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Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

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352 points keithly | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 21:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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xnx ◴[14 Oct 24 22:39 UTC] No.41842917[source]▶
Not just x-rays: "As a profession, dentistry has not yet applied the same level of self-scrutiny as medicine, or embraced as sweeping an emphasis on scientific evidence."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...

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1. shellfishgene ◴[15 Oct 24 07:41 UTC] No.41845911[source]▶
One thing is evidence based medicine, another just simple greed: I like this older study from Switzerland where they sent the same healthy guy to 180 dentists, about 30% of whom performed unnecessary treatments, often on different teeth.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3036573