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62 <strong>LVI</strong> VISIONS • JANUARY • FEBRUARY • MARCH • APRIL 2008
Q: Why do you believe there is so much controversy surrounding the different dental philosophies? Dr. Jackson: To some degree, this is always the case when the established order is questioned. Looking at history, and on a much larger scale, people were imprisoned or executed for questioning whether the world was flat. In addition, it took hundreds of years for it to be accepted that the earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. Scientists, starting with Copernicus who first questioned the idea, on up to Galileo who was able to prove it so because he measured it, were all considered heretics and ostracized by the establishment. When a belief is held for a long time and an entire field of thought (geography or restorative dentistry) has been built around it, it can take on an almost sacred aura. It gets forgotten that the original premise, based on observations at the time, was often nothing more than an attempt to create a working model (the world is flat, an established occlusal concept), from which to operate and go forward. Controversy is always the first stage of change. Dr. Reed: Change is inevitable. Growth and learning, a choice. Change, growth and learning require giving up previous beliefs and patterns. When paradigms shift, everyone goes back to zero. Leo Tolstoy the great Russian author and philosopher summed it by saying – “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the <strong>LVI</strong> VISIONS • JANUARY • FEBRUARY • MARCH • APRIL 2008 63
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