Dentists sometimes really feel like they are mouth mechanics
I complained to my mother that the new dentist hurt me. She said I was being over-dramatic. Months later, she went to him and told me that he hurt her. No acknowledgment that I’d complained of the same. Teenager, obv.
Never trust a medical profession that hasn’t changed their standard techniques since the Dark Ages. And it also explains why they didn’t join medical doctors in the AMA and created their own ADA with hookers, cocaine and blackjack.
The dentist I use now is also a maxillofacial surgeon.
She discovered that my previous dentist was completely ignoring issues that would have left me toothless, lose part of my jaw, and even kill me with meningitis.
And the guy had made a TAC that clearly showed it all. Dude was laser-focused on getting just implants and more implants to rack those bucks, let tooth repair be damned.
I was lucky that the infection was kept perfectly isolated for years in a granuloma, because my freakishly high pain threshold kept me from noticing it at all.
I’m not going to a ‘dentist’ who just studied ‘dentistry’ ever again.Look, I hate them too, but they aren’t Bender. Don’t hold them to a standard that’s impossible.
Omg, did it just take my >20y to associate Bender with drinking on a bender? I’m so stupid.
Well the x-rays have gotten much better. Don’t really need the lead vest anymore.
This reminds me of a lyric by good old John Prine…“We are living in the future. I’ll tell you how I know. I read it in the paper, 15 years ago”.
Delicate and precise organs deserve delicate and precise treatment. Durable organs get the drill.
If you’re implying teeth are so durable. Why do they need yearly attention?
My spleen has never once needed a cleaning, and it certainly does not need its own luxury insurance (that covers almost nothing).
Your spleen wouldn’t be very durable if it was being constantly being pressed against hard foods at around 30 psi multiple times a day for your entire life.
Not just mechanical stress, but sugars and carbohydrates in those foods feed the bacteria in the mouth, whose byproducts damage the enamel. Few people are blessed with teeth that withstand it, or mouth flora that is non-damaging, but there is no natural selection for that… Because we have dentistry, thankfully.
Spleens are the organs most commonly injured in car accidents.
Notes but I am sure lots of other organs are injured in car accidents including teeth
I’ll keep pushing people towards the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective’s Tooth Seal because it feels like the most advanced piece of preventative dental care I’ve seen in years.
Mmhh getting a 403 error
Same. Maybe geoblocked?
It’s an article called “Human trials begin for drug that could let adults regrow teeth for the first time”.
Hope it gets approved soon (if it works and if safe). Thank you
Guess your healthcare agreement doesn’t cover that
Science is crazy
toothpaste: so basically we’re turning your mouth into a small chemical laboratory to fix some issues with basic inorganic chemistry.
Is it really that complicated? I was under the impression that toothpaste was mostly just a soft abrasive mixed with an antibacterial and some flavoring and scent. Basically like baking soda, which does all those things at once.
it’s a weak base to counteract the acid from the bacteria’s digestion products. that protects your teeth (which are mineralic) against acid attack.
Flouride binds to your teeth to fill in the enamel.
If it was just abrasive then your teeth would slowly wither away in the same way that everyone who uses magic erasers is destroying their home.
Extra fast spinning high tech drills though iirc
While pulling teeth is still quite barbaric, replacing teeth uses quite a lot of modern technology. For example 3D scans and 3D printing are common tools in creating dentures these days
Methinks I’d prefer that bacterial treatment that helps regrow teeth. Or the one that triggers the third set. Or the others I’ve heard of over the past few decades, that would be a cheap (mere pennies) one-time treatment, that curiously somehow never made it to market. Rather than being hozed of my wealth to give someone a bullshit job. Don’t you just love the perverse incentives in this “economy”?
Still… it’s very impressive, doing it the long way around, the hard way. And in our agnotologically abused state, oblivious to the suppressed cheap easy ways, it’s so very very impressive, we marvel at the skilled class, and bow before them, pleading in desperation for their blessing us with salvation, as they’re the one true god, of whatever it is they’ve anti-competitively cornered the market at.
“Wheeeeee. I’m so glad we’re free, honey. What time’s American Gladiators on. Are we missing it?”… <- somehow that Bill Hicks bit sprang to mind. Like akin to the “keep repeating, we are free”, here we’re induced to “keep repeating, we’re in the future”.
Researchers have successfully regrown adult teeth for the first time.
Source? I’ve been following the research and as far as I know it’s still wild growth
My dentist does a 3d scan in the chair and has a mill onsite that generates crowns in 45 minutes.
My dentist made impression for two front crowns and sent away to have them made. Meanwhile he made two temporary crowns in-house and glued them in. They looked and felt exactly like the ones that arrived two months later. I dunno.
Jealous, mine has to send out for crowns and it takes at least a week
yeah, he’s not cheap, but it’s such a HUGE advantage to walk out done. One appt.
Wait till you hear about orthopedic surgery
Yeah… Watching spinal surgery can be gnarly. There’s a procedure to debris the spinal column before you install hardware called spinal flossing. You basically get a shop towel and wrap it around the spine and shimmy the towel like you’re cleaning a bowling ball.
I saw a video of a knee implant extraction, and it was just one doctor hammering the living fuck out of the implant until he got tired and gave the hammer to the next doctor.
My dad had a recall on a hip implant so they cracked his femur open longways to get it out. Still has better mobility than pre-surgery.
What the fuck
Yeah, orthopedics is pretty much shop class but with more expensive tools and hardware. Bones are a lot tougher than what most people tend to think, so sometimes you just have to wack on the hardware with a big mallet to get them to release.
I mean it’s good, right? Bones SHOULD be stronger than wood
And my mechanic is less pushy than any dentist I’ve ever visited. They always seem to pull up some image and point to it and say see that out of focus area? Your particular insurance covers that, so your teeth will fall out next week if we don’t address it right now, and youll never get laid again, you’ll fail out of school and get fired from your job and be homeless. Oh - wait. You’re insurance doesn’t cover that? Then they wipe the grease stain from the screen and say you’ll be just fine.
Dentist had made quite a few leaps. When I was young fillings were metal. Now they are a putty that dries within seconds with uv light shine upon it.
Yup, and when I needed a new brace the dentist made a 3D scan of my teeth to have a custom one made.
I had the same for my last guard (to keep me from grinding teeth at night). The previous guard relied on a mold, which I swear loosened a filling that fell out a week or two later.
The tech is pretty amazing. They still need a drill though.
Plastic filling with ceramic particles in my case. I honestly don’t know which tooth it’s in anymore
Also, braces are practically invisable now and 3d printed
Some are. My kid just got some in a few months ago, look just like what I had in the 90s
I had a kid on my school bus ask me what color of braces she should get.
That is curious. I wonder what type of 3d printer and what type of material
UV resin, basically, just super high resolution that makes it incredibly expensive (even the cheaper models used for quick check measurements by dentists cost $20k+ - that is, latest tech, brand new from manufacturer, before someone drops a link for a used unit from 2018 for 10 grand). But the sheer volume makes up for it, a single printer like that can be generating pure profit within a year.
Eh, I’m not sure about that. I have an Invisalign retainer and have been 3d printing for a few years now, and from the looks of it they just did a regular FDM printing of the teeth then vacuume-formed plastic over that. Having printed the same files myself (dentist was happy to give the scan to me), and seeing as the retainer has very visible layer lines on the inside (too thick for resin printing), that seems more likely.
I hear there is that teeth re-growing biotech coming,
Been hearing that for decades now. I’ll believe it when I can access it.
i have dental connections. what i understand is there are two different things to watch. there’s a treatment that might be able to get your own body to grow another (final) set of teeth. theoretically humans can grow 3 sets, we stop at the second. that’s in the works, sounds pretty painful. the other treatment is something that can regrow dentin or enamel or i can’t remember it’s been a while, but the one they’d be excited about is enamel so it’s probably that? IIRC they both were coming out of South Korea, one in phase 1 trials and one still in animal trials.
this is me trying to remember off a conversation with my deceased dad’s friend a couple months ago, so take it with a heaping heap of heaps of salt. my memory ain’t all that great anymore.
