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Appropriate Dental Care

• Care of Your Teeth and Mouth (NIH Fact Sheet) (posted 10/12/03)
• Recommended Products (posted 5/11/14)
• How to Choose a Dentist (updated 7/24/02)
• How Dental Materials Compare (revised 10/30/08)
• Dental Materials Fact Sheet (California) (posted 7/8/02)
  • Dishonest New "Fact Sheet" Being Considered (posted 8/12/03)
• Fighting Gum Disease: How to Keep Your Teeth (posted 11/22/02)
• Dental Care for Down Syndrome Patients (link to another site)
• CDC Recommendations for Caries Prevention and Control (posted 8/21/04)
• NIH Consensus Panel Statement on Diagnosis and Management of Dental Caries (posted 8/21/04)
• Questions and Answers about sealants (NIH Fact Sheet) (posted 3/13/05)
• Miscellaneous Questions and Answers (posted 11/15/04)
• Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorders (posted 1/7/09)
• ADA Diagnostic X-ray Recommendations (link to ADA Web site)

Questionable Theories and Practices

• Air Abrasion Systems: Potential for Injury and Abuse (posted 7/1/02)
• Bizarre Tooth Charts (posted 11/9/04)
• Bioesthetic Dentistry: Does It Offer Good Value?
• Chirodontics (to be posted)
• Dental Kinesiology (to be posted)
• Denturism (revised 2/14/07)
• Hair Analysis (link to Quackwatch)
• HealOzone Treatment (posted 1/1/06)
• Holistic and biological dentistry (link to Quackwatch)
• Keyes Technique (link to another site)
• Massive Dental Fraud Uncovered (posted 2/10/10)
• Neuralgia Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis (NICO) (link to Quackwatch)
• Nonrecommended Books (posted 12/27/08)
• Quackery in Dentistry: Past and Present (link to another site)
• "Psychic Dentistry" (link to another site)
• Sargenti Root Canal Treatment (updated 9/17/10)
• Serum Compatibility Testing (link to Quackwatch)
• "TMJ" Therapy (posted 12/6/08)
• The Under Armour Mouth Guard: A Skptical Look (posted 5/3/10)
• Why Chelation Therapy Should Be Avoided (link to Quackwatch)
• ViziLite Screening (posted 9/10/08)

General Information about Quackery

• How to Spot a Quack (link to Quackwatch)
• How Quackery Sells (link to Quackwatch)
• More Ploys That Can Fool You (link to Quackwatch)
• Why People are Vulnerable (link to Quackwatch)
• How Quackery Harms (link to Quackwatch)
• Why Professionals Become Quacks (link to Quackwatch)

Amalgam Facts

• The Amalgam Scare Campaign (link to Quackwatch)
• Key Points about Dental Amalgam (revised 9/24/04)
• More Notes on the Anti-Amalgam Movement (posted 12/18/10)
• Dubious Mercury Testing (link to Quackwatch)
• NCAHF Position Paper (posted 10/7/02) FEATURE
• Ten Clinical and Legal Myths of Anti-Amalgam (posted 11/1/02)
• Ten Medical Myths of Anti-Amalgam (posted 11/1/02)
• U.S. Rep. Diane Watson Introduces Anti-Amalgam Bill (link to Quackwatch)
• FDA Consumer Update
• CDC Fact Sheet (posted 7/1/02)
• Q&A About Dental Fillings and Alzheimer's Disease (link to Alzheimer's Association)
• ADA: Myths vs. Facts (posted 8/15/02)
• Statements of Support (updated 9/3/02)
• ATSDR Public Health Statement for Mercury (posted 9/3/02)
• News Briefs (updated 3/28/08)
• DMPS Facts and Patient Reports (link to another site)

Fluoridation Facts

• Don't Let the Poisonmongers Scare You! (updated 2/22/13)
• Dental Fluorosis: Much Ado about Nothing (updated 2/06/13)
• Editorials and Columns Supporting Fluoridation (2005-2012) (posted 2/23/13)
• Links to Key Documents on Community Water Fluoridation (posted 5/4/14)
• British Groups Issue Comprehensive Report (posted 4/13/05)
• American Dental Association's Fluoridation Facts Booklet
• CDC Fact Sheet (2011) (posted 9/27/11)
• CDC Recommendations for Using Fluoride to Prevent and Control Dental Caries in the United States (2001) (posted 9/27/11)
• Congressional Research Service Review of Safety, Benefits, and Regulation (1970) (posted 9/27/11)
• Classification and Appraisal of Objections to Fluoridation (1960) (posted 1/9/12)
• Review of Fluoride: Benefits and Risks (Public Health Service, 1991report) (posted 11/10/12)
• A Recent Critique of Antifluoridation Literature (posted 4/10/12)
• The Tooth Robbers: A Profluoridation Handbook (1980) (posted 10/7/11)
• Fluoridation of Water and Cancer: A Review of the Epidemiological Evidence (1985) (posted 11/26/12
• Fluoridation: The Search and the Victory (1970) (posted 1/18/12)
• Fluoridation Statistics (posted 11/4/04)
• Fluoridation Safety and Efficacy: A Response to John Colquhoun (1999) (posted 12/14/02)
• Statement of support from Dr. Linus Pauling (posted 7/8/02)
• Statement of support from Dr. Benjamin Spock (posted 7/8/02)
• Position Statement of the Canadian Paediatric Society (link to another site)
• Salt Fluoridation Effective in Reducing Tooth Decay (posted 6/13/06)
• Fluoridation Roadmap for Legislators (posted 7/8/02)
• Fluoride Legislative User Informaton Database (FLUID): Archive of fluoridation policies and legal cases
• Organizations That Support Fluoridation (posted 8/26/02)
• The Ethics of Fluoridation (link to another site)
• Unprincipled Opposition (posted 11/13/03)
• News Briefs (updated 3/4/03)
• HHS/EPA Propose to Update Fluoride Concentration in Community Water Supplies (posted 12/2/11)
• Index of U.S. Public Health Service Documents Supporting Fluoridation (updated 11/28/12)
• Senate Hearing on the Children's Dental Health Act of 1971 (posted 12/1/12)

Dental Organizations

• Accredited Dental Schools (U.S. and Canada)
• State Dental Societies (link to ADA site)
• Foreign/International Directory (link to ADA site)
• Questionable Organizations (posted 6/24/02)

Consumer Protection

• How to File a Complaint (posted 7/24/02)
• State Licensing Boards (updated 3/13/08)
• ACA Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct
• Sale of Amalgameter Banned (1985) (posted 11/7/02)
• Kansas Appeals Court Opposes Dentist's Use of "Inferior" Medical Degree (revised 9/19/04)
  

Disciplinary Actions

• Viola M. Fryman, DO (link to Quackwatch)
• Peter Hehli, DDS (link to Casewatch)
• Hal A. Huggins, DDS (link to Quackwatch)
• Terry J. Lee, DDS (revised 2/13/05)
• Scott McAdoo, DDS (posted 9/19/04)
• Douglas J. Phillips, DDS (link to Quackwatch)
• Anthony G. Roeder, DDS(posted 9/14/04)
• Wesley Shankland, DDS (posted 3/24/07)
• James Shen, DDS and Riley Young, DDS (posted 6/27/06)
• Alan Spaeth, DDS (posted 7/22/04)
• Richard Vander Heyden, DDS. (link to Casewatch)
  

Reliable Sites

• Academy of General Dentistry
• American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
• American Academy of Periodontology
• American Association of Endodontists
• American Dental Association
• Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health
• British Fluoridation Society
• Campaign to Protect Children's Dental Health (dissects antifluoridation claims)
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Dental Cost Calculator
• Fluoride Science (examines antifluoridation claims)
• National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health (Bright Futures)
• National Center for Fluoridation
• National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)
• National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center (OHRC)
• National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse (NOHIC)
• National Oral Health Surveillance System
• Nova Scotia Dental Association: Site for elementary school children
• Quackwatch
• Sargenti Opposition Society
• Surgeon General's Report on Oral Health in America
• The TMJ Association

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