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March, 2014 - GlennBee Designs
Volume 26 Number 03 We Are Reread WE ARE ONE And Recyclable March, 2014 Peter Greenhill English Teacher at `Iolani School & Sports Writer for Mahogany’s Sports Hawaii Cover Story Page 12 Page 2 —March, 2014 — Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii — March, 2014 – Page 3 A Day In Casa Nostra By Antonio Cárdenas Translated by Thomas L. Ramsey Dawn. The song of the birds salutes the new day. Activity in the kitchen begins, mixing the fruit and the water, the music, the laughter, the eggs and the bread. The nurses and assistants come to get us up and clean us up, dressing us and combing our hair. To take us to the dining room. Good Morning! Good Morning! Buenos Dias! While we go about taking our places around the table to share breakfast. Some of us interchange glances and smiles as well. A small nap prepares for the activities of mid-morning: playing cards, puzzles, the lottery and some physical exercises. If it is Tuesday a doctor visits us and is interested in knowing how we are, examining us and asking us questions. But today is not Tuesday. Some of us go for a walk along the malecon in Chapala, enjoying the good ice cream that is already beginning to melt, the breeze that comes from the lake refreshes and gives texture and movement to the surface of the water. The people and the bustling entertains while it is time to return as dinner is waiting for us. Almost everyone returns at this time for dinner. After dinner we retire for another nap. Later we reunite in the living room to watch television, some walk in the garden and around the house, others prefer to read or stay in their rooms. Supper is served a little before dark. Although some prefer supper in their rooms others prefer to return to the dining room. After we retire to our rooms I like to watch television and at times read a little until I fall asleep. On occasions I become aware of the visits by the nurses, others wake up at the arrival of the new day, because I know there are eyes watching over my rest. Un Día en Casa Nostra Amanece. El canto de los pájaros saluda al nuevo día. Empieza la actividad en la cocina, mezclándose la fruta y el agua, la risa y la música, los huevos y el pan. Las enfermeras y ayudantes se dedican a levantarnos, nos asean, visten y peinan. Para ser llevados al comedor. Good Morning ! Good Morning ! Buenos Días ! mientras vamos tomando nuestro lugar alrededor de la mesa para compartir el desayuno. Algunos también intercambiamos miradas y sonrisas. Una pequeña siesta nos prepara para las actividades de media mañana: jugando cartas, rompecabezas, lotería y algunos ejercicios musculares . Si es martes, un doctor nos visita y se interesa por saber como estamos, examinándonos y haciéndonos preguntas. Pero hoy no es martes. Algunos vamos de paseo al malecón de Chapala, disfrutamos de un rico helado pues ya hace calor, la brisa que viene del lago nos refresca y le da textura y movimiento a la superficie. La gente y el bullicio nos entretienen mientras es tiempo de regresar, pues la comida nos espera. Casi todos nos reunimos a esta hora, pues es la comida fuerte. Después del postre nos retiramos a otra siesta. CONSULTORIO DENTAL Dr. Eloy Barragan Fernandez Mas tarde, nos reunimos en la sala para ver tele, unos caminan por el jardín y alrededor de la casa, otros prefieren leer o quedarse en su cuarto. La cena se sirve poco antes de oscurecer, aunque algunos prefieren cenar en su cuarto, otros preferimos reunirnos en el comedor. Después nos retiramos a nuestra habitación, a mi me gusta ver tele y a veces leer un poco hasta quedarme dormida. En ocasiones me doy cuenta de las visitas de las enfermeras, en otras despierto con la llegada del nuevo día, porque sé que hay ojos que velan mi descanso. 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Page 4 —March, 2014 — Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii Hawaii Support for Marijuana Law Reform Surges Updated opinion poll: increasing majority favors medical marijuana dispensaries, decriminalization & legalization Mirroring nationwide attitudes, a newly released poll shows sharp increases in support for overhaul of Hawaii marijuana laws. The new poll, commissioned by Hawaii’s Drug Policy Action Group showed voter support for reform of Hawaii’s policies on marijuana trending upward across the board. Prominent local polling firm QMark Research conducted a statewide, statistically significant poll of 400 Hawaii voters between January 17, 2014 and January 23, 2014. Among its findings: • Today, 77% of Hawaii voters think that jail time is inappropriate for marijuana possession, an increase of 8 percentage points over 2012. • Furthermore, 66% of voters are in favor of outright legalization for adult use (an increase of 9 percentage points over 2012). • A large majority of 85% of voters continue to support Hawaii’s medical marijuana program (up 4 percentage points from 2012) while support for a dispensary system so patients do not need to use the black market to find their medication increased sharply to 85%, a 7 percentage point increase over 2012. Pamela Lichty, President of the Drug Policy Action Group, said: “Around the country and here in Hawaii, voters are fed up with marijuana laws that seem to have been written after watching 1930’s propaganda films like ‘Reefer Madness’. Voters today want reasonable, modern policies that acknowledge marijuana’s value as a medicine, and which address public health and safety, but do not overstate marijuana’s risks as a recreational drug. In 2014, and with 85% of voters in support, we are hopeful Hawaii will establish sensibly controlled dispensaries to ensure safe access to medicine for our medical marijuana patients unable to grow their own, minimizing government interference between a patient & their doctor, and assuring legal access to the most effective treatments for their condition(s).” Vanessa Chong, Executive Director of the ACLU of Hawaii, added: “Hawaii is ready to choose incremental, sensible policies like decriminalization over extremely harsh ones that add to the nationwide glut of arrests for possession of small amounts of marijuana --- further taxing an over-crowded criminal justice system. The signs have never been clearer that Hawaii’s voters want political leaders to find new ways forward on marijuana policy.” Patients, doctors, caregivers and the public are urged to join the confidential support network “The Medical Cannabis Coalition of Hawaii” founded by the Drug Policy Action Group and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii and follow the latest news at www.mcchi.org. Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii — March, 2014 – Page 5 Foto de Chapala Page 6 —March, 2014 — Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii News You Can Use…. What is a Client? What is a Customer? There is a difference between the two, so know which one you are. In this very busy real estate market it is important to make the right choices. The first choice should be your real estate agent. You need a knowledgeable agent who will work hard for you and is dedicated to do all that they can to help you find the right home, for the right price in the shortest amount of time. 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Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii — March, 2014 – Page 7 Reflections Of A Civil Rights Lawyer On The Evolution Of Rights I want to thank all of my good friends and colleagues in the Honolulu NAACP for giving Daphne & I a Special Life Time Achievement honor on the occasion of the 25th by André Wooten Annual Honolulu MLK Holiday celebration diner. I really do appreciate this, more than you may know.I have not missed one of these diners in 25 years since Corretta Scott King helped us celebrate the passage of the holiday in Hawaii 25 years ago. That’S when you see the professional and together permanent resident brothers and sisters on the Island get together for the cause. Over the years we have had many interesting speakers for the diners like: MLK III, Louis Farakhan, Maxine Waters and others who have labored long fighting for civil rights and to improve the living conditions of African-Americans. These diners are a highlight of the year and an opportunity to see many of the folks of color in the islands that you don’t run into everyday. Daphne & 1 try in our work and community activities to defend the principals of Freedom and Equality for everyone. No matter how big the person or organization is that is violating a person’S rights or causing physical injury we have filed suits and in many cases prevailed in making a bad situation better. But Daphne and I have both arrived at this juncture with the help of those who have gone before us and those who have stood with us in these battles to expand human rights. Some of you may know that while my dad, Howard A. Wooten, was a Tuskegee Airman who volunteered to fight Nazi’S and the enemies of the USA in WWII. He died when I was a baby. His people were brought into Galveston Texas as slaves in 1840 and then they were marched 200 miles north and sold on the block in Crockett Texas. And though they came out of slavery with nothing in 1965, my great-grandparents acquired 500 acres of Texas by 1900; and their children owned more than 3000 acres by 2000. My school teacher, mom Josephine was born in Selma, Alabama and married an attorney Charles Stokes, after my father died. He was a Washington State Representative for Seattle in the 50s got the first Anti-Housing discrimination bill passed in the USA. He was president of the NAACP in Seattle and one of the founders of the Washington State Black Attorneys Association, black radio station and bank in Seattle. And thus participating in the struggle to advance the civil rights of black folks was something I watched my trial attorney dad participate in while growing up in his house. Both of our fathers (Charles Stokes and Lloyd Barbee) were African-American lawyers in private practice who also represented their respective neighborhoods in the Washington and Wisconsin state legislatures respectively when we were growing up. I was 6 in 1954 and do indeed remember that the Brown v. Board of Education case was a big deal in those days. When I was in grade school I used to wonder “How did the black people wind up in this Jim Crow situation in the USA? The history of the evolution and fight for the extension of civil rights, labor rights of African-Americans and all people in North and South America from 1492 to 2014 is a fascinating story with millions of chapters for the millions of lives lived in those centuries. In 1948 when I was born all of Africa save Ethiopia, Ras Tafari be praised, was colonized. Now I have been lucky enough to watch as one by one Ghana, Kenya, Senegal Cameroon, Nigeria, Angola and all the rest until South Africa finally released Nelson Mandela in 1992 and all of the Motherland the African continent, became technically politically free, if not economically independent. So we produce shows on what we really see on our trips there. A recent show on “Anthony Allen and Early African-Americans in Hawaii aired on Channel 53 in January. We will air other programs in 2014 on the Dredlocked Pharaohs and the Pharaohs whose Obelisk monuments were taken to Rome by the Emperors. The first time I read the name Nelson Mandela, I was in junior high school in Seattle in the 9th grade reading a Junior Scholastic article about the Apartheid government and racial caste laws in South African and Nelson Mandela’ participation in the leadership of the opposition to that ingrown racist discriminatory government in 1962. Ghana had become independent of British colonial rule in 1958 and Kwame Nkrumah was their first elected president. Macon Bolling Allen was the first African American Lawyer licensed to practice in US. Born free 1816 IN with the name Allen Macon Bolling. His name was changed during his citizenship processing in Portland, ME in 1844. He taught himself to read and write and became a school teacher in ME. Bolling Allen was a law clerk for General Samuel Fessenden, Esq. He was granted a license to practice law in ME 1844 but was unable to find clients. He subsequently relocated to Boston, MA and opened a law firm making history as the first black justice of the peace. Bolling Allen later moved to SC and served as a judge and also worked as the attorney for the Land Improvement Association in Washington, DC. He spent 50 years as a lawyer. He died in 1894. So while I was never a Black Panther, I was V.P. of the Black Student Union @ Reed College in 68 when we took over the President’S Office and the Administration building for a week demanding the creation of a Black Studies Program there. Ultimately Reed College agreed and a small one was formed. We students knew there was a lot of African History before the slave trade commenced which we were not being taught. We just did not know what it was. I was 30 when I took my first trip to Africa. Since then I have been back 4 times. Daphne and I share what we see on these trips in our programs we record and show on Olelo and make available through the Internet through AFRICANHISTORYVIDEOS.COM A lot of African History is carved in the columns and temples of the Nile from the Mediterranean South all the way to highlands of Ethiopia and great lakes of Kenya and Tanzania. If you have not visited the Cairo Antiquities Museum, the Valleys of the Kings and Queens and seen the ancient wonders of KMT-Egypt, you are missing an important chapter in ancient African History. Howard “Stretch” Johnson, Betty Jo Harris, Donnis Thompson, Ira VanterPoole and many others helped us reach out to the many community groups in Hawaii to appeal to the Japanese, Hawaiian Filipino, Chinese, Samoan and all of the other community groups to explain to them how the MLK Holiday was something good for them and a needed step in the evolution of Human Rights and Civil Rights in Hawaii. And eventually most of them stood with us on the State Capital steps and urged their representatives to vote for the passage of the MLK Holiday bill because — The advancement of Human Rights showed a positive evolution and development for their communities and the State of Hawaii as a whole. For in recognizing the importance and the validity of MLK’s struggle and sacrifice for Civil Rights for black people was actually a major step in the advancement of the evolution of Human Rights for All people, all of our communities and our nation have been strengthened by the greater guarantee of all American citizens rights. The Black Panthers spawned Grey Panthers, the Brown Panthers and even Pink Panthers. The trend of history is clear Human Rights are continually evolving from a state of abject servitude to a more free state of independence and real liberty for all. Even the trend of maximum sentencing and stripping of people convicted of nonviolent crimes of their voting rights is beginning to wane, as more and more people realize we cannot lock up every felon for ever and it makes more sense to invest in schools than prisons. As much progress as we have made however there still remain big challenges of poverty, homelessness in our fantastically mineral rich country, as government has created multi-national monopolies which such up greater and greater percentages of the nations wealth and power. The people have to find a way to exercise power for themselves and counter the weight of the big money. A Constitutional Amendment clarifying that corporations are not people will help. And I urge you to join me is signing petitions to push the Amendment through. We have a Supreme Court which recently weakened the “Voting Rights Act.” We have a Supreme Court which recently ruled that Corporation are People, and seems to favor undying corporations over the voting rights of real flesh and blood people. Even General-President Eisenhower warned us Not to allow the Military-Industrial Complex to buy our government representatives. Angela Davis and many others have preached against the perversion of our democracy caused by a rampant and over indulged PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, which makes money off of keeping our citizens in jail. Brad Manning revealed proof of massive excessive government spying. A wise man once said : “Yeah though you lend help to the least of these my brothers, you do it also for me! STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS! Page 8 —March, 2014 — Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii GLENN GLENNBEEDESIGNS Photo Retouching & Restoration Print & Web Designs [email protected] 808-263-3548 ¡Feliz Navidad! Raspados Hawaianos ¡Hawai ha llegado a México! Ven a probar los raspados hawaianos con sabores como: vanilla/chocolate/fresa/coco/ uva raíz de cerveza/cola/ naranja/piña colada Priv Gonzalez Gallo San Antonio, Tlayacapan, Jal. (San Antonio Plaza) ¡Ay, Chihuahua! Your Ad Here! Place an ad in Mahogany and be seen in the African-American & Latino communities throughout Hawaii, U.S. Mainland, Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico! Call or email [email protected] for more details Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii — March, 2014 – Page 9 Ethnic Health Disparities From the book New Jump Swing Healthy Aging and Athletic Nutrition Program by Donald “Spiderman” Thomas Before the term Ethnic Health Disparities was coined, I was breaking world records to bring this information to the attention of my community. Here is an excerpt from the third chapter of my book New Jump Swing Healthy Aging and Athletic Nutrition program titled Second Class Health and Fitness Citizenship is Bad for your health. by Donald A study reported in the New England Journal of “Spiderman” Thomas Medicine21 in 1990 indicated that a fifteen-yearold African American female in Harlem, New York, had a 65% chance of surviving to age sixty-five, about the same as women in India. African American males in Harlem, on the other hand, had a 37% chance of surviving to age sixty-five, about the same as men in Angola. This was one of my reasons for choosing Harlem to do all three of my Guinness world records. In July 2008, 41 million people in the United States, or 13.5% of the civilian population, were African American. According to the CDC, in 2009, life expectancy in the United States increased to 78.2 years, up from 78 years in 2008. For women, life expectancy was 80.6 years, up one-tenth of a year. The life expectancy for men rose to 75.7 years, an increase of two-tenths of a year. Life expectancy for non-Hispanic Caucasians increased two-tenths of a year and stayed the same for African Americans. In 2005, the death rate for African Americans was higher than Caucasians for heart diseases, stroke, cancer, asthma, influenza, pneumonia, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and homicide. During 2001-2004, 68% of all women reported with AIDS were African American; among men, just under half (44%) of the new cases of HIV and AIDS were in African Americans. As a result of my work with the American Heart Association, Hawaii chapter, Jump Rope for Heart campaign, I became very aware of the fact that being African American is recognized as a risk factor for heart disease. There are some within the African American community that take offense to the news and magazine write-ups that seem to focus on the poor health of their community. As a writer and health advocate, I can see why. I have read health reports regarding various diseases among Americans that would have you think that all African Americans are disease ridden and at death’s door! Let’s put things into perspective. With the exception of genetic diseases specific to people of African descent, there are no diseases that African Americans have that the general population doesn’t have. Despite the widespread reports of poor health among African Americans, compared with other groups, non-Hispanic Native American or Alaska native adults are more likely to have poorer health. A report in 2010 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics compared national estimates for selected health status indicators, health behaviors, health care utilization, health conditions, immunizations, and human immunodeficiency virus testing status for non-Hispanic Native American or Alaska native adults with those for Caucasian, African American, Asian, and Hispanic adults aged eighteen and older. Compared with other groups, non-Hispanic Native American or Alaska native adults are more likely to have poorer health, unmet medical needs due to cost, diabetes, trouble hearing, and activity limitations; and they are also more likely to have experienced feelings of psychological distress in the past thirty days. Non-Hispanic Native American or Alaska native adults are more likely to be current smokers and current drinkers compared with other adults. That these two groups make up less than 3% of the American population has caused the media to marginalize the health plight of these citizens. Now available in AUDIO book format narrated by the author through www.learnoutloud.com. Please visit www.orphansoftheworld.com and make a donation or sponsor a child. Page 10 —March, 2014 — Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii Planned Parenthood of Hawaii Gala Guests with their donation cards, including 2014 Marilyn B. Lee Community Leadership Award winner and Hawaii State Representative Della Au Belatti (with lei), Amy Hennessey, Jan Harada, Alison Kunishige, Hawaii State Representative Linda Ichiyama, Hawaii State Representative and candidate for U.S. Congress representing Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District Mark Takai, Senator Laura Thielen, Hawaii State Board of Education Executive Director Liann Ebesugawa, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Vice President of Business Advocacy and former Hawaii State Hawaii Representative Pono Chong, Bernadette Fo, and Julia Fahl. Planned Parenthood of Hawaii held its 9th annual signature benefit gala at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Saturday, February 8, 2014. Guests enjoyed live entertainment, a cocktail reception and dinner. Beth-Ann Kozlovich of Hawaii Public Radio presided as Mistress by Laurie Temple Director of Public Affairs & of Ceremonies and Governor Neil Government Relations Abercrombie delivered remarks. The Planned Parenthood of Hawaii gala featured a salute to this year’s Champions of Choice honorees, Hawaii State Representative Della Au Belatti and Hawaii State Director of Human Services Pat McManaman, for their leadership, excellence and outstanding contributions in support of sexual and reproductive health and rights. “Our Champions of Choice dinner was an opportunity for Planned Parenthood of Hawaii and its supporters to raise critical funds while celebrating our achievements and renewing our commitment to providing essential sexual and reproductive health care and education to Hawaii’s people. We know that we will continue to stand strong because of fearless advocates like Pat and Della, whose support was critical to the passage of legislation to require emergency health care providers and hospitals to provide sex assault survivors with information about and access to emergency contraception,” said Andrea Anderson, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii CEO, “It was a spectacular night out in support of a great cause.” Know your history, Be Proud and Make History! Law Office of Daphne Barbee-Wooten 533-0275 • Adoptions Guardianships • Military CT. Martial • DUI • Labor Law WEB SITE www.attyandrewooten.com Century Square 1188 Bishop St., Suite 1909 • Honolulu, HI 96813 Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii — March, 2014 – Page 11 Maxx Phillips with her fabulous condom dress 2014 Bette Takahashi Award winner and Hawaii State Director of Human Services Pat McManaman, Planned Parenthood of Hawaii President & CEO Andrea Anderson, 2014 Marilyn B. Lee Community Leadership Award winner and Hawaii State Representative Della Au Belatti and Planned Parenthood of Hawaii Board of Directors Vice-President and Planned Parenthood of Hawaii Action Network Board of Directors member Amy Yukiko Monk. Volunteers Laura Sasaki, Daphne Barbee, Roz Rapozo Governor Neil Abercrombie and Planned Parenthood Action Fund Political Action Committee member Jadine Nielsen Eric Mascia, J.J. Burford, David Field, Laurie Temple, Starr Gentry, Kimiko Yamamoto, Tommy Stanley Planned Parenthood of Hawaii staff with their friends and family - Ryleen Ongos, Kristina Garcia, Carolynn David, Andrea Rios, Carizza Chandler, Samantha Wiesner, Travis Knott, Matthew Bellhouse-King and Rachel Davenport. Peter Greenhill Outside Earl’s Court, the arena for Olympic volleyball in London 2012. In many ways, this is the most difficult column I’ve ever had to write. The publisher has asked me to write this one about myself, which is probably the topic I least enjoy writing or talking about. It is an awkward situation, indeed, but it is the mandate I was given and I must try to fulfill it. I suppose a good place to start would be in telling what I do for a living, how I came to do it, and what I do also for Sports Hawaii. Most of the time I am a teacher at `Iolani School, where I have taught English and a little bit of philosophy since 1986. I also coached boys volleyball here in various capacities for many, many years until 2008, but I still help out some coaching friends. In college, I played for the men’s volleyball team at Princeton University, where I graduated in 1981 with a degree in Philosophy. I’m pleased to mention that the volleyball team there is perennially strong but has the bad luck to play in the same league with annual powerhouse Penn State, breaking through them into the Final Four back in 1998 but not since. Before the time I spent playing volleyball in college, I had competed in various sports, from baseball to basketball to cross-country to high jump to soccer, and used to windsurf quite a bit, though it has been quite a long time since I did it last. After my time in college, I spent two years as a teacher in Japan, in a city called Machida, about an hour outside downtown Tokyo, and I played volleyball, baseball, and basketball in leagues over there and tried my hand at the martial art of kendo. Living there also gave me the chance to travel all over the Far East and Southeast Asia, unforgettable experiences. I returned to the USA in 1983 and arrived in Hawaii in 1986. I’ve been married since 1985 to a local girl, and our son is twenty-four years old now, living on the Big Island, and our daughter is a freshman at Wesleyan University (Bill Belichick’s alma mater). Both my son and my daughter really give me a run for my money on sports knowledge; they know their stuff. (In fact, my daughter was Co-Sports Editor of the newspaper at `Iolani School before becoming Co-Editorin-Chief.) I have to stay very sharp to stay even or ahead of those two. Sports, literature, music, and philosophy have been my passions for most of life, sports for all my life. The passion for sports led me to be not just a participant in it but also a student of it, which led to writing about sports whenever the opportunity presented itself and doing some broadcasting here and there, most recently as an analyst a few years ago on broadcasts of local high school basketball and have been a guest on local sports talk radio shows a few times. I did some news broadcasting in college because all the sports spots were filled already but always preferred doing sports. The combination of a love of sports and a love of literature led me to start an English elective class at `Iolani School called Literature of Sport, which has been going strong since 2003. It’s through that course that I got the opportunity to write this monthly column for Sports Hawaii. Every year we’ve brought guest speakers into the classroom for the course, and a few times the guest speaker was the legendary sportscaster Les Keiter. For many years Les also had been writing a column for this magazine, and its head man, the wonderful Ron Williams/Lopez found out about me from Les and asked me if I’d like to write a monthly column on sports. That was the beginning of it all, and I’ve been doing it every month since then. I’ve been doing it so long that I can’t remember exactly when it started, but it was definitely no later than 2005, so it has been a good long while at this point. One of the way I’m able to date it is by remember that Ron let some of my students be guest columnists a few times in early 2006, and Ron loved their work. Those were memorable moments. It hasn’t always been easy to meet the demands of this monthly space, especially because I take the responsibility seriously to use the space well, to submit work that has quality and insight. It’s a tough standard to set for oneself, and I hope that I at least sometimes meet it, but when I don’t, it certainly isn’t for lack of effort. The sports world and its interconnectedness with the rest of society make it fertile ground for meaningful topics to address, and I hope that if you visit this space, I have made it worth your while. It’s a privilege to have this voice and to be able to share some thoughts with Hawaii’s readers. Peter with marathon Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter in my classroom at `Iolani this past December Last year at Stan Sheriff Center with old friend (since 1990) Marv Dunphy, men’s volleyball coach at Pepperdine University. 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Box 1599 Kailua, HI 96734 (808) 263-7888 www.TSSPhotography.com Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii — March, 2014 – Page 17 Celebrating Valentine's Day for Hawaii Veterans. by Sharon Thomas Yarbrough "Serving those who Served" Page 18 —March, 2014 — Mahogany/Latin Hawaii/Sports Hawaii CUANDO LA SONRISA ES LO MÁS IMPORTANTE A p esa r de que los cánones de belleza han ido cambiando con el paso de los años, nosotros al igual que nuestros antepasados ansiamos tener unos dientes blancos por ser, a juicio de todas las personas, by Dr. Eloy Barragán Fernández sinónimos de fuerza y salud, imprescindibles para resultar atractivos. En la antigüedad los egipcios utilizaban productos para el cuidado de los dientes ya que una dentadura sana y blanca ha simbolizado salud, limpieza y fortaleza. De la misma manera en la China imperial, las viudas teñían sus blancos dientes de negro como signo de renuncia a la belleza. En América, los Mayas practicaron la odontología correctora con fines cosméticos y religiosos, como demostración de buena posición social se realizaban incrustaciones de jade en los dientes y limaban sus bordes cuidadosamente. El blanqueamiento dental es un problema antiguo y no exclusivo de la sociedad actual. Una sonrisa atractiva es importante para todas las personas. La odontología ha desarrollado técnicas que permiten resultados más estéticos y favorables. Dentro de dichas técnicas se ha hecho muy popular el blanqueamiento dental. Las personas cada día se están preocupando más por la apariencia estética de sus dientes, esto tiene mucho que ver con el ser aceptados socialmente. El blanqueamiento dental es el tratamiento destinado a devolver a un diente su color y traslucidez, cuando éste presenta manchas o pigmentaciones que afectan la estética de la sonrisa. Cada persona trae dispuesto por genética el color de sus dientes; en algunos individuos es más oscuro que en otros, y tienden a ser grises, naranjas, o amarillos. Existen dos modalidades de tratamiento: en consultorio o en casa. En el primer caso el profesional es quien realiza en forma directa el tratamiento y en el segundo, el paciente se encarga del procedimiento, según las instrucciones del odontólogo. Consideraciones importantes antes de iniciar un proceso de blanqueamiento es importante ser cuidadoso, ya que existen factores que pueden causar problemas y excesiva sensibilidad en los dientes. Por este motivo debe realizarse un cuidadoso diagnóstico por parte del odontólogo. En el diagnóstico se debe tener en cuenta: Historia clínica completa sobre antecedentes del paciente en la que se incluyan preguntas sobre factores que puedan ocasionar cambios en el color de los dientes como antibióticos tomados por la madre durante el embarazo, drogas o enfermedades en los primeros años de vida o la excesiva ingestión de flúor. Examen dental, ya que el blanqueamiento no puede ser realizado en pacientes con caries dentales, amalgamas o resinas muy grandes y que se encuentren desadaptadas, pacientes en los que se ha bajado el nivel de encía y se encuentran los cuellos de los dientes destapados, pacientes con encías inflamadas, sensibilidad excesiva al frío y al calor, pérdida severa de esmalte. En pacientes fumadores o mujeres embarazadas tampoco se recomienda el blanqueamiento, ni en pacientes diabéticos o menores de 16 años. Dra. 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