Medicine in a muddle?

Abstract

I believe that medicine is currently in a muddle and like a magician lost in a maze of caves and tunnels, is trying to get out of the muddle by creating ever stronger magic potions and spells. The magic opens new tunnels, but does not create an opening out into the fresh air. Or so it seemed to me when, as a new professor of dentistry. I had to think about my vision of the future of dentistry in South Africa.