No one becomes a dentist because they're keen to pull shards of chalk-soft teeth from senior's mouths or enjoy dealing with the scent of rot from infection. It'

No one becomes a dentist because they're keen to pull shards of chalk-soft teeth from senior's mouths or enjoy dealing with the scent of rot from infection. It's a career for the money and it's rather easy to find dentists which are optimising for that. In medicine you treat the patient, not the picture. If your teeth seem fine, they probably are fine. You will always hear a lot of differing opinions about this from health care professionals and there are of course exceptions, but exceptions are exceptions. You must keep in mind that HCPs are people that see a disproportionate number of very unwell people and they are not immune to bias. Because of this bias, a common phrase in medicine is if you hear hooves, think horses, not zebras. It's a way of saying that most symptoms you see will be from ordinary ailments. I can think of too many cases where patients went through needless testing and anxiety only to eventually discover that it was all for nothing.