Socialized Medicine - Let's Discuss!

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Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've had people from Canada tell me if you want to make good money in the health care industry in their country, you don't become a doctor you become a dentist. I don't know how true that is but I can imagine their doctors don't make anywhere near the money ours do. Again, not talking about the local friendly family doctor, I'm talking specialists in the big hospitals.

Would love to elaborate and enlighten you on how dentistry works and how much of a cash cow it can be when practiced poorly. The more uncaring, reckless, and shitty you are at being a dentist the more dental care you can sell.

I was victimized from about age 14 to age 18 I'd say? I was given 6-7 huge invasive fillings for absolutely no reason. No visible decay of any sort, no problems of any sort prior to getting told I have "cavities" lol.

When I realized I had been taken for a ride and they had done incredible damage to my teeth (heavy drilling to place highly invasive amalgam mercury fillings in. For "cavities" that didn't exist outside of the dentists imagination (X-rays were clean) Preventative dentistry is a joke, the drilling is the most damage the tooth will take without actual visible decay being detectable. The drill process is known as traumatic dentistry (as opposed to atraumatic dentistry, which is the non-evil, non-greedy form of dental care (known as ART, google it). As you can imagine ART is not very popular...not enough churn and burn $$$. They joke in dental school "Drill baby drill" and other stuff I've heard as the more damage you do, the more money you stand to make.

12 years later, without a single dental visit in 12 years. Perfect teeth, proving my hypothesis correct that I was being taken for a ride. Pearly whites, aside from the highly invasive and toxic amalgam mercury filling restorations on a few molars that are inoperable (I'd love to get them removed, but the safety standard doesn't exist at this time, and there is no applicable protocol. Its considered a plastic procedure to remove mercury from your mouth according to the ADA, FDA, and AMA at this time).

I can't go into any more detail (I.E. how dentists create cavities) unless big j holds my hand, as it was already very tough to write this. I absolutely loathe the dental industry having seen how it operates, and what it can do to someone (poison and intentional creation of cavities).

It sends me to a dark place.