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"Do dentists know what they're doing?" A patient's run of contradictory opinions
A personal essay many readers recognized: one mouth, many confident and conflicting dentists.
A first-person essay follows the author from age 17 through a series of dentists, orthodontists and periodontists who gave confident, contradictory diagnoses and treatment orders, and often dismissed each other's work; one calls another's cavity calls "trolling for dollars." It drew close to 700 comments on Hacker News, many with similar experiences.
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Evidence-based dentistry
After exploring Do dentists actually know what they’re doing?, the movement that asks the same question is Evidence-based dentistry.
Dentistry's part of the evidence-based medicine movement, which tries to make sure the evidence dentists and patients rely on is valid and reliable.
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