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16 BECKER'S DENTAL + DSO REVIEW // VOL. 2022 NO. 2 CLINICAL CARE they learn about precision surgery. There are other navigation- al techniques that now they'll be able to incorporate into their practice, but if they don't use robotics, they understand the need to pay attention to detail because of their experience with the robot," Dr. Glickman said. Dr. Arif Salman, chair of the periodontics department at West Virginia University School of Dentistry, echoed Dr. Glickman's statements on the advantages of teaching students this new technology and said the robot particularly aids in minimally in- vasive procedures. He said the slow growth of robotics in dentistry is due to the re- liance on mechanical engineers to develop products for dental use and the cost of obtaining these devices, but he could see that changing as competition grows in the marketplace. Both Dr. Glickman and Dr. Salman said they predict robotic technology will enter new dental specialties and procedures, including endodontics and wisdom teeth extraction. "The system we used two years before is not the same today. When we got this technology, you could not do an operative change in the plan, but today you can. That's how quickly this technology evolves," Dr. Salman said. "I'm really hoping this technology will offer more in very complex implant surgeries. I'm sure it's going to be a very short time when that is going to be available, and that will be a very big move for the clinicians and the patients, if we can perform those advanced surgeries with the minimally invasive techniques." n Heartland Dental founder, wife donate $5M to North Carolina dental school By Ariana Portalatin R ichard Workman, DMD, founder of Effingham, Ill.-based DSO Heartland Dental, and his wife, Angela Workman, donated $5 million to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Adams School of Dentistry, the school said April 14. The gift will be used to establish the school's Dr. and Mrs. Rich- ard E. Workman Dental Leadership Endowment Fund, which will provide career preparation and leadership training to students in the school's Doctor of Dental Surgery, post-DDS and dental hygiene programs. The new training will be added to the school's advocate-clini- cian-thinker curriculum, launched in 2021 to provide enhanced training in leadership, person-centered care, effective decision- making, practice management and behavioral sciences. The gift is also part of the school's Campaign for Carolina, an aggressive fundraising campaign announced in 2017 that aims to raise $4.25 billion by the end of 2022. In 2020, the Workmans donated $1 million to the dental school to go toward leadership training programs. Dr. Workman founded Heartland Dental in 1997, and it now sup- ports more than 2,400 doctors in 1,600 offices across 38 states. His wife, Angela, is a member of the Heartland Foundation Ad- visory Board. n Michigan man awarded $2.75M after botched dental surgery By Riz Hatton A Michigan man was awarded $2.75 million after a dentist botched an attempt to remove a mass from the patient's lower jaw, Macomb Daily re- ported April 21. The patient, Giorgio Webster, 32, went to dentist Jeffrey Osguthorpe, MD, DDS, on April 20, 2018, for a biopsy of a lesion in his lower jaw, the Macomb Daily reported. The biopsy turned into a full removal of the mass, where Dr. Osguthorpe injured the carotid and lingual arteries, causing substantial bleeding, Mr. Webster's attor- ney, A. Vince Colella, told Macomb Daily. Mr. Webster was transported to a hospi- tal, where emergency room physicians were unable to stop the bleeding, ac- cording to Mr. Colella. Mr. Webster was then airlifted to a level 1 trauma center to undergo surgery to stop the bleeding, Mr. Colella said. Mr. Webster suffered permanent inju- ry from the incident and has "difficulty chewing and numbness in his mouth," according to the jury verdict form. In the July 2019 lawsuit, Mr. Colella and his co-counsel Melanie Duda alleged Dr. Osguthorpe breached oral surgery stan- dards of care. They argued that Dr. Os- guthorpe attempted to remove the lesion without trying to "needle aspirate" it first, entered the mass with a drill, failed to get permission for the surgery and failed to get the proper diagnostic tests, accord- ing to Macomb Daily. n