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Tobacco has quite a lot of enemies in the medical care and hygiene world. Not only do they ruin lung and heart function, but they ruin good skin, have degenerative effects on the eyes, and wreak havoc on a patient’s smile. This makes for curiosity in just about every field of care — not the least of which is the dental care field.

Well, a continuing education program by Dentalcare.com and sponsored by toothpaste brands Crest and Oral-B has set its sights on electronic cigarettes. Though the course uses some very outdated information (including an FDA study from 2009) and focuses on some of the less valuable tidbits for other sources, it is not entirely focused on making the products look bad. Not surprisingly, it does ultimately argue that more information is necessary.

You can find the program right here. You can even review the course, but you have to be a member of the site.

One would hope that the FDA study from 2009 might be considered out of date at this point — for no other reason than that e-cigs today are nothing like what they were 5 years ago. They even use Polosa’s work (which mostly shows that e-cigs do work for cessation) to show that some e-cig users (less than 10%) experience some minor side effects like throat irritation or coughing.

While this course certainly isn’t as slanted as many pieces of literature we’ve seen, it still mostly avoids sharing any evidence that seems remotely in favor of electronic cigarettes.