2 For Parents Your Child: The Scholar Athlete (NAPSA)—Worried your child spends too much time on sports? If so, relax. It’s not unusual for kids to shine in athletics and then go on to a variety of meaningful careers. A recent study found more than 100 men and women world class athletes with dental degrees who are nominees for the Rocky Mountain Orthodontics Dentist Athletes Hall of Fame. Dr. William Osmanski combined his love of football with his dental expertise to encourage players to use mouthguards. Among them is Dr. William Osmanski, better known as “Bul- let Bill.” He was a Holy Cross football All-American who later starred for the Chicago Bears while attending dental school in the mornings and scrimmaging in the afternoons. So far, RMO, a pioneering producerof oral health products, has found dentists who excelled in 30 different sports from auto racing to wrestling. Martin Brusse, RMO’s chief executive, said the firm is sponsoring the Dentist Athletes Hall of Fame in memoryof his father, Dr. Archie Brusse, an outstandingcollege football and baseball player, who went on to the presidency of the American Association of Orthodontics and the founding of RMO70 yearsago. Additional world class dentist athletes are being sought by the Hall. Those already nominated can be viewed on the Internet at www.rmortho.com.
