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12 Mar

From the NTP monograph. #FluorideFriday facts. Judge Chen wouldn't let the folks who want to add bioavailable #fluorine to our diet talk about the "benefits" of #fluoridation. Because there are no facts to support such. The NTP knew that.

The biggest problem the #StannoudFoilHats have, is that since organized #Dentistry has been avoiding talking about the research of C. C. Bass, MD, the loud ones must not know that Dr Bass published his first paper on preventing the loss of teeth in 1943.

That paper traveled around the world many times and was adopted by the new field of #PreventiveDentistry everywhere it was read. The formal practice of personal oral hygiene started a couple of years before Grand Rapids decided to add #fluorine to the diet of their citizens.

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12 Mar

Putting "ideology ahead of science", in its purest form.
dentistrytoday.com/news/todays-de…

In 2019, proponents of fluoride and fluoridation were broken hearted to see the National Toxicology Program (NTP) draft a monograph citing some of the same safety concerns they had been raising.

Citing NTP’s draft document, proponents of fluoridation declared that science was on their side.

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@POH_Smiles

11 Mar

Let’s play “Who Said This?” for #ThrowbackThursday!

“Our job as the #Dental Profession, therefore, is, first, an educational one. Let us all become Teachers, #Teachers of #Health.”

“So it seems that the first need of the patient is to understand the facts which govern the spread of infection and the destruction of the tooth crown and the tissues around the teeth.”

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@POH_Smiles

11 Mar

Headline vs text. Disingenuous at best. Manipulative at worst. 'We filled a bunch of teeth. YAY!'-|- "After six visits, there was a more than 50% decline in untreated cavities."
usnews.com/news/health-ne…

"The American Academy of Pediatrics cautions that 28 percent of children have at least one cavity by age 3 — and nearly half of all children have at least one cavity by age 5."

So we recommend that we do the same thing we have been doing for the last fifty years? Stop it.

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@POH_Smiles

9 Mar

Serving up some hot cognitive dissonance here. -|- "Although dentistry has long been identified as being far more preventive-oriented than most other areas of medicine, the emphasis on disease treatment is still the predominant activity of most dentists."

The problem with #Dentistry and #Prevention in a nutshell. -|- "In contrast, if the dentist is accomplishing the preventive procedures, the overhead is enormous, and the practice may not have adequate revenue."

Ditto. Treatment ≠ Prevention, no matter how you phrase it. -|- "What preventive orientation can the dentist have? The following procedures can provide preventive characteristics to your restorative treatment."

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