The ADA’s money comes from Procter & Gamble, Colgate, Johnson and Johnson and all those huge fluoride selling companies. They enable the ADA to be one of the most influential lobbying groups in the U.S. Organized dentistry uses our legal system to get laws passed that benefits themselves while taking welfare for the rich in the form of tuition and/or dental school subsidies.
Water fluoridation began over sixty years ago,then came fluoridated toothpaste, the ADA’s seal of approval, zillions of fluoridated products. Today tooth decay is a national crisis. Most dentists make three times as much as physicians while working fewer days and hours doing less critical work. Fluorosis rates are climbing which dentists will cover at a cost up to tens of thousands of dollars. And fluoridated toothpaste manufacturing has become a multi-billion international market.
Meanwhile, dentists are so rich tht 80% of them refuse Medicaid patients - who need their care the most. 108 million Americans don’t have dental insurance.
At the same time, organized dentistry blocks any other group from filling their void. They now have a monopoly on fixing teeth. But Dental Therapists can get trained in two years to do the same thing more cheaply and as effectively as dentists. They do in other developed countries.
However, organized dentistry with their corporate dollars gets legislators to do their bidding which includes lobbying against any group that threatens their lucrative monopoly.
Your post is filled with rot.
This looks like it was written by a conspiracy driven chairside assistant.
If you were ever a medical biller, you would know why Medicaid patients are turned away. They go on to Hospitals with Dental programs for the poor (Cleveland’s Metro General is one - I had teeth filled there when I was without money myself) People are billed on a sliding scale.
So what if 108 million Americans don’t have dental insurance? I didn’t for years and made payments. In fact most dentists and doctors for that matter, cut a break to those who DON’T have insurance. Saves them administrative costs.
Sorry you have a problem with the Dental industry. I don’t.