Lessons From Penn State

Abstract

Thank you very much for your October editorial titled “Lessons from Penn State: A Duty To Act.” This editorial proves highly prescient for our immediate locale. We are, in fact, an area in which it is well known that an active laboratory implant voucher scheme has been playing out for the past several years and—despite our best efforts we have found it to be very difficult to stop. Lessons From Penn State—A Duty to ActJournal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryVol. 70Issue 10PreviewEvents such as those surrounding the horrific actions of an assistant football coach at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) are hard to fathom at first. One cannot imagine how the repeated abuses of multiple vulnerable children over more than a decade could continue without someone doing something to stop them, yet that is what seems to have occurred at Penn State. The released evidence from pending criminal trials points to a conspiracy of silence among top university officials who, at best, took trivial steps to stop the perpetrator. Full-Text PDF ErratumJournal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryVol. 71Issue 5PreviewIn “Lessons From Penn State” (Lambert et al., J Oral Maxillofac Surg 71:240), an incorrect version of the Letter was published in the February issue; the corrected version has been posted online. Full-Text PDF