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Richard Wilson DMD

2401 Pennsylvania Avenue Suite 1A8 Philadelphia PA 19130 215-765-5281

All this knowledge we've gained is for the purpose of solving problems for the patient who stands before us. Furthermore, a human being is never a commodity. Not for any reason, not under any circumstances.

Interests: family, dentistry, environmental issues, cycling, astronomy. making a difference.

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As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, and as our culture sustains damage from the illness and death caused by the Covid-19 virus, from supply chain disruptions, from widespread chronic anxiety, from disruptive political forces and from a myriad... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2022 at Bite Point

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Covid-19 Worldwide Numbers, Mass and Volume

I've wondered for a long time how many copies of the Covid-19 RNA there are in the world at any given time. Now, we have some good estimates. Each infected person carries 109 to 1011 Covid-19 virions at peak of... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2021 at Bite Point

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Leverage Perspective

The total weights of the atomic bombs employed in WWII were 64kg uranium + 6kg plutonium = 70kg, which killed 226,000 human beings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (This figure does not include long-term early deaths from radiation poisoning, which are... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2021 at Bite Point

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Memorial Day Practice Update

I hope all of our family of patients are well, as vaccines and natural immunity create positive change in the Covid-19 pandemic that has upended our lives in such profound ways for over a year now. Winston Churchill's words from... Continue reading

Posted May 31, 2021 at Bite Point

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Covid-19 RNA Vaccines, Explained

Covid-19 RNA Vaccines, Explained As we approach a time when effective Covid-19 vaccines become available, I wish to explain to you all one further twist on these potentially life-saving medicines. All the major vaccine contenders now are RNA vaccines. What... Continue reading

Posted Dec 4, 2020 at Bite Point

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Maintaining Oral Health While Limiting Pandemic Anxiety

Our 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, was a man of few words and an extremely pragmatic, practical, skeptical New Englander. On a brief vacation, President Coolidge and an old friend were riding horses in Vermont. His friend said to Coolidge as... Continue reading

Posted Nov 19, 2020 at Bite Point

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Covid-19 Immunity Through Masking

Please allow me to share a rare piece of encouraging news in these challenging times we're in. In a September 8th paper in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Gandhi and Rutherford present to us a remarkable idea.... Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2020 at Bite Point

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SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines, Explained

We are coming up against a time when a vaccine against Covid-19, also called SARS-CoV-2, may become available. Viruses mutate very rapidly, changing their surface proteins and such. The virus variants that are best at evading the human immune system... Continue reading

Posted Sep 4, 2020 at Bite Point

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Effect of Cumulative US Inflation upon Typical Dental Insurance Yearly Maximum Real Value

Effect of Cumulative US Inflation upon Typical Dental Insurance Yearly Maximum Real Value, since 1967. Also of note: In 1967, the majority of employers gave away dental insurance free, as a perk. Today, the vast majority of employers pay the... Continue reading

Posted Aug 18, 2020 at Bite Point

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COVID-19 May Very Well Be With Us Permanently

"There is always potential for a conflict of interest between microbe and host because the genetic makeup of the microbe differs from that of the host. Natural selection will favor microbes that act in their own genetic interest as circumstances... Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2020 at Bite Point

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Juneteenth Thoughts

Juneteenth thoughts. Intolerance is not only mean-spirited. It’s illogical. Human beings sort wrong. Meaning: We label, classify and sort people and things as a vital survival strategy. It’s part of our nature. Classifying and sorting is part of what brought... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2020 at Bite Point

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The Covidian Calendar

The International Association for the Advancement of Time will be rolling out a new calendar shortly. Guessing the Gregorian has had its day. The new months are: January February Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Coviduary Continue reading

Posted May 19, 2020 at Bite Point

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Using the Natural Logarithm to Forecast COVID19 Progression

In our last post, we explored how to predict the COVID-19 epidemic progression with the irrational, transcendental and may I say supernatural number e. e is the base rate of growth shared by all continuously growing processes. e merges growth... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2020 at Bite Point

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Using the Number e to predict COVID19 Progression

The number e is one of the most powerful, profound, mysterious, mystical things I've ever encountered. I mean in all of life. Let's use its power to explore the growth rate of the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S. From my... Continue reading

Posted Mar 31, 2020 at Bite Point

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Global Palindrome Day Musings on 02/02/2020

First Global Palindrome Day (a palindrome date when written in both DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY formats) of the Common Era: 01/01/1010, 1,010 years ago. Second Global Palindrome Day of the Common Era: 11/11/1111. 909 years ago, 101 years from the first.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2020 at Bite Point

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Dental "Insurance" is Just a Coupon (the short version)

Here is the short version of my last post. In 1967, when dental insurance first ramped up in America, employers commonly purchased plans with $1,000 yearly maximums. Today, in our experience in Philadelphia, some 95% of PPO plans from United... Continue reading

Posted Dec 19, 2019 at Bite Point

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Dental "Insurance" is Actually a Yearly Coupon

It is high time to have a detailed discussion about dental insurance. What it is, and what it is not. In part this is to help patients who have dental insurance utilize it properly, to their best advantage. And in... Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2019 at Bite Point

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Warning: anything and everything made up of any combination of the any of the following elements is known to the State of California to cause cancer: H - Hydrogen He - Helium Li - Lithium Be - Beryllium B -... Continue reading

Posted Oct 28, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Eleven

Obsidian MacAdoo is a poetess, and she wrote the terrifying yet compelling Green Cackles at Dawn. Diffusion of Innovations research informs us that far more than half of humanity is afraid of standing out. Uppermost in the minds of so... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Ten: The Wine

Massimo Volpedo, as we saw in the last episode, loves life and people on a breathtaking scale. Let us see what he has to say about wine. The setup: It's a bitter cold Boston evening in January, 1930. Pinky DeVroom,... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Nine: The Volpedo

The only Episode thus far with a coda to its title. And why? Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Signore Massimo Volpedo: * Pinky entered, hat in hand, and nodded to Mrs. Dalton. He was vaguely conscious that he was throttling the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 28, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Eight

Somewhere in all his writings Seth Godin asserted that businesses--and I assume he meant local, bespoke, non-corporate ones--have only two pathways to success: (1) Delight people, and (2) Solve their problems. The more interesting the problem, the better. In our... Continue reading

Posted Apr 21, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Seven

Time now to turn from the realm of industrialists and corporate capitalism to the free market's other branch, which doesn't seem to have a name but which I shall call the bespoke branch of capitalism. This is an interesting question.... Continue reading

Posted Apr 21, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Six

One more post on industrialism and then we shall leave this oft-times dark subject and move into the light. And the lighter side of Swirled All the Way to the Shrub, this engaging and thought-provoking novel that Tom Bentley and... Continue reading

Posted Apr 9, 2019 at Bite Point

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Shrubbery, Episode Five

In recent posts, we have been exploring the nature of industrialists. Our novel, Swirled All the Way to the Shrub, wrestles with the complex interplay between industrialism and the human beings who live in the world it shapes. Industrialist: "A... Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2019 at Bite Point

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