Dentistry: Understand ALL Of The Motives

Dental care is a necessity for health. Unfortunately, it is a profession whose practitioners are under pressure to perform unnecessary procedures. I have been to several different dentists in my life and can personally attest to the problem. Click on the links below for examples:

https://brighterimagelab.com/top-3-dental-scams-and-how-to-avoid-them-2021/

https://www.wcax.com/video/2022/06/08/dental-scams-take-bite-out-consumers-wallets/

https://decisionsindentistry.com/2022/05/better-business-bureau-warns-consumers-dental-scams/

https://www.bbb.org/article/scams/27083-bbb-scam-alert-spot-red-flags-when-looking-for-deals-on-dental-work

https://www.wcax.com/video/2022/06/08/dental-scams-take-bite-out-consumers-wallets/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzU8ZUYwq0

No, Forget Treatment To Restore Tooth Enamel

"The commercial keeps airing on TV with annoying frequency. She’s a dentist, she wears a white coat, and viewers are expected to assume she is offering good advice. I find her voice irritating, but that would be beside the point if her information were accurate. It isn’t. She is providing inaccurate information invented by marketers to sell a supposed remedy."

Click on the link below for a debunking of this TV commercial:

Do you need daily treatment to restore tooth enamel?

Is Dentistry A Science?

"Many standard dental treatments—to say nothing of all the recent innovations and cosmetic extravagances—are likewise not well substantiated by research. Many have never been tested in meticulous clinical trials. And the data that are available are not always reassuring."

Click on the link before for a troubling article regarding dentistry:

The Truth About Dentistry

Root Canals And Alternatives To Medicine

"The overarching theme when it comes to the “alternative” or “holistic” criticism of root canals comes down to the claim that no matter how well the root canal procedure is performed, there are still bacteria and bacterial toxins left in and around the tooth, which then ostensibly continues to infect the patient, causing a host of maladies, from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. One of the authors (Dr. Thomas Levy) of the above referenced book Toxic Tooth — How a Root Canal Could Be Making You Sick stated in an interview that “there can be few things as catastrophic as a root canal.” Considering that an estimated 15 million root canals are performed each year, I’m surprised that people who have had root canals (including me 20 years ago) haven’t all dropped dead. That doesn’t sound catastrophic to me."

Pulp Fiction

It Is Still Wise To Floss

"At the risk of inevitable accusations that I am a Big Floss Shill, I would like to urge the people of Earth to please continue flossing their teeth or using something to clean between them, if possible."

5 Good Reasons To Keep Flossing

Diet And Dental Health

"Though Pompeii citizens never used toothbrushes or toothpaste, they had healthy teeth thanks to their low-sugar diet. Massimo Osanna, superintendent of the World Heritage-listed site, said their diet was 'balanced and healthy, similar to what we now call the Mediterranean diet,' according to The Telegraph."

Romans had no need for dentists, because of one food they didn’t eat

Mercury Amalgam Fillings

With the tragic news of the Flint, Michigan water supply presenting risks of mercury poisoning, some people may be prompted to bring up the controversial subject of Mercury's use in dental fillings.  This article presents current knowledge and recommendations on the subject.

To date, studies have shown no correlation between dental amalgam and birth defects or adverse health issues in patients with dental amalgam or in dental health care workers who are exposed to it on a daily basis.