Subject: Re: Periodontal Treatment Options without Surgery
Author: tenthmedDate: 16 Jul
Ref:
What I'm trying to say is, a gimmick is a gimmick is a gimmick. We are
health-professionals and we should NOT be driven solely by the $ or
Pound or Euro. Yes, it is hard to run a small-business and generate a
profit, but we can and do turn a nice profit on cleanings, fillings
(alloy or composite, as you will), crowns, implants, partials, dentures,
yada yada. And, certainment, there is a place for periodontal therapy in
each and every dental practice - if it is a valid treatment.
But, unlike dental restorative therapy, which has not changed much in
20(ceramics) - 100(gold) yrs., should we be treating the dynamics of
modern day Periodontitis with proven therapies or new-age marketing
gimmickry? Should we be treating the patient's disease state or his/her
pocket-book/wallet?
I did not get into the health-professions to get rich, but to make a
difference by helping people (BTW, I am a libertarian, NOT a LEFTY.)
Maybe, my bad. Was I jaded by institutionalized dentistry? I guess that
after 10 years as a U.S. Army dentist, I did not realize the mercenary
attitude of private-practice U.S. dentistry. Again, my bad.
Periodontitis is a potentially deadly disease that should be
aggressively treated, not toyed with by using useless therapies. It
should not be a "profit center".
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