| # | Name | Comments |
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| 151 | C. Bradley Adams | |
| 152 | Anonymous | |
| 153 | gary schlotterer | |
| 154 | Tammy Severt | In no way will building a school in Eastern NC increase the access to care in the eastern part of the state. New graduates will practice where they want to live, and where they want to live is in metropolitan areas. There must be incentives for new graduates to locate in rural areas, whether it be in the form of salary supplements, tax breaks, loan repayments, or free dental education. |
| 155 | harold s speight, dds | |
| 156 | Duc Tang | |
| 157 | Craig Bridgeman,DMD | I am not a UNC dental graduate, but admire the way the institution struggles to provide an excellent education for its students. Adding another institution to compete with UNC for dollars that are already too few will be aprescription for mediocrity in BOTH institutions. Stick with one school--enlarged and improved--and provide financial incentives for grads to practice in underserved areas. |
| 158 | Nicole Scheffler, DDS, MS | Although NC is faced with an access to care problem, opening another dental school in NC is definitely not the solution and it truly does not address the problem at all! There is also a national shortage of faculty problem that will only continue to get worse. Finding faculty to teach at yet another university will be difficult and will also cost a lot of money to entice faculty to leave their current posts to go to Greenville, NC. There are many other far better solutions that would encourage dentists to actually go to areas in demand that would cost much less and might actually address the access to care problem. |
| 159 | Anonymous | Plan the work before you work the plan- not the most prudent use of our state's resources to address dental manpower issues or access to care issues. |
| 160 | Will Turner | |
| 161 | John C. Berry Jr.,DDS | |
| 162 | Kendalyn Lutz-Craver, DDS | |
| 163 | Scott L Weinstein DDS | |
| 164 | Dr. Heather J. Brown | |
| 165 | Anonymous | the school is not a good idea |
| 166 | Benjamin Aaron Thompson | |
| 167 | W.Sim Cozart,D.D.S. | Please contact as needed for support for this proposal. Thanks for getting this going. |
| 168 | Dr. William Windley III | |
| 169 | Ben Sumlin, DDS | I am concerned by the lack of honest, open debate on this issue. At a minimum, I think further study is warranted. |
| 170 | William E. Morris,Jr. DDS | Shocked to first hear of proposed ECU dental school in "ADA News". NCDS leadership ignoring majority of member's pleas for exploring alternatives. "Politics vs. reason". |
| 171 | Jeffery R. Thomas | |
| 172 | John P. Pruitt | I am strongly opposed to a second dental school at ECU. Dentists have had no voice in this process. I have mailed you a letter addressing many of these points against a new school. |
| 173 | Scott L Weinstein DDS | I would like to attempt alternate strategies first including utilizing our Chapel Hill facility more, incentives to rural dentists, etc. |
| 174 | William S. Laster D.D.S., M.S. | |
| 175 | Larry S. Howell, DDS | I am strongly in opposition to the construction of a new dental school at ECU both as a taxpayer and as an informed dentist. |
| 176 | Mike Catanese, DDS | |
| 177 | Anonymous | Please represent your members views. 75% of NC dentists did not support a new dental school. Why isn't the dental society against this plan? Where have all the reciprocity dentists gone - the metropolitan areas! Why not reverse that legislation if a new dental school is going to open. Scholarships should be offered to dental students who will serve in a rural area for 5 years. This is the absolute best way to get dentists into rural sections of the state. |
| 178 | Timothy Snyder, DDS | |
| 179 | terry hulihan | |
| 180 | Shannon Allison, DDS | |
| 181 | Craig E. Allison, DDS | |
| 182 | Richard J. Kincaid DDS | A new dental school at ECU will do many things, but nothing to improve access to care. It will dilute programs and faculty at one of best schools in the country, waste taxpayer dollars,and only be a political plum for eastern nc politics. Once started the hole for tax dollars will never fill. This is a terrible idea. |
| 183 | Jeffrey S Kleinheinz | We need to spek out on the huge burden this will place on all tax payors. |
| 184 | Mona Curran | |
| 185 | Douglas K. MacLeod, DMD | A second dental school in Greenville, NC would not result graduates staying and practicing rural counties of eastern NC where there is not the financial resources to support a dental practice. It would increase the number of DDS's in metropolitan areas, which would increase patient's fees and subject patients to possible unnecessary treatment. In the last three years I have seen the number if DDS increase in Raleigh and the in certain cases I have seen where there has been situations where unnecessary procedures have been done. |
| 186 | James Neeley sr | Give a DDS a tax incentive to locate where there is a cavity in service for 5 years and then depreciate it.
It costs a lot to open a school and proportionally more to open a practice, all those x-rays and drills and such. With no one to be an associate with while the new DDS gets started. |
| 187 | David Hendrick | |
| 188 | Kevin R Lawing,DDS | NCDS please take a stand against the ECU Dental School. |
| 189 | stephen mackler | |
| 190 | George F. Kirkland, III | I agree with you 100%. Thank you for dealing with these important issues. |
| 191 | Dr. A.C. "Trey" Williams | I might be valuable in your arguments, since I have a private practice in Dunn...yet I also do contract work at Tri-county (newton grove), Bladen Lakes dental clinic, Pender-lee dental clinic, and Salemburg dental clinic. I live in a rural area...yet still need supplememtal income due to LACK of patients. call me if needed...Dr. Trey Williams 910-892-1394 |
| 192 | Stuart M. Patterson, DDS | |
| 193 | Walton S Peery | |
| 194 | robert seymour | |
| 195 | Dr. Richard Redding | please vote NO on the proposed new dental school |
| 196 | C. Bradley Adams | |
| 197 | John C Eldridge, DDS | I cannot understand any reason for such a choice to duplicate the facilities at CH. What a waste of state monies. |
| 198 | Dr. Warren D. Surface | North Carolina does not need more dental schools: it needs changes to be made to make it attractive for dentists to go to underserved areas. The reality is that "money talks" and there has to be money to attract ANY worker, dentist or otherwise, to a rural area. I worked in a rural area in West Virginia. The state was too slow to provide a "money" incentive for me to stay. Young people, dentist or otherwise, are willing to go where they can get the best salary. If the rural areas paid twice the salary of large cities do you think we would have a shortage in rural areas? Of course we wouldn't! We would likely have a shortage in large cities! Money does not only affect access to dental care in rural areas. Most everything is either fewer or smaller in rural areas. There are smaller car dealerships (so people have less choices in picking cars, colors, and options). There are fewer restaurants to choose from in rural areas. There are fewer department stores, carpet stores,and grocery stores. The churches are smaller. The stores are smaller. And last, but not least, the dentist's are fewer. But then again, the people are few too. North Carolina likely has plenty of dentists. It's just that we are all clumped together in larger towns. I would bet that if the "money" were right, the dentists would spread out into the underserved areas. After all, you can always find a SUPPLY for a DEMAND if you generously PAY the SUPPLIER. Pick an underserved area, announce the "generous PAY" and see how quickly it is taken! Then, the more you pay the more you get to demand of the dentist. I know. If I had been offered the "right money" I would have stayed in a rural West Virginia town.
"MONEY TALKS"
Sincerely,
Dr. Warren D. Surface |
| 199 | Cammie Thompson Morris | |
| 200 | Dr. Richard Redding | continue the fight against unjustified tax-payer abuse |
