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	SilvermanDMD
	The personal blog of Dr. Michael Silverman, president and co-founder of the Dental Organization for Conscious Sedation

We can’t regulate compliance with safety protocols. If a medical professional is hell-bent on violating the norms of conduct, he or she will ignore tougher regulations just as readily.

What we can do is make a public example of what happens to medical professionals who know better, but act with blatant disregard of fundamental safety standards. What we can do is drum them – loudly – out of the profession.

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Traffic is a mess. I'm low on gas. My favorite radio station is playing a test of the emergency broadcast network. It's raining. We're supposed to barbecue tonight.

I arrive at my garage, finally. Oops. I forgot to pick up the dry cleaning that I promised Kimberly I'd pick up on the way from work. My only "clean" suit at home has a stain on it. A big stain.

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My birthday is coming up this month and I’ve been doing some calculating. Based on recent figures from the National Center for Health Statistics, it is safe to assume that by the time I turn 65 – in the early 2020s, I will be one of more than 54.6 million Americans to reach that milestone.

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Dr. Leslie S.T. Fang leaves no stone unturned. For example, while the likelihood of serious complications from the use of Fosamax – an oral bisphosphonate – are miniscule, he nonetheless makes sure to alert dentists to the possibility of complications and how to avoid them. “You better warn the patients on Fosamax,” Dr. Fang says. “The fact that only 45 cases have ever been described out of 22 million is irrelevant. I want to make sure that [dentists] are aware of the information.”

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An announcement we issued to alert Kansas and Missouri-area dentists of our upcoming "Oral Sedation Dentistry" course has received some pick up from local and national web sites. The course, the first of its kind in the region, will be held October 28 to October 30.

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I'm enthusiastic about our latest radio advertisement for Sedation Dentistry. We are currently testing this ad in a limited fashion on News/Talk 870 KRLA in Los Angeles. You can listen by clicking on "more." Let me know what you think.

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A UK survey of more than 1,000 consumers this past June found that 44% of women who put off going to the dentist do so out of fear, compared with 38% of men.

“For people with a phobia, visiting the dentist can be a very daunting experience,” noted Dr. Nigel Carter, chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation. “This is a real shame because modern dentistry should be completely pain free,” he said.

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Dr. David Steele, a dentist in Alexandria, Indiana noted that his one-year-old Persian cat, Sebastian, had an underbite. The dentist fretted that his cats two bottom canines might break off or cause a problem, so he fit his feline friend with two gold crowns.

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For someone who believes as deeply as I do in "community," it is somewhat ironic that my dream home rests on an island in the middle of a giant fresh water lake in northern Idaho.

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Pend Oreille [pronounced Pond Or Ay] means “looks like an ear” in French, which is what the lake look likes from orbit. Despite its name, it was not a French explorer who discovered this crescent shaped lake in 1809. It was a Scot by the name of Finan McDonald, his Canadian-Indian friend Jaco Finlay, and the Thompson Family, a family traveling west with 13 children.

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