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GOLD FOIL IN DENTISTRY
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CAST GOLD IN DENTISTRY
The Home page of the Associated Ferrier Study Clubs
This would have be our 96th year
About us
This web site (www.goldfoil.org) is the work of the Associated Ferrier Study Clubs in the Pacific NW and Dr. John R Sechena Seattle, Washington. It is intended for the use by anyone with an interest in furthering the use of gold, both in the forms of gold foil and cast gold, in dentistry. We hope the materials we have concentrated on this site will be of use for patients, educators and researchers. You are free to use the materials we have placed here. Please give credit where credit is due as we have tried to do. We hope to enhance the site with new materials as they become available to us in our research of historical & educational materials and clinical cases. If you have materials which we can publish to the site, please make them available to us. Contact us at AFSClubs@gmail.com
Dr Sechena was a member of the George Ellsperman Gold Foil Seminar (Seattle), The Associated Ferrier Study Clubs (Pacific Northwest), The American Academy of Gold Foil Operators, Richard V Tucker Cast Gold Study Club #3, and The Academy of Richard V Tucker Study Clubs.
We are funded by our own efforts and the Associated Ferrier Study Clubs.
A little History of the AFSC
Our organization throughout its almost 100-year history has been an international one located in the Pacific NW. We have had clubs in Vancouver BC, Seattle, Portland, Spokane, Calgary and Winnipeg. They met yearly the 2nd Friday in May every year with Trustees meeting twice yearly once in the fall and the day before the annual morning clinical meeting. We had an afternoon trap shoot or golf game before our social hour and dinner with an educational program after dinner, later lunch with the trap shoot and golf got logistically difficult to accommodate, so they were dropped to make the meetings end earlier as traffic became more of a problem everywhere. Clinical meetings were held at the University of Washington (Seattle), University of British Columbia (Vancouver BC) and later at Oregon Health (Portland) on a rotating basis. Each club sent two representatives to operate. They brought their assistants, patients to the clinic in whichever city it was being held. The operators and their skills were very highly regarded, many faculty of their teaching schools. Licensing and bringing equipment, assistants and patients to the clinic location of the year wasn’t an issue until 911, then AIDS, then Covid changed everything gradually.
Each club usually met monthly in their respective locations, September thru April with the final meeting of the year being the AFSC Annual meeting. For many years it was limited to the use of direct gold only but evolved into the use of both direct and indirect gold at our clinical meetings each May.
Dr. Ludlow Beamish, Vancouver BC., gave a presentation at the 1996 annual meeting as to the history of the AFSC. I will include a copy of that presentation as I add materials.