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July 2018
Vol. 2| No. 07
The Dental Corps Bulletin
Special Points of
Interest:
Dental Corps
Army Dental Corps Page
HRC (DC OPMD)
Dental Corps Leader Development Guide
DC Dashboard
Projected Vacancies FY 19-21
Military CE
Army CE
Army PPSCP
Army BlackBoard CE Instructions
Air Force CE
Navy CE
MILPER Messages
Index
Board Schedule/Results
FY18 Army Selection Board Schedule
ILE
SSC
LTHET FY18 Results
Patient Safety
WSS Guidebook
URFO Guidebook
MHS leadership Engagement toolkit
Miscellaneous
Army Medicine Dis-patch
2018 Army Medicine Campaign Plan
Army Medicine News
Bugle Call JUL 2018
Understand the ORB
My Board File
AC HPO Pay Plan
Broadening Opportuni-ties program (B.O.P)
Post 9/11 GI Bill Bene-fits/Transferability & Yellow Ribbon Pro-gram
Top Line Messages
Strategic Messages
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Greetings from the Office of the Chief, U.S. Army Dental Corps.
Happy July! What a busy month it has
been. In addition to celebrating our nation’s
birthday on July 4th, we welcomed 76 new
Army Dental Corps (DC) officers, and grad-
uated 49 officers from across our Army
graduate dental education and training
(GDE) programs.
On Saturday 14 July, DC leaders welcomed
into the Army DC those DC officers attend-
ing the summer 2018 HPSP BOLC class.
The gathering, at AMEDD Center and
School, provided an outstanding opportunity
for mutual dialogue and discussion between
BOLC officers and their senior leaders.
Many thanks to the Corps Chief’s office for planning and executing an outstanding
induction ceremony; and to the Association of Army Dentistry and the Army con-
stituency of the Academy of General Dentistry for sponsoring the evening social
at the AMEDD Museum. Again, we congratulate our newest dental officers and
wish them the best as they embark on their careers.
Likewise, we congratulate all of our new GDE graduates as they transition to their
next assignments - your hard work has truly paid off! You are the future leaders
and mentors of our Corps and I am very proud to serve with you.
Finally, on 30 July, I look forward to another opportunity for mutual dialogue over
dinner with the DC officers participating in the Captains Career Course. Such in-
teraction is invaluable to the Corps.
I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable summer. Thank you for all you do for the
Dental Corps, Army Medicine and our Army!
One Team, One Purpose. Conserving the Fighting Strength Since 1775
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Changing of DC Executive Officer This month we say a sincere goodbye to LTC Brent Gruver and appreciate all he has done for the Corps as he moves on to a new position and nears his retirement. Moving in to the position of Executive Officer to the Dental Corps Chief is LTC Anthony Borowski (Biography below). We hope he enjoys his new position and wish him luck as he learns the dental lin-go.
LTC Anthony A. Borowski was born in Berwyn, Illinois and earned his Bache-lor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Columbus State University, Georgia and his Master’s Degree in Leadership and Business Ethics from Duquesne Universi-ty, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. LTC Anthony A. Borowski received his commission in 1999 with immediate du-ty to the Active Component. Aside from his enlisted time, his previous career as-signments as an officer include: 1st Forward Support MEDEVAC Team (FSMT) Leader, 159th Medical Company Air Ambulance (AA), Wiesbaden, Germany; MEDEVAC Detachment Commander, 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry, Operation En-during Freedom, Kuwait; Medical Evacuation Liaison Officer, 12th Aviation Bri-gade, Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF I), Iraq; Battalion Operations Officer, 36th Medical Evacuation Battalion (MEB), Fort Hood, Texas; Commander, 582nd Medical Logistics Company, Fort Hood, Texas; Director and Senior Instructor, Medical Evacuation Doctrine Course, United States Army School of Aviation Medicine (USASAM), Ft. Rucker, Alabama; Division Medical Evacuation and Plans Officer, 4th Infantry Division Surgeon Cell, Fort Carson, Colorado; Com-mander, United States Army Air Ambulance Detachment (USAAAD), Yakima Training Center, Washington and Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado; Chief of Medical Plans and Operations, Army South Surgeon Cell, San Antonio, Texas; and Joint Strategic Planner, HQ CENTCOM, Tampa, Florida. His is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, UH-72
Lakota Qualification Course, Total Army Instructor Training Course, MEDEVAC Commanders Course, AMEDD Cap-tains Career Course, Rear Detachment Commanders Course, Medical Evacuation Doctrine Course, UH-60 Blackhawk Qualification Course, the Army Rotary Wing Aviator Course, AMEDD Officer Basic Course, Range Security Operations Course, and Bradley Fighting Vehicle Infantryman Course. His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters, Army Commendation Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Achievement Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the Joint Meritorious Unit Commendation, the Army Meritorious Unit Citation with one Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Superior Unit Award, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Ribbon with Bronze Star Device, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the South West Asia Service Medal with Bronze Star Device, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Bronze Star Device two, the Iraq Campaign Medal with Bronze Star Device three, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Armed Forces Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, the Over Seas Service ribbon with Numeral Five, the United Nations Protection Force in Yugoslavia Medal, and the NATO Medal with Bronze Star Device. He also earned the Expert Infantryman Badge, the Expert Field Medical Badge, the Army Aviators Badge and the German Armed Forces Pro-ficiency Badge Gold. Additionally he is a recipient of the Sikorsky Aircraft Rescue Award and the Order of the Spur. In his leisure time, LTC Borowski enjoys competitive running, calisthenics, and Cross fit, as well as spending time with family.
LTC Anthony A. Borowski Executive Officer to the Dental Corps Chief
U.S. Army Medical Command
GDE Updates:
Reminder: The deadline for applications for the TJC Fellowship (2019 star t) Selection Panel on 09 AUG 18 is 31 JUL 18.
The MOI for the LTHET Selection Panel will be released shortly. The application deadline will be 05 OCT 18. It's not too early to start talking to Commanders and Specialists for recommendations. The application packets will require the same elements as last year.
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63B Comprehensive Dentistry Fort Bragg, NC MAJ Rishard Banks MAJ Autumn Becker MAJ(P) Michael Browning LTC Llena Caldwell CPT Joshua Gonzalez CPT George Hankewycz CPT Kyle Reed Fort Hood, TX CPT Caitlin Fehlinger CPT Richard Low CPT Christopher Merkley CPT Ki Hong Park CPT Miles Renick CPT Michael Rice CPT Michael Tong Schofield Barracks, HI MAJ Aaron Amano CPT Wendy Foster MAJ Donald Ogbuehi CPT S. Zachary Tanner 63D Periodontics (Fort Gordon, GA) MAJ Albert Cheng CPT Justin Hoag MAJ Paul Seibel CPT Joshua Berridge
63E Endodontics Fort Bragg, NC CPT Claire Anderson CPT Thomas Jahnke MAJ Jessica Roeber CPT Andrew Steidley Fort Gordon, GA MAJ Jared Beam CPT Steven Johnson MAJ Joshua Pruden CPT Joshua Williams 63F Prosthodontics (Fort Gordon) CPT Nathan Kosiba CPT Nicholas Miller CPT Nisha Patel CPT Martin Smallidge 63H Dental Public Health (University of Iowa) MAJ Christa Hirleman 63K Pediatric Dentistry (Texas A&M University) MAJ Christopher Luevano CPT Michael P. Silva
63M Orthodontics Tri-Service Orthodontic Program (TORP) MAJ Katherine Darling Lund CPT Robert Engel University of Louisville MAJ Garrett Wood 63N Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Fort Bragg, NC CPT Justin Grimes Fort Bliss, TX (None in 2018) Fort Gordon, GA MAJ William Temple Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA CPT George Bitar CPT Griffin Sonstegard Joint Base San Antonio, TX MAJ Barrett Beardsley CPT Boonyapa, Purt Tripler Army Medical Center, HI CPT Thomas Elias Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, MD CPT Brittany Eidson CPT Ryan Peters
Congratulations to the 2018 Dental Residency Graduates
Welcome to the new Dental Corps officers of BOLC Class 18-184! We wish you the best of luck in your careers.
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Dental Health Command - Pacific Update
This month we are proud to highlight the achievements and accomplish-ments of the Soldiers of DHC - Pacific. Please CLICK HERE for the full
article and pictures
On 24 May 2018, the Dental Health Activity-Japan held its Change of Command Ceremony at Camp Zama, Japan. COL Mott (Commander,
DHC-P), the reviewing Officer, oversaw the relinquishment of Com-
mand from MAJ Reed (Outgoing Commander) to MAJ Baker (Incoming Commander) in front of the historic Torii Gate.
The leadership of 618th Dental Company Area Support (DCAS) attend-ed a Leadership Conference at Seongnam City, South Korea. The at-
tendees included NCOIC’s and OIC’s of each of the dental clinics from
the Korean peninsula, guest speakers from 65th MED BDE as well as the 618th headquarters per-sonnel. During the conference, topics of discussion included operations, personnel and logistic functions, High Reliability
Organization, Risk Management/Safety, MEDPROS, SHARP and Go First Class.
Dental Health Activity – AK hosted the 2018 Asian Pacific American Her itage Month at For t Wainwright, AK. There were informative displays depicting the different countries in the Asian Pacific Theater.
Dental Health Activity – Hawaii hosted the Dental Health Command- Pacific’s Best Warrior Competition on March 4-8 at Schofield Barracks, HI. Eight soldiers were selected to compete from Joint Base Lewis McChord; Camp Zama, Japan; Camp Casey, Korea; Camp Humphreys, Korea; Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska; and Dental Health Activity Ha-waii. Congratulations to SPC Ras from Hawaii and SGT Zuniga from Korea for moving onto the next level, Regional
Health Command-Pacific Best Warrior Competition.
COL David Mott Commander, DHC-P
SGM Johnathan Quaya Sergeant Major, DHC-P
AOC Highlight - Dental Public Health (63H)
Dental Public Health (DPH) practice in the Army covers a wide range of activities with the goal of systematically achieving optimum population health. First, surveillance systems and research identify and characterize oral health issues and their root causes. From there we can develop care delivery processes, policies, and regulations to target problems. Finally, further moni-toring and surveillance to evaluate the outcome of the interventions close the loop. The ultimate goal is to streamline care de-livery processes and advocate for policies and regulations that promote Soldiers’ Readiness, oral health, and overall health. Here are some of the DPH areas that our officers are involved with:
Managing Oral Health Programs: Population oral health is one of our AOC’s focuses. The three main dental care de-livery programs that support this, via dental readiness and wellness, are Go First Class (GFC), High Caries Risk (HCR), and First Term Dental Readiness (FTDR). As part of the Ready and Resilient Portfolio Capabilities Assessment campaign, LTC Drouillard and members from the Dental Directorate’s Dental Systems Division will be working with the Army Resili-ency Directorate to assess and evaluate the GFC, HCR, and FTDR programs.
Dental leadership is aware some installations are pressuring their dental facilities to abandon Go First Class and return to the mass exam method of dental readiness. Resources are available to educate the Leadership on the disservice that they are doing to their Soldiers in terms of limiting access to preventive dental services that maintain oral health and minimize our Soldier’s risk of becoming a dental casualty during deployment.
The High Caries Risk program has stalled because it is difficult to get providers and patients to comply with the intensity of interventions needed. We need to be able to re-mineralize enamel in fewer visits than fluoride varnish requires, or use a product that provides additional benefits to keep Soldiers coming back for care. Unfortunately, studies are lacking on the effectiveness of alternative remineralization agents. What we need are solid evidence-based studies using either histologic analysis of human teeth with incipient lesions and those into dentin or follow-up studies of patients after treatment with re-mineralization products. Graduate Dental Residents in the 2-year Comprehensive Dental Residency who are looking for a research topic could help fill these gaps. Some of the products on the market that bear investigating are Silver Diamine Flu-oride, Riva Star, Nu Radiance Forte, and Curodont. For those interested and would like more information please contact the DPH Consultant, COL Georgia Rogers, and to view more about these products please CLICK HERE.
Workforce development: Be on the lookout for an email invitation for the next Dental Corps Officer Retention Sur-vey from the OTSG Dental Corps Chief’s Office. Your participation in this anonymous survey is vital! Over the years, we have used the results of the survey to drive improvements and changes to Army programs and policies that affect our Dental Officers’ pay and professional experiences. You are the Dental Corps, so we look forward to your honest and objective answers to the survey questions.
Global Health Engagement (GHE): Public Health interventions are now the mainstay of GHE effor ts, yet medical planners are still relegating dental capabilities to mere hands-on treatment of urgent or emergent dental issues. Dental pub-lic health efforts to identify oral disease prevalence and conduct root cause analysis are absent, as are efforts to implement environmental and social interventions and increase dental workforce capacity. LTC Colthirst has been working with GHE planners in PACOM to make changes in the planning process, so in the near future dentists deploying on DENRETE mis-sions may be able to make lasting change to reduce the incidence of oral diseases, rather than providing only surgical care. Dentists who are interested in earning a graduate certificate in Global Health may do so via USUHS on-line learning.
Finally, we would like to congratulate MAJ Christa Hirleman on completing her DPH residency at the University of Iowa and wish her the best on her assignment to the Army Public Health Center.
POC for this article is COL Georgia Rogers - DPH Consultant to TSG - [email protected]
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A new Army PT Test is on its way The rollout of the new Army PT test was featured in the 10 July issue of Army Medicine News. The ACFT will be gender and age neutral and consist of six events. Piloting of the new test will be from October 2018 to October 2019 with an Ar-my wide start date NLT October 2020. Please CLICK HERE to view the full article.
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Updates from the ADA:
In January 2015 a Licensure Task Force, put together by the ADA, began investigating concerns regarding initial licen-sure and licensure portability. We were recently provided a summary of the ADA’s licensure reform efforts from out DOD New Dentist Committee Liaison. Please CLICK HERE to view the ‘Brief History of ADA Efforts Regarding Licensure Reform’ article.
The National Membership Dashboard with end of year comparison can be found HERE.
10th and 3rd Special Forces Group’s: Dental Humanitarian Mission
From 15-29 June 2018, the 7451 Medical Backfill BN initiated their In-novative Readiness Training (IRT) Mission in the vicinities of El Paso and Hudspeth Counties as part of Operation Western Rio Grande in part-nership with the Texas A&M University Colonias Programs. The pur-pose of this mission was to provide no-cost Medical, Dental, Optometry, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Nutritional, and Behavioral Health Services in order to increase the quality of life for residents living in the Colonias and other economically distressed areas. Primary Dental Objectives: Provide free dental care to impoverished border community Utilize and maintain 10th SFG (A)’s portable dental set to provide
evidence and feedback for modifying standard issue dental equip-ment for the Special Forces Dentist’s.
Perform preventative maintenance on dental equipment.
Outcomes: Over ten days, the 3rd and 10th SFG Dentists saw 500+ patients and
completed over 300 dental extractions. The Aseptico portable dental unit work well and will be an integral
component of both the 3rd and 10 SFG’s dental equipment moving forward.
LTG Jeffrey Buchanan, Commander of the US Army North, was impressed with the dental capabilities of the mission.
Left to Right (upper left picture): CPT Matt Ticich (10th SFG(A)
Dentist); CPT Barron Davis (3rd SFG(A) Dentist); SSG Louis
Hernandez (10th SFG(A) Dental Tech); SGT Galiki, SGT Hag-
gland, SPC Jewel; SPC Banak (Dental Technicians for 7252 Medi-
cal Backfill BN)
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NCO Highlight-SGT Cui Fangze
Congratulations to SGT Fangze Cui. Just prior to her promo-tion, SGT Cui won the 2018 62nd Medical Brigade Best War-rior Competition, demonstrating a high level of physical fit-ness and expertise in a wide range of military topics. During this competition, her unmatched technical and tactical skills were on full display in the following categories: warrior fit-ness, obstacle course domination, situational training exercis-es, written essay, 12 miles foot-march, oral-boards, land navi-gation, weapon qualification and chemical, biological, radio-logical and nuclear skills. SGT Cui advanced to the division level and represented the 62nd Medical Brigade during the 593D Expeditionary Sustainment Command’s Best Warrior Competition. Many awards and accolades have been bestowed upon this deserving Soldier.
SGT Cui Fangze a native of China, enlisted into the United States Army as a dental assistant, 68E in 2014. Prior to her enlistment, she earned a Bachelor Degree in Ecology from
Shenyang Agricultural University (2010) and a Master’s De-gree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the Universi-ty of Utah (2013). Prior to joining the 673rd Dental Company (Area Support), JBLM, SGT Cui completed Basic Combat Training at Fort Sill (2015) as an honor graduate with APFT excellence award recognition and also graduated from the Ad-vanced Individual Training as the Distinguish Honor Gradu-ate.
SGT Cui continues to serve with honor and distinction, she has served as operation room assistant, x-ray technician and worked as chairside assistant in the field dental clinics, and JBLM Dental Clinics. Currently, SGT Cui serves as the Executive Administrative Assistant to Command Sergeant Major Alba of the 62nd Medical Brigade. She graduated from Basic Leadership Course and completed Combatives Level I and the Combat Lifesaver Course. In June 2018, SGT Cui and her team participated in an Integrated Readiness Training Hu-manitarian Operation with the 1984th USAH-P, 9th MSC, US Army Reserve Command in Keaau, Hawaii. The 673rd DCAS were able to demonstrate the plug and play capabilities of their jump teams, while providing needed dental services to indigent populations.
SGT Cui’s military rewards and decorations include the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal with four OLCs, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon, and Army Service Ribbon.
SGT Cui’s goals are to retire from the military with Honors in the rank of Colonel. Her personal interest include yoga, hik-ing and running.