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https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/
Cliffs
-Dentists just guessing, wrong, or making stuff up to get paid.
My experience:
I’ve always felt something wrong with the industry. Never made sense to me why generally healthy people constantly need something done to their teeth / mouth. Seems inherently wrong that this level of “fixing” is not needed or necessary.
I’ve lived in a lot of different places so very rarely have had the same dentist for multiple years. Multiple times it’s happened where I go in to get a regular cleaning and their overall take is that everything is great but on these 1 or 2 teeth looks like a cavity is starting so let’s get it filled. Every every single time i’ve head nodded and said okay i’ll think about it.
i don’t get it done because there’s no pain, nothing visible, etc and then when i go to a different dentist they never bring it up again on the same tooth.
Net net - i stick with only getting cleanings and if anything more is needed i wait 6 months and get multiple opinions. Thus far have never allowed any work besides cleanings since these “diagnoses” never stick.
Cliffs
-Dentists just guessing, wrong, or making stuff up to get paid.
My experience:
I’ve always felt something wrong with the industry. Never made sense to me why generally healthy people constantly need something done to their teeth / mouth. Seems inherently wrong that this level of “fixing” is not needed or necessary.
I’ve lived in a lot of different places so very rarely have had the same dentist for multiple years. Multiple times it’s happened where I go in to get a regular cleaning and their overall take is that everything is great but on these 1 or 2 teeth looks like a cavity is starting so let’s get it filled. Every every single time i’ve head nodded and said okay i’ll think about it.
i don’t get it done because there’s no pain, nothing visible, etc and then when i go to a different dentist they never bring it up again on the same tooth.
Net net - i stick with only getting cleanings and if anything more is needed i wait 6 months and get multiple opinions. Thus far have never allowed any work besides cleanings since these “diagnoses” never stick.