What’s absolutely absurd about dental care is cracked/fucked up teeth are detrimental to your actual health, but getting them replaced is considered cosmetic. Not to mention the mental health aspects when you’ve got fucked up teeth and EVERY time you talk to someone you’re spending the whole time trying to move your mouth in a way that doesn’t show off your jacked up teeth.
The dentist we used when we were kids ended up getting his practice shut down and his license revoked, he was performing dental work on low income children without anesthetics and doing absolutely fucking horrible work. Despite hearing kids FREAKING the fuck out from the waiting room and telling our parents repeatedly that this guy was basically a fucking sadist, we got the “toughen up” talk. I don’t give a fuck who you are, when you’re 8 years old and some dude is ripping your teeth out without numbing anything or drilling cavities without anything, that’s straight fucking torture.
By the time I was 16 I had fillings just falling out and any dental work that guy did was fucked. I went to another dentist and that first visit was a good two hours of just going over what needed to be corrected, never mind what work had to be done. I remember the dentist taking one of the fillings and mashing it with a tool, it just smushed because it wasn’t made properly.
I’ve already dumped about $10K into fixing my teeth, first getting all my front teeth veneered…..and now it’s time to do them over again and I just paid off the first round. It’s absolutely fucking absurd.
