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Fear of fluoride
Discusses how dental and medical scares have resulted in a “culture of fear” which has damaged patients and dentists. Forty years of pessimism have created a demoralised and risk-averse society. The reality of a steadily improving world demands a new attitude of rational optimism and a healthy scept...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7091724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28084346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2017.23 |
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description | Discusses how dental and medical scares have resulted in a “culture of fear” which has damaged patients and dentists. Forty years of pessimism have created a demoralised and risk-averse society. The reality of a steadily improving world demands a new attitude of rational optimism and a healthy scepticism about new scares. |
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spelling | pubmed-70917242020-03-24 Fear of fluoride Reekie, D. Br Dent J Article Discusses how dental and medical scares have resulted in a “culture of fear” which has damaged patients and dentists. Forty years of pessimism have created a demoralised and risk-averse society. The reality of a steadily improving world demands a new attitude of rational optimism and a healthy scepticism about new scares. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-01-13 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC7091724/ /pubmed/28084346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2017.23 Text en © Nature Publishing Group 2017 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7091724/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28084346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2017.23 |
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