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March 18, 2025 — 2025 Coalition Letter Supporting Dr. Lorna Breen Reauthorization Act
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July 15, 2025 — ADA letter to House Subcommittee on Health, Energy and Commerce Committee on Legislative Proposals to Maintain and Improve Public Health Workforce, Rural Health, and Over-the-Counter Medicines.
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Episode 16 - The Drill, NOVEMBER 2025
No full textSUMMARY: This episode discusses key topics, including legislative efforts to address workforce shortages in the Commonwealth, initiatives to enhance practice success through VDA Member Perks, and professional development opportunities such as the rollout of Affiliate Memberships. Additionally, upcoming events, such as Dental Days at the Capitol and Town Hall meetings, are highlighted, emphasizing the importance of member participation.
HOST: Ryan Dunn is the CEO of the Virginia Dental Association. Ryan has played major roles with four national and statewide Associations while also spending time working on Capitol Hill. When he’s not talking all things dental, he’s talking about his family and baseball–and sometimes both at the same time.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Dental Days at the Capitol
VDA Text Alerts
VDA Town Hall Meetings
VDA Member Perks
The Fulcrum Podcast: Episode 14 – 20 YEARS OF GROWTH AND INNOVATION: THE EVOLUTION OF VIRGINIA’S MEDICAID DENTAL PROGRAM Episode 15 – SMART SUPPLY MANAGEMENT: UNLEASH THE POWER OF METHOD
Virginia Dental Showcase – September 18-19, 2026
Affiliate Membership
EPISODE CREDITS
Producer: Paul Logan
Host: Ryan Dunn
Post-Production/Editor: Shannon Jacobs
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Ergonomic Stretches
No full textThis resource from the ADA illustrates different stretches to prevent work-related pain and injuries for oral health professionals
Medical-Dental Integration: Dispatches From “Both Sides of the Aisle”
No full textIn 1840, when Chapin Harris and three other physicians founded the first dental school in the United States, they could not have known that their intention to elevate the practice of dentistry and improve dental care would have such a dramatic unintended consequence: to wholly sever the educational connection between medicine and dentistry. Since then, differences in policy, funding, and self-regulation of medicine and dentistry have only forced the fields further apart. As an example, in 1958, the Joint Council to Improve the Healthcare of the Aged was founded by both the American Medical Association and the American Dental Association in opposition to Medicare; after Medicare was signed into law, covering medical services but excluding dental care, dentistry evolved further away from the rest of the healthcare system