The federal Ministry of Health is against tooth extraction because there is an injection given to the dental patient on the arm (not within the mouth o). That this injection is given to patients to block pain during the extraction but in addition to that the said 'injection' affects every other teeth in the mouth after it 'EXPIRES' in the body and within 6 months they all begin to fall off. In order words after one tooth extraction, every other tooth goes with it.
The crowd was cheering him and calling him a very good 'doctor'. One lady was lamenting on how she warns people against visiting dental clinics but they never listen! Not that I stop to listen to demented people as a habit but hearing him mention 'teeth' caught my attention (u can't blame me, I dedicated six years of my life studying the subject).
I weep for the level of illiteracy and lack on information in this society we live in. I felt an ache in my heart for the ordinary Nigerian citizen. Why not tell them that your oral habits (that is if he is even aware of it) are important and not some fabricated crap to make money. Is this poverty or sheer wickedness?
Eventually the man introduced them to a black concoction in a bottle which they can take to cure any kind of tooth problem. Women, men, adolescents were scrambling (I mean falling over themselves) to buy this product.
Is it proper for just anybody to wake up and be allowed to address the public?
Did I mention that the man could not communicate coherently in English Language? Such people should be arrested and kept behind bars. Where are Dora's colleagues in NAFDAC, this is drug crime in broad daylight.
Where are my colleagues in the profession, let us take the challenge and keep more people informed....
WHICH WAY FORWARD NIGERIA##
