Unlike your bite.
ah, a dentistry joke, yes, cosmetic dentists remained private so we never bothered much with braces etc and culturally, white teeth like Simon Cowell just look so freaky to us. Anything fake is seen as really an odd thing to do.
Yea, it was a cheap shot. Thanks for the info. I always wondered why less dental work was done. In the US, dentistry can be such a racket that you need to be careful who you go to. Bad work issues aside, there are dentists that will search for anything they can call a cavity to fill, tooth to pull, or pain to "investigate".
I finally found a good dentist, on recommendation by a friend. I had some pain in my tooth and another cracked tooth (due to a bad filling years ago). They fixed the cracked tooth and looked at the painful tooth. Didn't find anything wrong with the painful tooth and instead of offering a root canal (like my previous dentist did) they explained how something in my jaw was swolled/out of whack and it would settle down in about a month. I was skeptical, but they were right. That saved me about $2,000 and a missed day of work.
yeh if the basics are free we tend not to bother with the fancy stuff, aesthetically we should probably try harder.
I did go to a decent private dentist last year and it was light and day from the cheaper ones, it's just really expensive, but you are paying for someone's years of training so I guess it is what it is. I wish I understood a bit more about it as a kid as I'd have straighter teeth now, but nobody bothers explaining what they are doing
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