Dental Headlines & News
Leading Network of Aesthetic Service Providers Offers Unique Gift Ideas for Valentine's Day (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Even for the savviest of gift- givers, Valentine's Day never fails to leave some people scratching their heads, wondering how to make the person they love feel truly special.
Maryland Tooth Decay Up & Untreated A new report says about one out of every three Maryland public school children in grades K through 3 had untreated cavities in recent years.
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.
EDITORIAL: Dental crisis requires creative fixes No reasonable person could have read the article about dental care on the front page of this newspaper Monday without feeling disturbed.
MB mall gets 2 new stores (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
Two new stores have opened at Myrtle Beach Mall, formerly Colonial Mall.
Myrtle Beach Mall adds two stores (The Myrtle Beach Sun News)
MYRTLE BEACH Sports, dental stores open Two new stores have opened at Myrtle Beach Mall, formerly Colonial Mall-Myrtle Beach .
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.
Patients 'shafted' by state's dental police Could your next visit to a dentist in Texas turn into a nightmare? An 11 News Defenders investigation reveals you're not as safe as you should be in Texas -- all because of policies with a state agency some say has lost its mission
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