Through a global educational collaborative with our corporate partners at BioResearch Associates, along with their Asian distributors, I have had the unique opportunity to spend almost 2 weeks in the beautiful countries of India and Thailand, speaking on both TMD and the Dawson Academy philosophy of “The Concept of Complete Dentistry.” The similarities of these countries outweigh their differences; both rooted in culture, faith, respect, and loyalty, as is all of Asia.
Delivering lecture after lecture, in city after city, I was able to speak to over 1,000 prosthodontists, generalists, specialists and post-graduate students. The wonderful response from the eager audiences was absolutely amazing. I was shuttled around from meeting to meeting with dental dignitaries, deans, faculty, and the elite private practitioners. At times, I felt like I was on a special envoy mission for the State Department. I wish that Dr. Dawson, Dr. Cranham and everyone at the Academy could have joined me to experience the reverence and grace with which I was received, solely because I was a messenger of the Academy; I am both humbled and honored to have been able to be their torchbearer.
Soon, our Dawson Academy curriculum will be brought to the Indian Subcontinent, and subsequently to the rest of Southeast Asia. The teachings of The Concept of Complete Dentistry will exponentially grow in its reach here, as it is already beginning to do in the rest of the world. The philosophy is, after all, a dental extension of basic human decency. We will be delivering water by the gallons, saving dentists suffering from dehydration; we will be throwing our international stranded starfish colleagues back into the water, 24 at a time, just as we have been doing with our US colleagues back home.
For the full text of Dr. Raj’s article for the Dawson Academy click here.