The part that really engenders distrust of the dental industry is that I’ll get three very different opinions from three dentists.
I should write a long post because any time the topic comes up I have a lot to say, but don’t want to wear my thumbs out on my phone. What they did and then further tried to do to my children made me violently livid and completely disenchanted with the industry.
Never thought I’d be a conspiracy theorist type person about anything but I do not trust dentists.
Yep, I basically stopped going to one dentist when something felt wrong decades ago when he said it was a cavity to be drilled; second opinion said it was definitely not (I didn’t tell him this was a second opinion). Since then I always get 2 or 3 opinions for me and my family if any of us go (definitely not every 6 months); none of us has any cavities or anything else wrong with us: we do brush and floss and none of us eats particular bad food for oral health.
I am quite sure there are a very large amount of people who had cavities drilled that never had to be.
If you have complex medical issues, you may not find much better results from doctors. It actually may be even more infuriating to be told you medical issues are just in your head.
I, for one, cannot wait for medical AI and ML models to be well-suited enough to summarize, suggest and potentially even diagnose patients based on data correlations and conclusions from other patient journeys.
I grow tired relying on the potential laziness, ignorance, apathy, and complacency that a doctor might have to help me - or even their own prerogatives getting in the way of their treatment and care.
Something more objective, unbiased and empirical would be nice. I often wonder how many lives would have been improved - or saved - if we achieved such technology sooner.
I should write a long post because any time the topic comes up I have a lot to say, but don’t want to wear my thumbs out on my phone. What they did and then further tried to do to my children made me violently livid and completely disenchanted with the industry.
Never thought I’d be a conspiracy theorist type person about anything but I do not trust dentists.