Yeah, have been reading about that for the last 20 years. Dentists are still just drilling and refilling holes or pulling teeth. Just like they did 200 years ago.
That’s why I mentioned that they finally reached human trials. That’s the last big step before they can be released. New technology needs time to go from the lab to practical use.
Dentists would rather kill a man than allow that to happen. There’s too much money involved.
Dentists are the reason why they cost so much, why regular insurance doesn’t cover them, and why they are exempt from the Obamacare rules like lifetime maximums.
My gf getting her wisdom teeth taken out was a super disheartening experience; the surgeon(s) she saw were super nice and did well but literally no insurance will cover it even thought it’s RECOMMENDED to get them taken out as preventative care.
Unless something very painful and dangerous is already happening most hospitals apparently won’t even take you seriously if you have state insurance and need your wisdom teeth covered.
They WONT EVEN FUCKING LET YOU GO INTO DEBT THEY JUST STRAIGHT UP SAY NO!!! For a 40 minute procedure that can literally save your whole jaw and all of your teeth!!! 3000$ later and she still couldn’t get one extracted because it’s inside of her other tooth… but that STILL ISN’T a good enough reason for it to be covered by insurance, I guess it literally needs to almost kill you or make you loose a few teeth and jaw bone before most practices would consider you eligible, and it still ain’t covered because somehow it’s considered “elective surgery “.
Sorry for the rant this shit is getting me heated again to think about lol anyways ya fuck the insurance industry most dentists to the gulags etc etc
We are getting there. There are human trials for a medicine that regrows teeth and another that restores teeth.
Yeah, have been reading about that for the last 20 years. Dentists are still just drilling and refilling holes or pulling teeth. Just like they did 200 years ago.
That’s why I mentioned that they finally reached human trials. That’s the last big step before they can be released. New technology needs time to go from the lab to practical use.
Except the fillings aren’t made from lead or something
Mercury amalgum’s still the standard afaik. Or, the next alternative, iirc, is some kind of hormone disregulating plastic?
May as well be lead. Oh but lead’s poisonous. Lets use cadmium. … Is the type of crazy non-logic the mercury poisoned brain thinks is fine.
Dentists would rather kill a man than allow that to happen. There’s too much money involved.
Dentists are the reason why they cost so much, why regular insurance doesn’t cover them, and why they are exempt from the Obamacare rules like lifetime maximums.
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summary?id=H1400
https://nypan.org/about/news-and-updates/2021/12/12/i-know-how-lobbyists-make-sure-americans-dont-get-dental-carei-was-one-of-them
My gf getting her wisdom teeth taken out was a super disheartening experience; the surgeon(s) she saw were super nice and did well but literally no insurance will cover it even thought it’s RECOMMENDED to get them taken out as preventative care.
Unless something very painful and dangerous is already happening most hospitals apparently won’t even take you seriously if you have state insurance and need your wisdom teeth covered.
They WONT EVEN FUCKING LET YOU GO INTO DEBT THEY JUST STRAIGHT UP SAY NO!!! For a 40 minute procedure that can literally save your whole jaw and all of your teeth!!! 3000$ later and she still couldn’t get one extracted because it’s inside of her other tooth… but that STILL ISN’T a good enough reason for it to be covered by insurance, I guess it literally needs to almost kill you or make you loose a few teeth and jaw bone before most practices would consider you eligible, and it still ain’t covered because somehow it’s considered “elective surgery “.
Sorry for the rant this shit is getting me heated again to think about lol anyways ya fuck the insurance industry most dentists to the gulags etc etc