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Michael AielloSpectatorRon,
Upon a quick read it looks like a nice letter. I’ll post or email you some letters that might be helpful. Also note typo; colleges should be colleagues.
Let me know if you need anything else.
Mike Aiello
adminSpectatorThanks for the info, Mike.
I’m off to Fl for about 10 days so when I get back I’ll try and get it all incorporated and post a ‘final’ draft.
wagoodellSpectatorRon
Have fun in Florida, hope you get lots of warm sunshine. 🙂
The letter looks great to me, and seems to hit the relative points very well.It looks like (Mike’s letter from the OFIR) until the ADA laser position paper is changed (it’s errors corrected) we will be screwed, and the damage done by it’s inaccuracies may be long term and slow to be turned around. That is what creates the urgency with this whole matter. It has the potential to create a windfall for the insurance industry as it uses the ADA laser position paper to avoid paying claims when lasers were used, while making it much more costly for dentists to provide, and patients to receive the best (out comes) care available.
Walt
John LeitnerSpectatorHi Ron – looks good. You’ve mentioned instrumentation and methods in your letter, I’m wondering if using a different example would help (ie: RCT’s done not by hand files and filled with lateral condensation GP, but reamed with handpiece rotary files and filled with warm GP) might drive home our fight. It is bigger than the ‘laser’ usage – they are telling us what to do and not. Thanx for your efforts. John
adminSpectatorAnyone have copies of the Yukna study as well as Tilt’s retrospective in AGD journal?
If so please send to rschalter@gmail.comThanks!
adminSpectatorSpoke today with Chuck Hoopingarner who is head of ALD regulatory affairs committee. There is/has been a response to the ADA laser postion paper in the works. They have found that the ADA staff person who is responsible for bringing these things to the ADA council is unresponsive to the idea, therefore, they will actually draft a new position paper and have it presented by one of the trustees and bypass the ADA staffer. Potential timeline on this solution 9 months or more. I got drafted to help work on the committee to rewrite the paper.
As far as coding, I don’t think the ALD will be helpful. Chuck had no idea the bone was altered during LANAP. I didn’t tell him how it was done but assured him it was. For ALD to get involved in the coding would probably require the technique be disclosed at least to the committee. Chuck did seem to indicate a willingness to sign non disclosures.
Chuck also suggested trying to involve AGD as they had a turf war in Houston with orthos and AGD was helpful.
There also seemed a willingness on Chuck’s part at least to get past some of the old politics and try and bring Bob and Del back into ALD.
wagoodellSpectatorDr Tilt supplied a copy of a statement from the American College of Surgeons.
http://www.facs.org/fellows_info/statements/st-11.html
The link above goes to their statement about lasers as an equivalent means of doing surgery. 4th paragraph.
I’m going to use it with a letter back to OFIR objecting to Delta’s use of the AAP & ADA laser position statements (with all of the inaccuracies and not relevant claims to LANAP in those statements) to claim use of lasers are investigational in nature.Walt
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