WOODLAND, Calif. - A dentist accused of fondling the breasts of 27 female patients is trying to keep his dental license by arguing that chest massages are an appropriate procedure in certain cases. Mark Anderson's lawyer says dental journals discuss the need to massage the pectoral muscles to treat a common jaw problem. [more]Ah man!!

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Dentist claims breast rubs appropriate .....

...yeah, they stimulate the gums. If you want healthy teeth, the gums must be healthy as well.

Pervert.
I'm just wondering what took these women so long to complain? One of them had him rub her breasts over six times in two years and she hasn't complained. Could it be that they're fine with it?

Someone else must have found out,sounds like they didnt mind at all :D

anyone ever tried to do that to me,they'd have my fist in their mouth

i should have been a dentist:(

This is an interesting side-note.

Breast fondling Dentist donates $1000 to Mitt Romney's campaign. (http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/)

The poor guy is probably a naprapathist (DN) as well as a dentist (DDS).

In the mid 1970’s I was introduced to the concepts and procedures of a general manual therapy treatment by venerable manual medicine physicians who were in their 5th and 6th decade of clinical practice. These physicians were men and women who bridged the gap between the doctors of the 19th Century and my generation of practitioners. From the classes that I attended and the training that I received I concluded that in the "early" days of the development of manual medicine and therapy in America there was a great deal of professional interaction and sharing of concepts and techniques. I learned general manual therapy techniques from naprapaths, medical physicians, osteopaths, chiropractors, and physical therapists at the Chicago National College of Naprapathy. It seemed that many of the "older" physicians had developed their own general manual therapy protocol. Some techniques and procedures overlapped and some where unique to the training and professional affiliation of the practitioner. The osteopath, for example, might have included some of Dr. Sutherland’s cranial sacral technique along with osteopathic manipulation and general massage technique. The chiropractor may have included elements of Palmer’s technique with DeJarnett’s methods, while the naprapath absorbed all of the above and mixed them with Dr. Oakley Smith’s procedures of ligament and joint capsule therapy. Whatever the source or the combination of techniques involved many of the traditional physicians were manual therapists.

Manual therapy simply means therapy employed or applied by the hand. Well trained early massage therapists were often medical physicians or nurses who utilized massage therapy in medical environments for specific diseases and disorders. These massage therapists were trained and practiced in the 1800’s to mid 1900’s. With the advent of the "drug era" and the passage of laws that outlawed natural health care the natural health care professions, including massage therapy, fell into disfavor and lost their traditional connection to medical practice. Many state laws prohibited and prevented the massage therapist from using medical terminology including terms related to diagnosis and pathology. It became illegal for a massage therapist to use the words, health care, cure, medical, and treatment, or to claim any health care result such as pain relief. Many natural health care professions such as chiropractic, naprapathy, naturopathy, and massage therapy developed "alternative" terminology based on non medical and esoteric terminology and philosophy. In effect these professions began to describe their effects based on "energy" and "vital force" rather than medical physiology. With the popular spread of the Ling system of Swedish or therapeutic massage many of the higher level skills of manual therapy and their medical applications were lost from massage school curriculums and massage therapy education in America and Europe.

When the medical massage therapist applies manual therapy they do so for the purpose of delivering massage therapy and mobilization techniques. Mobilization technique commonly falls into two methods of delivery, osteopathic and chiropractic with cavitation (audible popping sound) of a joint complex and non cavitating (no popping sound) mobilizations such the naprapathic method of Oakley Smith, D.N. The medical massage therapist uses a non cavitating technique called bony lever technique. The medical massage therapist employs manual therapy technique either for specific musculoskeletal treatment goals or as part of a general therapy session. The purpose of the general therapy session is two fold:

Musculoskeletal preventative maintenance.
As a diagnostic tool to evaluate the musculo skeletal system.
The medical massage therapist employs manual therapy procedures in a general manual therapy treatment protocol which varies from practitioner to practitioner. The concept of the general manual therapy treatment protocol may seem contradictory since the medical massage therapist is an outspoken supporter of specific clinical treatment plans applied to specific conditions in order to encourage physical rehabilitation. The general manual therapy treatment protocol is delivered by the medical massage therapist for the following clinical objectives:

To provide ongoing manual therapy treatment to prevent connective tissue degeneration.
To encourage normal soft tissue and joint complex environments and to maintain full normal range of motion.
To allow ongoing therapist diagnosis and evaluation of soft tissue conditions and disorders that tend to become degenerative.
To provide patient education and to encourage patient compliance with exercise and self care instructions.
To reduce both specific and general stressors to the body and particular body regions.
The manual therapy treatment protocol is especially valuable to the patient suffering from long term chronic degenerative conditions and is certainly a more viable and safer mode of therapy than the long term reliance on maintenance medications employed by medical physicians. The only side effect of manual therapy treatment is lower cost care, effective treatment, and improved health. A recent review of insurance claims for medical treatment of low back pain has shown that the most commonly used treatment by conventional medicine for low back pain is narcotic medication.

The physically active, sports minded or health minded, individual will derive ongoing benefit from manual therapy procedures including increased physical performance, flexibility, and injury reduction. Additionally, periodic manual therapy treatments will help to identify and correct problems that left untreated or diagnosed would develop into more serious musculoskeletal problems.

One of the barriers to general manual therapy treatment or preventative care has been the medical and insurance industries. Each of these industries, for their own reasons, has attempted to discourage general therapy for maintenance or preventative objectives. These groups have not, however, discouraged the long term and often harmful use of medication, even when the medications have well known negative side effects, are known to be less effective than manual therapy when used chronically, and are more expensive than manual therapy treatment. In the public’s mind this "official" rejection of manual therapy treatment is equated with identification of manual therapies as ineffective, harmful, or a waste of time. When medical "science" promotes these attitudes it harms the public health, slows the evolution of health care, and contributes to unnecessary pain and suffering in patients who could have received help with manual therapy treatment.

The manual therapy treatment is most often performed with the patient fully clothed this makes the treatment easy to deliver and is less time consuming than having the patient disrobe. Edgar Cayce recommended manual therapy treatments and even recommended specific manual therapy techniques for some of his patients. Many of the manual therapy trained osteopaths, prior to the 1960’s, routinely provided general manual therapy to their patients. Patients usually experience a profound sense of well being and relaxation during and after a manual therapy treatment. This sense of well being and relaxation is thought to be associated with tonification of the sympathetic nervous system and breaking of the stress cycle described by Dr. Hans Selye. An important element to the physiological effects of manual therapies is the stimulation of mechanoreceptors and the inhibition of nociceptors. These receptors are "biological sensors" that measure normal or abnormal stimuli in connective tissues. Dr. Tiffany Field of the Touch Research Institute published in 1998, in the American Psychologist, a National Institute of Mental Health funded study that reviews dozens of studies that document the physiological effects of massage therapy.

A general outline for a manual therapy protocol might be as follows:

Head and neck treatment:
(Patient Supine)

Manual massage of posterior cervical muscles from C7 to occiput.
Cervical traction technique.
Gentle cervical passive range of motion.
General manual massage of the major muscles of the head and face.
Diagnostic palpation of the TMJ, masseter muscle massage, and TMJ joint distraction.

This guy is being persecuted because he is ahead of his time. Rather than simply massaging the posterior cervical muscles from C7 to occiput, or the masseter muscles as a treatment for TMJ he is also massaging the breast with a gentle range of motion.

These women should consider themselves lucky to have such a caring and dedicated dentist. He is to be commended for going over and beyond what other dentists would do to assist their patients.















Just in case anyone is extra dense............I am being facetious.

isn't HCLAGER's brother a dentist?

One of my sons is a dentist. I'm gonna have to talk to that boy.

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That's some body you've got, Sparky. Maybe you should work a bit harder on your pecs. :lolhit:

*rubs Sparkys breast* ;)

*kisses Imp, loses the red bikini top*
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*swoons*