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  • 23/09/2009 at 10:56 pm #8565
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    The other day I was at a seminar for Oral Health Care Providers and community leaders in childcare called Head Start.
    The pediatric dentist made a very eloquent point about caries as an infection, and how it can be transmitted between care givers and children. He did not, however, give any answers on how this disease transmission should be stopped. There was vague reference to educating parents not to use the same spoon as the child which I think is a horrible injustice considering that the children in the highest risk groups are not getting adequate parenting in the first place.

    What are your thoughts on ways of stopping the spread of the disease?

    Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH, FACE

            

    07/10/2009 at 7:38 pm #13422
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    Yes, Dr. Kutsch mentioned caries being a pH disease at the last World Congress of Minimally Invasive Dentistry this summer. The confusion for me is that early gnotobiotic rat studies showed a strong correlation between strep and lesions. The germ free rats didn’t get holes in their teeth. So right now I’m thinking we need to test saliva for pH and for strep to let us know how often the pH is low. Strep love low pH.

    Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH, FACE

            

    15/12/2009 at 4:43 pm #13423
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    Yes, Dr. Kutsch mentioned caries being a pH disease at the last World Congress of Minimally Invasive Dentistry this summer. The confusion for me is that early gnotobiotic rat studies showed a strong correlation between strep and lesions. The germ free rats didn’t get holes in their teeth. So right now I’m thinking we need to test saliva for pH and for strep to let us know how often the pH is low. Strep love low pH.

    Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH, FACE

            

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