Re: Differing dental reports
- From: "Dr Steve" <nospam@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:22:43 GMT
If you get enough different opinions you will find 2-3 styles which emerge.
You need to find a dental office you trust and who shares your philosophy
and advance forward. Some offices will replace every restoration in your
mouth (we can argue if this is preventative or to build revenues for the
office), some offices will hardly ever place crowns, and others will place
crowns when things break, or when huge restorations are beginning to fail.
Sometimes a patient will have a broken tooth/filling and the tooth next to
it has was appears to be a very old filling which is still serviceable, but
beginning to look bad. Then, it becomes a discussion as to whether or not
to restore it at the same time or not. In my office, I usually will offer
about $150 off the second one done in the same appointment (so long as the
teeth are next door to each other). I save time, so I pass it on to the
patient.
If you take your car to a mechanic and they do a compression test. 5
cylinders test at 550 psi. 1 is at 500 psi. 1 is 525 psi and the last one
is at 495 psi. Some of the shops will want to open the block to replace
pistons and rings, some will want to replace just rings, some will want to
replace the entire engine, and some will say leave it go for now.
Human beings are no where near as consistently built or maintained as
automobiles.
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Stephen [What's a Temporary?], D.D.S.
Michigan, USA
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This posting is intended for informational or conversational purposes only.
Always seek the opinion of a licensed dental professional before acting on
the advice or opinion expressed here. Only a dentist who has examined you
in person can diagnose your problems and make decisions which will affect
your health.
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"figgy" <figaro911@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ok, forgetting my comment about reporting to the dental board ( from
> your comments, it would be pointless in any event ). At what point good
> doctors, does one cross the line between "art" and "overtreatment"? I
> could bring a car into a shop, if one mechanic says a tuneup's all
> that's needed, and the other says it needs a major overhaul, do I just
> say, "ok, I understand, I could see where they both could be right". Is
> it really that fuzzy? In this case my wife's a new patient in both
> offices, has a prophy done, and Xrays evaluated, and two radically
> different diagnoses are offered. And the patient is supposed to nod and
> say "amen". If this kind of stuff happened in a car repair shop, the
> state regulators would be all over it to bust the perpetrators. It's
> not right, and it doesn't help the dental profession that this is
> condoned. Feel free to tell me how off base I am.
>
> Jeff
>
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