Sir, I was interested to read the abstract from the Lancet (BDJ 2014; 217: 183) on the result of a study of the efficacy of paracetamol for lower back pain. A median time of 17 days to recover is far from acceptable.

How long is it going to take for the message to get across that that the only way to reduce the incidence of back pain (caused by working in distorted posture) is by PREVENTION? ie by teaching dentists how to work in correct and undistorted posture. Pills are not the answer.

Why, after all these years, will the profession not accept this but instead allow thousands of dentists to suffer a lifetime of pain?

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