》 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

》 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.