White wash
I AM flabbergasted by the story (''Teeth bared in bleach row'', 16/8)
of the Australian Dental Association demanding a law to give dentists
sole right to provide
teeth-whitening treatments.
Dental fluorosis, or discolouration of the teeth, is caused by fluoride
and is estimated to affect up to 40 per cent of children. Fluoride is not
only used in dental surgeries, but water fluoridation is actively supported
by the
How cynical, then, that dentists should demand the sole right to repair
the damage they have had a hand in causing. And at nearly 10 times the
cost of independent therapists.
Dentists sell take-home kits too, so they are violating their own advice
that ''the procedure should be carried out only in a
clinic''. Talk about hypocrisy.
LESLEY JOHNSON, Breakwater