2022-09-18 at 1:30 AM UTC
AngryOnion
Big Wig
[the nightly self-effacing broadsheet]
How many cavities do you have??
I have two filling nothing more,My dentist hates me because he can't sell me shit.
2022-09-18 at 4:32 AM UTC
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
my teeth are pretty fucked
front teeth are chipped becuase I fell on the edge of a swimming pool when I was a kid and they've been getting worse
had to get two removed entirely because they were impacted by wisdom teeth
have one filling which has worn down so I cleaned it up and fixed it with superglue because I didn't want to go to the dentist
2022-09-18 at 4:50 AM UTC
Haven't been to a dentist in a while, so probably a few. My oral hygiene is... imperfect, to put it mildly. Some of my teeth are very obviously fucked up when I run my tongue over them and my gum health is not good, which is even less incentive to go to see a dentist. I don't wanna feel judged by their asses.
Plus I'm like 80% sure they scrape away enamel and seed cavities themselves to ensure they have repeat customers. It's one of the only fields of medicine in Ontario that are still privatized, meaning it attracts talent but also that it attracts unscrupulous individuals who only care about money and prestige. And since it's one of the few fields for which that's true, it attracts *a lot of them* (whereas if every field of healthcare were privatized you'd probably expect a fairly even distribution across specializations). I technically have coverage because I'm on disability but a lot of dentists won't even accept patients with disability coverage. Very sus. Very sus indeed.
