Re: Amalgams cause hallucinations?

>False.
There is no compulsion to be a member of the ADA
in order to practice. In fact I am *not* a member and
don't have any desire to join.
My state license is in full order.
The ADA is not a 'labor union' in any sense of the phrase.
Thanks for that !

Exactly what do you think the purpose of the ADA is? They are a group
of dentists who are given the exclusive right to create dental schools,
IE dentists. They have direct power to control the supply of dentists,
which in turn, controls the wages of all dentists. I applaud you for
not joining the ADA, as any payments you give them, only further
strengthens the beast.

The ADA is a very efficient union. It has excellent public relations,
as you can see, 99.9% of the people in this thread support the ADA.
However, in a free society, people who want to practice dentistry,
should have variety of schools they can learn from.

Moreover, the distortions the ADA has caused in the market is becoming
more apparent as time goes on. There is a lack of dentists to keep up
with the population, but dentists usually don't work on Fridays.

I also predict that soon dentists will start blaming insurance
companies for the high cost of dentistry, as the doctors are doing.
Then, as doctors, the ADA dentists will look for yet another government
enforced protection of their business (that the rest of us don't get):
the limitation of their liability for malpractice.

The real social cost of all of this ADA nonsense, is that people only
get one set of teeth their entire lives, and they must suffer from the
lack of availability of care.

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