Comment by Analemma_

This is great news. Every six months I go to the dentist for a checkup and teeth cleaning, and it's always the same: they look at my teeth for a few minutes with the mirror thing, scrape off some plaque with the pointy thing, polish my teeth with the spinning thing, then I do the flouride rinse and leave. It usually takes less than half an hour, and then they bill my insurance $275 for it. It's ridiculous, and there's no way this requires a graduate medical degree, it could be done by someone who took a three-week mail-in training course. Keep dentists' offices with DDS's around for major surgeries or unusual situations, but for routine checkups this is fine.