Do any dentists on here practice CAMBRA?

[tennischamp822]

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[armorshell]

From my experience so far, CAMBRA looks like a great way to make a ton of money. You "prescribe" a half-dozen expensive rinses, mints and sprays to every patient who walks through the door, charge them for pH testing, caries cultures, caries "biopsies", GI sealants everywhere, in-office Fl- treatment, diet counseling, caries susceptibility testing, etc...

You do this on any and every patient who walks through the door regardless of actual need, and the best part is if it works, you can claim it's because you're an amazing clinician, and if it fails it's always because of "home care" or "patient compliance."

Yes, there are a few dentists who practice this way. All the ones I've heard of are doing just fine financially.

 

[Theillestill]

http://www.drilling-no-thanks.com/us/loesung.html

Its a product that BMG Hamburg came up with recently. Apparently it uses low viscosity resin infiltration to infiltrate porous enamel lesions.

It's called "Icon" and the idea is they use a HCl gel to remove the intact surface layer, wash and dry, dehydrate with alcohol and then fill it in with the resin.

One of the guys in our restorative dentistry faculty are somehow really involved with testing new materials out, so he had a few slides in one of our lectures recently.

 

[doc toothache]

http://www.drilling-no-thanks.com/us/loesung.html
Its a product that BMG Hamburg came up with recently. Apparently it uses low viscosity resin infiltration to infiltrate porous enamel lesions.
It's called "Icon" and the idea is they use a HCl gel to remove the intact surface layer, wash and dry, dehydrate with alcohol and then fill it in with the resin.
One of the guys in our restorative dentistry faculty are somehow really involved with testing new materials out, so he had a few slides in one of our lectures recently.

Cool technique; removing the pesky first molar to gain access to the interproximal area, not to mention leaving decay in the dentin.

 

[ReallyCuteGirl]

From my experience so far, CAMBRA looks like a great way to make a ton of money. You "prescribe" a half-dozen expensive rinses, mints and sprays to every patient who walks through the door, charge them for pH testing, caries cultures, caries "biopsies", GI sealants everywhere, in-office Fl- treatment, diet counseling, caries susceptibility testing, etc...

You do this on any and every patient who walks through the door regardless of actual need, and the best part is if it works, you can claim it's because you're an amazing clinician, and if it fails it's always because of "home care" or "patient compliance."

Yes, there are a few dentists who practice this way. All the ones I've heard of are doing just fine financially.

... lol that's what you guys would call ownage.

 

[Turnerjo13]

I believe that in some states, following the principals set forth by CAMBRA is the law. You can get in a lot of trouble if all you do is drill and fill with out any acknowledgment of a patients risk factors for further disease. Not only with the board of dentistry, but with the patients attorneys. It would be the ethical move to try to lower a patients risk of further disease by addressing and correcting risk factors and bolstering protective factors before completing a mouth full of composites. simply drilling and filling with out consideration for a the disease state of a mouth is negligence IMO.

 

[doc toothache]

What states would those be?

I believe that in some states, following the principals set forth by CAMBRA is the law. You can get in a lot of trouble if all you do is drill and fill with out any acknowledgment of a patients risk factors for further disease. Not only with the board of dentistry, but with the patients attorneys. It would be the ethical move to try to lower a patients risk of further disease by addressing and correcting risk factors and bolstering protective factors before completing a mouth full of composites. simply drilling and filling with out consideration for a the disease state of a mouth is negligence IMO.

 

[Drill Doc]

... lol that's what you guys would call ownage.

Huh?

Maybe look here to see what that word means...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ownage

ps: Your username isn't fooling anyone.