Cheer leading for the NADL, NBC, or CDTs, or MDTs, doesn't seem to be a priority. Since I have been in the business, I have heard the same as I here right now. It has been this way as far as I know, for the past 39 years. Actually, longer. Some of the folks I've talked with in the past were a fossil like I am now.
There are those who like the regulatory organizations, and those who don't. In this dental area, lab work.
I was thinking of taking my complaints about SML back to the thread about that, but, they fit in here as an example.
Asa dentist can do Endodontics etc, without special training, I don't know of a lab that offers atreatment plan to the drs that practice Endodontics ect, without special training. Therein lies my problem with SML.
Now they (SML) have been doing it for years. And just like what they are doing, after time has pasted, crowns from China will as well be more prevelent.
Regulating lab tech is not the answer, or even a start in the right direction.
As has been stated, regulating the drs is what is needed.
While it is nice to have a CDT and be among a group that has a CDT, it does nothing other than provide a place to pat yourself and a few others on the back.
Jobs requiring a CDT, bet there's more that don't. A CDT does not mean your getting a decent tech, nor does in increase the ods of getting a good tech.
At this juncture it increases the ods of getting an employee that thinks he is worth more than he is.
Tough one for Cade, he has no choice. Texas requires him to be a CDT and carry on the expense of the requirements for a CDT. As do a couple of other states.
Time and money, forever, to the NBC.
Follow the money.....like you said, there are about 100,000 dentists, there are about 10,000 Orthodontists.
As an aside, interesting to see most of your posts are to help, and share ideas, mostly that involve the IPC. Only post you made that has pictures is the construction of the IPC.
Now... you say you know some one well in the NBC??? Or was it an aquaintance in the NBC??
I really liked your very first post ever here, "Please honor my appliance patent". That is sharing and helping to the max.
Those are just a few points about SML, and Don Inman.
This thread has great potential to put in place a reference as to how people feel about the requirement of a CDT, rather than the choice.
As well as put in place a reference place for what dentists are doing what.
I could be wrong, but, it seems to me that if a GP, or lab for that matter, are really producing quality and care for the patient, they would not need to practice Endodontics, or Orthodontics, or.....create treatment plans, or become a parnership,to make a buck.
Requireing things like what the CDT is today, creates a "good ol' boy" network.
You can't do what we do till you jump through our hoops, oh yeah, and give us money for our organization. Without out that, no job, no lab for you.
This would cause health care costs to increase as well. Already does for Cade.