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery on February 1.
R. Bruce Donoff was appointed to serve on the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on oral
health. This group works to foster greater inter-professional learning between physicians and dentists in
the Commonwealth, including emergency room and primary care physicians.
Dr. David A. Keith lectured on Pain Management for Dentists, a 2-hour CE lecture approved for licensing
by the Board of Registration in Dentistry, at several venues this winter and spring, including the
Middlesex District Dental Society (February 25), Metropolitan District Dental Society (February 26),
Massachusetts Dental Society Yankee Institute (March 5) and Current Concepts for Treating Your Dental
Patients conference presented by Salem-Peabody Oral Surgery, Danversport, Massachusetts. On June 7,
he lectured on Opioid therapy across disciplines: managing the Orofacial pain patient at Controlled
Substances and Their Alternatives for Pain: Inter-disciplinary Context and Controversies, Tufts University
School of Medicine Office of Continuing Education.
Dr. Maria J. Troulis lectured on Minimally Invasive Maxillofacial Surgery at the Universite D’ Laval,
Quebec City, Canada on February 17, and at Grand Rounds at Columbia University, New York, in March.
She was the AO Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she lectured on
Sialoendoscopy, Applications of Distraction Osteogenesis and Minimally Invasive-Endoscopic
Maxillofacial Surgery on February 24.
Dr. Steven J. Scrivani was the program chair of the Headache Cooperative of New England 24th Annual
Stowe Headache Symposium, March 7-8. For the American Headache Society, Dr. Scrivani was elected
chair of the Orofacial Pain Special Interest Section, 2014-2016 and was the program chair and
moderator of the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting Pre-Course Symposium Review of the Current Basic
Science and Clinical Research in the Evaluation, Diagnosis and Treatment of Complex Orofacial Pain
Disorders.
Dr. Thomas B. Dodson left in September 2013, after 15 years at Mass General and over 25 years
working with Dr. Kaban, to become professor and chairman at University of Washington Seattle. He is
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settling in nicely and reportedly one of the residents at their change party summed him up: “Dr. Dodson
is made up of 70% data. He sneezed in the OR the other day and 3 manuscripts blew out.”
Shelly Abramowicz had a baby boy and Steve Roser reports she is happy and doing well at Emory.
Dr. Leonard B. Kaban lectured at OMFS Grand Rounds March 19 on the Discovery of Ether Anesthesia
and Its First Demonstration at MGH on October 16, 1846: The Unique Role of the Dental Profession in
the Development of Anesthesia.
Zachary Peacock lectured at BU Combined Grand Rounds May 14 on Pathology Pitfalls, Near Misses and
Cautionary Tales.
At the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Craniomaxillofacial Surgeons, Portland, Oregon,
May 30-31, Dr. Kaban was the Moderator of Education Symposium and gave a presentation titled
Challenges to Dual Degree Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Training: Are we in a Medical Education Cost
Bubble? Zachary Peacock presented on The Habsburg Jaw – Re-examined.
Walter Guralnick and Bruce Donoff were honored by the International Alpha Omega Fraternity with the
casting and installation of a statue, the Tree of Peace, in front of the ERB of the Harvard School of Dental
Medicine (HSDM in a beautiful ceremony on June 16. This was in honor of their contributions and
accomplishments for the fraternity and their contributions to peace and global health. It was a beautiful
ceremony.
Dr. Kaban was inducted as an honorary fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland at their annual
meeting in Dublin. It was especially sweet since Gerry Kearns, former resident at UCSF and Mass General
Fellow, was the outgoing dean and presiding officer was present along with Mass General alumni Steve
Scrivani and Mary Collins, UCSF alumnus Brian Schmidt, and Tony Pogrel were also present.
Dr. Kaban wrote the foreword to Orthognathic Surgery: Principles and Practice authored by JC Posnick
and recently published by Elsevier.
It was, as usual, a very busy year on the OMFS Service.
New family additions
And please join me in congratulating our staff who are enjoying new family additions:
Jessica & Corey Williams (Dental Group) welcomed their son Brady on February 3.
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Amir & Meytal Laviv welcomed their son Tomer on May 19.
Pam & Michael Morrison welcomed their son Samuel on May 11.
Cory & Anthea Resnick welcomed their daughter Natalie on July 2.
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Residency Program
by Maria Troulis, DDS, MSc
The terrific chief residents who graduated this June, Natalie Tung, Yedeh Ying and Amir Laviv did a
wonderful job. I am thrilled to announce that all 3 are pursuing academic careers. Natalie is director of
undergraduate OMFS in California, Yedeh is starting a head and neck fellowship at Portland, Oregon, and
Amir is pursuing academics in Israel. We wish them all well and look forward to hearing about their
future accomplishments.
Our 4 graduating interns have done a superb job. Jason Lee, Jason Schultz and Qian Yang are now at
Harvard Medical School. Ban Nacy, our preliminary intern, started an internship in New York.
We welcome the 2014-15 categorical interns: Ami Amini, Jeffrey Hajibandeh and Mark Rowan and our
preliminary intern Austin Be.
Welcome back to Pam Morrison, who was on maternity leave with her new addition, Samuel. Welcome
to Katie Chrismer, our newest Physician Extender. Pam and Katie, are wonderful additions to our
resident clinical team.
Thank you to all the auxiliary staff, under John McGillivray’s leadership, for your support of the residency
training program. A personal thank you to Suzanne Byrne, our wonderful residency coordinator who
keeps our program organized and cares deeply about the program and the residents. She organized a
wonderful Change Party this year. We had over 20 alumni attend to help us celebrate the residents’
graduation and Dr. Kaban’s 20th anniversary at Mass General.
Thank you to all the faculty who make it possible to run such a busy and wonderful program. Most
importantly, thank you to the residents: you are the reason we all do what we do!
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Division of Dentistry – Mass General
by Agnes Lau, DMD
Members of the Division have been active in a number of professional activities.
At the Academy of Dental Implantology Meeting in the Republic of China in March, Dr. David Kim gave a
presentation titled The Development of New and Innovative Biomaterials to Achieve Soft and Hard
Tissue Regeneration and Dr. Miguel Vidal gave a presentation titled Achieving Predictable Esthetics for
Anterior Implants. Dr. Vidal also gave an interview for the November 19 online issue of Boston Magazine
for the article Are Whitening Strips Safe? by Jamie Ducharme.
In May, Dr. Michelle Anderson spoke to Mass General pediatric medicine residents about oral health
care education and prevention for physicians on third world missions.
Dr. Katherine Klein was honored as a Ten Under Ten member by the Massachusetts Dental Society. Ten
members who have graduated from dental school within the last 10 years are selected annually based
on their significant contributions to the profession, community, and/or organized dentistry.
Drs. Jennifer Magee, Pamela Jackson, and Michelle Anderson participated in the annual North Shore
Cancer Walk sponsored by the North Shore Medical Center and the Mass General Danvers Cancer
Center.
We congratulate our general practice residents, who were a pleasure to work with and who formed a
cohesive, productive, and effective team. Dr. Jennifer Kusner will practice at the Mattapan Community
Health Center and Dr. Laura Vaccariello started postdoctoral orthodontic training at Marquette. We
welcome our new residents for the academic year 2014-2015, Dr. Khristy Fontillas from Tufts University
School of Dental Medicine and Dr. Kathryn Coyle from Harvard School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Christine Melito ran the Boston Marathon, raising $8,575 for Cops for Kids with Cancer.
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Center for Applied Clinical Investigation
by Sung-Kiang Chuang, DMD, MD, DMSc
Now in its 10th year, CACI continues to gain traction as a high quality source of patient-oriented
research. Since the last update, CACI faculty and fellows, in collaboration with residents and HSDM
students, published 10 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, and editorials, spanning the clinical outcomes
topics.
Dr. Chuang completed his third year as the statistical editor of JOMS and has reviewed manuscript
submissions for JOMS, IJOMS, and OOOO. He continues to be a member of the AAOMS Task Force for
Evidence-Based Third Molar Management and to work on clinical outcomes patient-oriented research as
the focus of evidence-based analysis and clinical investigation.
During 2013-14 CACI presented a continuing education program on Evidence-Based Implant Dentistry,
drawing attendees from South America, Mexico, and Asia. In September 2013, Dr. Chuang presented
the international CE course of this popular program at Mass General.
Dr. Ya-Wei Chen began the CACI Fellowship in Clinical Investigation in July 2014. She is the fifth CACI
fellow and the second international fellow. Sponsored by her hospital and a grant from the Taiwan
government, her 1-year fellowship will include didactic and research activities at Mass General. Dr. Chen
is currently an attending OMS. She has a faculty appointment as an assistant professor in the
Department of Stomatology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan and the National Yang-Ming
University School of Dentistry, where she has practiced oral and maxillofacial surgery while advancing
patient-centered outcomes research. Please welcome her to our Mass General and HSDM OMS family.
We want to emphasize that the excellence of our student research is a direct result of OMS Foundation
(OMSF) support. We are proud of the contributions by our faculty group, the Mass Society of OMS, and
Mass General alumni. We urge those of you who benefit from our continued research to support our
activities through OMSF and our Department’s Education and Research Fund. Visit CACI
at www.caciOMS.org.
HSDM graduated 36 new dentists in the class of 2014. Four members of the class will begin oral and
maxillofacial surgery (OMS) residencies: Jungsuk Cho (Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New
York), Adam Fagin (Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon), Raghav Khandelwal
(Highland General Hospital, Oakland, California), and Justin Nguyen (Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio). Congratulations to all, and welcome to our specialty.
The Advanced Surgical Treatment Course (ASTX) featured returning tutors Dr. Sung-Kiang Chuang and Ed
Seldin, and new tutors Jamie Hyewon Chung and Sasan Ghaffari, all of whom received superb reviews
from the students. Dr. Chuang’s 14 consecutive years of service is well-appreciated. Jeff Shaefer served
as an able substitute tutor.
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Dr. Sung-Kiang Chuang has joined as a committee member of the AAOMS Task Force for Evidence-Based
Third Molar Management chaired by Dr. Tom Dodson to enhance our specialty. Dr. Dodson, a close
mentor of Dr. Chuang, moved to University of Washington School of Dentistry Department of OMS at
Seattle in September 2013 as professor and chairman after 15 years at the Mass General and HSDM. Dr.
Chuang continued to collaborate with Dr. Dodson in clinical outcomes patient-oriented research.
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Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Pain
by David A. Keith, BDS, DMD, FDSRCS
The Department hosted a group of 9 from Norway at the Mass General March 18-19. The group is
charged by the Norwegian Directorate of Health to set up a center for orofacial pain and
temporomandibular disorders in Bergen, and was here to learn about our experiences in dealing with
these conditions in a tertiary care setting.
The Norway group was headed by Dr. Siri Rodseth, their Dental Adviser and Dr. Terje Vigen, a senior
medical adviser. The clinicians included Dr. Tore Bjorland, professor and specialist in oral surgery and
oral medicine from the University of Oslo (who had spent a sabbatical in our department several years
ago); Drs. Trond Berge and Annika Rosen, professors and specialists in oral surgery and oral medicine
from the University of Bergen and University Hospital of Haukeland in Bergen; and Dr. Borrick Schjodt,
psychologist and Anne Paulsberg, physical therapist, both from the Pain Clinic at the same institutions in
Bergen. Patient advocates Sidsel Garshol and Jan Monnesland completed the party.
The Mass General International Office helped us to organize this 2-day continuing education program
titled Orofacial pain and Temporomandibular Disorders—The MGH Experience.The course director was
Dr. David Keith. The faculty included Drs. Steven Scrivani, Jeffrey Shaefer, and Ronald Kulich (Mass
General Pain Program) and Diane Plante, RPT (Physical Therapy).
We provided lectures on facial neuralgias, temporomandibular disorders, physical therapy, surgery for
temporomandibular disorders, and the interdisciplinary management of pain patients. A considerable
part of the program was devoted to group discussions, which were informative and lively with everyone
contributing.
The visitors were given a tour of the hospital by Shelley Riley of the International Office and attended
the Grand Rounds presentation by Dr. Kaban titled Discovery of Ether Anesthesia and Its First
Demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846: The Unique Role of the Dental
Profession in the Development of Anesthesia. This was a suitable event to end the scientific part of the
meeting.
We held a farewell dinner at Ma Soba afterwards and each participant was given a copy of the group
photograph taken in the Ether Dome and a continuing education certificate.
By all accounts this was a successful and useful meeting with a great deal of interaction and exchange of
ideas and experiences.
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Visitors to Mass General from Norway in the Ether Dome
Please visit the Orofacial Pain Residency program website.
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Alumni News
Congratulations to the following Mass General OMS graduates who have completed the ABOMS
certification process:
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Salim Afshar (2010)
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Ali Attarpour (2012)
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Sang Kim (2012)
Congratulations to Dr. Sang Kim and his wife who welcomed their third son, Daniel Y. Kim, on April 12,
2014.
Congratulations also to Dr. Yedeh Ying, who graduated in June, and his wife Quyen on the birth of their
second boy on Aug 10, 2014. His name is Josiah Tri Ying.
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Be sure to send us your latest professional or personal news and we’ll publish it in the
MGH OMS Alumni Supplement. Also, help us keep our data base up to date. E-mail us at
oralsurgery@partners.org with your current address, email and phone number.
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