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HYGIENE TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper ·U.S. Edition June 2015 — Vol. 8, No. 4 www.dental-tribune.com Dental hygienists around the nation are gathering at the Music City Center Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn., from June 17–20 for the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Center for Life- long Learning (CLL) at the 92nd Annual Session. According to meeting organizers, ADHA members, guests and exhibitors will come together as a community to re- flect on the great strides dental hygiene has made in the past century and to cel- ebrate the limitless possibilities of future advancements in the profession. The annual sessions includes a vari- ety of networking opportunities, a two- day exhibit hall (June 19–20), student programming, plenary sessions and more than 28 unique C.E. courses in six program tracks. The six C.E. tracks are: Clinical Practice, Public Health, Educator, Research, Professional Development and Student. It’s possible for an attendee to earn up to 20 C.E. hours at the meeting. Cost of the C.E. courses range from $30 to $60 depending on the course, enabling you to design your own program, limited to a total expense of your choosing. ADHA’s Center for Lifelong Learning at the Annual Session is the nation’s larg- est meeting for the dental hygiene pro- fession, typically attracting more than 2,000 attendees each year. For more information, you can visit the meeting website, www.adha.org/annual-session. Exhibit hall The two-day exhibition is on Friday, June ADHA annual session features Music City as lively backdrop American Dental Hygienists’ Association 92nd annual session is from June 17–20 ” See ADHA, page c2 By Patricia Walsh, RDH Editor in Chief E arth Day this year coincided with some of the best walking weather New York City has seen in a very long time. I wasluckyenoughtohavebeen out of the office and up on an elevated park called The High Line. Once a stretch of rail- way designed to bring produce and other goods into the city, it is now a diverse landscape of natural beauty. Even on the hottest day, soft breezes flow up from the nearby Hudson River. It took about 10 years from conception to completion. The dream of turning an abandoned railway into a public park, instead of tear- ing the structure down, was spearheaded by the Friends of the High Line (www.the highline.org). Around 2000, a rail system sitting unused for decades had become a natural, messy, free-range sort of park. Never designed to ferry passengers, the rails were practically unreachable by hu- mans. Birds dropped seeds, and the wind blew in the grasses. Those who wished to renovate wanted to keep whatnaturehadstarted,but on a tamer, civilized scale. A bit of modern art and com- fortable seating was thrown in for good measure. You can’t help but be transfixed by the beauty of old brick warehouses jux- taposed against sleek shim- mering modern buildings. Who knew rust could be so beautiful when it shares the sun with a field of yellow wildflowers? What was block upon block of decaying warehouses is now a vibrant revitalized area. My favorite place to pick up a picnic lunch is the Chelsea Market. The site of the old Nabisco factory, it is a corner- stone of this park. The elevated railway was originally designed to keep people safe from the massive traffic jam of de- livery trucks dodging a street level train. So many pedestrians were killed over the years that a street below is called Death Avenue for good reason. On this par- ticular April morning, delicate narcissus flowers elighted elevated walkers and the varied scents of duty-free perfumes had Patricia Walsh, RDH Earth Day perspective Commentary High above Manhattan’s busy streets, a stretch of New York City’s 1.45-mile- long High Line park inspires thoughts of transforming decay into beauty. Photo/Patricia Walsh, Hygiene Tribune ” See PERSPECTIVE, page C2 Nashville, Tenn., its skyline seen here from across the Cumberland River, hosts this year’s annual gathering of dental hygiene professionals. Photo/Provided by www.dreamstime.com replaced acrid locomotive fumes. Grassroots community effort has turned decay into beauty. Unless you know the history of the park, you might not see the overall big picture. We as den- tal professionals lose sight of the fact that we do the same thing on a small scale. Day to day we turn decay into miniature works of art. Sometimes in a half hour restoration, sometimes over a six month implant case. Creating tiny miracles on a weekly basis, are we so much in the “now”

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