The American Dental Association (ADA) passed a resolution that asked all of its constituent state associations and societies to partner with civic and fraternal groups by volunteering their time to generate dental records at CHIP events.

In 2003, the inventor, patent holder of the dental impression wafer, Toothprints®, also a brother Mason, offered his creation exclusively to Masonic jurisdictions conducting MASONIC CHIP events until February 2007. This date is now upon us and he will be offering his product to any service and fraternal organizations that wish to partner with their state dental association to include the generation of Toothprints® at their child ID programs. Each state association will at that time be actively looking to partner with any organization conducting child identification, or begin their own dental impression initiative themselves.

Natl MasoniCHIP was on the agenda at the 2006 National Convention of the ADA this past November in Las Vegas, Nevada.    Dr. David Harte, a forensic  dentist and Masachusetts Freemason, serves MasoniCHIP as a national spokesperson and liasion to the American Dental Asociation. He together with Peter Banks, Director of Outreach and Training for the National Center (NCMEC) appeared as one of the keynote speakers to increase awareness of our MasoniCHIP initiatives and explain that we operate jurisdiction to jurisdiction in a manner simular to the constituant Dental Associations and Societies of the ADA. They were well received and brought back valuable contact information. If your jurisdiction is interested in forging a collaboration with the Dental Association in your State, contact Dr. Harte directly or any member of this committee.

We at National MasoniCHIP began our collaboration with Public Safety Dogs, Inc. (formerly Cainines For Kids, Inc.) upon reading an article that they had completed search testing with Toothprints® dental impression wafers. Their results conclusively demonstrated and substantiated our claim that saliva and cheek cells deposited on the wafer during its generation, did in fact provide a vital scent track identifying item. We since have worked with them to do similar search testing of cheek swab samples generated at MasoniCHIP Events with the same positive results.

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Several Masonic groups in Massachusetts raised the funding necessary to train and place a scent discrimination tracking dog named "MASON" in Dracut, Massachusetts in March of 2006. Mason was rescued from hurricane Katrina and trained by Public Safety Dogs, Inc. Since that time Massachusetts Masons have funded placement of two additional dogs scheduled for placement in 2008. The MYCHIP program has identified over 250,000 children of Massachusetts and the majority has received Toothprints®  dental wafers in their completed ID packs.