In the 48 hours after his speech, she said, the agency received 1,200 applications, three times the usual amount.
The agency receives funds from local, state and federal sources.
To date, the agency has received only $1,000 from the foundation.
The agency receives 90% of its $60 million budget from the state and federal sources.
And until this week, he added, the agency had not received any complaints over the plates.
Since 1969, the year it began keeping track, the agency has received 44 such reports.
The agency put out a call for doctors to report similar cases and received nearly 100 reports.
Last month the agency received the results of a clinical study conducted in Japan.
By September, the agency had received the other companies' studies.
The agency had issued 5,274 applications in all and received back 402.