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View Poll Results: How often do you visit the dentist? | |||
Every 6 months or less | 4 | 23.53% | |
Every 6 months to 1 year | 7 | 41.18% | |
> 1 year to every 2 years | 2 | 11.76% | |
> 2 years to every 3 years | 0 | 0% | |
> 3 years to every 4 years | 2 | 11.76% | |
Less than once every 4 years | 2 | 11.76% | |
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29-07-2003, 22:25 | #12 |
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Echo Park.
Posts: 544
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I don't like doctors as professionals. I got one as a friend, but otherwise, I'm happy not to see them. So I don't see them until something hurts.
As a child, I went regularely to the dentist. This got me quite some fillings. Then I stopped any visits for a decade and a half. Unfortunately, one of those old fillings began to wear out and fell apart. Silly me ran around with an open tooth until it really began to hurt, so I finally had to see a dentist again. He said that the root had to be extracted. When I saw him coming with this one-inch long hairline drill, I went sissy. I said: Hold it! I won't have this down into my jaw. Just fill up that cavity. He went, that would be a Kunstfehler - failure of medical art - and that I would be experiencing unknown pains and that I would come and throw dirt after him. But he was a nice guy, so after some arguing, he did what I wanted him to and just filled up the gaping hole. Up to now, I haven't had any problems with this tooth. And I wonder, have I just been one of those rare lucky cases? Or was the dentist just taking care of the possible 20% risk of cases that would turn bad - and then sue him? Doctors seem to be so sure. Whereas I feel you can never be sure of something, before you do it. Medicine is based on statictics. But does statistics really apply to any individual person? Of course, I suffer from a severe medical phobia, but that doesn't mean that doctors are always right.
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