Dear patient or lay-person searching this news group for answers to dental
questions.  Also, and dental professional seeking a more productive
discussion forum.

As you no doubt have already noticed, this site has been hijacked by trolls
trying to fabricate issues about toxicity levels and diseases which do not
exist.  For years, the dentists who have participated on this news group
have tried to debate these trolls scientifically, tried to argue with them
or just tried to ignore these posters.  Unfortunately, these trolls have
chosen to continue their barrage of attacks against science and proven
methods of legitimate dental care.  Finally, this group of dentists and
ancillary personnel, have chosen to simply go away.  The down side of this
is that a lot of good people are left with their legitimate questions and
concerns un-answered.

As a group, we [the regular posters from this news group] have been
discussing how to fill the void left by the absence of virtually all dental
professionals from this news group.  After thorough discussion, we have
chosen to open a separate internet forum for people to ask questions, debate
dental science, review techniques, learn about regulatory issues, etc.

We have created this forum at:      www.scimeddentistry.com/smd

We welcome anyone to come to this site and discuss dental topics and
concerns.  To avoid flame wars and abuse to anyone posting to the site,
there is a group of moderators on the site who will remove any poster who is
rude, abusive, vulgar, or posts unwanted advertisements for other sites.
Spam will not be tolerated, nor will any Troll-type behavior.

Participating in the site requires a valid email address.  There is a log-in
process where you register and receive a confirmation email back prior to
gaining access to the site.  This is only to enable us to eliminate those
posters who are abusive to the group.  No information about any poster is
collected, no information is being sold or distributed to others.  A cookie
is utilized only to enable the registration process and subsequent log-ins.

Since the site is still getting started, [we currently only have 100
members] be patient if it takes a few hours (or more) to get replies to your
questions.  Please understand that
the regulars who volunteer to be available at this site do so as volunteers
only.  We receive no compensation beyond the opportunity to discuss our
favorite topics with interested people.  No one is getting paid to be there,
and we all have lives outside of the internet.  Although at times, that may
seem hard to believe.

We promise there will be no accusations of "LIAR" nor any smart alec replies
which make no sense to anyone.  Although the forum is open to Middle School
aged children, there are no adults there behaving as if they were still that
age.

Please register on the site, obtain your email confirmation, and initiate or
join in on some discussion.

Sincerely,

Amatus Cremona