Suburban decay linked to tooth decay
Friday, April 11, 2008 at 3:21 pm
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There’s a term for the fear of dentists — dentophobia — but we may need a new word for the fear of dental hygienists if the Strib keeps up this week’s pace of ominous items about the teeth-cleaning profession. First an op-ed raised the specter of unqualified, unsupervised dental hygienists taking drill and pliers to the mouths of Minnesota under legislation pending at the Capitol. Then, in today’s news, an Edina denizen says locals fear that affordable housing will bring “roving bands of dental hygienists going around the city stealing from people.” When dental hygienists rove into north Minneapolis, stripping copper from houses to melt into unlicensed fillings, that’ll be something to worry about.
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Comment posted April 13, 2008 @ 11:47 am
No teeth in this one, Edina Bands of dental hygenists roaming Edina? With or without drills?
‘Oral hygiene’ may be the heart of the issue among a few on the Edina Council; at least when bad occlusion will not allow upper jaw to align with lower jaw. And whitening the smiles of those who are long-in-the-tooth already, suggests the stains of exclusivity threaten to make Edina’s neighborhoods toothless; obsolete or irrelevant to greater planning needs…such as diversity?
Maybe it’s the word “affordable housing” brings out the brown fringe of decay and bad occlusion?
I thought old Edina has been viewed more consistanty, as merely a truck stop on the route to more consumptively affluent suburbs?
My Great-Aunt Berta was never ‘of’ Edina, but she worked in Edina, cleaning the pockets of a few in a dry cleaning establishment some years ago… and you wouldn’t want to know the roaming bands of wealthy hucksters; long since incarcerated, who had Edina as their home address.
Affordable housing? Condos carefully planned? There goes the neighborhood? No, there comes a healthier diversity and credibility for Edina now trying to survive in an enlightened 21st century.
Comment posted April 13, 2008 @ 6:47 am
No teeth in this one, Edina Bands of dental hygenists roaming Edina? With or without drills?
'Oral hygiene' may be the heart of the issue among a few on the Edina Council; at least when bad occlusion will not allow upper jaw to align with lower jaw. And whitening the smiles of those who are long-in-the-tooth already, suggests the stains of exclusivity threaten to make Edina's neighborhoods toothless; obsolete or irrelevant to greater planning needs…such as diversity?
Maybe it's the word “affordable housing” brings out the brown fringe of decay and bad occlusion?
I thought old Edina has been viewed more consistanty, as merely a truck stop on the route to more consumptively affluent suburbs?
My Great-Aunt Berta was never 'of' Edina, but she worked in Edina, cleaning the pockets of a few in a dry cleaning establishment some years ago… and you wouldn't want to know the roaming bands of wealthy hucksters; long since incarcerated, who had Edina as their home address.
Affordable housing? Condos carefully planned? There goes the neighborhood? No, there comes a healthier diversity and credibility for Edina now trying to survive in an enlightened 21st century.
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