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Volume 36 • Issue 1
Winston Churchill’s Secret Weapon It’s just possible that the famous British leader drew strength from a series of well-crafted dentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
NEWS AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE NEW YORK STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION
Mission Almost Not Accomplished NYSDF Chair looks forward to resumption of medical mission to Jamaican clinic aborted in its first week by fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Alzheimer’s/Dental Connection NYU researchers undertake study to determine if patients with periodontitis are at higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
In 2019, Fabiola Milord, pictured at left, was honored for her humanitarian and academic contributions to dentistry at 10th annual Scrubs & Stilettos conference. With her are, from left: Mary Truhlar, then-dean, Stony Brook School Dental Medicine; Lidia Epel, past conference chair; Maria Maranga, Suffolk County, and Julie Izen, Nassau County, 2019 conference chairs.
Fabiola Milord, D.D.S., M.P.H.
A Celebrated Dentist’s Quest for Sensitivity and Inclusion
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Dr. Fabiola Milord hopes recent action by the Association will put more dentists who look like her at the table.
ugust 2021. The NYSDA House of Delegates, in session at the Westin Hotel in Jersey City, NJ, passed a historic resolution calling on the Association to recognize the designation of February as Black History Month. Specifically, NYSDA was asked to pay homage each year to an African-American member “who has significantly contributed to the profession” and to sponsor a credit-bearing course featuring an “African-American Speaker of Excellence.”
The maker of the resolution was Fabiola Milord, D.D.S., M.P.H., a general dentist from New Hyde Park, Nassau County. Dr. Milord was understandably elated to see the House adopt her resolution, which, she said, was borne out of frustration. “The resolutions to observe Black History Month came out of dual observations. During the year 2020, as we were forced into a so-called ‘lockdown,’ and with the simultaneous George Floyd protests, a variety of speakers were offering various continuing education courses online. Very few of those speakers were African American. As companies and other entities were refocusing their efforts to be more sensitive CONTINUED ON PAGE 13