Thread by @POH_Smiles

The first step in recovery is admitting you have a problem. Good to see recovery is on the way! -|- "In spite of advances in preventive care and reduction in untreated tooth decay, significant oral health disparities exist"

🙄 Bragging about filling teeth faster? -|- "reduction in *untreated* tooth decay"?

ZERO #prevention in mind. -|- "If not treated through dental surgical intervention, this disease can result in emergency department visits and life- threatening infection and hospital admission."

Aye, there's the rub. -|- "This reimbursement level is grossly under the appropriate cost for complex dental surgery cases, and significantly less than national average geometric mean cost of the procedure being billed to Medicare."

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"ASCs are also limited in seeing patients for these dental surgeries as there is no recognized Medicare code to bill for dental surgeries in center operating rooms."

As in 'preventatentativenessable"

"THIS YEAR, OVER 800,000 AMERICANS WILL END UP IN THE ER FOR A DENTAL EMERGENCY. THAT NUMBER CONTINUES TO RISE EACH YEAR, AND IT’S COSTING A FORTUNE." -\- Emphasis in the original.
emergencydental.com/blog/avoid-er-…

"Though largely #preventable", in order to get paid, we need a code!
ada.org/~/media/ADA/Ad…

Everybody talks about #prevention, but nobody does anything about it? Business is booming, why would we?
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biospace.com/article/dental…

Pity the patients.

But business is good!
biospace.com/article/dental…

And teeth are suffering. -|- "According to the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 47.2% of adults aged 30 years and older have some form of periodontal disease."
globalbankingandfinance.com/dentures-marke…

Nature gave them two sets. Shameful. -|- “All children deserve the opportunity to start life with a set of healthy teeth, yet today more than a quarter of all 2- to 6-year-old children have experienced dental decay”
seattletimes.com/sponsored/cari…