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Notes From Here and There Dr. Reginald W. Hession of Sydney, was recently bestowed with the highest honor of the Australian Dental Association--honorary life member- ship. This honor comes in recognition of Dr. Hession's outstanding service, exceptional ability and total dedication to his profession and association. Dr. Hession has served dentistry not only in Australia but also internationally through the Federation Dentaire Inter- nationale. He is currently a member of the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, and Honorary Secretary of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons...Dr. Richard C. Burns was the guest lecturer for the pre- congress meeting of the Australian Society of Endodontics and a lecturer at the Australian Dental Association's Congress in Brisbane, May 11-15, 1985...The Yankee Dental Congress will offer a "Prescription for Ex- cellence" at its 1 l th annual meeting in Boston on January I6-19, I986. Par- ticipating in the Congress will be Drs. Noah Chivian and Samuel Selt- zer . Dr. Noah Chivian was also the

Dr. Reginald Hession, honorary life member of the Australian Dental Association.

Dr. James C. McGraw (I), recipient of Faculty Award.

featured speaker at the Arne Bjorndal Endodontic Symposium presented by the University of Iowa, Department of Endodontics, in cooperation with the iowa Association of Endodontists. Dr. Chivian's topic was "New Wave En- dodontics--A Technical Approach." A past-president of the AAE, Dr. Chivian is currently president of the American Academy of Esthetic D e n t i s t r y . Dr. Will iam E. Harris was recently recog- nized by the American Red Cross for having donated 100 units of blood. Dr. Harris began this worthwhile service in the 1950's while a dental student at Emory University...Chicago Dental Society Television announced the release of four new video cassette pro- grams in the "Clinical Topics in Den- tistry" series. One of the programs features Dr. Stephen Cohen on "En- dodontics 1985." All programs were recorded in February at the annual Chi- cago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting and are prepared for self- instruction. Programs may be obtained through course/tease subscription plans or purchased on 1/2 inch VHS or Beta II, or 3A inch U-Matic video cassette formats. Upon completion of a post-test, CDS/TV provides the viewer with a certificate as evidence of

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the Washington State Dental Association's

Dr. Eric J. Hovland, chairman, En- dodontic Department, University of Maryland.

having completed the course. . .Dr . Eric J. Hovland, currently a member of the Board of Directors of the AAE, was named chairman of the Depart- ment of Endodontics at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Dental

NEWS School, University of Maryland. Dr. Hovland spent the past year as an American Council on Education Fellow in the Office of the President, Univer- sity of Louisvil le...Dr. James C. McGraw was the first recipient of the Faculty Of Dentistry Award recently established by the Washington State Dental Association's (WSDA) Commit- tee for Liaison with the University of Washington School of Dentistry. The award is given to a WSDA member who is a part-time faculty member at the University and who has made a sig- nificant contribution to the University and the WSDA. Dr. McGraw has been a clinical professor of endodontics at the University, in both the graduate and un- dergraduate departments since 1969.

In Memoriam Dr. Melvin Ervin Jr. passed away on August 11, 1985. He was graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and the University of Washington Graduate School of Den- tistry. Dr. Ervin became a member of the Association in 1969 and served in the US Navy until 1982. He retired in 1984.

Dr. Henry S. Schmidt passed away on July 2, 1985. He was graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry ('29) and practiced general dentistry for 46 years. Dr. Schmidt was very interested in endodontics and assisted in an endodontic research program at his alma mater one day each week for several years. A life member of the AAE, he served as pres- ident in 1965-1966. He was also a member of Delta Sigma Delta, Omi- cron Kappa Upsilon and a fellow of the American College of Dentists.

Dr. Marvin N. Forman received his dental degree from the Ohio State University in 1944. He became a member of the AAE in 1959 and was made a Life member in 1984. Dr. For- man did some teaching at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and devoted half of his practice to the science of en- dodontics. During his career he was a member of the Cleveland Dental Soci- ety, the Ohio State Dental Association and the American Dental Association.

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Earliest Known Root Canal Treatment Recently Discovered

On a recent dig in Israel's Negev Desert, Dr. Joseph Zias, A physical an- thropologist at the national Depart- ment of Antiquities and Museums, unearthed what is perhaps the oldest known example of a root canal treat- ment. The work was discovered in the remains of a soldier--probably a Na- batean--dating from the second or third century B.C.

Upon examining the soldier's skull, Dr. Zias noticed that part of an incisor had turned light green. An x-ray of the jaw showed a bronze wire one-tenth of an inch long in the tooth's canal. Pat- ricia Smith, a dental anthropologist at Hebrew University, speculated that the wire was an attempt to deal with one of the soldier's dental problems, which apparently included three abscesses and a cyst.

As early as the third millennium B.C. both Phoenicians and Egyptians wired Ioose teeth together. Apparently, they must also have usedwire to treat an in- fected root. Early texts such as the Babylonian Legend of the Tooth Worm, attributed tooth decay to the gnawing of the 'demon maggot'. Dr. Zias believes the wire may have been used to kill the maggot and to keep others from entering the tooth.