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I was super mad when I went to a new dentist after my last one retired and he prescribed me homeopathic medicine.
I hope you used homeopathic payment.
Given them payment in diluted dollar water.
"I set this bottle of dasani by a bank for like three months so it would absorb the essence of currency. Don't trust 'big money' out there with their 'coke covered paper.' This is organic! Water is natural!"
Shells and crystal rocks
A chiropractor once gave my mom homeopathic pills. I was a kid and didn't even know what homeopathy was at the time, but she gave me one and I said, "mom, this is sugar." She tried to argue with me about it and I kept telling her I know what sugar tastes like.
Nicely done. The best case scenario is sugar. Most of the time, it's nothing but water, and maybe a single drop of 100x already diluted more water, that maybe once had something non-water in it. That is, of course, assuming the machines doing the literal magic shaking didn't spill the "active ingredient".
I’m curious. What for? Something non-dental the dentist noticed or something dental-related?
I have a perio and ortho, and the perio also was my hygienist; but the hygienist noticed something odd with a tooth, concerned about it, said I should consult a general dentist - due to having seen a perio, ortho and hygienist regularly I let my general dentist lapse, found they had retired and I wasn't on books any more, went to the nearest dentist, in-network, 4* reviews - he looked at it, said, "ah yeah, i see the issue. use this mouthwash and gel on it once daily"
it was like $50
I happily used it for a week before I was standing there swishing and actually read the label and saw "not endorsed by the FDA" and was like "whattttt" then saw it was homeopathic
well you can imagine I spit that mouthwash straight out without swallowing
I don’t suppose you remember what the magical ingredients were in those products? Call it morbid curiosity.
You know now that I think about it, I’m not sure how much of dental products are actually FDA approved. I think they might fit into a weird zone where they’re not technically medication or food so FDA doesn’t really look too closely. Dental machinery and appliances for sure need to be FDA-approved, but mouthwash and toothpaste I’m not so sure about. I’m fairly sure the active ingredients within mouthwash and toothpaste, such as fluoride, need to have FDA approval before they can be used, but I don’t think the toothpaste or mouthwash itself needs FDA approval. I think for the most part the FDA oversees marketing claims and manufacturing standards for toothpaste/mouthwash, whereas the American Dental Association (ADA) is the body that “approves” them.
No worries. The appointment was set for me by a local government agency. That's about all I wanna say about it, though.