tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10623297.post117269338017450850..comments2023-11-17T06:40:12.183-06:00Comments on Don Singleton: For Want of a DentistUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10623297.post-1173316803151716712007-03-07T19:20:00.000-06:002007-03-07T19:20:00.000-06:00Just kind of mother lets her kid get to the point ...Just kind of mother lets her kid get to the point where he has SIX ROTTEN TEETH?<BR/><BR/>Don't blame this one on the health care system.<BR/><BR/>If my kids were about to lose their teeth, I'd plant my butt in a dentist's office and refuse to leave until he'd treated them and worry about paying later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10623297.post-1172762030349962722007-03-01T09:13:00.000-06:002007-03-01T09:13:00.000-06:00It's a mystery to me that dental schools and denta...<I>It's a mystery to me that dental schools and dental education can be government subsidized and the government doesn't require dentists to treat a certain number of low-income people a year.</I><BR/><BR/><B>Maybe the fact that we are a capitalist nation, not a communist one has something to do with it</B><BR/><BR/><I>Most dentists also won't work and/or live in rural or low-income inner cities and leave many people without dental care.</I><BR/><BR/><B>Rural areas have problems getting doctors to serve as well.</B><BR/><BR/><I>When Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) started drilling, filling and pulling teeth in rural Alaska which has been unable for decades to attract dentists, the American Dental Association and the Alaska Dental Society sued them.</I><BR/><BR/><B><A HREF="http://www.ada.org/prof/advocacy/legal/alaska/dhat.asp" REL="nofollow">A DHAT candidate needs only a high school diploma to qualify for training.<BR/>... need only possess “no less than sixth grade math and reading skills,”... By comparison, dentists, generally after earning a bachelor’s degree, spend a minimum of four years in graduate-level training in dental school, and many dentists then continue on for specialty training.</A></B><BR/><BR/><I>DHATs have worked for decades in other countries as efficiently and more cheaply than dentists and are willing to work where dentists won't</I><BR/><BR/><B>Other countries don't have the same education and training requirements we do.</B>Don Singletonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02991386635454877389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10623297.post-1172756945109462532007-03-01T07:49:00.000-06:002007-03-01T07:49:00.000-06:00The sad thing is that most poor people in America ...The sad thing is that most poor people in America have insurance - Medicaid. But American dentists refuse to treat people with Medicaid or other low reimbursing government subsidized insurance.<BR/><BR/>It's a mystery to me that dental schools and dental education can be government subsidized and the government doesn't require dentists to treat a certain number of low-income people a year. The "freedom of choice" argument just doesn't work here because organized dentistry forces fluoridation into people and says "freedom of choice" doesn't count when you need to help the poor.<BR/><BR/>Most dentists also won't work and/or live in rural or low-income inner cities and leave many people without dental care.<BR/><BR/>The problem is that organized dentistry lobbies against any dental or healthcare group that tries to fill the void lest it infringe on their lucrative monopoly.<BR/><BR/>Most dentists make more money than most physicians while working fewer days and fewer hours doing mostly cosmetic treatment and offering spa therapy.<BR/><BR/>When Dental Health Aide Therapists (DHATs) started drilling, filling and pulling teeth in rural Alaska which has been unable for decades to attract dentists, the American Dental Association and the Alaska Dental Society sued them.<BR/>DHATs have worked for decades in other countries as efficiently and more cheaply than dentists and are willing to work where dentists won't<BR/><BR/>Instead of actually treating America's low-income, dentists organize to throw more fluoride chemicals into our bodies via water fluoridation because "they care so much."<BR/>Or they apply fluoride varnish with an extremely toxic 22,600 ppm fluoride.<BR/><BR/>Fluoride is more toxic than lead, While we are getting the lead out, dentists force more fluoride into us by advocating and lobbying for water fluoridation incessantly.<BR/><BR/>However, there is no evidence that any American is or ever was fluoride deficient; but loads of data showing Americans are dentist deficient.<BR/><BR/>Deamonte Driver's water supply was fluoridated and I doubt he was drinking fluoride-free bottled water as dentists claim when tooth decay rates climb as they are begining to do despite 60 years of water fluoridation.<BR/><BR/>The millions of dollars spent on fluoridation throughout the country could be better spent actually treating inevitable cavities.<BR/><BR/><BR/>For more info<BR/><BR/>Fluoridation 101<BR/>http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof<BR/><BR/>Fluoridation News Releases<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu<BR/><BR/>Tooth Decay Crises in Fluoridated Areas<BR/>http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net<BR/><BR/>Fluoride Journal http://www.FluorideResearch.OrgFluorideNewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05767146308161608863noreply@blogger.com