Some of these articles were written a few years ago, but are highly likely to be still relevant.
When I first went to secondary school at the age of eleven, a school dentist visited, and told me I needed a filling. The one he gave me was huge! So huge in fact that it eventually cracked my tooth. I ignored it for a while, but then a large bit broke off, and I had to get work done on it by another dentist! The only fillings I'd ever had in my life before the time I visited the school dentist who gave me a massive one were two very tiny ones! I had seen a dentist a matter of weeks before he told me I needed the work done, who hadn't said there was anything wrong with the tooth! So I was in effect being asked to believe that within the space of a few months at most, a perfectly good tooth had dramatically decayed! It hadn't given me any pain, so I don't think the previous dentist was in error!
Several years later, a consumer programme, Watchdog, did a feature on dentists who perform unnecessary work. A model, working undercover for them, whose teeth were declared to be perfect, visited several dentists for check-ups. Most said she needed fillings. They varied in the number they said she needed. One even said she needed eleven!
The article I link to here on dentists isn't about unnecessary work, but shoddy work, which it says is common.
Incidentally, I want to praise another dentist. The experience of being given a massive filling I probably didn't need put me off going to dentists, but I went to him after not having been to one for fifteen years, and he said I didn't need any fillings! I was very pleased! I thought he couldn't be the type to rip his patients off. So there clearly are some honest dentists around. I only went to him because a cap my school dentist had put on one of my teeth broke! Again, I hadn't needed the cap. My perfectly healthy, sharp, superior-quality tooth that was cut down to enable it to fit was only the wrong way around! The procedure was merely cosmetic. I was quite young so just accepted what people in authority said then. My new dentist glued another bit to the cap in place of the bit that had broken off, but said that when dentists do that to caps, the new bits tend to break off soon, and if it did, he'd have to drill even more of my tooth away to fit a new one! Since so much of it had gone already, I wasn't too pleased, but he must have done a good job, because it hasn't broken yet.
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