Dental Headlines & News
Laser the best way to go for kids (The Herald News)
Like any good mom would, Lori Gardner decided to have a cavity filled with a laser instead of a drill before subjecting her children, ages 6 and 9, to the procedure.
'CREST'-FALLEN (New York Post)
A Long Island thief who stole teeth-whitening strips is not smiling today - after he was arrested for trading the strips for heroin, police said. Tony Prince, 38, of Hempstead went into a CVS store in Baldwin at 6:40 Sunday night and shoplifted...
1945 Human Experiment Predicts Current Fluoride Ill Effects In 1945 dentists set out to prove that adding fluoride chemicals into public water supplies safely prevented children's tooth decay. The studies failed; but early fluoridationists ignored this inconvenient truth and forged ahead. Now with 2/3 of public water supplies fluoridated, Americans are fluoride overdosed and suffer from fluoride's toxic effects as cavity rates climb.
Orthodontists and Invisalign Take a Bite Out of Your Bank Account Now to the price: two years of braces cost $6,700 for each kid. The first time I heard the price I almost passed out from the force of the air entering my lungs in an enormous gasp. The second time I was steadier, but the voice in my head screaming, "What the f---?" did not stop for days. My insurance only paid $2,000 per kid. At the risk of sounding incredibly old, do you know how much I paid for my first car? Nine hundred dollars. My current car is only worth half of the cost of one set of braces. The cost is explained as orthodontists needing to pay for "a lot of specialized, expensive equipment and to pay their staff and their rent. The Orthodontists need to pay for all of their materials and the operation of their sterilizers. Then there is the cost of malpractice insurance. Most of an orthodontist's fee goes to paying their fixed cost." If they just added in a sentence here about also paying for their three homes and the yacht, I'd feel less violated. My kids' orthodontist takes almost every Friday off to go sailing, or so I've heard. Nice work if you can get it. We take out a home equity loan and get the braces.
US Rules Teeth-Whitening Chemical From China Dumped On US Market (Nasdaq)
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday it has determined that a chemical found in teeth-whitening products has been unfairly dumped on the U.S. market.
Hitting it big (The News Journal)
If you're looking to scratch that gambling itch, skip Atlantic City, the smart money says stay local.
San Marcos dentist treats the poor in Honduras (San Diego Union-Tribune)
While some North County dentists were sprucing up holiday smiles with porcelain veneers, gold grills and whitening treatments, Erin Gray was relieving the pain of children with severe tooth abscesses and infections in one of the poorest regions of Central America.
Fluoridation's Unhappy Birthday Sixty-three years ago, January 25, 1945, sodium fluoride was slowly poured into Grand Rapids, Michigan's public water supply to prove that fluoridation reduces children's tooth decay.
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