NDA Journal Spring 2023

Spring 23 www.nvda.org 3 Editor’s Message of vaccine after 250 years of prior use. Sadly, for many this unethical move then further called into question any agent at all that is dubbed a vaccine, even the traditionally accurate ones, as far as the confused public is concerned.12 Further, this conflicted group suppressed less expensive, safer, and more effective treatments13,14 with tyrannical decrees, and crippling penalties including license revocation.15 For many, the promoters have lost all credibility not only regarding Covid matters, but any health-related topic they opine on. In one of the planned moves to legitimize the Covid narrative, dentists were recruited to start “vaccinating” Covid-phobic patients deceived into believing the safe and effective narrative. Most dentists have never been trained to administer anything parenterally except placing technically and anatomically demanding intraoral local anesthetic agents. The emergent expansion of dental scope was not necessary. Covid was not an emergency in reality, but only because politicians called it one (“malum prohibitum,” or “it’s bad because we say it is”). Plus, pharmacies now inject clients with safely perform essentially all other injections, including subcutaneous vaccinations. To be clear, the NDAJ supports the NDA’s 2023 legislative goal of a statutorily recognized ability of trained dentists to administer historically defined actual vaccines. However #2, the NDAJ does not support anyone at all administering an experimental formulation that their choice of formulation at no charge. For multiple reasons, including financial,16 the NDAJ opined against succumbing to the call of the Covid injection crowd dentist scope expanders.17 A big “however”, however…any health professional that can administer an intraoral inferior alveolar nerve block is technically gifted enough to Although the NDAJ strongly supports recognizing that dentists are able to administer subcutaneous injections, the NDAJ does not support anyone injecting experimental formulations absent peer reviewed controlled studies confirming both safety and efficacy. »

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