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My current dentist of the many years is perfect. She is obsessed with the quality of work and materials, and aims to optimize for being on top of problems vs be

My current dentist of the many years is perfect. She is obsessed with the quality of work and materials, and aims to optimize for being on top of problems vs being conservative in treatment. Inevitably she will retire... Then I need to find another dentist who cares most about dentistry. The industry is apparently now dense with dentists obsessed with the business of dentistry, or even “dentist lifestyle influencers” who glamorize the business of dentistry to sell products/courses/whatever to other dentists.

curun1r 4y ago
> aims to optimize for being on top of problems vs being conservative in treatment You should really read the article as this is the exact problem they’re pointing out…that the whole field is rife with treatments that are not evidence-based and that what little evidence has been collected is pointing to significant over-treatment in the field. The dentist discussed in the article would likely have been described by his patients exactly the way you describe yours. But, according to the article, he ended up settling his civil cases for close to $4m and is facing criminal charges. Which isn’t to say that your dentist is the same, but just that it’s such a natural trust relationship with your dentist that it’s really easy to end up getting procedures that aren’t necessary and dentistry doesn’t even have the data gathering infrastructure to determine which procedures really are necessary. That’s a really dangerous thing when a dentist’s financial interests are aligned with doing more procedures.