This is a time of celebration with families, friends, and colleagues. As I reflect over the last year, I am grateful for the birth and growth of WDJ. The connections continue! In record-breaking time, we took an idea to reality. We now have a new publication that is growing in acceptance and has received almost universally positive reaction. Our Board, staff, and readers are proud of the look, content, and substance of the magazine. For me, WDJ has been a dream come true. Now, more than 26,000 women dentists have a voice and an outlet to achieve their dreams in their practices.
During this busy holiday season, my wish is that you take time to live your dreams. With all of the competing demands on my time just now, relative exactness is a term that I find helpful. Basically, it means using the right yardstick for the right process — not judging ourselves or others with the same standards of perfection that we demand of our work. This term is helpful for living in the moment, to create the balance that is part of WDJ's focus.
This issue is about balancing, exemplified by our cover woman dentist, Dr. Janet Hatcher Rice, incoming president of the Academy of Laser Dentistry. Living on a horse farm, Dr. Rice displays a woman's winning combination of nurturing and rigorous ... rigorous in holding fast to her dreams.
Ergonomics, the latest on Botox in your practice, new techniques for endodontics, and today's ceramics are part of the mix. These showcase that unique combination of nurturing and rigorous by extraordinary women dentists just like you!
In an attempt to help you balance diagnostic issues, the article on caries management honors the often ignored twin goddess Hygiea, goddess of prevention. She and her sister goddess of treatment, Panacea, personify the unfolding, mysterious progress in the science of dentistry. Our new understanding in caries assessment showcased in this issue will change our practices.
Exemplifing the future is the focus of a new caries-detection device by Dr. Lori Trost. Dr. Trost will be carrying the baton for the future of WDJ as well! I want you to welcome Dr. Trost as the new editor for WDJ. I can't wait for next year! We will publish 10 issues of WDJ instead of six.
As founding editor, it has been a privilege to launch this publication. I will be moving into the position of science and women's health editor for WDJ next year, creating more balance for myself. With this change, I feel like the Navajo legend of Changing Woman, who had two sons sent to make the world safe. I will be spending more time with my grown sons and hiking those trails which are waiting. I will be applying relative exactness to those household chores and nurturing all that is dear to me, with a rigor that is unfolding. Remember to hold each other up, make room for your sisters, and create the balance and wholeness for yourself as a healer. Happy holidays!
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Margaret I. Scarlett, DMD Dr. Scarlett is the founding editor of Woman Dentist Journal. She can be contacted at [email protected].
We welcome letters to the editor. Please email your letters to Dr. Lori Trost at [email protected]. Include your name and the city and state where you practice.
