Re: Dental dummy has questions & comments

From: StovePipe (StovesNewAddy_at_sympatico.DOTnet)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:11:43 -0500

<rev_otis_mcnatt@yahoo.com> wrote:

> One reason I avoid the dental visits (other than the fact that
> my teeth have never given me trouble) is that nowadays, they
> want to do a whole series of x-rays and perhaps do more than
> is actually needed, which is common in other fields as well.

Why do they post 'NO DIVING' signs at the local swiming hole near you?
So you don't can your head on a rock under the surface; a rock that YOU
CAN'T SEE.

Why do we take x-rays? To see decay, foreign bodies, abceses, etc...
Things that, on the surface, YOU CAN'T SEE.

However, is this really getting through to you? Will you believe what
the dentist says to you, if it doesn't jive with your pre-conceived
notions about what is going on in your mouth? What if s/he says that,
even though your gums LOOK alright, there is gum disease hiding under
them. Will you believe it?

I get people in my practice like you all the time: too CHEAP to spend a
dime on their teeth; not for LUXURY elective treatments, but for
NECESSARY medically based treatments. They come in with more $$$ on
their wrists and on their feet than they are prepared to put in their
mouths. And, no x-rays, doc please... they're dangerous. Meanwhile,
they've got skin that's almost BLACK from going to the tanning salon...

It is just possible that in those thirty years, trouble has been
brewing in your mouth and you will naturally expect the dentist to wave
his magic wand and make everything right in one appointment lasting 40
minutes, hey?

Don't be surprised if the dentist asks you to sign an informed
consentment form, especially if you refuse x-rays to see the whole
picture.

If you go to a dentist, and you don't like the verdict, GO TO ANOTHER
ONE, and get another opinion, instead of doing the welfare line solution
(just do nothing at all). This will cost you some $$$, so go to the
automatic teller before hand.

Would you be here if this NG cost you something to get advice? I think
not.

Just my opinion, but I am definitely sticking to it.
SP 

-- 
Not a real Addy, yet

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