Posted on 03/16/2022 7:42:36 AM PDT by Bonemaker
I immediately thought:
“Is it safe?”
from “Marathon Man” with Dustin Hoffman and Lawrence Olivier
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/
great movie
I had a crown done in Mexico. Right across Yuma. $600. Came out after 6 months but it was worth a try. Many Canadians & Americans took advantage. $6 to park on our side of the border. Short walk. Long line getting back in the US.
I remember reading an article in Readers Digest. A reporter went to a Dental school to see what needed to be done. He then went all over the US for exams. The ‘results’ were all over the place costing money based on one’s insurance. Conclusion: He was ‘troubled’.
Here’s the solution: Test centers that document what’s required but not do the work.
Allow hygienists to open their own storefronts where no dentist is allowed. Let them do the referrals if necessary.
His next practice will be jailhouse dentistry.
You should have given him a little plaque!)
LOL! Let me tell you how my Mother-in-law lost her teeth! And they were perfect!
She went to a dentist to have them cleaned. He is trying to clean them, she is a chronic talker and jabbered on how her Arthritis was killing her.
So he says that her teeth were causing her to have the Arthritis pain and convinced her to let him pull her teeth and make her false teeth.
After all was said and done, she lost her perfect teeth, ended up with ill fitting plates, and still had Arthritis pain all her life.
I believe blaming teeth for Arthritis pain was quite common back then.
If the Dr or dentist wants a new car, suddenly lots of people have extra “health” problems that only the doctor can “fix”.
I am a rabid anti-dentite!
I have the opposite dentist. I recently broke a tooth. I was sure I was going to have to have a crown. He rebuilt the tooth with epoxy (or whatever it is) and charged me $50 after insurance. It works fine. I believe if I was younger he would have done a cap. This guy and his twin brother (with whom he shares his practice) both joined the Naval Reserves after 9/11 and are now Captains in the Medical Corps. Great guys.
Every dentist who used amalgam fillings after ceramics were available was deliberately breaking teeth.
Amalgam is elastic, translating vertical pressure on the top of the tooth into outward pressure on the enamel surrounding the filling. The stress inevitably leads to fracture of the enamel, guaranteeing more extensive and expensive work needed down the road.
Ceramics are non-compressible thanks to the quartz matrix in the filling material. Vertical pressure is absorbed by the roots and jaw, just as in the undamaged tooth. Odds of additional damage are greatly reduced.
The American Dental Association for years covered up this fact, so insurance companies all that time would only cover amalgam, resulting in more claims than would otherwise occurred. But not to worry, the insurance companies just passed the increased cost on to the customer.
My dentist rightly pointed out the ADA and the insurance companies were a bunch of self serving sadists. He billed my insurance for the work minus the fillings, then did ceramics off the books for cost. Hard to find honest, ethical professionals. He’s retired now, the best dentist I ever had.
I am someone that needs to use a bite splint. My upper canines are flat from grinding at night when I didn’t have one.
Every tooth of mine which had root canal done, cracked in the root area. That can not be repaired and infection sets in along with tooth ache. I had 20 teeth pulled, all had root canals. AVOID ROOT CANALS! Floss after every meal and you will never need rood canals. I am doing that on my remaining 9 teeth, and they are all healthy as can be.
I am surprised Dentist don’t have the same bad reputation mechanics, used car salesmen, lawyers do. Their profession is just as bad if not worse.
Especially bad and corrupt are orthodontist, hopefully there is a special place in hell for them.
That came to my mind too! And yes, it WAS a great movie!
Yes
If you got frostbite and/or gangrene on one of your fingers, they wouldn't drill it out, fill it with heavy metals and antibiotics and put a fake finger on top leaving you with a dead rotting finger underneath.
Of course they wouldn't, but that's exactly what they do with a root canal.
My dentist friend also used to do that.
Ethical and honest people DO exist, but they seem to be more and more rare as time passes
THE DENTIST with W.C. Fields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvQRYd8xUYU
Reminds me of my trip to a dentist back in 1954.
I had had a tooth pulled a year (1953) before in Colorado Springs but took it well even though it hurt like you know what!
In Farmington NM, I had a bad tooth so mom said that if it got to hurting to come home. So at school I decided to come home and spend the day reading comic books. So I complained of my tooth hurting. The teacher dismissed me to go home. BIG MISTAKE!
Instead of reading comic books, mom grabbed me and took me to a local dentist on main street. He should have been a horse doctor as he was NO DENTIST!
It HURT! I was screaming while he was trying to inject the anesthetic into my jaw. He finally got the tooth out and I had to spend several days at home with an ice pack on my jaw.
That broke me from ever trying to get out of school!
I still remember that dentist horse doctor’s name.. Dr. Moss, on Main St Farmington NM.
Next tooth I had pulled was in 1963 Ozarks. I was sweating, and I do mean sweating, remembering the last episode with Moss. it till I found the dentists now swabbed a pain killer on the spot they were going to place the nerve blocker anesthetic Easy! Never had a problem since.
I like to do my
Own Oil Changes,,,
Why Not This?
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Thanks Badger
Very suspicious of past dentists I’ve used. In my 20’s my dentist in Illinois drilled a number of cavities every visit. I didn’t think to question....until I moved out of State.
In the past 40 years, very very few cavities.
My trust has waned so much in doctors/dentists etc. $$$
I’m about to get a root canal in a few hours. My first one.
On another tooth, I was having problems. It was a crown over a filling. They said filling need to be replaced and a new crown. I was still having problems and was referred to an endodontist who said my tooth is cracked and needs to be replaced. I’m wondering if the dentist cracked it.
These are all new providers for me because we moved. I miss my old dentist.
I think it’s time to change dentists. I had a chip on front tooth. Noticeable but didn’t bother me and it didn’t look bad. Girlfriend’s thought it was kinda cute!
But dentist said “we’ll bond it, cost 100 bucks”. So I let them. Couple of mo’s later bonding fell out. They had drilled my tooth almost the full length for the bonding to stick and now my tooth looked like crap.
Dentist: well we can put in a cap. Where it is it’s hard for the bonding to stick.
Another 100 to “Bond” it again. Or 1500 for a cap.
So, they “Fixed” a tooth I was fine with. 200 bucks. And now it’s 1500 for a cap. Total. $1,700. I have no dental insurance.
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