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    Tooth Whitening Shops – Are They Practicing Dentistry?

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    Nicole Linker, left, an iSmile technician, checks on Katie Blood during her whitening treatment.

    Why would anyone think this is NOT practicing dentistry, despite the lame excuses the iSmileXpress company gives?

    The California Dental Board will currently go out of business on July 1 of this year, thanks to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger so the enforcement of California law has probably been lax. Also, Jerry Brown, the uber liberal former Governor ond now the Attorney General is too busy suing county governments and President Bush over global warming to bother.

    Let’s see why should these companies be regulated?

    1. The treatment is worthless – mostly dehydration of the teeth and hence a fraud

    2. A patient actually may be harmed by the materials and how would the technicians (who ain’t dentists) know anyway?

    The video is here.

    Flap is amazed at the fast buck artists in and around dentistry.