East End Dental Study Club

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East End Dental Study Club
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Caulk / Dentsply
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SMILE KENTUCKY
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NEW BUSINESS
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Dr. Brett DiSalle
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FEE SURVEYS
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FEE SURVEYS
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RENEW YOUR LICENSE !

• http//dentistry.ky.gov/NR/exeres/D80F01B9-F678-41
  FA-98C8-F77DD3368D67.htm

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IN THE NEWS
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FLUORIDE
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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.200
  7.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.

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http//blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianopinion/2007/1
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http//ukagainstfluoride.blogspot.com/2007/11/cana
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http//www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/20
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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.

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UNDERSERVED
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• lack of insurance coverage
• poor access to services
• unaffordable costs

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MISDEEDS
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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.

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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 roomwith the only exceptions to the rule
  the Severely Handicapped and Deaf children
  needing a translator.

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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."

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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.

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SCIENCE
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http//www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/fashion/15SkinSi
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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.

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EVERYTHING ELSE
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• A womans 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 mouths 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.

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1ST PERSON
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http//www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/12
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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. Ive found some of your teeth.?
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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.
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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.

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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.

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DR. HENRY GREENWELL