dental water may be harmful - dental water jet

Some call it the dirty little secret of dentistry, a secret that the American Dental Association has known for years.
CBS News this morning.
Anchor Julie Chen reports that bacteria that grow on the water line of your teeth can make you sick.
You know the routine: First of all, rubber gloves, masks, goggles, sterile instruments, then open and spray dirty water.
Dirty water refers to bacteria that grow on a biofilm, which is sticky in most pipes and pipes.
In the dentist's office, drilling spray and other special instruments require only a small amount of water at a time, so the rest sit long enough in small tubes to allow bacteria to breed.
Every time you spray water, you can drink it.
Popular news Google cloud power loss Connecticut mom Virginia Beach shoot protesters interrupted Harris "dental patients should be very concerned because the water is not up to standard and we are used to being in our country, Margaret Johnston said, she is a dentist dedicated to education and legislation on dental water use.
In her published study, she noted that most dental water uses more bacteria than pond water.
"We found that the water in most dental clinics was seriously polluted ,[of]
Poor quality-
"No water at all," she said.
Johnston's conclusion is not new.
For nearly 30 years, dental magazines and magazines have been filled with research warnings about high levels of bacteria in dental water.
But it was not until 1993 that a California dentist died of the same strain found in his dental series that the dental industry began to unite around the issue.
"Many patients did not realize they were injured at the dentist's clinic.
"They just described it as a natural monster, not from a dentist's clinic," Edwin Ziman said . ".
San Francisco's lawyer and dentist, Zinman, said there were no more reports of people getting sick because doctors had no contact.
He has resolved two cases in which the bacteria in the dental floss were found to be the same as the bacteria in the patient's illness.
"There is no doubt that the infection comes from [the]
"Contaminated dental water devices enter the patient's mouth and their blood," he said . ".
The patient was seriously injured.
"Bee Forman is one of Zinman's clients.
On 1987, she had a routine tooth cleaning and she had a seizure two weeks later.
Her husband, Bill Forman, sent her to the hospital where they found a brain abscess.
The bee Foreman lost basic motor skills and some memories.
When her doctor tested the water at her dentist's clinic and compared it to the bacteria in the brain abscess, he got a match.
"When they check the poison in my brain, I think they know," Bee Forman said . ".
She got a settlement from the dentist, but the conditions for the settlement did not allow her to reveal who the dentist was.
"This happened to us.
"I am very worried that this will happen to others," her husband added . ".
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have no indication that water in the dental unit can cause any form of public health threat," said Dr. Chris Miller.
Miller, a spokesman for the American Dental Association, agreed that dental water bacteria are high, but said ADA is taking steps to address the issue.
It has released voluntary water standards and is trying to get the dentist to focus on the issue.
"The American Dental Association provides educational materials in this area," he said . ""The dentist[s]
Looking at this information, they will decide what is best for their own practice.
But he quickly pointed out that most people don't have to worry about it.
"Healthy people are not as vulnerable to living things in the environment as those who may be immune impaired because they have some sort of systemic disease or are weak.
But critics say that for Gao
Seniors, asthma patients, people with weak immune systems, and the American Dental Association are not doing enough to solve this problem.
For more information, please visit the website of the American Dental Association or the website of the safe Dental Water Alliance.
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