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Dentist & public health PhD | Associate Professor | Personal views and opinions Dental As Anything is a platform to share insights and opinions on a wide range of topics related to dentistry, exploring critical issues that affect oral health.
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Survey Request - Dental practitioner awareness and use of the Australian fluoride guidelines (opens the original)
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The Australian Fluoride Guidelines are being reviewed later this year, and I have been invited to give a presentation on how dental practitioners are currently using and recommending fluoride in clinical practice and how they are using or interpreting the guidelines.Practitioner input is important, and this survey can help inform the new guidelines as well as how they are disseminated and communicated to practitioners.The survey is anonymous and should only take about 5 minutes.Please share with
How supermarkets are capturing our children’s gaze (opens the original)
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We’ve all been there – rushing around the supermarket for the weekly shop, kids in tow, pestering us to get some sugary breakfast cereal or a special treat. We manage to get to the check-out with the shopping trolley relatively unscathed by their urgent demands and think we might escape this time without any of those extra unwanted unhealthy items in the shopping bag. But as we stand there waiting in line, their attention is drawn to the check-out display – all chocolate and lollies – and their
Medicare Dental Debate Part 2 - A Path Forward? (opens the original)
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In last week’s episode of the Dental As Anything podcast, Dr Arosha Weerakoon and I debated some of the many concerns that dental practitioners, and in particular private practice owners, have about plans to expand Medicare to include more dental services.This week, in Part 2 of the Medicare Dental Debate, we try to find some common ground in a path forward. We talk about some of the recommendations of the Senate Select Committee in Dental Services, alternate plans su
Medicare Dental Debate - Part 1 (opens the original)
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I have a strong belief in the principle of universal health care. Access to good quality health care should not be dependent on your postcode or income. For that reason, Australia’s Medicare system - despite its flaws - is recognised as one of the better health systems in the world. It goes without saying that the mouth is a part of the body, and dental diseases have wide ranging impacts on overall health and wellbeing. So a health care system that treats periodontal disease differently from car
A bad case of history repeating (opens the original)
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Let me preface this by saying that I am one of the strongest advocates for increasing public funding to improve access to dental care. Too many Australians delay or miss out on necessary dental care each year, and affordability is a key driver. I have spent countless hours meeting Victorian politicians and their advisors outlining the issues with their under-resourced public dental system and discussing ways to improve it, to little avail.When I heard that the new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll h
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