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>Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before any doctor (or layman) will be able to pull damaged teeth and then easily regrow them I'd sure like to know that
by Johnny555 3y ago
>Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before any doctor (or layman) will be able to pull damaged teeth and then easily regrow them
I'd sure like to know that the person pulling my tooth knows how to evaluate it with an x-ray to see if it really needs to be pulled (and to see if the bone structure beneath it is healthy enough to regrow a tooth), and is trained to administer appropriate dental painkillers. If I asked my primary care physician to do it, I'd expect him to refer me to a dentist.
- calderwoodra 3y agoI agree - even though these things are generally really easy to do (second year dental students successfully do all of this under supervision), the reason a dentist is needed is for when something goes wrong.
- YetAnotherNick 3y agoAt least in my area, teeth removal is at least 10x cheaper than root canal. I don't think GP meant there will be 0 dentists, it would be just that lot of preventative care and tooth repair work will be gone, which I were to guess will reduce dentists quantity and quality requirement significantly.