Tooth Whitening and Honest Competition
Cato Podcast
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4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2013
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, April 30th, 2013. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:07.0 | Whitening your teeth with over-the-counter products is perfectly legal, |
| 0:10.0 | and in many states paying someone to help you use those same products is |
| 0:14.8 | considered practicing dentistry without a license. |
| 0:18.0 | Angela Ericsson is a researcher at the Institute for Justice and author of the |
| 0:21.2 | new report White Out how dental industry insiders |
| 0:24.2 | thwart competition from teeth whitening entrepreneurs, we spoke today. |
| 0:28.6 | The state of Alabama has made teeth whitening illegal. What this means is that people in mall kiosks and |
| 0:35.2 | salons are no longer able to provide a space for people to use an over-the-counter |
| 0:40.8 | product on themselves while being given instruction on how to use that |
| 0:44.6 | product. |
| 0:45.6 | Instead, they have to go home and use that same exact product. |
| 0:49.0 | So this is stuff that you buy at the drugstore. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, these are over-the-counter products that anyone can purchase. |
| 0:54.6 | They are listed as cosmetics by the FDA, so even a miner can purchase these products. |
| 1:00.3 | And yet, the dental Board in Alabama is enforcing this new law in order to stop kiosk owners and salons from offering this type of product and service in their |
| 1:16.2 | businesses in order to keep it inside the dental office. This is not just limited to |
| 1:25.7 | Alabama how many the dental office. This is not just limited to Alabama. How many states are actually engaged in this practice of telling people you you're not legally allowed to do this? |
| 1:30.3 | Well there are 14 states that have laws or regulations that have been |
| 1:34.2 | passed in the past five to eight years and these also you don't have just those |
| 1:40.8 | 14 states though that are telling these businesses to shut down. |
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