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Title: Consumer's Guide to Dentistry by Gordon J., Ph.D. Christensen, Mosby ISBN: 0-323-01483-6 Publisher: Mosby Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: A half cup
Comment: This book has valuable information. But it's underlying philosophy is disappointing. Especially in view of the recently released report of the Surgeon General on Oral Health. Oral health is something which in to a larger extent than any other domain is depending of the individuals behaviour, or if you want, oral ill-health is to larger extent than any other medical domain depending of the individuals ill-behaviour.

An active way to prevent oral disease is good maintenance of oral hygiene. Yet very little is said about prevention, just at the end of the book. It is if in a manual for a car you are suggested to visit regularly the repair shop, and at the end you are told, well, you should go to the service station every .... miles.

Also, from a consumer's guide, I would expect to instruct the customer on what to look. From a consumers guide on how to buy/build a house, I would expect tips on how to check the craftmansship on the work to do/done. Thus I would expect from a "consumer's guide to dentistry" some information on how to check the dentist's work. I am not a dentist thus I cannot give advice here. But I am sensible to hygienic issues, general hygiene, not dental hygiene, and I would expect 20 years after the outbreak of AIDS, but not only, some clues on how a real modern clinic should be equipped today.

In his report the Surgeon General writes: "There is a lack of ethnic diversity in oral health workforce." In Dental Hygiene there is also a lack of gender diversity, the overhelming majority of dental hygienists being women. That's maybe the reason why dental hygiene, an important part of oral wellbeing, has such a low rating.