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By Andrea Shepperson - 05 August 2011
So the champion of consumer rights, Mr Kevin Milne, is suggesting that the public should seek services from a dentist before acknowledging that they don't have the funds and "force a flexible response" from the dentist. Now that was responsible! The suggestion is tantamount to fraud or theft. Remind me to shop at the supermarket this weekend, load my trolley and plead poverty, blocking the checkout and refusing to move until the supermarket offers a "flexible response". We all know where that would lead.
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By Andrea Shepperson - 05 August 2011
Trying to have a baby? It might be time to see your dentist. New evidence from the Director of Fertility Specialists in Western Australia, Professor Roger Hart suggests that gum disease can affect the chance of a woman conceiving.
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By Andrea Shepperson - 09 March 2011
Always getting cavities? You don't have to and the solution is simple.
The concept that dental decay is an infectious disease is a foreign notion for most patients. However biological manipulation of dental disease risk, and the ability to treat that infection, is here.
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By Andrea Shepperson - 09 March 2011
Has dental care become so prohibitively expensive in NZ that we chase dental deals in Asia, under the misapprehension that quality dentistry can be purchased between a boob job and a rhinoplasty?
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By Andrea Shepperson - 07 March 2011
In December 2010 the Ministry of Health published results of the NZ Oral Health Survey, a review of our attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and dental practices. Last published in 1988, how much progress have we made in 20 years?
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