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The NJDHA was started even though it was not legal to practice in NJ !!! The founding members:
Ruth Leahy - license #1
Jane Kohler
Jane Bulmer
Ruth Werner
Loretta Rummel
Mary Jane Dutton
Esther Laforgia
Hope Reaves

The statutes and regulations enabling dental hygienists to practice in NJ were enacted (but you couldn’t scale subgingivally).

The first New Jersey Board examination was taken at University of Pennsylvania

Jane Cooper Koehler (President is in purple italics)
Ruth Leahy Werner
Mary Jane Kellog Dutton
Fran Fluhr
Fran Fluhr
Loretta Geiger Rummel
Loretta Geiger Rummel

Fairleigh Dickinson Dental Hygiene School is accredited

Southern component begins

Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry opens in Jersey City Medical Center the first dental school in New Jersey

First Journal of New Jersey Dental Hygienists’ Association published

Mary Elizabeth O’Halloran
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Mrs. Harold Thorpe

Law restricted the dental hygienist to “removal of calcareous deposits, accretions or stains from the exposed surfaces of the teeth or use of disclosing solution”

MaryAnne Hanlon
Delores B. Lewis
Wilma C. Damiano
Wilma C. Damiano
Margaret Buecher
Margaret Buecher Wilson

Third NorthEast Regional Junior ADHA conference held at FDU

Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry is taken over by the State of New Jersey and renamed the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry

Marilyn Canis Scavone
Virginia Regan
Virginia Regan
Barbara Burlew

Amendment to the Practice of Dental Hygiene

ϖ NE REIONAL BOARD and National Board became necessary to practice in NJ
ϖ Complete prophylaxis now included removal of all hard & soft deposits from all surfaces of human teeth to the epithelial attachment.

Annual NJDHA meeting in Atlantic City for two days, Tues and Wednesday since 1949 has been meeting annually in Atlantic City.

Union County College and Camden County College started with first classes graduating in 1971

Maureen Hall
Bonnie Bertram
Bonnie Bertram

Middlesex County College opens

There were only Northern and Southern Components in NJDHA

FDU had a five story building dedicated to the Dental School

State meeting in Atlantic City discussed new practice act which would have eleven proposed revisions to the practice act.
They were looking for permission to use fluoride, impression materials and expanded functions.

Bergen Community College opens

Central Component was started with BJ Dolan as its first president

Mary Cosaboom
Mary Cosaboom
C. Paula Drew

Bergen Component was started

The College of Medicine and Dentistry moves to the new Newark Facility. Name was officially changed to UMDNJ in 1981

Bette Merritt
Cherie Lieberman

First Lobbyist hired from Nancy Becker Associates with B.J. Dolan, RDH as liaison.

Dental hygienist was not authorized to perform any … operation, or diagnose, treat, or attempt to treat any pathological conditions of the teeth or tissues of the mouth. This prevented utilization of dental sealants or fluoride applications.

Cherie Lieberman
Cheryl Westphal

The Practice Act Bill was passed. Barbara Berlew, RDH participated in the festivities along with President Cheryl Lieberman.
ϖ Apply topical medication and anesthetic agents to the oral mucosa
ϖ Apply topical fluoride to teeth
ϖ Place and remove rubber dams
ϖ Hygienists can practice under supervision in institutions.
ϖ Continuing education required for relicensure, 10 hours every 2 years.
Still no sealants and direct supervision for everything

Cheryl Westphal was appointed to be the first dental hygienist on the State Board of Dentistry, served until 1983

Alice Burr
Alice Burr

First class graduates from School of Health Related Professions--UMDNJ

Betty Jane Dolan
Beth Stolar

Beth Stolar becomes the second dental hygienist on the State Board of Dentistry

Phyllis Nespole Cohen
Melanie Miller
Melanie Miller

A dental hygienist who has graduated from an approved dental hygiene program …shall be qualified to perform certain expanded functions.:
ϖ Apply pit and fissure sealants
ϖ Polish amalgam restorations
ϖ Remove excess cement from crown and orthodontic bands
ϖ Fabricate athletic mouth guard appliances
ϖ And a licensed dentist may utilize no more than 2 dental hygienists in one office.

Cynthia Fong
JoAnn Gurenlian

Cynthia Fong becomes the third Dental Hygienist on the State Board of Dentistry

10 hours of continuing education every two years mandated
slight changes to practice act concerning active/inactive licenses

Jane Forrest
Terri Brisbin
Cathy Triverio

Fairleigh Dickinson Dental Hygiene program closes and re-opens at New York University

Sandy Sangster

Terri Brisbin appointed to the State Board of Dentistry

Susan Callahan Barnard
Bill introduced to allow preceptorship “on the job” training for NJ hygienists (went nowhere).
Christine Hovilaras

SHRP Dental Hygiene moves to Scotch Plains Campus and Union County College Dental Hygiene Program closes.

Becky Pugh
Deborah Myers

South Shore component started – Linda Leslie is first President

Patricia Delaney appointed to the State Board of Dentistry

Dawn Walters
Vicky Fedor
Carole Johnson
Jeanette Crofts
Linda Leslie
BJ Dolan
Susan Singer
Becky Pugh

A licensed dental hygienist practicing under the direct supervision of a licensed dentist may monitor a patient to whom the supervising dentist has administered nitrous oxide/oxygen inhalation analgesia with proof of additional education.

Liz Nies

Burlington County College opens
Sunset Review- continuing education requirements were amended requiring that every licensed hygienist complete at least 20 (twenty) hours of continuing education for every biennial renewal period.
Tracy Marsh
Claire Denshuick
Lauren Jaccodine
Winnie Furnari

Local Anesthesia Passed the State Board. Regulations are coming.

Kathy Sinatra

Shirley Birenz, RDH appointed to State Board of Dentistry

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