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February 2005, Vol 95, No. 2 | American Journal of Public Health 190
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.054007

LETTER

ORAL HEALTH CARE AND PROFESSIONAL ABSTINENCE

Jay W. Friedman, DDS, MPH

Jay W. Friedman is the author of The Intelligent Consumer’s Complete Guide to Dental Health: How to Maintain Your Dental Health and Avoid Being Overcharged and Overtreated.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jay W. Friedman, DDS, MPH, 3057 Queensbury Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90064 (e-mail: drjfriedman@sbcglobal.net).

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

In the May 2004 issue of the Journal, Lamster1 and Formicola et al.2 lament the sorry status of oral health and oral health care for major segments of our population, specifically, poor children, the elderly, the institutionalized, and the uninsured. They state the usual pious platitudes—the "shoulds" and the "oughts"—without recognizing the contributing deficiencies in dental education and training that are perpetuated by organized dentistry’s unflagging resistance to fundamental change.

So long as filling a tooth and making a denture are considered doctoral-level activities, dentistry will not escape its persistent regressive character and will not be able to adequately serve . . . [Full Text]






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