DIY kit to pull your own teeth- UK poor can not afford dentist
THOUSANDS of Britons are carrying out DIY dentistry, pulling their own teeth with pliers and using household glue to stick down fillings.
Unable to afford soaring charges, almost a fifth of people have all but given up going to their dentist, the Sunday Express has discovered.
There has been a surge in sales of dental kits at pharmacies including chemicals to whiten teeth.
Experts say that up to 200,000 DIY dentists risk injuring themselves and missing out on potentially life-saving check-ups. Up to a third of adults no longer have an NHS dentist, according to the latest figures. MORE
Boost your practice by getting patients to say YES to your treatment?
You explain full treatment plan and educate her about the restorations/rct/prophy you will use to fix the problems. She smiles and says, “Okay, I’ll think about it.
The first thing you should realize is that most patients don’t make decisions about their dental treatment based on education.
People will always find a way to do what they want, but not necessarily what they need. I’m sure you’ve had this happen 100 times. You educate your patient about some dental treatment he or she needs and you hear, “I need to talk to my husband first,” or “I’ll check my schedule and get back with you.” These statements really mean, “I may need it, but I don’t want it.”
The reason education kills case acceptance is because patients decide to do dental treatment based on emotion, not education or intellect. In fact, most buying decisions are emotionally based. READ MORE
Implantology course
It was a breath of fresh air to listen to Dr Shyam Mahajan on implants, his approach is so much hands on and down to earth, you immediately want to start implants in your clinic. His mission is NOT charging a fortune for courses or make you buy EXPENSIVE kits- He just wants you to offer this option to your patients by overcoming all obstacles. If you want to start implants and without spending anything really, ATTEND His Course THIS MONTH, apply NOW
He will answer all your Q, why implant, which implant, how to talk to pt. how to get trained n start in your clinic, which system n why, how to get mentor, how much to charge pts
NEET for MDS MESS, SC delvers verdict in favor of pvt colleges
SC has directed colleges to declare all pending PG results, which were stayed by the December 13, 2012, order. However, this is only an interim arrangement for this year and a final judgement will be delivered by the Supreme Court in the first week of July.
Colleges who want to follow the NEET results for admissions can do the same and the colleges who want to admit students on the basis of their independent exams are free to do so. This makes NEET a voluntary admission process for colleges. FULL STORY
Making outstanding presentations- 7 lessons from World’s best presenters
START WITH PAPER, NOT POWERPOINT
TELL YOUR STORY IN 3 ACTS
A PICTURE IS WORTH 1000 WORDS
EMOTIONS GET OUR ATTENTION
USE PLAIN ENGLISH
DITCH THE BULLET POINTS
REHEARSE LIKE CRAZY ….READ FULL ARTICLE
Cavity statistics don’t support fluoridation
Investigative reporting by Portland’s KATU-2 News, new state cavity data shows fluoridation supporters’ central arguments are completely inaccurate. The new cavity data that KATU and The Oregonian obtained through Oregon’s Public Records Act shows that cavity rates in Oregon just dropped 19 percent while Multnomah County’s rates dropped by 10 percent. Data showed that 48 percent of kids surveyed in Portland’s schools have had a cavity at some point while kids attending schools in Oregon’s fluoridated cities had a 52 percent cavity rate.
While this was clearly bad news for those pushing fluoridation, it highlights that we already have better alternatives for helping children’s teeth than increasing water rates to add fluoridation chemicals to our water. FULL NEWS
A Few Tips That Will Help You to Be Really Effective with Your Toothbrush
Typically, most people “build up” plaque and tarter on the tongue side (inside) of the lower teeth, if you want to be really effective with your toothbrush, you may find it beneficial to start there. It also means that when you are rushing to finish up, you have at least gotten the hardest area first
Also, “dry brushing” with either a dry tooth brush or one wet with water only can really help you access the areas that tend to be the site for build up, especially the lower front inside area.
Lastly, holding your toothbrush with a Vulcan death grip will not get the plaque off any quicker or easier, honestly the only thing that it will do is perhaps brush the tooth or gum away. Try holding your toothbrush as if it were a paintbrush and go easy on the strokes.
Teeth and implants are not same
This debate between implants and endodontics should not exist. Implants and root canals are not alternative treatments. If a tooth and its surrounding periodontium is in tact, we should make every effort to preserve them, because an implant cannot restore these periodontal tissues and loss of these tissues leads to a host of other challenges.
While implants have an important part in dentistry, an implant can never effectively reform the periodontium. The bundle bone and the family of fibers (dentogingival, dentoperiosteal, alveologingival, periosteogingival, interpapillary, intergingival, circular, semicircular, transgingival, intercircular, transeptal fibers) that create the architecture of the dental papilla all belong to the tooth. LINK
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