In south Salt Lake, there is a new dental school planned to open in 2011. It will be the first and only complete dental school in Utah. The students will pay $50,000 in tuition each of the 4 years which will total $200,000 not counting their living expenses and other books and instruments costs. The high goals of the school will result in well trained new dentists who will then go out into the communities to provide "Primary, Secondary and Tertiary" dental care. They will be told by qualified dental office advisers that "the future looks good". People are living longer and keeping more of their teeth and the percentage of people having dental decay and infections is into 99% of the population.
It is a private dental school whose principals will be betting along with the students huge amounts of money invested on the belief that, like past centuries, the future will provide a very desirable life-style, income and satisfaction of helping people in a way they can't seem to help themselves. It will provide enough money to pay for their school debt, office overhead expenses and retirement, almost all of which will be paid for by patients with problems to be solved. These new dental students will be lining up for a chance to be a part of this grand "bet" and their families will be proud of them as becoming health professionals, even "Doctors". A good life seems almost guaranteed.
Patients, who's money will be paying for all of this, directly or indirectly, will not be as exhiliarated and thrilled by this scenario though. But, patients, be of good cheer ! The second "dental school" is called the dental school for patients.
In just the past few years, the accumulation of scientific facts has brought the conclusion by the nation's dental health experts to declare that dental "caries is both curable and preventable". At this very moment, predictably successful guidance is available to all patients of all ages to "be cavity-free for life". 40 of 55 dental schools are teaching the "CAMBRA" methodology of managing the Dental Caries disease.
So, not all newly graduating dentists will have the motivation or skill to apply this "cure" for all patients. PLUS, the vast majority of practicing dentists in our nation will have been trained in what is now called "old", "traditional" or "drill and fill" dentistry which has proven "ineffective" in managing Dental Caries for decades now, and results in the high percentages of dental decay in our nation with dramatically increasing costs.
So, how to best take advantage of this huge new scientific breakthrough and "gift" to patients of "cure". This "new standard" of dentistry has inspired the dental society in California to make a goal to "eradicate" dental caries in every county, culture and community in California by 2010. Utah is attempting to match that goal.
The dental school for dentists needs many years, full time and highly concentrated training to teach the basic skills and techniques because it is difficult and highly technical in nature. In contrast, to the blessing to patients, is, to "be cavity-free for life" is so simple, fast and economical that patients can be taught how to do it for themselves as well as others in a matter of minutes. !
So, compare: 4 highly concentrated and difficult and extremely expensive years in dental school for dentists to do procedures that have proven to be "ineffective" in curing the disease,
versus
perhaps 2 hours of study and skill training which empowers an ordinary patient, not requiring a scientific or academic background, to actually "be cavity-free for life" himself as well as others around him, successfully, simply and economically!.
There is a location in south Ogden which is trying to serve as a "campaign center" for the statewide goal to "eradicate dental caries in Utah in 2010" which also offers a "Dental School for Patients" training. The costs are the same as any person who will do what it takes to "be cavity-free for life", about the cost of one filling for the average patients plus some small expenditures to cover the costs of DVD's, audio CD's and printed materials, basic supplies and a "ATP Screening" instrument and supplies. . Patients who take the training will receive a certificate of being a "Carifree Certified Clinician". They now have an opportunity to begin building a new "wellness" practice offering "Optimal Oral and general health" with an income commensurate or possibly superior with other dental health practitioners.
In my opinion, after 40 years of being a Dentist, this is the greatest career opportunity in all of the dental health field. It will yield more predictable results to actually bring the spread of Dental Caries to a dead stop, for a lifetime. It is available to virtually anyone with a minimal investment of time and money but a maximum of effectiveness. Because it is not "exclusive" to highly trained dentists, it allows an army of effective patient/"clinicians" to actually eradicate this terrible disease, Dental Caries, after being rampant throughout the world for centuries! The average dentist's income will be dependent on building a "loyal" group of about 1000 patients, offering "dentistry"...shots, drills, surgery and expense, but is generally successful. A "Wellness practice" that offers a very short, simple, painless and affordable health solution that has 1000 families as loyal patients achieving Optimal Oral and also Optimal general health, will match or possibly exceed the average income of a practicing, licensed dentist.
Interested? Call 801 643-1812 or email: www.patientsown@hotmail.com
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Battle of the Bulge General said "Nuts"...You say "Nuts"
"Nuts" was the reply from an American General who was invited by Nazi Generals to surrender at the "Battle of the Bulge". At this point the future actually did look very bleak. It was a major "seige" of tens of thousands of american soldiers in one of the worst winters in European history.
These soldiers were husbands, "daddies", brothers, uncles, cousins, and somebody's neighbor whose future lives were still ahead of them. This brave reply was probably mostly given in faith. Fortunately, the weather improved and the fighers and bombers were able to drive the enemy back and eventually to defeat. It's a great story, but the moms, dads present and future, along with their children, grandchildren and more preset and future are faced with a powerful challenge even in today's modern world. This is the, mostly ignored, dental health problem that is brought upon almost all of us with an exasperating, expensive and even deadly disease, Dental Caries.
When the approximately 3 million residents of Utah were born, they didn't have any bacteria in their mouths, but according to a statement by the Dental Select dental insurance company, 99% of Utahns have had an experience with dental decay, from a bacterial infection in the mouth. It has been described as "infectious and transmissible". That seems to be an understatement. The cost of dental care in Utah for 2010 is estimated to be $960 million. It is "epidemic" in toddlers and sliding into being "pandemic" with senior citizens. An estimated 25% of the population will have lost all of their teeth by age 65. That's about 750,000 people. There are 32 teeth each which comes to the total of: 24,000,000 teeth lost. This "amputation" or "extraction" is one of the most dreaded dental procedures of all not to count the pain and expense. There are young children admitted to the Primary Children's hospital every week with extreme and dangerous infection stemming from advanced dental disease. The Pedodontic dental practices receive one of the highest levels of income in the dental profession. Almost all Pedodontists will be experienced in having to do the dental care for young children under general anesthesia due to the huge challenge with the extensiveness of the damage and the behavior problems. Most will do hospital dentistry for young children at least once per week. Some of their practices that are advertised for sale in California are asking prices into the 2 and 3 million dollars.
Most people feel helpless. They are victims of this unpredictable and seemingly uncontrollable disease. There as been a light at the end of the tunnel beginning in 2003 when the US Surgeon General issued a "National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health" to literally everyone calling it a "Wake-up Call" . It informed us that Dental Caries was "Preventable". In 2007 this was bumped up to "curable" and preventable, and in 2010 a promise of "Optimal Oral Health" and being "cavity-free for life" is now available.
Although most people are not even aware of this, it is huge! It has empowered all of us to now have the confidence to reply to this threat of a lifetime of suffering and expense with dental disease ......NUTS ! Our brave reply, given mostly in faith, will also affect our future lives and lives of our children and grandchildren present and in the future. Because of YOUR decision to "be cavity-free for life", freedom from being victimized by this disease can be enjoyed by all of your posterity also!
These soldiers were husbands, "daddies", brothers, uncles, cousins, and somebody's neighbor whose future lives were still ahead of them. This brave reply was probably mostly given in faith. Fortunately, the weather improved and the fighers and bombers were able to drive the enemy back and eventually to defeat. It's a great story, but the moms, dads present and future, along with their children, grandchildren and more preset and future are faced with a powerful challenge even in today's modern world. This is the, mostly ignored, dental health problem that is brought upon almost all of us with an exasperating, expensive and even deadly disease, Dental Caries.
When the approximately 3 million residents of Utah were born, they didn't have any bacteria in their mouths, but according to a statement by the Dental Select dental insurance company, 99% of Utahns have had an experience with dental decay, from a bacterial infection in the mouth. It has been described as "infectious and transmissible". That seems to be an understatement. The cost of dental care in Utah for 2010 is estimated to be $960 million. It is "epidemic" in toddlers and sliding into being "pandemic" with senior citizens. An estimated 25% of the population will have lost all of their teeth by age 65. That's about 750,000 people. There are 32 teeth each which comes to the total of: 24,000,000 teeth lost. This "amputation" or "extraction" is one of the most dreaded dental procedures of all not to count the pain and expense. There are young children admitted to the Primary Children's hospital every week with extreme and dangerous infection stemming from advanced dental disease. The Pedodontic dental practices receive one of the highest levels of income in the dental profession. Almost all Pedodontists will be experienced in having to do the dental care for young children under general anesthesia due to the huge challenge with the extensiveness of the damage and the behavior problems. Most will do hospital dentistry for young children at least once per week. Some of their practices that are advertised for sale in California are asking prices into the 2 and 3 million dollars.
Most people feel helpless. They are victims of this unpredictable and seemingly uncontrollable disease. There as been a light at the end of the tunnel beginning in 2003 when the US Surgeon General issued a "National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health" to literally everyone calling it a "Wake-up Call" . It informed us that Dental Caries was "Preventable". In 2007 this was bumped up to "curable" and preventable, and in 2010 a promise of "Optimal Oral Health" and being "cavity-free for life" is now available.
Although most people are not even aware of this, it is huge! It has empowered all of us to now have the confidence to reply to this threat of a lifetime of suffering and expense with dental disease ......NUTS ! Our brave reply, given mostly in faith, will also affect our future lives and lives of our children and grandchildren present and in the future. Because of YOUR decision to "be cavity-free for life", freedom from being victimized by this disease can be enjoyed by all of your posterity also!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Who is spreading all of this Dental Caries disease?? find them and stop it!!
Dental Caries is the most experienced disease in the world. It is the #1 disease amongst children. It is considered pandemic in the world. It is epidemic with toddlers in this nation and heading towards pandemic in the senior citizen population. 2010 estimated cost for dental expenditures in the nation is: $119.3 billion and the federal government estimate for 2015 is $165.7 billion and rising. .Dental care costs have been described as "skyrocketing" and "out of control".
In Utah, a study by a large dental insurance company stated that 99% of Utahns experience dental decay by the time they are 45 years of age. The estimated cost of dental care in Utah for 2010 is about $960 million.
SO WHERE IS ALL OF THIS DISEASE COMING FROM??
When a baby is born there are no bacteria in the mouth. If that child has any cavities, the cavities were caused by a complex bacterial infection.(Cariogenic Biofilm or Dental Caries). Where did it come from? It had to be a live transmission into the mouth of the baby. Finding the answer to that will be the beginning of eradicating Dental Caries from Utah and the nation.
With a research grant from the Gerber Foundation, the New York University College of Dentistry Department of Pediatric Dentistry, using "Seriology" and "DNA fingerprinting" and found the "primary source of infection".
"...caries is an infectious, transmissible disease..and the bacterial acquisition by children, the source of infection was primarily the mother, as was shown by serology and DNA fingerprinting". " A spoon carried from the mother had a sufficient inoculum....to effect transmission and colonization."
The California Dental Association Journal stated that the number one risk factor for a child is parents who have cavities.
The infection that causes caries has been described as "infectious in nature" and can be "spread" "from parent or caregiver to child or even from child to child".
So we have this highly infectious and transmissible disease spread from parents to children(vertical transmission) and spreads within the family and even out to others or into the family from others(horizontal transmission).
We now need to clarify a very important point. Dental Caries is the name of the disease that causes the "symptoms" of "cavities" or "dental decay". A person can have Dental Caries in the mouth and not have visible signs on the teeth......yet.
The disease Dental Caries is considered a "silent" disease since it can exist in a mouth for years before exhibiting any symptoms or "cavities". A person such as this can still be contagious and due to the "infectious nature" of the disease can be spreading it within his family and everybody else without realizing it. This person could be described as a "carrier", having the disease but not being sick himself.
This would explain why so many people I meet claim they do not have cavities or say they haven't had a cavity for years and years and yet 99% of Utahns are getting it from somewhere! It is my opinion that every person in Utah either has the disease Dental Caries in their mouth or is a Carrier still capable of spreading it to others around me.
In the medical field, there are "underdiagnosed" diseases and people who are "carriers" of diseases without knowing it. It has been explained that there is a "lack of proper understanding about a condition" that lets it avoid detection by a health professional or patient and the lack of symptoms allows the disease to remain hidden but still contagious. Oral disease can also fall into this category.
A well informed health professional who is aware of the possibility of a disease existing but undiagnosed, understands the "critical aspect of prevention" of early detection and recommend the appropriate test to detect a silent or hidden disease. Some silent diseases can be detected with genetic analysis, blood tests and a variety of others using more and more sophisticated technology for accurate diagnosis. Fortunately in "modern dentistry" the "Caries Risk Assessment" and the "Cariscreen ATP meter" can be used for a very accurate detection of the presence of a silent case of Dental Caries when patients deny that they have dental caries disease.
With a predominance of dentists still ascribing to "traditional" or "drill and fill" dental care paradigm, their "hallmark of detecting frank cavities and placing restorations" gives serious misinformation to patients that somehow fillings have any affect on the Dental Caries disease. "Drilling and filling has had little impact in controlling the national caries rate and misses the point as a long-term prevention solution".
So it is obvious with 99% of Utahns having experience with dental decay, that Dental Caries is highly contagious and is being spread extremely efficiently by people who don't even know they are a carrier of the disease. A healthy biofilm is the goal of treatment and good caries risk management but it can change very quickly with no warning to the host patient. With just a change in lifestyle a well established healthy biofilm can be changed into a cariogenic biofilm within only 10 days (study by Phillip Marsh). We are well aware of the effects of "etiologic" factors affecting the disease such as diet, sugar, poor oral hygiene etc, but many people are caught off guard with the "non etiologic" factors. Stress, loss of a job, change in lifestyle or employment etc can cause a imbalance in the "caries balance" without any awareness of the patient/host.
So, the solution is for everyone to have a "caries risk assessment" and a Cariscreen ATP meter screening every 3 or 6 months, depending on the seriousness of their past experience with dental decay. If dental caries disease is detected, it can be treated promptly and damage is avoided as well as stop the spreading of it to others.
A person who is a "Carifree Certified Clinician" would be the best source of this regular screening and assessment, since they can offer the highest level of accuracy with the ATP meter screening instrument along with the Caries Risk Assessment questionnaire.
In Utah, we urgently request that everyone have this assessment and screening as soon as possible. The campaign to "Eradicate Dental Caries in Utah in 2010" needs every fellow Utahn to invite friends and relatives to participate. Call: 801 643-1812 and spend a couple of minutes with us to get on safe ground.
In Utah, a study by a large dental insurance company stated that 99% of Utahns experience dental decay by the time they are 45 years of age. The estimated cost of dental care in Utah for 2010 is about $960 million.
SO WHERE IS ALL OF THIS DISEASE COMING FROM??
When a baby is born there are no bacteria in the mouth. If that child has any cavities, the cavities were caused by a complex bacterial infection.(Cariogenic Biofilm or Dental Caries). Where did it come from? It had to be a live transmission into the mouth of the baby. Finding the answer to that will be the beginning of eradicating Dental Caries from Utah and the nation.
With a research grant from the Gerber Foundation, the New York University College of Dentistry Department of Pediatric Dentistry, using "Seriology" and "DNA fingerprinting" and found the "primary source of infection".
"...caries is an infectious, transmissible disease..and the bacterial acquisition by children, the source of infection was primarily the mother, as was shown by serology and DNA fingerprinting". " A spoon carried from the mother had a sufficient inoculum....to effect transmission and colonization."
The California Dental Association Journal stated that the number one risk factor for a child is parents who have cavities.
The infection that causes caries has been described as "infectious in nature" and can be "spread" "from parent or caregiver to child or even from child to child".
So we have this highly infectious and transmissible disease spread from parents to children(vertical transmission) and spreads within the family and even out to others or into the family from others(horizontal transmission).
We now need to clarify a very important point. Dental Caries is the name of the disease that causes the "symptoms" of "cavities" or "dental decay". A person can have Dental Caries in the mouth and not have visible signs on the teeth......yet.
The disease Dental Caries is considered a "silent" disease since it can exist in a mouth for years before exhibiting any symptoms or "cavities". A person such as this can still be contagious and due to the "infectious nature" of the disease can be spreading it within his family and everybody else without realizing it. This person could be described as a "carrier", having the disease but not being sick himself.
This would explain why so many people I meet claim they do not have cavities or say they haven't had a cavity for years and years and yet 99% of Utahns are getting it from somewhere! It is my opinion that every person in Utah either has the disease Dental Caries in their mouth or is a Carrier still capable of spreading it to others around me.
In the medical field, there are "underdiagnosed" diseases and people who are "carriers" of diseases without knowing it. It has been explained that there is a "lack of proper understanding about a condition" that lets it avoid detection by a health professional or patient and the lack of symptoms allows the disease to remain hidden but still contagious. Oral disease can also fall into this category.
A well informed health professional who is aware of the possibility of a disease existing but undiagnosed, understands the "critical aspect of prevention" of early detection and recommend the appropriate test to detect a silent or hidden disease. Some silent diseases can be detected with genetic analysis, blood tests and a variety of others using more and more sophisticated technology for accurate diagnosis. Fortunately in "modern dentistry" the "Caries Risk Assessment" and the "Cariscreen ATP meter" can be used for a very accurate detection of the presence of a silent case of Dental Caries when patients deny that they have dental caries disease.
With a predominance of dentists still ascribing to "traditional" or "drill and fill" dental care paradigm, their "hallmark of detecting frank cavities and placing restorations" gives serious misinformation to patients that somehow fillings have any affect on the Dental Caries disease. "Drilling and filling has had little impact in controlling the national caries rate and misses the point as a long-term prevention solution".
So it is obvious with 99% of Utahns having experience with dental decay, that Dental Caries is highly contagious and is being spread extremely efficiently by people who don't even know they are a carrier of the disease. A healthy biofilm is the goal of treatment and good caries risk management but it can change very quickly with no warning to the host patient. With just a change in lifestyle a well established healthy biofilm can be changed into a cariogenic biofilm within only 10 days (study by Phillip Marsh). We are well aware of the effects of "etiologic" factors affecting the disease such as diet, sugar, poor oral hygiene etc, but many people are caught off guard with the "non etiologic" factors. Stress, loss of a job, change in lifestyle or employment etc can cause a imbalance in the "caries balance" without any awareness of the patient/host.
So, the solution is for everyone to have a "caries risk assessment" and a Cariscreen ATP meter screening every 3 or 6 months, depending on the seriousness of their past experience with dental decay. If dental caries disease is detected, it can be treated promptly and damage is avoided as well as stop the spreading of it to others.
A person who is a "Carifree Certified Clinician" would be the best source of this regular screening and assessment, since they can offer the highest level of accuracy with the ATP meter screening instrument along with the Caries Risk Assessment questionnaire.
In Utah, we urgently request that everyone have this assessment and screening as soon as possible. The campaign to "Eradicate Dental Caries in Utah in 2010" needs every fellow Utahn to invite friends and relatives to participate. Call: 801 643-1812 and spend a couple of minutes with us to get on safe ground.
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