THE EARLY YEARS OF DENTAL ANESTHESIOLOGY
On August 30,1953, when Drs William Kinney, Daniel Lynch, Leonard Monheim, Jay Mervis, and Morgan Allison founded the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA), a movement in dentistry began to seek American Dental Association (ADA) recognition of a dental specialty in anesthesiology and its corresponding specialty certifying board. Dr Kinney stated in the ADSA's first Newsletter , “We hold the future of anesthesiology in dentistry in the palms of our hands” and “…we are pledged to build a