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November 2005, Vol 95, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1881
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.075036

LETTER

SEKIGUCHI ET AL. RESPOND

Eugene Sekiguchi, DDS, Albert H. Guay, DMD, L. Jackson Brown, DDS, PhD and Thomas J Spangler, Jr, JD

The authors are with the American Dental Association, Chicago, Ill.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Albert H. Guay, DMD, American Dental Association, 211 East Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60611-2678 (e-mail guaya@ada.org).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the criticisms of our article, "Improving the Oral Health of Alaska Natives,"1 by some members of the dental public health community. The American Dental Association (ADA) is fully supportive of the Dental Health Aide Program in Alaska, except for allowing non-dentists to perform irreversible surgical treatments.

The ADA considers protecting the oral health and safety of the public as its obligation; allowing nondentists to provide irreversible surgical procedures jeopardizes both, particularly Alaska Natives, because of the extent and the severity of oral diseases they suffer. A dentist’s education involves considerably more than manual . . . [Full Text]






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