Re: Depression (NBC)


"Evolution" <myname@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert Wiersema wrote:
Evolution <myname@xxxxxxx> wrote:

an inconvenient Ruth wrote:

you think the ADA would be oppposed to flouride as they are not making
the money they used to on kiddies cavities. That is for sure.
That's simply not true.

Perhaps in your rush to argue, you neglected to fully read the post with
which you were disagreeing.

Ruth wrote that dentists "are not making the money they used to on
kiddies cavities." This is, in fact, quite true, a point which your
post, supports, when you write "they make up for it with..."

It's possible that you rankle people when you tell them they're wrong
while simultaneously agreeing with them...

Well, Robert, I was responding to her main point, which was that dentists
aren't making as much money, while you are focusing once again on the tree
instead of the forest...

Not quite.
Miss Ruth just wrote that they aren't making as much money filling the
cavities of children.....and
this is true. I don't recall her main point being that dentists aren't
making any money.

Hell, talk to any dentist and she or he will tell you the same....they don't
make a lot of do-re-mi filling children's cavities these days.
And we do have a lot of dentists in the area who go so far as to buy candy
from kids (following Halloween) for a price that ranges
anywhere from $1 to $5 a pound.... So, I don't get the impression that
they're encouraging America's youth to gargle with Coca~Cola.

Now, that dentists are making tons of money by doing a lot of cosmetic work,
charging outrageous prices
for simple x-rays (which used to be a pittance), constant referrals to
orthodontists, periodontists, oral surgeons, etc.....I think
that would be a hard one to dispute.

Damn, I had one dentist who referred one of our daughters to an
orthodontist.
Daughter had a very slight underbite (nothing you'd notice, posed no health
hazard, certainly did not
disfigure her nor cause the slightest bit of damage to her teeth).
They wanted to break her jaw, have it wired shut for a month and then apply
braces.
The dude made me feel as though I was the worst parent in the world when I
refused to be party to this proposed treatment/recommendation.
Man, that office was state of the art...a DVD player in every chair.....high
definition video game systems throughout the office's waiting area.
It was done up to look like an arcade of sorts.....

Anyway, we told our daughter that when she was 18...and if she felt like
having her jaw broken, wired shut and
then a mouth filled with braces for several year, then we'd gladly foot the
bill....but we'd let the decision be hers.
She's getting along just fine......and doesn't find the above procedure all
that necessary nor all that appealing.

Mercy, if my parents had allowed that to be done to me, I don't know if I'd
ever have spoken to them again (once
the jaw was unwired that is...).




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