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Don,
I am better than you described me.
Nothing I said was untrue, said out of “disregard” for the facts, “distorted” or said out of anger.
Del and I and MDT/IALD experienced the issues I raised 1st hand, so nothing was exaggerated or false.
These are matters we dealt with at ALD with arbitrary application of Provider course standards. Maybe you need to learn the specifics before you accuse me of making “outrageous” statements. But you in particular never bothered to inquire why I resigned from the ALD Board, or why Del and I resigned our individual and MDT its corporate membership. So how would you know?
The truth hurts and it often offends and if the ALD believes I have defamed them then they can come here and defend themselves. I understand that they lurk here on a regular basis but never post. Are YOU their unofficial spokesperson? I’ll be happy to spar with you…….in pubic, where you can’t easily dismiss the content.
Like many bureaucracies and organizations, the ALD doesn’t like their unfair and arbitrary applications exposed to the light of day. Well, I’m not afraid to say what no one else is willing to say–sort of why I piss people and organizations off who don’t like hearing what everyone else is thinking, or worse, experiencing.
You say it’s not about the money with ALD. You either don’t know what you are talking about are the one not being honest.
In advance of Laser Hands-On Lecture at the AGD meeting, my staff at MDT was told by ALD staff that we were not invited to the workshop–and could not attend. (I can easily share the email exchanges here if you’d like).
I personally called the AGD and was told that it was an ALD sponsored meeting and the sponsor could exclude anyone they wanted and we were being excluded. When we were discussing with ALD, we were told that if we bought an ALD Corporate Membership for ŭ,000, then we would be allowed to attend the ALD sponsored AGD Workshop. This from an academy with a supposed interest in representing all things lasers to the entire dental profession?!
So, my friend, don’t you dare tell me or the rest of the audience that it’s not about the money with ALD. Don’t tell me and everyone else that I am reporting “vicious”, “false”, “rumor” or “innuendo”, when I know the facts first hand–and you have yet to discover them. It puts your integrity into question.
And MDT is not the only company that was forced to pay “conditional” (extortion?) money–not sponsorship money to support the workshop or AGD–but ALD payola. Other companies were required to pay MUCH more than ŭ,000. One company executive told me they were required to pay ฤ,000 in order to participate.
The CDA Workshop issue was handled by Del so I don’t have the specifics. (Integrity in reporting and representation?) But Del told me several times that he made contact with the meeting/workshop organizers and was told MDT was excluded. (Heresay until Del posts and confirms.)
When you came to shake my hand at the door during the start of the CDA Laser Workshop, I guess it didn’t occur to you to ask why we weren’t participating? But you didn’t stand still long enough to inquire before returning to your seat. Since neither I nor MDT was invited, I left. And curiosity never called on you to find out more during the entire time MDT had a booth that entire weekend. Del and I found that interesting, but not surprising. Kinda like after my ALD Board resignation.
Call me a disgruntled Founder of the ALD, but don’t describe me as angry–or a “Charter Member” (because that was retroactively revoked by the ALD Board :confused: ).
Care to describe my characterizations about the revoking of my Charter Membership status being a vicious, false, disappointing, untrue statement? I’m still waiting for the ALD Police to show up at my office and take back my plaque that says “Charter Member”. 😉 Good luck.
Don, do you really think, and want to honestly represent to all who read here that I’m the only past ALD “contributor” to feel as I do? Hardly. Where are all the old ALD Presidents at the annual meetings? Pick, Rosenberg, Kutsch, Passes, to name a few? Why don’t they come to the annual meetings anymore?
Do you want me to continue to outline the curious and arbitrary activities of the ALD on this forum?
Why has attendance at ALD annual meeting been stagnant for the past 5 years?
How on earth did John Featherstone receive the TH Maiman for research award when he wasn’t even an ALD member? That was not policy as I remember from the ALD By-Laws.
How on earth was John Featherstone granted an honorary membership in ALD when he was mostly critical of ALD and otherwise the boss of Joel White at UCSF?
You all in the ALD need to do some serious soul-searching as you have lost your collective way and the mission and goals for ALD that people like me and Del, and many others who were among the original Founders/Charter members before you and the new group changed the direction of ALD.
Okay Don Coluzzi, here’s one you didn’t like:
Once again, I’m really disappointed in (I still think of him as a friend) Bob Gregg’s proclaiming another untruth about “….ALD’s retroactively inactivating past participant’s course recognition.” Bob, please, this sort of thing can form a terrible, viscious, and false rumor–don’t say things like that.
Fact: ALD doesn’t recognize the Standard Proficiency of any dentist who took a course from a once recognized ALD Course Provider, if the provider no longer is recognized for not paying their membership dues. This is retroactive back to when a dentist took a SP course when the Provider was recognized.
If it isn’t ALD “official” policy, then someone needs to tell ALD staff, since MDT customers who took SP when we were (conditionally) recognized SP providers were told later that ALD didn’t recognize their MDT/IALD certification.
So, Don Coluzzi, please don’t act shocked, “disappointed” or outraged. We could settle the issue with a post of the written and established policy on this website and proove me all WRONG! Why doesn’t the ALD staff do it since they lurk and could make the post themselves?
But then, the policy would be disclosed and have to be followed and applied evenly and not arbitrarily. Darn!
I fully expect for ALD to continue to marginalize me, Del, MDT, Laser ANAP, the variable pulsed PerioLase MVP-7, Professor Ray Yukna and his 3rd largest human histology in the perio literature (not a “small” study as represented by you and others) whether we are corporate members or not.
In marginalizing us, ALD marginalizes itself.
Keep smiling! 😉
Bob