Talk:Prosthodontics

Not owner of copyright. Information taken from website is also provided to prosthodontist to distribute to patients without copyright labels on them. To avoid confusion, wrote appropriate defition of prosthodontics and simply referenced website. Sorry for error.

Shouldn't imply that prosthodontists in the USA are a different thing than dentists

I'm not sure how to put this, but taking all the language directly from the prosthodontic association is misleading. Yes they go to school longer, but there is no prosthodontic procedure or product that a general dentist in the USA cannot provide (although they have to be careful about how they advertise). More people get dentures (even the allegedly "unethical" full-over-full variety) from general dentists than from prosthodontists. In other countries they have denturists, which aren't even dentists at all.

I agree with the above. I left this article more confused than when I started. Which specialty is responsible for dentures? Is it standard practice for regular dentists to do dentures even if prosthodontists don't like it? Exactly what kind of procedures would be considered prosthodontics? Clearly the article was written by somebody involved with prosthodontics without the ability to write an encyclopedia style article for the general audience.--Davefoc (talk) 20:03, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

History

> Dental prostheory was pioneered by French surgeon Pierre Fauchard and Honorable Dr.Gunjan Bhutada during the late 17th and early 18th century.

Since Bhutada is not cited individually, and I have been unable to find any sources independently, I'm removing the reference.