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Membership Matters December 2024 / January 2025

Membership Matters

In the December 2024/January 2025 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• 5 Ways Solid Systems WILL Improve the Health of Your Practice!
• Thriving in Seven Dimensions: Expanding Concepts of Wellbeing
• Dr. Zeller – 2024 House of Delegates President Speech
• Mentorship Matters
• Going for Gold: Karl Woodmansey was the only American dentist at the Paris Paralympic Games

This issue includes regular columns with regional news impacting the Oregon membership including a column from your editor, legal, association activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Indigenous Oral Health: Every Dental Professional's Role

Membership Matters

Regular column highlighting a speaker or presenter from the Oregon Dental Conference.

Membership Matters March 2025

Membership Matters

In the March 2025 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• Current Developtnents in Cariology
• Anti-Fluoride Movenient Gains Traction in Oregon, Nationally
• Dr. Kurt Ferre Leads Coniniunity Water Fluoridation Efforts in Oregon
• The State of the Profession of Myofunctional Therapy 2024
• Teaching Dental Students About Professionalism and Ethics

This issue includes regular columns with regional news impacting the Oregon membership including a column from your editor, legal, association activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Current Developments In Cariology

Membership Matters

Teeth are designed to be indestructable due to the lack of metabolic turnover after they are formed. However, mankind has been plagued by tooth decay as early as 5000 B.C., as evidenced by Sumerian texts that describe "tooth worms" as a cause of dental decay. The 1700s saw dentistry arise and establish itself as a profession. Three hundred years later, dentistry seems to be at its peak. We have access to a state of the art collection of materials, treatment options, equipment, and training that only seems to get better every year. Widespread use of community water fluoridation and the …

The State Of The Profession Of Myofunctional Therapy 2024: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Going, And Why?

Membership Matters

Regular column highlighting a story out of the Oregon Health And Science University's School of Dentistry.

Membership Matters April 2025

Membership Matters

In the April 2025 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• Oregon Passes Dental Licensure Reform that Removes Stigmatizing Mental Health Questions
• A Q&A with Dr. Barry Taylor and Dr. Julie Spaniel, Two of the Driving Forces Behind Oregon's Dental Licensure Reform
• Dr. Alanson Randol Exeniplifies Coniniunity Dentistry in Roseburg
• New Study Identifies How Blood Vessel Dysfunction Can Worsen Chronic Disease

This issue includes regular columns with regional news impacting the Oregon membership including a column from your editor, legal, association activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

The Mental Dental Connection

Membership Matters

Regular column highlighting a speaker or presenter from the Oregon Dental Conference.

Membership Matters October/November 2025

Membership Matters

In the October/November 2025 issue, the reader will find the following feature articles:

• Does Our Governance Support our Goals?
• Component Profiles
• Tooth Taxi Brings Smiles – and Relief – to Oregon’s Kids
• The Mental Dental Connection
• Three System Resets to Strengthen Your Practice for 2026

This issue includes regular columns with regional news impacting the Oregon membership including a column from your editor, legal, association activities, component news, continuing education opportunities, and classifieds.

Time And Flesh: Exploring The Embodied Experiences Of Black Mothers, Amber Tucker

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Drawing on Black feminist theories of intersectionality and concepts of temporality and embodiment, this study centers Black girlhood to understand Black girls embodied journeys of “becoming” Black women. Findings revealed that: (a) Black girls often have complicated histories that lead to constrained and liberatory choices in adulthood and motherhood; (b) becoming a Black woman involves continual adaptations to temporal and historical contexts; and (c) Black motherhood is a contested space, deeply shaped by remembering Black girlhood and navigating maternal responses to legacies of harm. This study highlights the challenges and strengths in the transitory states of Black womanhood.

Identifying Outcomes And Outcome Measures In Neonatal Family-Centered Care Trials: A Systematic Review, Cansel Kocakabak, Agnes Van Den Hoogen, Melissa Rothfus, Marsha Campbell-Yeo, Johanna Kostenzer, Anna Axelin, Patricia Schofield, Jos M. Latour

School of Health Professions

Background: A wide range of outcomes for infants and parents has been reported in clinical trials testing FCC interventions. This systematic review aimed to identify outcomes, outcome measures, and time-points reported in experimental studies testing FCC interventions in neonatal care units. Methods: This review included experimental studies investigating FCC interventions in neonatal settings. Database searches were conducted in MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane, PsycINFO, Scopus, JBI, Lilacs, and SciELO, completed in December 2022 and updated in November 2023. Critical appraisal was performed using the JBI checklist for randomized controlled trials, and a narrative synthesis process was used. Outcomes were categorized into …

Promoting An Inclusive And Humanised Environment In The Intensive Care Unit: Shift Happens, Emilio Rodriguez-Ruiz, Jos M. Latour, Margo M.C. Van Mol

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

Using Expert Knowledge And Peer Review To Create A Reproducible Process For The Nahrs Nursing Essential Resources List (Nnerl), Rebecca Raszewski, Lorraine Porcello, Alissa V. Fial, Carolyn C. Dennison, Rachel Keiko Stark, Karen S. Alcorn, Sarah Wade

Library Faculty Research and Publications

Background: Librarians have relied on resource lists for developing nursing collections, but these lists are usually in static or subscription-based formats. An example of this is the 26th edition of the Essential Nursing Resources last published in 2012. The Nursing and Allied Health Resources and Services (NAHRS) Caucus Nursing Essential Resources List (NNERL) Task Force has been working on a new list since Fall 2020. The goal of the Task Force is to create a nursing resource list that represents current materials and formats, uses a selection process that is transparent and reproducible, and will be available to a broad …

Measuring Variation In Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, And Individuals: A Showcase Of Tango-Cc (Task For Assessing Individual Differences In Gaze Understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural), Julia Christin Prein, Florian M. Bednarski, Ardain Dzabatou, Michael C. Frank, Annette M.E. Henderson, Josefine Kalbitz, Patricia Kanngiesser, Dilara Keşşafoğlu, Bahar Köymen, Maira V. Manrique-Hernandez, Shirley Magazi, Lizbeth Mújica-Manrique, Julia Ohlendorf, Damilola Olaoba, Wesley R. Pieters, Sarah Pope-Caldwell, Umay Sen, Katie Slocombe, Robert Z. Sparks, Roman Stengelin, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, Kirsten Sutherland, Florence Tusiime, Wilson Vieira, Zhen Zhang, Yufei Zong, Daniel B.M. Haun, Manuel Bohn

School of Psychology

Cross-cultural studies are crucial for investigating the cultural variability and universality of cognitive developmental processes. However, cross-cultural assessment tools in cognition across languages and communities are limited. In this article, we describe a gaze-following task designed to measure basic social cognition across individuals, ages, and communities (the Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural; TANGO-CC). The task was developed and psychometrically assessed in one cultural setting and, with input of local collaborators, adapted for cross-cultural data collection. Minimal language demands and the web-app implementation allow fast and easy contextual adaptations to each community. TANGO-CC captures individual- and community-level variation …

The Place Where Souls Rest: Tolkien, Immortality, And Neurodivergence In Frieren: Beyond Journey’S End, Andrew Mayer

4610 English: Individual Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien

No abstract provided.

Recognition And Management Of Persistent Chylomicronemia: A Joint Expert Clinical Consensus By The National Lipid Association And The American Society For Preventive Cardiology, Vijay Nambi, Diane Brisson, Iftikhar J Kullo, P Barton Duell, Erin D Michos, Michael D Shapiro, Gerald F Watts, Daniel Gaudet, Christie M Ballantyne

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Extreme hypertriglyceridemia, defined as triglyceride (TG) levels ≥1000 mg/dL, is almost always indicative of chylomicronemia. The current diagnostic approach categorizes individuals with chylomicronemia into familial chylomicronemia syndrome (FCS; prevalence 1-10 per million), caused by the biallelic combination of pathogenic variants that impair the lipolytic action of lipoprotein lipase (LPL), or multifactorial chylomicronemia syndrome (MCS, 1 in 500). A pragmatic framework should emphasize the severity of the phenotype and the risk of complications. Therefore, we endorse the term "persistent chylomicronemia (PC)" defined as TG ≥1000 mg/dL in more than half of the measurements to encompass patients with the highest risk for …

Building Diversity Into The Philosophy And Methodology Of Economics With Stratification Economics, Merve Burnazoglu, John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Mainstream economics ignores who produces it and what it is about because its average man, Homo economicus ontological entry-point obscures social differences between people. Philosophy and Methodology of Economics that assumes this ontological entry point generally limits itself to epistemological analysis, and this means it fails to make diversity a fundamental concern. Taking diversity seriously entails being clear about one's ontological assumptions, and this requires being clear about the normative scope of one's analysis. This calls for giving up a value-neutral methodological reasoning and adopting a value-explicit methodological posture. To illustrate, we describe how Stratification economics with its social groups …

From Wtp To Wtf: Valuation And Distributive Discourse, Lee Anne Fennell

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Safety Score Liability, Omri Ben-Shaharz

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Data technology is increasingly deployed to assign safety scores to people and products. Could these scores be used by tort law to apportion liability for accidents? Instead of basing tort liability on negligence—on the level of care leading to the specific accident—“safety score liability” would impose liability commensurate with a party’s habitual propensity to behave unsafely. This article describes how safety score liability would work, the incentives it would create, and the principles limiting its adoption. The article suggests that the precision of AI tools generating such scores—scores that have already reshaped other channels of safety regulation in society— offers …

Falsifying Tradition, Darrell A.H. Miller

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

From cases spanning gun rights, reproductive freedom, religious liberty, and personal jurisdiction; to separation of powers and other structural features of the Constitution, courts increasingly rely on tradition to guide their decisions. Often, judges appeal to tradition in a vaguely empirical way, as “facts to study, not convictions to demonstrate about,” in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia. Yet, for a claim that purports to be factual, there’s very little agreement, or even analysis, about what renders this factual assertion—tradition—true or false. This Article tackles that foundational issue.

Part I surveys the ways in which courts use tradition in different …

Extradition In The Early Republic: International Law And Constitutional Authority, Curtis Bradley

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This Article is the first comprehensive account of the constitutional foundations of U.S. extradition practice and its relationship to international law. Through detailed analysis of early American extradition controversies—including the Longchamps Affair and the Robbins case—the Article shows how political actors and courts constructed the modern constitutional law of extradition, resolving key issues concerning presidential power, the role of the states, and the scope of congressional authority. This regime, the Article argues, emerged not from appeals to the constitutional text or original understandings, but rather from structural intuitions, consequentialist considerations, and, as time went on, historical traditions. As the Article …

Informative Jury Disagreement, Roy Baharad

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

The article introduces a counterintuitive argument, contending that jury disagreement on the defendant’s guilt—a nonunanimous conviction—may well provide a more informative signal, compared to consensus. Because stronger consensus implies higher likelihood of herding, it is shown that beyond some threshold, further accumulation of votes to convict would carry negligible epistemic contribution, barely enhancing the posterior probability of guilt. On the other hand, while dissenting votes provide a direct signal of innocence, they indicate that herding has not been involved in the decision-making process, hence increase the epistemic contribution of any vote generated by said process— including votes to convict—and may …

The Limits And Promise Of Global Antitrust Law, Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, Katerina Linos

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Tom Sawyer Effect: Invisible Work And Labor Market Power, Eric A. Posner

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Machine-Learning Human Rights, Han‐Wei Ho, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-Chien Chang, Tom Ginsburg

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Utilizing a comprehensive panel dataset spanning from 1900 to 2020, this study introduces an innovative methodology for the analysis and categorization of legal documents, specifically national constitutions. Contrary to the predominant reliance on unsupervised methods within the field, this research incorporates a supervised machine-learning approach, notably the SEMMS method, alongside traditional unsupervised algorithms. This dual approach facilitates a nuanced analysis of the human rights provisions contained within national constitutions, resulting in the identification of both traditional and novel constitutional groupings. Broadly speaking, the more traditional common law-civil law divide does not seem particularly relevant in this context. Furthermore, our methodology …

Remedies In The Officer Removal Cases, Samuel L. Bray

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

When an officer challenges her removal by the president, what relief is available? This Article shows that the appropriate remedy will typically be a declaratory judgment. The interim relief question is harder. The suggestion here is that if an officer sues immediately to challenge her removal, there should be a presumption that the federal courts will prevent her removal during the pendency of the litigation. Otherwise, the presumption should be against interim relief. This approach is grounded in the principles of equity, and it prevents “flipping” back and forth in who occupies the office during the litigation.

Algorithmic Selection Of Iconic Constitutions, Tejas Ramdas, Patrick Chung-Chia Huang, Nuno Garoupa, Martin T. Wells, Yun-Chien Chang, Tom Ginsburg

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This chapter examines the influence of pre-20th century constitutions using a quantitative approach, comparing expert-selected “iconic” constitutions with those identified algorithmically. In prior work, human experts identified four influential constitutions: the U.S. 1791, France 1791, Spain 1812, and France 1848. Here, we employ a genetic algorithm and Document Term Matrix (DTM) analysis to assess which one or four of 180 pre-1899 constitutions had the greatest textual impact on 581 post-1900 constitutions. Two criteria guide the selection: coverage and originality. Through iterative optimization, the algorithm identifies the most textually influential constitutions, allowing for a direct comparison with expert selections. This chapter …

Liquidation, Then And Now, William Baude

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Reception Of Novella, Daughter Of The Bolognese Jurist Giovanni D'Andrea, In Christine De Pizan's City Of Ladies, Mary Anne Case

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Although the announced theme of Book 2, Chapter 36 of the Livre de la cité des dames is “against those men who claim it is not good for women to be educated,” a clear subtheme is filiation, since each of the three learned women on whom the chapter focuses – Hortensia, Novella, and Christine herself – is educated by her learned father. As it happens, the three women also have in common that they used their learning to defend their sex, but, interestingly, the chapter only discusses this “support for the cause of women” with respect to one of them, …

The American Attack On Academic Freedom In Comparative Perspective, Tom Ginsburg

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Academic freedom is under threat in many countries, and the United States is no exception. This chapter places the American framework for academic freedom in comparative perspective, and describes the techniques being deployed against it. A common threat is to leverage the use of government funds as a way to change internal university governance. Less common, however, is something that we have seen in the United States, which is a threat to academic freedom from civil society itself. The trend is accelerating through social media, and is structurally similar to that of the fascist period in Europe in which there …

Toward Improving Retention In Hiv Care After Pregnancy: Lessons From A Post-Pandemic Cohort In The United States, Michael Jochum, Sarah Conrad, Eva H Clark, Kassandra Goytia, Megan Alam, Jessica Gerard, Jennifer Mckinney

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Introduction: People living with HIV (PLWH) often experience low rates of retention in HIV care (RIC) and suboptimal viral suppression postpartum. Understanding contemporary barriers to RIC is crucial to identify risk factors for loss to care and thereby improve support during this vulnerable transition. This work aimed to identify factors associated with adequate RIC, defined as two HIV care visits ≥90 days apart in the first year postpartum.

Methods: Electronic records were retrospectively reviewed for PLWH who delivered from 2019 to 2023 and received prenatal care within a single county health system. Variables were collected related to both maternal and …