Dentist and Dental Guide News 2008-07-05

2 Young children from low-income families experience high levels of tooth decay and face many barriers to getting dental treatment and preventive services. Because these children usually visit their pediatrician or other primary care provider far more frequently than a dentist, the primary care medical setting is gaining popularity as a place to provide preventive dental services.

Currently, physicians in more than 400 pediatric primary care offices in North Carolina (NC) have been trained to screen for tooth decay, so that referrals for those in need can be made to dentists. This effort is part of a preventive dental program known as "Into the Mouths of Babes" (IMB).

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Young children from low-income families experience high levels of tooth decay and face many barriers to getting dental treatment and preventive services. Because these children usually visit their pediatrician or other primary care provider far more frequently than a dentist, the primary care medical setting is gaining popularity as a place to provide preventive dental services.

With NHS dentists an increasingly rare commodity, Bain said he was "sorry" to be depleting the numbers further. "Ive enjoyed working in the NHS. Im not leaving because I hate dentistry, Im leaving because I love singing," he said. "This is the ultimate dream come true. " Bain plans to continue working at a north London dental surgery for the next three months as his appointments book is full until September.

Ive been lucky to have very understanding bosses and patients who didnt mind if I took time off here and there to do a show. Ive tried to keep the singing and the dentistry separate, mostly. Some patients ask me to sing after finding out what I do. But more nervous patients dont want to hear about it - theyd much rather believe that I read dentistry text books in my spare time. "

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We are not opposed to a new dental clinic on the property behind our residence, Jeanne Mumma read from a prepared statement the Planning Commission this week. We are opposed to a building, parking lots (and) road plan too large for the lot, requiring zoning variances encroaching on our property, eliminating privacy . and thus radically changing the character of the neighborhood.

Newman owns the Bishop Street property as well as an adjacent strip of land that has acted as a utility corridor and buffer with large evergreen trees between the residences on High Street and the back of the former Bi-Lo and the proposed dentistry site.

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What is certain is that almost a decade after Tony Blair promised universal access to a dentist within two years, the reality is his pledge is no nearer to being fulfilled. The party that gave Britain the NHS will leave office having run state-funded dentistry into the ground.

Few share that sense of optimism. Instead, there is a growing concern that NHS dentistry will merely become a safety net offering basic care to those who cannot pay - rather than a comprehensive service for all - if it remains on its current course.

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A Muslim-hating Iranian refugee who slashed a city dentist with broken glass in front of horrified witnesses at a dental clinic has been given a four-year prison sentence.

He was told to leave, but returned 45 minutes later and demanded to see Fathi-Afshar. After a brief scuffle, he pulled out a broken glass bottle he had brought and slashed the doctors left arm. He then screamed repeatedly that he would come back to kill the dentist and fled.

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Any time I bring someone around, I am very proud of what we have here, said Dr. Samartano, who explained that the center serves more than 19,000 patients annually. The facility has 11 chairs and is staffed by six pediatric dentists, three general dentists, an oral surgeon and an orthodontist, three dental hygienists and eight pediatric dental residents, enrolled in a joint two-year program with Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. , where Dr. Kane also serves as associate director, Advanced Education in Pediatric Dentistry.

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Industry experts believe that with almost a million fewer patients being treated since Labours last disastrous shake-up of NHS dental care in 2006, it will become one of the most popular types of treatment sought abroad.

Millions who have lost their NHS dentist could insist on going abroad for free treatment under radical plans to allow health tourism.

As well as all hospital care, the blueprint revealed in yesterdays Daily Mail includes dentistry.

Patients needlessly losing their teeth as NHS dentists are pulling them out instead of fixing them

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Cllr. Pauline McCauley tabled a motion at the meeting requesting the ,inister to take urgent action with regard to the provision of dental services for children. She was aware of numerous cases in which children were not having their dental needs attended to and some had now progressed to post primary level without having been seen by a HSE dentist. Some parents were paying privately for their children to be attended to but this shouldnt be the case and the Minister must take action and appoint the necessary number of dentists, said Councillor McCauley.

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Q and A: Dental reforms

Local Primary Care Trusts were given the responsibility for commissioning dental services in their own areas, with the idea that this would give the NHS more control on the level of dentistry available, hopefully helping to bring NHS services to areas where people found it hardest to find a dentist.

It meant dentists had a financial incentive for carrying out complex dental procedures, rather than preventing problems, and often left patients unclear on what their dental treatment would cost.

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My 8 year old daughter has special needs. When she was born she qualified for SoonerCare. Our family is no longer on SoonerCare however due to the costs of the 56 surgeries that my daughter has required she qualifies for SoonerCare on her own. No other insurance company would consider providing coverage for her at this point in her life. We have been blessed to find wonderful doctors and very recently a great dentist who are all patient and caring when working with her.

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