A five-man team from CBS News came to campus for two days in 1969 to do interviews for a documentary about new techniques in pain control. What brought them to Loma Linda University? It was the groundbreaking work of LLU School of Dentistry Emeritus Professor Niels B. Jorgensen, DDS, on developing a pain management method. It is called the “Loma Linda Technique” or “Jorgensen Technique.”
Correctly naming Jorgensen were random winners Nikki McCutchan, Gregory D. Mitchell and Lilibeth Muyano. Please email pr@llu.edu to claim your prize, which must be picked up within 60 days.
Jorgensen taught in LLU School of Dentistry from 1954 to 1974. He was called “one of the giants in anesthesiology in dentistry, and in particular, in the education of the undergraduate student … [in the technique of] sedation” by Norman Trieger, DMD, MD, editor of the Journal of Anesthesia Progress. Read more here and here.
For next week: Another professor, and an alumnus, from Loma Linda University — Roger Barnes, MD, — developed a surgical procedure that has been used throughout the world. What is the abbreviated name of this procedure?
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