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The Whole Tooth: How To Find A Good Dentist, Keep Healthy Teeth, And Avoid The Incompetents, Quacks, And Frauds
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Product Description
Everyone who's ever sat in the dentist's chair knows it can be a daunting experience: Exactly what work needs to be done? Will it hurt? Are there risks? What are the alternatives? Is the dentist going to do the best job possible? Far too often, answers to these and other questions remain unexplored, and the patient settles for mediocre care, too much physical pain, and too high a bill.
Enter Drs. Schissel and Dodes, two veteran dentists who have earned a reputation as impassioned consumer advocates in a field that has become increasingly riddled with low-quality work, unnecessary or even bogus treatments, deceptive claims, and inflated costs for the patient.
In The Whole Tooth, they explain how to make truly informed decisions and take the best possible care of your teeth. Topics include:
* What you need to know in order to judge whether your dentist is doing good work
* The truth about your toothpaste, toothbrush, mouthwash, and other oral hygiene products
* Clear, no-nonsense information about fillings, crowns, root canals, bridgework, dentures, and implants
* The facts about TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder), the safety of silver amalgam fillings, and risk of infection in the dentist's office
* The special needs of children's teeth
* How managed care affects your access to high-quality dental work.
Filled with the information every consumer and every dentist must know, this authoritative, straightforward book will help you and your family sort through the myths and misinformation in order to keep your teeth healthy and beautiful for a lifetime-- which, for the record, is how long they are supposed to last!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2200647 in Books
- Published on: 1997-02-15
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
You may think, from a lifetime of going to dentists who seem entirely assured of their conclusions, that dentistry is an exact science. You would be wrong. The authors, both impassioned consumer advocates, find the quality of dental work slipping, and the amount of fraud and quackery rising. Among their revelations: You don't need to replace silver or mercury fillings because they aren't poisonous. You don't need to bleach your teeth because adult teeth aren't supposed to be white (across all races, the natural color of healthy teeth is yellowish).
From Booklist
Schissel and Dodes argue that good dentists do their work carefully and thoroughly and therefore take more time and have to charge commensurately. The American Dental Association, by allowing public mention of only cost--rather than quality--and by failing to act on reports of poor work, has, they say, encouraged slipshod dentistry. Speedy work and the pressure to cut costs at managed care organizations are killing off the traditional dentist who takes pride in his work and, especially, in helping patients maintain healthy teeth. Becoming old, Schissel and Dodes assert, does not necessarily entail the loss of teeth. They inveigh against those who argue that amalgam fillings are unsafe and those who claim to treat temperomandibular joint problems, which they say are only a fad. Those seeking a new dentist or assurance that their current dentist is doing good work may find this book invaluable. Indeed, the chapter "Primer on Quackery" alone is almost worth the book's price. William Beatty
Review
"Accurate and comprehensive...Patients, dentists, and dental students will find this information invaluable...could save the consumer many times the cost of this book."--Dr. Wilmer B. Eames, Professor Emeritus of Dentistry
"This book can save consumers thousands of dollars by helping them to avoid useless types of dental care. More important, some may be spared from something worse...Drs. Schissel and Dodes are willing to share their expertise to help ordinary people protect themselves economically, physically, and emotionally from bad dentistry."--William Jarvis, Ph.D., President of the National Council Against Health Fraud
