Re: Mercury-Free Bandwagon Gathers Pace

In article <1124968428.807630.310340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Keith P Walsh" <keith.p.walsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Robert Morien wrote:
> >
> > wow, that's a freakin ground swell...although to my untrained eye those
> > urls look remarkably the same.
>
> I think that you may have missed the important point.
>
> Dentists are promoting and carrying out the replacement of amalgam
> fillings on health grounds without any threat of censure from their
> national dental associations.
>

In the states we'd call that boutique dentistry and the dentists doing
nothing except finding another creative way to get money from patients.

IE, doing it for the money not the "science"


> Do the dental associations approve of the practice?
>
> Do they disapprove of it?
>
> And if they disapprove of it why can't they do anything about it?

And if they do approve of it why should they do anything about it?

>
> If the national dental association can't regulate its own profession
> then what authority does it have?

Apparently enough to put you in a tizzy.


>
> None.
>
> Perhaps our national dental associations have recognised that they may
> have been making a mistake for a long time and are just a little shy
> about admitting it.

Or perhaps they just don't give a ***.

>
> Or perhaps they're planning to take some action against the
> "mercury-free" crowd.
>
> I suppose we'll just have to wait and see.
>
> Keith P Walsh
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