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The Perio Patient Podcast

Aug 31, 2020

Is fluoridation a good thing? To answer this, we have to first understand what fluoride is and where it comes from.

Some of my material comes from these two sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorine


Aug 29, 2020

This is the 75th anniversary of water fluoridation.

Do we still need it? How do we know?

To get there I want to tell you about the Cochrane Library -- what it is and what it does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochrane_Library


Aug 26, 2020

In the 1950s, it was decided, absent data, that low dose radiation was as bad as high dose and so no dose would be tolerated. This was called the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) dose hypothesis. Today this is being overturned in medicine and eventually in dentistry.


Aug 25, 2020

The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.

What patients need to know about their dental insurance. How to understand it and how to make sure the dental insurance company is treating them fairly.


Aug 24, 2020

The thoughts and ideas of one periodontist.

What patients need to know about their dental insurance. How to understand it and how to make sure the dental insurance company is treating them fairly.