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East
End
Dental
Study
Club
Caulk / Dentsply
SMILE
KENTUCKY
NEW BUSINESS
http://www.eedsc.org/
Dr. Brett DiSalle
FEE SURVEYS
FEE SURVEYS
RENEW YOUR
LICENSE !
http://dentistry.ky.gov/NR/exeres/D80F01B9-F678-41FA-98C8-F77DD3368D67.htm
IN THE
NEWS
FLUORIDE
http://libizblog.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/fluoride-who-needs-it/
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Over 1,100 professionals (so far) have signed a statement urging Congress to
stop water fluoridation nationwide and to hold Congressional hearings about
why federal officials continue to promote fluoridation in the face of new
scientific evidence that fluoridation is ineffective and has serious health risks. (
http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html )
Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three NRC fluoride panel members,
two officers in the EPA Union representing 1500 EPA professionals; and
hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental
professionals, worldwide. Local signers include Long Island dentists Drs.
Norman Bressack, Leonard Fazio, Theodore Kastenbaum, Krystna Wolski
and physician Richard Carlton. Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000
Nobel Prize for Medicine, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of
modern pharmacology.”
http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianopinion/2007/11/sandra_duffy_deja_vu_on_tooth.html
http://ukagainstfluoride.blogspot.com/2007/11/canada-critics-raise-red-flag-over.html
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=investigative&id=5750692
http://newsminer.com/2007/11/04/9701
http://blogs.laweekly.com/judith_lewis/la-water/just-when-you-thought-it-wass/
http://blogs.laweekly.com/judith_lewis/la-water/just-when-you-thought-it-wass/
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/22/2003388990
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According to Tzuchi's study, Tibetans drink large
amounts of butter tea, sometimes up to 40 to 50 cups a
day.
"They drink it like water, so it causes many health
problems, like dental or skeletal fluorosis, yellow teeth,
tooth decay and stooping of the back," Tzuchi's Wang
said.
According to the WHO, a safe fluorine intake is 2mg
for a child and 4mg for an adult, but the fluorine
content of a kettle of butter tea made from the
traditional Tibetan brick-tea is around 6mg to 10mg.
UNDERSERVED
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/11/19/story7.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/ohs-nss112907.php
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lack of insurance coverage
poor access to services
unaffordable costs
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/11/05/special/295781.txt
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/534929
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/534929
MISDEEDS
http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/news.apx.-content-articles-JAR-2007-11-20-0020.html
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Some patients told NBC 10's I-Team they ended up in thousands of dollars in debt for dental
work that was never finished.
Michael D'Ippolito went to Broadway Dental in Pawtucket in 2006. The dentist was Dr. William
Salisbury.
"They took me in and took X-rays of my bottom teeth," he told NBC 10's Audrey Laganas.
D'Ippolito, 78, needed dentures but couldn't afford them.
Broadway Dental arranged $3,500 in financing for D'Ippolito, most of which came from a
company called CareCredit.
A subsidiary of GE Money, CareCredit offers loans to patients all over the country for health
services, including dentistry. The loans are set up at the health care provider's office.
Laganas: "They (Broadway Dental) charged you this money on the financing deal right up front?"
D'Ippolito: "Right up front."
Laganas: "Before finishing all the work?"
D'Ippolito: "Yes."
D'Ippolito said he never got his dentures.
"I went in there – all the doors were locked," he said. "Nobody there."
Shortly after he had his teeth pulled, D'Ippolito learned Salisbury closed Broadway Dental and
moved to another building in Fall River, where Salisbury began practicing under the name Coast
Dental.
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1107/474345.html
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Small Smiles' parent company flat out denies
having any such policy that children be
separated from their parents. But the I-Team has
heard just the opposite from dozens of parents,
and former Small Smiles dentists and assistants.
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Former Small Smiles dental assistants told us first hand what happens to
children in the back.
Trina Crosby: "It's terrifying for them. They cry. They scream. They want
their mommies."
Roberta Baskin: "Can any of the parents go back there?
Trina: No. They tell them that it's the law, that they're not allowed back there,
which is totally false."
The lead dentist in the Small Smiles clinic in Langley Park told us separating
parents and children is not only company policy, but a federal regulation.
Dr. Aldred Williams: "If you can imagine a clinic seeing 80, 85 patients in a
day, and all of their parents are back, roaming around, all over the clinic, it is a
violation of HIPAA regulations."
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This statement from company headquarters to the I-Team says
its dentist misspoke:
· "Small Smiles has NO policy that prohibits parents in the
treatment area."
· And goes on to say its: "family-friendly policy encourages our
dentists to allow parents in the treatment area…"
But the I-Team obtained: the "Small Smiles Dental Clinic Manual
(of) Policies and Procedures." Right there on page 4 under
"Parental Management" it outlines why parents should NOT be
allowed in the room…with the only exceptions to the rule: the
Severely Handicapped and Deaf children needing a translator.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11192007/news/regionalnews/75m_suit_vs__spitzer_has_teeth_492441.htm
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November 19, 2007 -- A Park Slope dentist has filed a $75 million lawsuit, claiming Eliot Spitzer used the Attorney General's
Office to trump up politically convenient charges of Medicaid fraud against him in 2006.
The lawsuit, filed last week in Brooklyn federal court, charges that Spitzer, who in 2006 was the attorney general and the
Democratic front-runner in the primary battle for governor, was getting slammed as being soft on Medicaid fraud - and found a
convenient fall guy.
"I had it all, and overnight I lost it all for no good reason, other than for the governor to have a nice headline," said the dentist,
Leonard Morse. "If that's what they'll do to a professional, imagine what they could do to the everyday citizen."
In 2002, when the Attorney General's Office demanded records, he expected another routine audit. He'd already had four such
audits, with no findings of wrongdoing.
More than four years later, authorities told him he'd be charged with allegedly ripping off $1 million from the program.
It happened in April 2006, just as the New York Times was running a major series of stories on Medicaid fraud and Spitzer's
primary opponent, Tom Suozzi, was slinging accusations that Spitzer was soft on the issue.
"We're alleging that he was falsely accused of committing a crime that he absolutely didn't commit and that these charges were
filed for political reasons," said lawyer Jon Norinsberg.
The charges collapsed at trial after reams of records were ruled inadmissible.
In the end, prosecutors asked Justice John Walsh to consider charges that Morse stole just $3,000. The judge found the dentist not
guilty on that charge.
But today, Morse's patients are long gone - scared off, he says, by the barrage of press releases calling their dentist a thief.
Copies of those press releases, in a variety of languages, are still posted on the Web site of the current attorney general, Andrew
Cuomo.
Both Spitzer and Cuomo declined comment.
"I think I want beyond money," said Morse. "I want justice. I want my good name back. I want all those thousands of patients
back who I treated for 30 years. I want all my friends and neighbors and relatives to see that I didn't do anything. I became a
political pawn."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-me-ucla14nov14,1,5609807.story?coll=la-editions-orange
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The Daily Bruin article, which it said was based on examinations of hundreds
of pages of e-mails and internal documents, said the program's high
admissions standards were relaxed for children or relatives of donors who
pledged hefty financial gifts, one as high as $1 million.
Amid a university probe, John Beumer III in February resigned as chairman
of the faculty executive committee of the School of Dentistry.
"The selection process for residents in orthodontics amounts to nothing less
than an affirmative action program for the wealthy and well-connected," he
wrote in a resignation letter posted Tuesday on the Daily Bruin's website.
"Preferential treatment has been given to children of donors and students
who have worked in the research laboratories of orthodontics faculty."
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As for the investigation by the American Dental Assn.,
Lokman declined to elaborate.
However, two members of the School of Dentistry
who asked that their names not be used out of fear of
retribution, said the alleged cheating involved the
sharing of compact discs that contained improperly
obtained questions that appear in American Dental
Assn.'s National Board Dental Examinations.
http://www.topix.net/content/cbs/2007/11/parking-rage-caught-on-tape-2
SCIENCE
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/fashion/15SkinSide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/fashion/15SkinSide.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.nbc4.com/health/14704332/detail.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/bal-to.hs.tooth15nov15,0,2703329.story
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He didn't set out to be a dental engineer - almost no one does. His original specialty
was aerospace engineering - studying how manufacturing techniques introduce
imperfections in aircraft parts, and how those defects lead to failures. He moved east
from the state of Washington to take advantage of Maryland's strong aerospace
engineering sector.
All that changed in 1998, when he cracked a tooth on a piece of bone hidden in an
Italian sausage sub. It was the second time he'd broken a tooth biting down on
something hard.
"The dentist told me it was pretty common," he said. "I started thinking, 'I'm going to
figure out why ... this is what I'm going to study.'"
And so he reengineered his engineering lab at UMBC to apply the same techniques he
used on aircraft parts to studying why teeth split.
"Your teeth see as much physical activity as anywhere else in your body," Arola said.
"The magnitude of forces put on them are far greater than those put on other parts of
the body."
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Arola discovered that fractures in the dentin of elderly Chinese
people grow about 50 percent faster than American fractures. In
the United States, cracks grow about 100 times faster in the teeth
of patients older than 60 than in those of younger patients.
It's still unclear why Chinese teeth are more brittle, but diet and
genetics might play a role. Arola said the Chinese thirst for tea
might cause their teeth to absorb more minerals and harden
more than nontea drinkers.
High levels of fluoride introduced to Shanghai's tap water might
be another culprit. Although fluoride strengthens tooth enamel,
Arola said, over a lifetime it might clog microscopic, fluid-filled
tubules that run through the dentin.
http://www.sunherald.com/160/story/196912.html
EVERYTHING ELSE
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2926268.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2926268.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
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A woman’s teeth looked as though they had been dipped in acid after she had whitening treatment
aboard a cruise ship, a dentist said yesterday.
Carla Regan, 47, was on a two-week cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean with her husband and
two children when she decided to treat herself to the £130 treatment. But she was left with
yellowing, easily stained and dry teeth after a chemical typically used for disinfecting swimming
pools stripped away the top layer of tooth enamel on her front eight teeth. The treatment, using
chlorine dioxide, was of a kind increasingly being offered to consumers wishing to brighten up
their smile, despite evidence that it causes harm. Mrs Regan is now facing a £5,000 bill to restore
her mouth’s appearance.
The General Dental Council has determined that only a registered dentist can carry out teeth
whitening, yet the cruise ship treatment was provided by beauticians in an onboard spa, with no
dentist even to supervise, she said.
Mrs Regan said yesterday: “The beauty salon on the ship was offering teeth whitening and I
thought to myself, why not? It seemed like an appropriately indulgent thing to do on holiday –
they promoted it as nontoxic and safe. However, a week later I noticed my teeth were starting to
look stained, and with time they only got darker. I also constantly had a ‘dry mouth’ feeling, so I
decided to see a dentist to tell me what could be wrong.”
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/373167.html
ST
1
PERSON
http://www.thestar.com/article/278227
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/12/hitchens200712
“Gallows humor is
inseparable from
dentistry: at one point
I heard the good
doctor say, as he
plowed through the
layers of plaque and
tartar, ‘Good news.
I’ve found some of
your teeth.’”
“The clever thing about
this treatment (known
as JK Veneers) is that it
takes away the stains
and the shame, without
making you look like a
game-show host or a
candidate claiming that
he likes being back in
Iowa.”
http://www.physorg.com/news115463183.html
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We've already seen medical students operate on robots that
bleed, yap and flat-line, but it's about time dental students
underwent the same kind of scrutiny, don'tcha think? If things
go as planned, future dentists in Japan could soon be practicing
on Simroid, a humanoid that resembles a young woman and can
talk back when students hit a nerve. Reportedly, the bot can
exclaim "it hurts" and move her eyes / hands whenever
discomfort is felt, but best of all, engineers included a "breast
sensor" to determine if that area has been touched
inappropriately during training. Nothing wrong with ensuring the
ethical treatment of robots, we suppose.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=496309&in_page_id=1774&ito=1490
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This story comes as cold comfort to millions of
U.K. citizens who are denied even the most
basic dentistry thanks to our useless
Government.
- Glyn, Southampton, U.K.
DR. HENRY
GREENWELL