I am currently seeing a dentist who is crown happy.
And they are $2,000 a pop.
ummmm.... Big Pharma has been doing this for the last century.
Making us sick, and selling us the drugs to ‘cure’ us.
Too bad he didn’t make it to Brazil !
Scum lives.
I am suspicious as well.
When I was a kid I would have exactly three “cavities” to fix EVERY time I went to the dentist. After all, Dr Horowitz’s kids’ needed new shoes.
My kids have very few fillings, but back in the day I guess it was typical for a dentist to drill the hell out of molars. I’m surprised I kept mine as long as I did with fillings as large as they had, but they eventually fractured and there wasn’t enough tooth left to avoid the crown.
Good thing he didn’t become a proctologist. Who knows what you would find up there after a routine visit to his office!
Mouth Mechanics. Drill and fill. I’m still trying to figure out why a doctorate is required. Body shops don’t require it.
If what the Dentist said about my teeth grinding 40 years ago were correct, I should have nothing but nubbins for teeth by now.
Dentists these days are always looking to maximize your insurance coverage. If you haven't hit your yearly cap on insurance, they feel they've left money on the table.
Me, I make him "watch" a small cavity, and in almost every case he's been "watching" the same small cavity for literally years with no growth.
I had fillings put into four new adult teeth at 13 that had absolutely no decay—and I heard the dentist tell my mother that. He said the deep nature of the middle of the teeth would mean those were likely to decay in the future, so he convinces my mom and dad to put in silver amalgams into these completely healthy teeth.
I have never had a cavity elsewhere and I never had one before these were drilled. I have always taken care of my teeth.
I have wanted to beat up that dentist since the day he first told my mother that, after a 100% clean check up.
This crooked dentist needs all of his teeth broken.
Somebody should get in this guy’s grill.
His next practice will be jailhouse dentistry.
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.
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.
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.