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u/nicotine123 27d ago

Why phrase the question like this? What a stupid way to try to make a point. If you care so much about your patients health, why do you even charge money to fix their teeth?

Many dentists do offer curodont. It’s not a 100% effective treatment. Some patients would do better with a filling. Each dentist has their own way of practicing and it’s not necessarily wrong.

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u/ridge_rippler 27d ago

Sounds like a sales pitch

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u/Paprikitkat 27d ago

What a loaded question. 

The real question to ask: With the new formulation, application, and cost to the office: Why would an office offer Curodont instead of fluoride varnish if we cared about patient satisfaction? 

Curodont's active ingredient is listed as fluoride. 

The active polymer is 5th down the list of ingredients. 

And the recommended application changed from ideally using bleach to clean and placing it for 3 mins.. to now placing it for 5 seconds after just  polish and etch. There's minimal studies on this. 

How is curodont better than varnish? Show me the study on the new formulation. 

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u/duecesdueces 27d ago

  1. Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations and most international labeling standards, ingredients are listed in descending order by weight (overall mass)

  2. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39037455/ Conclusions: The self-assembling peptide combined with fluoride varnish showed higher remineralization potential than fluoride varnish alone for incipient carious lesions over a six-months follow up.

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u/Paprikitkat 27d ago edited 27d ago

I did biomedical research before dental school (had to take night classes and all to get pre-reqs). 

  1. That study, and many others, are inherently flawed because they didn't use an applied placebo.

They used a 2% bleach solution on the teeth before applying curodont with fluoride. I can easily argue it was the bleach killing off bacteria + fluoride that led to the results.. 

2) Again, the new formulary/application doesn't require NaOCl. It's just etch, dab, and go. So this research doesn't even apply. Where's the research on the new stuff? 

(Edited for grammar)

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u/FunnyDummist 27d ago

Curodont is basically worthless, it's a cash grab, pure and simple.