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Eumenes ◴[15 Oct 24 11:59 UTC] No.41847616[source]▶

Routine dental work is not backed by evidence. Water pick, floss, brush, high quality mouth wash 2-3x per day = no need for dentist. Reduce your sugar and fake food consumption. Don't smoke or drink alcohol. There's a famous blog post of some guy who went to a ton of dentists and got like 100 different diagnosis/cost, can't find it though.

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1. ApolloFortyNine ◴[15 Oct 24 15:48 UTC] No.41849788[source]▶

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>Water pick, floss, brush, high quality mouth wash 2-3x per day = no need for dentist. Reduce your sugar and fake food consumption. Don't smoke or drink alcohol.

Everything you said could be true and ironically, you'd actually be making an argument that routine dental work is backed by evidence.

The percentage of people who do all the things you said has to be below <5%, if not even lower.

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Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence