I’ve often imagined a little comic strip where a dentist goes to the doctor. the doctor draws blood for tests, or gives an injection, or just pokes/cuts the dentist for no reason. the doctor then says “you’re bleeding because you don’t shower enough”
Aha!
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arctanthrope@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
You make me remember that girl making a painting of a greek man taking residence in front of her shower, charging her to use it, because she dreamt it.
SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Why is there so many of these backwards ass medical memes on here today? This one came from another post
Eheran@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I too have to ask: backwards? A doc does X ray every day, you get ONE.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 days ago
Backwards? There is nothing backwards about these memes.
OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 3 days ago
If you floss regularly your gums won’t bleed, source: me. My gums never bleed at the dentist, but they used to when I sucked more at dental self-care.
For the X-ray example, think about it this way: the doctor is like a bartender. One drink isn’t going to hurt you. The bartender can definitely serve you one drink. But if the bartender had to drink a part of a drink every time they served someone, that would become pretty dangerous for them indeed.
regdog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The cow is backwards
MJKee9@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Too many folks ITT with bad oral hygiene. Brush your teeth twice a day and floss at least once a day. I grew up in a very poor area and seeing sick folks who also had rotten and missing teeth made me realize how much dental health is connected with someone’s overall health.
JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
Fuck it I’m not flossing daily. It’s annoying enough to occasionally clean my braces.
I actually get nauseous while touching the inside of my mouth with a toothbrush (or when standing for too long, so that problem might be exclusive to me).
I’d rather just kill myself than have to brush more than two times a day and floss regularly.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
If you have braces you really should have a water flosser. I’m kind of surprised your ortho didn’t recommend one, as mine made it a requirement
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You can look forward to losing all your teeth later in life then.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
there are interdental floss, which are designed for braces. water flosser helps,dislodge food, but you need an actual floss to prevent tartar.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
also people nowawadays are obsessed with going flouride free for debunked science.
Thadden@lemmy.world 4 days ago
CybranM@feddit.nu 4 days ago
This is one of few memes i really dislike. It is true, if you floss or use interdental brushes your guild wont bleed.
It’s such an easy thing you can test for yourself I’m kind of surprised so many people don’t understand that it works. Do you also ignore the advice you get from doctors?
manuremy@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Last time I went to dentist, at first everything was okay and I even got compliments on how clean my mouth was. Then I got stabbed by a needle to a gum and then yelled at for not flossing. Later on the dentist found the stabbing wound she did and apologised, yet kept on telling me to just go deeper with the floss, that there must be a hidden infection deeper down and I should not care about pain or floss cuts. Bad, bad advice.
I didn’t change shit. My gums don’t bleed UNLESS THEY GET STABBED.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
lol that is lawsuit waiting to happened, if that had caused a abscessed blood infection. i wouldnt be surprised if thier yelp reviews had something similar on it from other patients.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 days ago
80% of US doctors don’t know basic anatomy (a statistic i derived from the medical CPEs i taught), so yes I generally do ignore advice they give
mmmm@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
My wisdom teeth were growing sideways without me realizing for 29 years of my life so they had to be removed. They appointed me to this dentist that told me since they were so big and doing so much presure against the other teeth they had to be sliced up in pieces so she could extract them piece by piece.
This girl did put so much force and did so much pressurre against my jaw it dislocated and I felt like she was tearing it apart from my skull. I put my fist below it but felt like she was about to sink it in my chest. Did some mumbling due to the pain and discomfort (and because I was a bit scared too) and she had the audacity to, basically, call me a pussy.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
i had a oral surgeon remove 2 of my bottom ones. i prefer those over a dentist.
0x0@infosec.pub 4 days ago
Without knowing if youve had other teeth pulled its hard to decide if shes right or not
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Huh. With my impacted wisdom tooth they just broke it in half with a hammer and then twisted the pieces out with some calipers. The anesthesia was good, so I didn’t feel pain, but the crunching and scraping sounds were… off-putting.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Weird flex
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
they had to "ratchet mines out. it was growing at a 45 degree angle from the corner of my gums near the end because it was partially embedded still.
Bonus@mander.xyz 5 days ago
(Jams sharp objects into gums)
You have some sensitivity caused by not flossing!
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 5 days ago
Also last time I was at a dentist appointment check out when I told the lady I didn’t have insurance I’ll never forget the look of disgust she gave me. Is that because they get more money from insurance companies than they get from people who pay out of pocket? They charge higher prices to insured people, right?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
they assume you wont agree to more procedures down the line or pay more? it its a double edge sword.
i saw a dentist recently out of pocket for emergency tooth pain, it costed 270 for a limited exam on those teeth(not whole mouth). then they try to convince me to do a full cleaning and exam for more twice that much. there are dentist that arnt charging that amount out of pocket. just got google around look at yelp reviews(helpful in looking at seedy dentists, or low cost). dental school/universities are a thing but i noticed they take a very long time to even onboard you, so its not all that useful in the end(especially needed something like cavity filling or more extreme extraction/root canals.)
also certain insurance might not be accepted by different dentists too.
devaly@ani.social 5 days ago
They are gaslighting you to justify them sucking at their job
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A simple Google search would explain why it happens.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 4 days ago
I can’t floss because my teeth got screwed up by experimental orthodontics in the '80s. Anyone at the dentist office who gives me shit about not flossing is catching hands.
captain_solanum@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Let he who flosses each and every day poke the first gum!
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
What dentists are y’all going to?
starlinguk@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ones that don’t whittle on about flossing. In fact, one told me he preferred it if people didn’t because they were just pushing bacteria into their gums.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Don’t go back to that dentist… There’s a ton of research that proves flossing works as intended. Bacteria are really small, they don’t need assistance to go into your gums. The point of flossing is that it removes the food that gets stuck between teeth that bacteria feed upon and multiply.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 5 days ago
lol bad dentist. Flossing is the only thing that has stopped my teeth from falling apart. Went from a cavity or root canal every couple years to near perfect checkups time after time. I brushed before, too.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
you are probably flossing it wrong, you arnt suppose to jam it into the gums that will cause erosions and bleeding, and potential infection.
Binette@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Naw don’t say that I just started flossing daily ;-;
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 days ago
some dentist are scammy asf, a notable one in our area just tries to peddle DEEP CLEANING solely.
guitarfosec@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I went to one of those exactly once. If a doctor, vet, or dentist even gives me the slightest feeling that I’m being upsold rather than taken care of, I’m gone forever.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
deep cleaning is shown as a scam, i remember distinctly when i still had my parents insurance this same dude would bring out pics of fucked up teeth and tried to convince people that deep cleaning is necessary. the current one im seeing is in a “richer” part of the neighborhood,
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Holy fuck, I’m going to need like 90% of the people in this thread to stop exhaling in public, which is going to be hard because I’m pretty sure there’s a large overlap with that group and mouth breathers.
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 5 days ago
if you’re not using an electric toothbrush with a rotating head that’s on the level of a $30 sonicare or oral B toothbrush you’re killing your teeth through negligence
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 days ago
tooth extraction is pretty archiac.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
They don’t do that if you floss daily, barring gum disease. Once you start it’s going to feel gross to not do it daily.
xylol@leminal.space 5 days ago
But then your teeth end up looking like this instead of nicely packed in with plaque
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
I love a Flapjack reference!
iguessimlemming@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Interdental brushes are the way! No more gum issues since I started, and one habit I’m proud I developed. I had an xray where they showed how much the bacteria had eaten away at my roots - scared straight.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
doesnt fit in between my teeth at all
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Well, yeah. That’s the nookie for all the plaque to evade the brush.