LOOKING into your mouth is in some ways like looking under the hood of your car. Both are dark and mysterious places, each having its own particular smell, and you generally have a little idea what you are looking at.

WITHOUT a doubt, the most important service you can do for yourself as a dental consumer is to be informed. Be aware of what your dentist is proposing for your treatment.

‘GOING to the dentist’ is a familiar phrase, and, hopefully, a regular habit whenever and wherever the opportunity exists. However, there are people who, even if they wish to ‘go to the dentist’, are unable to do so because of ill health, handicap or frailty. But what is to become of the housebound patients, or those confined to medical institutions who are physically incapable of visiting a dental clinic? Should they be denied the privilege of dental attention?

I SINCERELY believe that in the vast majority of countries, many people die daily of diseases that originated in the mouth but have resulted in a fatal condition in another part of the body.