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rdtsc ◴[] No.41842547[source]
> "Financial aspects of dental radiography also deserve further study," Feit added

No joke. That is a major money maker. There is minimal cost per-use and your insurance pays $200 for it (my last one was $186.00 for instance). The dentists would be crazy not to recommend them as of often as possible.

Fluoride "rinses" are likely up there too. Rinse for a few seconds and they charge the insurance $50 or something for it.

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tdeck ◴[] No.41842963[source]
At least fouride rinses provide some benefit. Although you can get much more benefit from buying a bottle of Act and rinsing with it every day.
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codr7[dead post] ◴[] No.41843148[source]
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addicted ◴[] No.41843249[source]
Fluoride may potentially have some negative effects but we’ve been drinking Florida red water across the world for several decades and different countries have added fluoridation at different times etc, and it’s hard to see any severe effect that would qualify it as anything close to “madness”.
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codr7 ◴[] No.41843805[source]
Really, you don't see it?
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replwoacause ◴[] No.41843986[source]
Elaborate please?
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1. codr7 ◴[] No.41844011[source]
The madness.
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2. red-iron-pine ◴[] No.41848456[source]
this is a bad Florida-Man joke
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3. codr7 ◴[] No.41907152[source]
Far from a joke, it's very likely that some of the dysfunction we see is triggered by all the crap we put in our bodies to generate more profits.