WHAT IF??? Patients were given ownership of their Doctor's office

I had been a regular dentistry guy happy to be doing family dentistry for 35 years until it was announced that Dental "Caries is both curable and preventable"....The "paradigm change" that established the "new Standard of care" for dentistry turned out to be a very shocking change for me. Just about everything I had been sincerely teaching my patients was discovered to be not true.(see article about "myths" by tapping this: http://www.carifree.com/)
came from the expert "traditional" dentists of the day. But with the advances that had been taking place at least since 2000, the new science made "myths" out of my most favorite patient education efforts. I trust good science, so I just dug in and got my mind around this new "modern" dentistry. Even though in a mild state of shock, I was delighted with the idea that this new announcement was very empowering to patients. From our "campaign office" for "eradicate dental caries in Utah in 2010" this cure was available without a "referral to the CureDontist" from their present dentist. They could just get an appointment or even just show up,unannounced,during one of the frequent open houses. Patients could have free access to this "cure" also from even the very remote places in the nation, from the internet.

So, really, what if the average dental practice of 1000 loyal patients was actually inherited by the very group of patients who called it their "dental home"..? huh? What would be your first two requests (demands) of your new candidates to be your next dentist?
I just asked my wife. She replied that she would request "quality".

I probed the answer.............so, perhaps the highest quality....................
implant and crown?.....after getting the original cavity which got recurrent decay, crumbled and had to be replaced with a crown, but the nerve died and the crown was weakened and lost from drilling the root canal access through the top and the root split and the root canal failed, causing the loss of the highest quality crown also,,,leaving a space, into which an "implant" which would be covered with a high quality crown would be placed. It's all "quality", isn't it? (this is called the "dentist-go-round").

So the new patients would ask for the "highest" quality dentistry, which would be NO cavities!, right? So , Dr. first candidate, we want to be "cavity-free for life".

I am going guess, that if it were me, I would ask also to eventually eliminate costs of maintaining this highest quality dental health...The reality would quickly set it, that even prevention is going to cost something, even if it is only pennies on the dollar as compared with paying for sickness, but if this were possible, even in the future, we,the new owners would want it.

I just reviewed a DVD produced around this very subject from a group called "Patients' Own" wellness association. It covered the "basics" and then presented "The Organization of Patients and the Money System". Ah-Ha !!..Even though this was made at least 5 years ago, still under the reign of "Traditional dentistry", it hit the bulls eye!

So,

coupling this patient owned "organization and money system"
with
"be cavity-free for life",

we may have stumbled upon the newest generation of health care system reform..........done by patients, themselves!, ........in a totally logical, ethical and effective way....achieve Optimal Oral Health and use the financial power--patients- already-have, and create the best and most powerful dental health system in the history of the world?!

After reading my blog about Optimal Oral health being the "first step", it seems that the very next step would be for patients to consider being "owners" of their own medical office. It would, then, seem logical to ask (demand?): to have "Optimal general Health",and since the new physician wouldn't be God, accept "the best health we could ever hope to have"........and possibly eliminate costs here also?

It would seem a dream. Guess what? It is already here. The only thing lacking is the first group of 1000 loyal patients to create the "prototype" to prove it to the rest of the nation. After actually achieving our requests (demands), we could get it copyrighted , patented or trademarked and allow everyone else to copy it and enjoy a higher quality of life on down the family line for many generations to come.

Keeping in mind that the thing that is better than insurance......not needing it!.

Regardless of where you live, you can be a part of this first group of patients, the "Charter group" of Patients' Own wellness association. We all will do everything we can to make this patient-owned facility at 710 40th street, South Ogden,Utah the first Patients Own wellness office! To those who actually dig in and achieve being "cavity-free for life" and Optimal general health, we want to then share with you the terrific benefits the patient-owners would have.

Call now: 801 643-1812 or email. www.PatientsOwn@hotmail.com. I am looking forward to meeting you and invite you into this terrific adventure!