- As I have been urging on my program and on rense.com
for several years now, we are past the age of 'sterilization' in medicine
and dentistry when it comes to the reuse of invasive medical instruments
and equipment which now present the real risk of spreading fatal vCJD/Mad
Cow/Alzheimer's (another prion disease) from infected patients to the uninfected.
- I repeat, once again, that dentists are possibly routinely
transmitting vCJD from patient to patient. Most dentists I have spoken
to, doctors as well, haven't a clue about Mad Cow/CJD prions and how these
tiny proteins are indestructible by ALL standard professional sterilization
- They can survive temperatures of over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit...about
5 times higher than autoclave sterilizers which are now the benchmark technology
for sterilizing reusable dental/medical instruments.
- Any dentist who works on a patient with asymptomatic
vCJD or Alzheimer's exposes instruments to the blood and saliva of that
infected patient. It is a near certainty that CJD prions of the infected
are present in the infected patient's blood and possibly saliva. And those
prions can still be on the instrument/s after 'sterilization' ... ready
for innoculation into the next patient and possibly multiple patients thereafter.
- I again call on professional dentistry and hygienists
to cease reusing invasive instruments on patients until a thorough study
of the possibilitiy of transmission can be undertaken. Only new instruments
should be used. At the very least, all patients should be given the option
of purchasing new, unused invasive instruments...including such routine
items as dental hygiene cleaning tools....for their personal use. These
kits could be purchased by all patients and brought into the office by
the patient for each cleaning or dental procedure. Or, the office could
offer to store their patients' hygiene kits for them. Dental drill bits,
etc, should also be replaced for each patient with new, unused equipment.
- Costs? High. But so is the cost of vCJD and Alzheimer's.
- To repeat: dentists and doctors are now no longer able
to guarantee they are not spreading Mad Cow/vCJD or Alzheimer's to uninfected
patients via reusable medical/dental instruments. -Jeff Rense