I have become incredibly skeptical of american dentistry. They can't seem to get their act together on what's actual necessary care and what's just some shit they can charge out the nose for. I've drawn my personal line at wisdom teeth, which they will usually try to extract surgically regardless of whether it's causing any problem or not. After the number of times I've had "no surgery is without risk" reinforced from both experience and medical doctors, that seems incredibly foolish. See also: Lasik

Capitalism ruins everything

there is nothing in this country that isnt a scam. every time you interact with another person through the market, you are being scammed in some way or another

Death to America

We just left a practice because of this. Dentist wanted to pull out my mom's teeth and give her implants, then got pissed when she said no. New dentist says all she needed is some crowns and fillings. A full replacement is just excessive and unnecessary.

Luxury bones.

It really sucks how we haven't evolved the ability to grow teeth back. We wouldn't have to deal with these dentist assholes as much if we did

Something like this happened to my sister. She had a dentist drill and fill her teeth where there were supposedly cavities, and it turns out that those cavities never existed. She was supposed to go back for a follow up, ended up not going back after finding that out.

This is what happened to me a couple years ago and I don't even live in the US. I ended up with a bad cavity and my dentist extracted the tooth. I found out not long after that the tooth could have easily been saved. Thankfully it's only one of my back teeth so no one even realises I'm missing one.

Counterpoint, teeth suck.

The Soul of Dentistry

And it's all because of Cuspid, Lord of Dentin

Hope some Chosen Incisor gets him good

i'm really sleepy and i read that as dengists

I wonder if this happened to me. Doubt it, but TBH my gold tooth is so ballin I wouldn’t even be that upset if I found out.

No shit. Dentistry is a racket. I’ve been like twice in the last decade and I’m fine. Just brush your teeth lol. Last time I went was before corona hit and the guy did x rays and said I needed to get my bottom wisdom teeth out. I couldn’t afford that shit so nearly five years later they’re still in there and I’m fine.