Across My Nation The Need for Affordable Dental-care-for Americans

[denturist]

Affordable dental care is becoming further from reality for those that
are on a moderate, limited, or low income. The denturist profession
offers an alternative and affordable denture care service that is
offered in six states and across Canada as a safe, alternative denture
care delivery system that is constantly being attacked and discredited
by the ADA, the American Dental Association.

After graduating from an accredited denturist college and taking the
Oregon state denturist board and licensed as a denturist; I come to
Wyoming in 1992 and practiced as a denturist until I was shut down by
the Wyoming Dental Board in 2006 because I was opening a satellite
office in the next town of Worland, Wyoming, 30 miles away.

This put a tremendous hardship on me as a single parent of eight
children and remains as an unjustified and discrediting ruling by the
Wyoming courts (due to the good ole boy mentality and not the language
that clearly describes the definition of a dentist in the Wyoming
Dental Practice Act). It has failed as a legislative issue in Wyoming
and in a number of other states across the nation due to special
interest lobbing by the ADA and state dental boards.

This continues to happen across the US due to the ADA's monopolistic
grip on denture care keeping dentures and denture care service away
from segments of society that are most in need due to economic reasons
and poor accessibility. This includes the elderly, military veterans,
the disabled and those living in rural areas.

Having access to affordable and available denture care is a necessary
need for the wellness of ones health. Ill-fitting dentures and
dentures in need of repair due to breakage and missing denture teeth
are all too common place for denture wearers.

Gary W.Vollan L.D. Basin, Wyoming, www.wysda.org