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Chalk me up as another anecdatum of being subjected to questionable dentist practices. If you’ll permit me to grossly oversimplify, I feel like dentists are to
by mypastself 4y ago
Chalk me up as another anecdatum of being subjected to questionable dentist practices.
If you’ll permit me to grossly oversimplify, I feel like dentists are to medicine what software developers are to engineering.
Both professions tend to play faster and looser with rules and standards, and tend to be closer to trade careers than most of their superset.
- doubled112 4y agoThat trade thing is how I have realized I feel about dentistry. I've always felt it was a little bit science and a little bit art. I don't think there's an exact set of steps to every tooth and it's problem. There's just too many variables, so they have to figure it out as they go. Two dentists in the same clinic might not do it the same way. Problem wise, two identical repairs might wear differently, causing one to last a lifetime, but another to fall out in a couple of years. A mouth gets a lot of use. I am, however, lucky enough that my dentist will see two paths, and offer the less expensive option with a "wait and see" disclaimer. I've had no problems with those repairs, where I'm positive some others would have immediately escalated from the filling to a root canal, filling, crown, etc path.
- dEnigma 4y agoIf only there was as much development (pun intended) in dentistry as there is in software engineering. With all the amazing advances in medicine we're experiencing it often feels to me like dentistry is stuck.