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Dental therapists working in Alaska have been successful bringing down the rate of tooth decay in the area, but the American Dental Association nearly shut down the program because, the organization claims, only licensed dentists should perform “irreversible procedures” such as filling cavities and pulling teeth.

Fortunately, after a yearlong battle, Alaska’s Superior Court ruled in favor of the tribes.

While the ADA maintains that it’s just protecting the quality of dental care, many are accusing the organization of trying to shut out cheap competition, which would put preventative dental care in the hands of many who go without any dental services at all. The organization did not return requests for comment to this story, but the efforts of its Washington branch led the University of Washington to withdraw its support from the Alaskan consortium and kill a planned dental therapist tract at its dental school.

According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the ADA “intimidated university officials by threatening to block donations by its members.”

She advocates butter on bread "so thick you can see teeth marks in it," plenty of meat and unpasteurized, or raw, milk.

Those are foods recommended by Price, a Cleveland dentist who traveled the world studying primitive diets. His 1939 book, "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," concluded that a diet high in the vitamins found in animal fats and untouched by "modern" innovations such as refined flour, sugar and chemically preserved foods was the key to preventing chronic disease and tooth decay.

MetLife, the largest commercial dental carrier, which administers dental benefits for over 21 million people, announced today the addition of five quality resource guides to its ADA approved dental continuing ...

What if it were possible to undergo a root canal filling or tooth extraction without feeling the pinch of a needle or the after affects of general anesthesia? Hypnosis could uncover a new world for patients ...

The way her friend bragged about her dentist office's waiting area, Larissa Goldberg just had to see it for herself.

Despite over 60 years of water fluoridaiton and 50+ years of fluoridated toothpaste, tooth decay, a disease that affects almost half of all second graders, and almost 80 percent of 17-year-olds, is the number one unmet health need among children in the United States. A new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), revealed that a third of all children covered by Medicaid received no dental care, and approximately 6.5 million children in Medicaid have untreated tooth decay. .

Main Category: Dentistry Also Included In: Medicare / Medicaid / SCHIP Article Date: 24 Sep 2008 The American Dental Association called on Congress and other stakeholders to work together to get more dentists ...

A German dentist overpowered a female patient in her home and yanked out two dental bridges from her mouth because she had failed to pay her bill.

An estimated 6.5 million U.S. children cared for through the Medicaid public health insurance program have untreated tooth decay, according to a report released on Wednesday.

It saddens me deeply when Canadian publications print articles from those in authority that contain more fiction and mistruth than fact.

Every year, 23 million women take Fosamax or other bone-building drugs for osteoporosis and osteopenia - brittle bones and bone-thinning. While these medications do protect the bones, they carry hidden risks ...

Ricky Gervais is the first to admit that his teeth are neither white nor straight - and Americans mistakenly think he wears bad false teeth for comedic purposes.

Millions of poor American children have untreated tooth decay, some of them because they cannot find a dentist willing to treat them, a federal report issued Tuesday said.

New Delhi, September 22: Smiles this season may be more dazzling, literally! A brilliant piece of crystal embedded in teeth has become the latest fashion accessory to catch the fancy of the fashion conscious.

In response to John Mancini's Sept. 16 commentary about Cape dental care, a whole population of people out there work hard to support themselves and their families yet cannot afford dental insurance, but earn ...

Arkansas faces a looming dental "crisis" as it fails to attract young dentists to replace retirees in a state with one of the nation's lowest access levels, a new study shows.

Like all drugs, fluoride causes what it purports to cure

Dentists tell us that drinking “optimal” levels of fluoridated water - 1 part per million or 1 milligram fluoride per liter (quart) - each day, reduces tooth decay without serious side effects. While this dental dogma has never been proven scientifically, research shows, above optimal fluoride levels causes tooth decay and most Americans get more fluoride then they need.

In the Seattle area, for every 10,000 people who lost their jobs, there was a 1.2 percent decrease in visits to dentists for checkups. The drop was higher in the Spokane area, where the same increase in unemployment was associated with a 5.95 percent decrease in preventive visits. This is notable as the study looked at people who had dental insurance that covered routine care.

(Ed. Note: Wonder if their was a co-pay)

Let's say you live on the Iron Range or elsewhere in rural Minnesota. And let's say there isn't a dentist nearby.

One idea that has captured the attention of Lloyd and others is a four-year dental therapy program, whose graduates would be allowed to drill and fill all patients and pull teeth in children (but not adults). The profession exists in Canada and New Zealand, where Lloyd and a Minnesota dental care delegation visited in August, and the group will soon be off to England to see dental therapists in action there

THE highest paid dentists in England and Wales are earning up to 200,000 a year, new figures reveal today.

More than six out of 10 people say they are spending less money looking after their health as the cost of living rises.

Khalil Sage recently added a blog to the Web site of his San Jose cosmetic dentistry practice: www.smilegallery.com. The blog will serve as a tool for Sage to share information with patients and other visitors ...

Sainsbury's opened the first supermarket dental surgery in Britain yesterday. The clinic will be open seven days a week and shoppers will be able to pop in for treatments while buying groceries from 8am to 8pm.

HEALTH Service dentists are earning more than 100,000 a year on average. Figures due out this week will show they received a 13 per cent pay rise last year despite treating 1.1million fewer patients.

In "Ghost Town," Ricky Gervais plays Bertram Pincus, a socially awkward dentist who is trying to prevent Gwen from marrying again, as a favor to the ghost of her former husband whom only Bertram can see.

The average salary for an NHS dentist has topped 100,000 for the first time. Their pay soared by around 13 per cent last year - nearly three times the rate of inflation - following the new contract introduced ...

A dentist has opened the UK's first surgery in a supermarket, allowing shoppers to pop in for a filling before they stock up on groceries and treats.

About 91.4 percent of local adults between 35 and 44 years of age suffer from tooth decay, with each person suffering an average of 5.26 decayed teeth, according to a new national epidemiological research on ...

Do you have any medical contraindication to the braces procedures? Check with the orthodontist that your medical health is ok, with the dental procedures you are considering.

Dr. Hiroshige-Okumura was honored with several awards for her excellence in dentistry by the USC School of Dentistry and was voted one of the Top Dentists in Orange County by her peers and featured in Orange ...

The California Dental Association Foundation will launch an oral-health campaign Sept.

Authorities say Russell Bramlage, 22, confessed to shooting his parents, Terry and Lynda Bramlage, in their Grant County home last November.

Irish researchers are trying to develop a new way of attacking heart disease -- through the mouth.

Just thinking about it is enough to rattle your teeth. The Dutch media are enthralled by the trials of two men dubbed the "horror dentists." They were caught separately practicing without licenses - and, ...

For generations, the scent of lavender has been used as a calming agent. Now it appears it even works on-the-spot ... to help patients scared of the dentist's drill.

HEALTH chiefs are urging residents and workers in those areas that could be set to receive fluoridated water to make the most of a series of drop-in events being held during the official public consultation ...

MEDICAL card holders in rural Carlow face an almost impossible task trying to get treatment at the moment due to the withdrawal of a number of local dentists from the Dental Treatment Services Scheme.

The Scottish Dental Action Plan, introduced by the then Scottish Executive in April 2005, has received a mixed verdict from dental practitioners across Scotland.

The Scottish Government is "totally committed" to improving dental services, public health minister Shona Robison said as she announced an extra 5 million of funding.

The ghost of Frank Herlihy asks a socially awkward dentist, Bertram Pincus , to break up his widow's impending marriage in the comedy Ghost Town.

Sep 9, 2008 10:13 am US/Central NEW YORK Avoiding bad breath could be as simple as eating the right foods.

Amanda Crook 3/ 9/2008 AN INFLATABLE surgery selling cheap cosmetic dentistry in Eastern Europe is to set up shop in Greater Manchester.

The Town of Timberville is debating whether fluoride is needed in their water. There will be a forum Monday night to discuss the issue.

Dentists in San Jose may be required to install new equipment to keep mercury out of municipal waterways.

A pensioner forced to travel to Hungary for dental treatment told today how she ended up with a screwdriver lodged in her lung.

A dentist who told a patient suffering from mouth cancer to gargle with Listerine will be allowed to continue in practice.

The researchers initially investigate how the material reacts to stresses, using a plastic filling in a standard geometry.

The Hungarian dentist will see you now. In his inflatable office. Getting your jaw X-rayed by a foreign practitioner in a blowup tent may sound like a hard sell to British patients, but a group of Hungarian ...

Dentists insist the silvery amalgam fillings they have used for generations to plug holes in teeth are perfectly safe, but state authorities fear they may be polluting San Francisco Bay with toxic mercury.

Are you a dentist? Are you acquainted with a dentist living in our area? Can you help enlist volunteer dentists willing to give a half day of their time to help the needy? If so, please read the information ...

Pennsylvania authorities have searched the home of a dentist who they say may have been responsible for medical waste that recently washed ashore on several New Jersey beaches.

A dental clinic that will serve Livingston County's uninsured and poor will hold its grand opening celebration Friday with a floss-cutting and a breaking of a bottle of fluoridated water.

Dental offices have long one of the biggest sources of mercury pollution into wastewater, but no longer in the Mankato area.

For almost an hour Kiel debated Cappelli and Tom Napier, a fluoridation engineer for the Texas Department of State Health Services. Because he heard their presentations before and knew their arguments, Kiel was prepared. In some cases he had the data from the studies the two referenced and could quote by page number the references they used. As the rest of the council smiled at each other, Kiel pulled slide after slide contesting what the two fluoride advocates argued. Finally, Mayor Louis Cooper ordered that not another slide be shown, as the issue would be addressed at the next meeting. .

A team of Hungarian dentists are preparing to tour the UK in Britain's first inflatable dental surgery, offering treatments at a third of the price of their British counterparts.

A coordinator has started a secondment in Suffolk to encourage patients to ask doctors, NHS dentists or health workers if they have clean hands.