Haha, this thread is hillarious.
Everybody knows Periodontal disease is the biggest cash cow for dentists. If you have symptoms (bleeding gums, tooth loss) then by all means get it looked at and addressed. Get a 2nd opinion, minimum.
80% of the population has periodontal disease by many estimates. And the natural breakdown and shrinkage of bone and gum tissue is a natural effect of aging. Don't let anyone tell you differently.
Repeat to yourself. The effects of the aging process cannot be prevented and it cannot be reversed. So, I'd suggest you learn to live with it. Before the dentist makes a minor problem much worse. Simply for the sake of getting at your insurance money.
vaping causing periodontal disease? Hardly.
Smoking contributing to periodontal disease? It certainly doesn't help.
BTW, my dentists tried the same technique on me. I've had a number of them. And they all had one thing in common. They all played the fear card, many wanted to pull perfectly healthy teeth, and most want you on the perodontal disease prevention program.
I even had one I caught in a lie after telling me he wanted to pull my wisdom teeth after discovering a minor cavity. He said they were 'rotten' and he couldn't do a filling. Haha. Hardly. I went to another dentist he said they were perfectly healthy and had the cavity filled in 20 minutes.
It's a fear based approach to getting to you insurance dollars. The reality is I have no dental problems, am 50 years old and still have all my teeth. I expect to keep them to the day I die if I do 2 things. Brush my teeth, get my teeth cleaned occasionally and stay away from the dentists chair and this racket if at all possible. I'd suggest you do the same. You wont make many friends in the dental industry, but unlike my parents I suspect you'll keep your teeth a lot longer.
Unless you have significant bleeding, pain, infection or cavities that need to be addressed. Then by all means get a second or third opinion. The problem is most people don't have time to do this so they fling themselves at the mercy of whomever's available, looks authoritative, etc.
A piece of advice, they're your teeth. You have to live with them, or not. You don't like the teeth you were born with? Tough. Get used to them. Don't get carried away with the whole vanity thing if you like keeping them. And you do whatever your dentist tells you at your own risk. All many dentists will bring you is countless hours of suffering in the chair for a minuscule reward, sell you a bunch of stuff you can get a whole lot cheaper elsewhere, then act like Vanna White when nobody gets a letter as your problem gets mysteriously and steadily worse. Vaping, smoking, brushing, genetics, eating, living, take your pick.
Everybody knows Periodontal disease is the biggest cash cow for dentists. If you have symptoms (bleeding gums, tooth loss) then by all means get it looked at and addressed. Get a 2nd opinion, minimum.
80% of the population has periodontal disease by many estimates. And the natural breakdown and shrinkage of bone and gum tissue is a natural effect of aging. Don't let anyone tell you differently.
Repeat to yourself. The effects of the aging process cannot be prevented and it cannot be reversed. So, I'd suggest you learn to live with it. Before the dentist makes a minor problem much worse. Simply for the sake of getting at your insurance money.
vaping causing periodontal disease? Hardly.
Smoking contributing to periodontal disease? It certainly doesn't help.
BTW, my dentists tried the same technique on me. I've had a number of them. And they all had one thing in common. They all played the fear card, many wanted to pull perfectly healthy teeth, and most want you on the perodontal disease prevention program.
I even had one I caught in a lie after telling me he wanted to pull my wisdom teeth after discovering a minor cavity. He said they were 'rotten' and he couldn't do a filling. Haha. Hardly. I went to another dentist he said they were perfectly healthy and had the cavity filled in 20 minutes.
It's a fear based approach to getting to you insurance dollars. The reality is I have no dental problems, am 50 years old and still have all my teeth. I expect to keep them to the day I die if I do 2 things. Brush my teeth, get my teeth cleaned occasionally and stay away from the dentists chair and this racket if at all possible. I'd suggest you do the same. You wont make many friends in the dental industry, but unlike my parents I suspect you'll keep your teeth a lot longer.
Unless you have significant bleeding, pain, infection or cavities that need to be addressed. Then by all means get a second or third opinion. The problem is most people don't have time to do this so they fling themselves at the mercy of whomever's available, looks authoritative, etc.
A piece of advice, they're your teeth. You have to live with them, or not. You don't like the teeth you were born with? Tough. Get used to them. Don't get carried away with the whole vanity thing if you like keeping them. And you do whatever your dentist tells you at your own risk. All many dentists will bring you is countless hours of suffering in the chair for a minuscule reward, sell you a bunch of stuff you can get a whole lot cheaper elsewhere, then act like Vanna White when nobody gets a letter as your problem gets mysteriously and steadily worse. Vaping, smoking, brushing, genetics, eating, living, take your pick.
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