Dentistry is less scientific and more gratuitous than people think (2019)
If you think this is bad, wait till you hear about [insert field of medicine here]!<p>In all seriousness, fraud is rampant, and cash pay or low regulation fields like dentistry can easily take advantage of patients and their health literacy.<p>In ophthalmology, you hear of “laser” cataract surgery, “floaterectomies”, telling patients they need cataract surgery well before they are symptomatic, dry eye treatments.<p>Hell, in cardiology there have been multiple cases of fraud uncovered where doctors were putting pacemakers and defibrillators in people that didn’t even need them!<p>Maybe I’m jaded, but when there exists such a profit incentive, we as healthcare providers struggle to “do no harm”. I’m lucky to be surrounded by mentors and other doctors that try and exemplify the moral behavior patients expect in healthcare, but imagine if I had a mentor early on like Dr Lund in the article..