Welcome letter from Dr. PASQUANTONIO

Hello

OHP4C addresses a serious subject :YOUR HEALTH. Oral health is an integral, vital, part of your overall HEALTH.

We have ONE, WHOLE, INTERGRATED, HUMAN BODY.

OHP4C consumers' educational arm uses speaking engagements (for consumers, consumer advocates, and government or medical personnel who make choices for consumers) to educate. Email info@ohp4c.com to set up a time.

The educational arm of OHP4C is also responsible for this consumer website. The website is written in everyday language free of as many medical/dental terms as possible. Any non-everyday terms that are used are explained in parentheses. OHP4C realizes that our readers are smart, savvy consumers...yet just as I cannot easily understand concepts when my engineer husband gets going with technical terms about solar cells...it is expected that most consumers are not conversant with medical and dental terminology. The goal is to communicate scientifically based information about oral health that can be easily understand.

Since the subject is huge and the short articles are now dense, I have chosen to employ two characters to guide you. It is my hope these characters will make you SMILE...and use all your facial muscles. O Tee (full name: Don Keyotee) will be your guide through the website...pointing to things of special interest OR articles that should be read as a cluster. Fred (full name: Fred the frog) will be used as a foil for me as well as to spout, sometimes in unconventional ways, the erroneous information pervasive in our "everyone knows" minds. If you listen to Fred's and my banter over the months you will be healthier and save money.

WELCOME Smiling is healthy. Do it often! Valentina Pasquantonio, DDS, FAGD

EMAIL: info@ohp4c.com

What the?? Is she serious?

ORAL HEATH includes but is not limited to: The ability to speak, smile, taste, touch, chew, swallow, and convey a range of emotions through facial expression with confidence and free from pain or discomfort, and disease. (International definition of oral health).

WELCOME PAGE

OHP4C is a CONSUMER education, advocacy and consulting firm:

consulting with and for consumers on oral health issues

education for consumers on achieving oral health

lobbying for consumers with government and employers

Something new

LOOK AT THIS!

Dr. Valentina Pasquantonio.

Be sure to check out 2017 and 2018 oral health article pages...top right on desktop tool bar

FRED (a frog, and a LOT MORE!)

O Tee's picture guide. Follow him through this website. He moves around often

WHY WE FEAR THE DENTIST:

If you are afraid of the dentist know that this fear is normal and natural for the following reasons:

most dental procedures take away your ability to communicate...hands, instruments, goop of all sorts are put into your mouth taking away your ability to speak, sometimes to swallow, often to breathe through your mouth.
PAIN: physical, and/or psychological, and/or financial. Sometimes all three.
fear of the UNKNOWN; an inability to control your body, not just in the moment but overall concerning your oral health. There is an INFORMATION DEFICIT; what 'everybody knows' doesn't work to prevent oral health and dental problems...frustration and a feeling of defeat lead to fear.

OHP4C CAN HELP:

READ THE ARTICLES.

HAVE A CONSULTATION WITH OHP4C OR HAVE THE OHP4C COME AND TALK TO YOUR CONSUMER GROUP OR CIVIC ORGANIZATION.

IF YOU ARE A LEGISLATOR HIRE OHP4C TO HELP YOU GET NON-BIASED INFORMATION THAT WILL TRULY HELP YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND SAVE MONEY FOR ALL

O Tee (full name: Don Keyotee)

 ORAL HEALTH POSSE FOR CONSUMERS, LLCr

education, advocacy, consultation

(a non-biased Consumer Oral Health LLC)