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Thats only true if you have simple issues, I've had a molar silently split into 4 pieces (likely) because of a non-perfect filling (one of the only two I have/h

Thats only true if you have simple issues, I've had a molar silently split into 4 pieces (likely) because of a non-perfect filling (one of the only two I have/had). Apart from the non-fix of removing the tooth, there was a tremendous amount of 'umm's and 'maybe's from a competent dentist, and the attempt at root filling and gluing the tooth together ultimately failed. So now I'm stuck with a molar less, or filing down perfectly healthy teeth to make a bridge, or an implant which might not work because the bone was affected by the previous broken tooth - and molar implants can be problematic in any case - or so I've been told. Dentistry might not be a dark art anymore, but we appear to be much better at fixing broken bones than broken teeth.

akiselev 10y ago
》 Dentistry might not be a dark art anymore, but we appear to be much better at fixing broken bones than broken teeth. I don't think we are. I'd like to see a real study on this but I would think many more sugeries on bone end with complications that are life altering than dental surgeries, even despite their significantly more intrusive nature (although dental surgeries do always carry risk of nerve damage which can be debilitating). As a matter of scale, I bet there is a lot more patients for dental work than broken bones requiring surgery. Dentists also see many more patients since the work requires far less time, so I'd imagine these two factors meant they had much more data and practice to work with.