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All you need to do is visit the dentistry reddit sub and look at threads like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dentistry/comments/vnv25a/how_is_heartland_dso/ htt

• Forgeties79 4y ago
  I don’t doubt that money is their highest priority, as that is the case for most people when it comes to their job. But the implication that they are sabotaging our teeth or giving bad advice in order to be able to bill us for bigger procedures down the line is a much bigger claim.
  • abrichr 4y ago
    It happens. From https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro... : > Year after year, Lund had performed certain procedures at extraordinarily high rates. Whereas a typical dentist might perform root canals on previously crowned teeth in only 3 to 7 percent of cases, Lund was performing them in 90 percent of cases. As Zeidler later alleged in court documents, Lund had performed invasive, costly, and seemingly unnecessary procedures on dozens and dozens of patients, some of whom he had been seeing for decades. Terry Mitchell and Joyce Cordi were far from alone. In fact, they had not even endured the worst of it.
    • Forgeties79 4y ago
      Of course it happens. I didn’t say, “it never happens.” I’m saying most dentists don’t behave that way.
  • moffkalast 4y ago
    They don't have to sabotage people, all they have to do is nothing - in terms of researching new better ways to prevent issues - and they're already set.
• f6v 4y ago
  No incentive to innovate is very different from sabotaging. I’m sorry you see it this way.