Orthopedics is literally just human carpentry
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they have ultrasound chisels, yknow.
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.
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.
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.
Well the x-rays have gotten much better. Donβt 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).
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
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.
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.
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.
Dentistry has 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.
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Orthopedic surgeon:
*repeatedly pulls string attempting to start up a chainsaw*
My kid's orthopedist had a saw that was a pizza cutter sized cutting wheel, and it stopped when it touched your skin. He demonstrated on his own hand before he started removing cast.
it stopped when it touched skin, or it didn't cut the skin?
the cast saws that I am familiar with have an oscillating motion that is small enough that skin just moves with the teeth instead of being cut by them. a saw that had sensors to know when it touched skin seems unlikely.
a saw that had sensors to know when it touched skin seems unlikely
I've never seen it in a healthcare setting, but that kind of safety mechanism is already a thing in larger saws - some pretty impressive demos on the web. Iirc it effectively destroys the machine if it goes off, but most of us would rather buy a new table saw than lose a few fingers. ...and that was the tech years ago, may well have improved since I went down that rabbit hole.
Saw stop still owns the patent afaik and has even stopped other similar techs from taking hold because the patent is so stupid generic... Iirc Bosch is one such alt that got shit canned. Last I knew saw stop was pushing for legislation to require the tech... Because they own the market.
(I am years out of date on this and going on memory... Pretty sure the legislation died)
See: Literally every woodworking YouTube ever created. They're worse than Clash of Clans
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".
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Dentists sometimes really feel like they are mouth mechanics
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