I read many articles and editorials about the dental industry and why we deserve our fear-inducing, money-hungry stereotype. It’s refreshing to read a vantage point that recognizes that we’re trying to provide health care not just ‘add-on services.’ Dental care is integral to overall health care – one day medical doctors will get that too. What am I talking about – there are dental offices that don’t understand it. We could all use more education in this arena but it’s nice to read it from a patient’s point of view. Thanks to Rick Holmes for a good read.
Finally, A Journalist That Isn’t Complaining About Dentists
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Rick Holmes article was “right on”. He stated his case quite clearly and used exactly the same imagery I’ve had before. Why, indeed, must the oral cavity be treated separately from the rest of the body?
Overwhelming research supports clinical preventive dentistry as the first level of care. If the profession can focus its efforts there, then Mr. Holmes desire to have teeth to chew with in his old age will be met. Without that shift to treating the disease rather than the “results” of that disease, dentistry will remain a step-child to medicine. It does not belong there.
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Dentists are pretend doctors who do not deserve the title, they are only interested in the cash at the end of the day.
Try looking into the state of the UK dental scene, it makes my point for me and should be a matter of UK national embarassment.