A daughter's question: Asked and answered

Back in 2011, I was invited to offer an opinion article for a special issue of the Southern Association of Orthodontists News.1 Many others were similarly invited, including David Sarrett (dean of a new dental school), and the likes of Johnston, Joondeph, Lindauer, Sadowsky, Cangialosi, Kluemper, Beeman, Hartsfield, Huja, Trojan, Casko, and Will. At the time, there were many big issues on the table that were both disturbing and challenging. They included the opening of many new dental schools, problems related to the recruitment and retention of faculty, how many practitioners were needed, serving the underserved (ie, access to care), increasing the quality of dental education and scholarly accomplishment, inadequate dental school funding, the cost of education, and increasing student debt.

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