"In dental school I was
told, 'You're taking a space from a veteran ,'" she recalls. But consider the shift in gender balance in the ADA's
figures for "new" dentists , those who graduated from dental school in 1990 or
later: in 1999, 33. "By having our plan holders as our patients we are
able to provide them with benefits not available with conventional
coverage ," stated Dr.

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TruDental Creates 'Hospital of Dentistry'

TruDental has created a model that provides the client with the
entire spectrum of dental services under the umbrella of its own
insurance plan.

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I
resolved to enter the field," says Stuebner, a member of the American
Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
Stuebner estimates that less than 1% of the students were women during her
days in dental school. TruDental's plan advantages include:

-- One monthly fee

-- No waiting period

-- No exclusions or limitations

-- No pre-authorizations required

-- No annual cap

-- No deductibles

"We can offer these unique benefits to our members because we have
eliminated a myriad of separate costs and profit centers inherent in
the traditional fragmented dental industry model," stated TruDental's
chief financial officer , Eric Flesche.

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"This is a very interesting business model that I have never seen
before; it is similar to a dental hospital," stated Ted Anibal of
Dental Economics magazine.

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walked to my office in my robe to check messages.

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"I was told that
it's a man's profession and no one would trust me.5% were women .

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OMSs care for patients with problem wisdom teeth, facial pain and
misaligned jaws.
A Chicago OMS for more than 40 years, Stuebner encountered resistance when
she began her training shortly after World War II.

Long residency is a drawback
During the past seven years, Mary Allaire , AAOMS manager of advanced
education and resident affairs, estimates a 2% increase in women entering
four-year OMS residency training.

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Women Making Strides in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

(Logo: http://www. They replace lost teeth with dental implants, remove
cancerous tumors, rebuild faces injured by trauma, perform cosmetic surgery
and provide safe and effective anesthesia.

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com/cgi -bin/prnh/20050125/CGTU021LOGO )
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons are dental specialists who treat
conditions, defects, injuries and aesthetic aspects of the jaws, face, mouth
and teeth."
Such comments were "just enough to aggravate me but not discourage me. By 1999,
according to the American Dental Association, 15% of dentists were women.

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We knew this was a
viable model when a large number of dentists we interviewed mentioned
they were tired of the business aspects of running a practice and
liked the TruDental concept," stated Zakhary.

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However, among women in private
practice dentistry, only 0. "While I was
in the hospital, there was a walkway between my office and the hospital .

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8% are OMSs, compared with 4.
"We're asking women to defeat their biological clock," says Seattle OMS
Darlene Chan, DDS, in reference to the long OMS residency.

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"I don't mean a spouse ," she
explains. AAOMS members comply
with rigorous continuing education requirements and submit to periodic office
examinations, ensuring the public that all office procedures and personnel
meet stringent national standards. Zakhary.
"Many fragmented, decentralized industries have consolidated in
the last 20 years, increasing efficiencies and productivity; we intend
to bring those same changes to the dental industry.

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TruDental has plans to begin expanding further into Southern
California beginning next year and could prove to be a new and better
mousetrap for the dental industry and its clientele.

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Actually, the proportion may have been higher. An
article in a 2001 issue of The Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry
indicated that in the 1920s, about 3% of dentists were women.
Women do appear to be the future of dentistry. In 2000, 37% of new dental
students in the United States were women. "I mean all the things a wife means -- a wife is the campfire
around which everything in the family happens.

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One-third of new dentists are women
An increase from 3% to 15% in nearly three-quarters of a century may not
seem very impressive."

The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the
professional organization representing more than 7,000 oral and maxillofacial
surgeons in the United States, supports its members' ability to practice their
specialty through education, research, and advocacy.

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2% of men.----A
fundamentally new dental business model has been initiated by
TruDental, a Newport Beach company that has taken the entire dental
supply chain and placed it under one roof. According to Dr.

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, In the specialty of oral and
maxillofacial surgery, Elaine Stuebner, DDS, is a pioneer in almost the same
sense as the women who helped drive wagon trains across a brave, new world. When her youngest
daughter was born, Chan didn't take much of a maternity leave.

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When Chan attends professional meetings, she tells her male colleagues
what an advantage it is to have a wife. Maged
Zakhary, the founder of TruDental, "Currently the dental industry
simply has too many disparate insurance, administrative, laboratory
and dental specialists all with their own overhead; it made sense to
me to bring them together, thereby drastically reducing the cost of
dental care for the patient." The TruDental offices house:

General Dentists

Orthodontists

Periodonists

Endodontics

Pediatric Dentists

Aesthetic/Cosmetics

Prosthodontics

A complete laboratory with a CERC(R) CAD/CAM system.