Clearly OCF is at a stage where the next leap to a higher level requires more capitalization than Ingrid and I can float. Besides the message board and building the web site, there is so much more for the foundation to do. We need to begin a lobbying effort in each state to require mandatory continuing education credits for dentists in oral cancer screening and detection. Then we need to begin a public outreach to drive the American public to them once they are up to speed. We are engaged in an ambitious project to put together an educational CD/DVD, which will have on it a 30 min QuickTime movie, as well as the same movie in DVD format, showing these doctors how to properly look for and recognize oral cancers. The CD will have additional resources, references, and text coving the topic in great detail. There will also be a self-test on it that they can take and get CE credits from either the ADA or the AGD. (Every year, every doctor MUST have so many CE credits from courses, seminars etc., in order to keep his license active). We intend to get this CD into 120,000 dentist

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.