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New endodontist for referral clinic
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Blackhills Specialist Referral Clinic in Aberuthven is pleased to announce that specialist endodontist Dr Julie Kilgariff has joined their team. Julie qualified from Dundee
US to reduce fluoride level
One of Scotland’s most out- spoken advocates of water fluoridation has welcomed news of a recommendation in the United States to reduce their level of the mineral in the nation’s water supply. Colwyn Jones, Consultant in Public Health for NHS Health Scotland, argued that, rather than an indication that water fluoridation is being phased out in the US, it is merely a sensible review of the practice.
He said: “I think every treatment or intervention that we use on patients has to be reviewed regularly and I welcome that.
“I think the US Department of Health and Human Sciences have reviewed the evidence in the United States and they have come up with a recommendation (0.7 parts per million) that is not to stop
water fluoridation at all. In fact quite the reverse. They do actually say in their press release that they are fully supportive of it as a preventive measure.” Colwyn explained that the US – unlike the UK’s statutory level of 1 ppm– has had a range of fluoridation from 0.7 to 1.2 ppm due to the various changes in ambient tempera- tures across the country, and hence the amount of water drunk by the population in different climates.
Critics of water fluoridation in the US have pointed to the high levels of dental fluorosis in certain areas, but Colwyn believes the prescription by paediatricians of vitamin supplements containing fluoride, even in areas with water fluoridation, needs to be looked at in greater detail as a probable cause.
“I think every treatment or intervention that we use on patients has to be reviewed regularly and I
welcome that” Colwyn Jones, Consultant in Public Health, NHS Health Scotland
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University in 2000 and held a number of posts within the dental hospital and in the salaried services. In 2005 she began postgraduate training in endodontics at Dundee Dental Hospital and gained entry on to the specialist endodontic list with the General Dental Council in 2009. She currently works as a
lecturer in restorative dentistry at Dundee Dental Hospital and also runs postgraduate endodontic courses; it is her
intention to run similar courses at Blackhills Clinic. Julie is happy to receive
referrals for all endodontic problems including: de novo cases, root canal re-treatment, cases with persisting signs or symptoms, calcified and blocked canals, open apices, perforations, separated instru- ments, posts/fractured posts requiring removal and periradicular surgery. Julie brings the total number
of registered specialists that are currently practising at Blackhills to six.
® For more information or to contact Julie, email:
info@blackhillsclinic.com or go to
www.blackhillsclinic.com
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