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Time to crank up the heat a bit. A very abbreviated history of the life’s odyssey of a scientist. Or my opinions after three decades of experience, practice, research, and teaching.
When I was first introduced in dental school to the principles of “Modern Dentistry”, these unscientific techniques were formulated in 1891, based on the circumstances of the 1800’s. I immediately and instinctively knew what I was being taught was completely and totally dead wrong. We were taught a theory of drilling on teeth and filling with amalgam that was formulated by a noted dentist, Dr. GV Black. Unfortunately for you, the patient, this theory and several variations have been taught as indisputable dogma since the 1890’s into the 2000’s and present.
What has happened over the next four decades since I started dental school is reflected in my life’s and the Mission Statement of the Texas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies®:
“To Change the Practice of Dentistry for the Benefit of the Patient.”
I had drastically altered the shape and form of my restorations in dental school and in early practice, spinning off in part from the works of another noted dentist, Miles Markley. However, I did not make the conscious effort to sit down and set out the rules to change dentistry until I read translations of another noted dentist, Takayo Fusayama in the mid 1970’s.
Setting a goal is simple. Start where you are standing, and the goal is where you wish to finish. Inspired by Fusayama’s work, in 1977 I made a conscious effort to define my goal “To eliminate decay”. The next part was the hard part. It took me from 1977 to 1983 to understand that the vast majority of dental procedures are done on the chewing surface of back teeth, so the solution to eliminating 70% of all future restorative dental work depended on how to stop decay on the chewing surfaces.
The reason for decay was simple: “Unsound Tooth Structure can Lead to Decay”. The road to eliminating decay (the solution) was the hard part: “Identifying and Eliminating Unsound Tooth structure That is a Threat to the Tooth.” So far, we are not talking about Rocket Science.
By 1985, I had discovered a method to eliminate 70% of future dentistry. We’ve had rather sensational results, verified by other dentists, but it took several years to prove the effectiveness. Regardless, I did expect the world of dentistry to beat a path to my door.
That didn’t exactly happen. Even though dentists can eliminate the need for as much as 70% of all future dentistry, stop the potential for decay, offer pain-free, drill-less, and shot-free dentistry, the public is blocked from this benefit by several entities, in my opinion: Academia, Pediatric Dentists, and humanity’s innate resistance to change.
The Position Papers available through this Web site tell the story. If ending the lucrative (for the dentist) cycle of placement of restorations in your children’s teeth and the almost inevitable replacement in adulthood is important to you, Welcome to the Revolution. If maintaining the status quo and assuring the dental profession of future income through the proven cycle of repair and replacement leading to ever more dentistry, crowns, root canals, and sometimes periodontal disease, “One definition of insanity is to keep on doing the same thing expecting different results.”
Dentistry will not change until you, the patient, demand and force change. Major change is not easily accepted and usually only comes through some sort of force. Otherwise, a one time visit to our office can often eliminate most of the need for future dentistry on the important chewing surfaces, but this needs to be done soon after back teeth erupt.
To back up this claim, look through the Position Papers for the warranty we are willing to place on our restorations on teeth that erupt under our care. (There are no guarantees.) We see many, many, dentists who claim they “can do the same thing” with a variety of procedures using lasers, high speed drills, sealants, amalgam, bondings, etc. If they have not been willing to place a lifetime professional warranty on their procedures over the last quarter of a century, “it” is not “the same thing”, so Buyer Beware.
We have addressed the needs of the public in other ways. Even though we were able to not only patent, but also gain FDA Clearace on a CleanAir/CleanWater system in 1998, most dental offices still continue to deliver water/air to their patients mouths that is contaminated. Click on the PowerPoint Presentation on "DUWLS" (Dental Unit Water Lines). A real eye opener. You WILL receive the benefits in our office from this technology.
Welcome to the Revolution.
JTR, Director
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