Dental X-Rays Linked To Common Brain Tumor

I'm not trying to marginalize your point, but at the same time? It seems to me that dentistry is one of the areas of medicine with the least amount of oversight or "checks and balances" to ensure patients are getting what they pay for.

For example, I went to a dentist as a teenager to have an impacted wisdom tooth extracted. The oral surgeon recommended that I have "all 4 wisdom teeth pulled at the same time, since there was a good chance the others weren't all going to come in properly anyway - and it would be less painful if I only went through one extraction". I went with his recommendation, only to find that a couple years later, I had cavities in the back of a couple of my teeth, where they faced those wisdom teeth. Apparently, their enamel was damaged in the tooth extraction process, causing them to get cavities. So then I had those filled, but I remembered thinking the whole process was a bit questionable at the time, because he had a young dental assistant working with him, who he asked to mix up the amalgam filling material for him. I remember him looking at it and questioning her about whether she mixed something up enough because it didn't look quite right, stirring it around a bit in the container she was holding, and ultimately going ahead and using it on my teeth. Well, fast forward a couple more years, and I start having a bad toothache. I go to a dentist (totally different place!) and I'm informed that tooth has a big hole in the back of it (where the filling material had obviously fallen out) and the tooth isn't even salvageable anymore!

I look at all of this and have to wonder if I would have been better off if I had only opted to have the bare minimum work done in the beginning? Seems like all these dentists did was create more problems for other dentists to correct, at my expense!

And my daughter is further making me question some of these dentists.... When she was 8 years old, the pediatric dentist commented that "he saw something on the x-rays that concerned him" and "she might need some dental work, but we'll see". The next time she came in for a checkup, he wanted to schedule an expensive dental surgery procedure for her because he claimed a tooth wasn't going to come in right, etc. etc. Well, I didn't have the money so I kept putting it off.... I did send her to the next scheduled checkup though, where they declared "She doesn't need that surgery after all!" (Really?! WTF?!)

Oh, and then there's my younger brother, who had all kinds of dental problems after his dentist screwed up a procedure -- but of course, denies any of it was his doing.

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