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02/18/2018 / By Edsel Cook

What’s a little extra radiation gonna hurt — if your insurance pays for it? Study reveals dentists take many x-rays for financial incentives

You may want to pay closer attention when your dentist recommends you get an X-ray. ScienceDaily detailed the ghastly results of a major study that discovered dentists are willing to dose their patients with unnecessary X-rays if they get paid for it. Researchers from the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York investigated […]

01/22/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Health experts urge dentists to question your sexual habits to assess risk of cancer-causing STDs; dental professionals resist

Health experts have come to the conclusion that dentists should participate more in preventing human papillomavirus (HPV) and the cancers that are related to it by possibly asking patients about their sex lives in order to assess said patients’ risk of vulnerability to the disease. Around 79 million Americans are infected by HPV, which is […]

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