If you live in America you should be concerned about dental fraud. The only way to solve this is single payer health insurance. The bottom line: get a second opinion and question everything when seeing the dentist. The video below goes into more issues on dental fraud and what you should do to protect yourself.
Here is an article written by Joushua Bernstien and appeared in Dental Economics. At a recent dental meeting, a famous panel of dentists and consultants fielded questions about how to improve our practices. Leadership, teamwork, vision, communication, strategic planning, focus, and many other great buzz-word ideas were discussed. When the dust settled after the discussion, I realized that we are completely out of touch with our cosmetic dentistry patients. As we evolve and behave like business owners, we sometimes forget that the patients are still thinking the same old thing-they “hate the dentist!” While we are excited about various occlusion philosophies, new materials, and high technology, the patients are still “afraid of the shot!” While we are dinking around refining the perfect crown margin, the patients “hate the sound of the drill!” While we are concerned about diagnosis and treatment, … Read more
I just was in Ann Arbor at the Michigan Head Pain and Neurological Institute. I saw Dr. Todd Rozen. For anyone who is suffering from a headache that won’t go away or is really interferring with your life I strongly recommend you go to MHNI. While I was there, I recieved extension testing ranging from bloodwork to EEG and EKG. Dr Rozen showed me a possible nasal contact that was occuring in my nose. No one thus far out of all the doctors I have seen and have reviewed my films suggestede this. He recommened I try a diagnostic liodacaine test with an ear nose and throat doctor. Dr. Rozen was also concerned by my consistently high blood pressure and tremor that occurs in my upper body. He was concerned that possibly I came in contact with a heavy metal … Read more
So today I received a letter in the mail with a letter from the headache specialist I have been seeing in the area for over the past year. The letter explained how he no longer could continue to treat me after February. He listed many other doctors in the area as well a more known doctor, Todd Rozen, and Michigan Head and Neck Institute. I’m not quite sure why he decided to send the letter. Likely due to me not being as compliant as he would like and having negative side effects to nearly every medication given. On another note, I recently received the book Acute and Chronic Headache : A Guide for the Primary Physician and the Headache Specialist written by James H. Francis, M.D. I just starting reading the book and it seems to have a lot of … Read more
I came across an interesting discussiong on a syndrome known as neuragia-inducing cavitational osteonecrosis (NICO). One such doctor who advocates the syndrome has recently lost his dental license. In 2007, Wesley R. Shankland, II, D.D.S., who operates the Central Ohio Center for Facial Pain in Columbus, Ohio, settled charges against him by entering into a consent under which (a) his dental license will be suspended for six months; (b) he must complete 300 hours of continuing dental education that includes at least 40 hours in ethics, (c) he must not utilize any “alternative” dental or medical treatment without informing the patient that the procedure is nonstandard, (d) his ability to prescribe narcotics and psychiatric drugs will be restricted during 2008, and (e) his records must be available for review and monitoring by a physician or dentist who is experienced in the … Read more