When I got there and said I was healthy and I didn't need a mask, they told me I had to wait outside. So I left. And when they called me to say they were ready I went off and called them out for discrimination. Fuck them.
Update: I filed a complaint with their national website, received a call a little while ago about it, and got nowhere with the person on the other end of the line. At least I got another chance to bitch about how stupid it is that I was being discriminated against for being healthy.
A) Dentists don't force you to eat sugar. Change your diet. Dentists aren't responsible for the modern diet. If you're going to blame someone blame the Rockefellers taking over medicine.
B) Good dental offices will educate you on reducing snacking frequency, changing diet, and better home care.
C) Take ownership of care for your teeth. Do your research and do hydrogen peroxide rinses, coconut oil pulls, etc.
D) Dentists are currently being corporatized (just like hospitals, pharmacies, optometry offices, etc). Large chains are taking over and pushing volume dentistry. This is perhaps your perception of only giving you part of what you need to know.
Dentists have an incredibly stressful job, have one of the highest suicide rates, and suffer numerous physical and mental ailments, while still giving value to patients. That's what $ are for, the stresses involved and the value that is produced. Tooth pain is one of the worst pains, with infection threats to numerous nerves in the area proximal the brain, working backwards through the trigeminal ganglion up temporalis nerves, for example.
Found the dentist haha (only kind of kidding).
I appreciate your insight.
I’ve always had strong teeth, but in a violent incident several years back many of them lost pieces.
I ask because you seem knowledgeable, what other advice can you give on dental health?
Sorry just saw this, sleeping now but will get back to you 🙏