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>>12539554

>>12539554
My gf is currently studying to become a dentist. Ever since I started dating her I always get my dental work done at her university free of charge because the students need pacients to practice with.
They are in charge of simple shit like cleanining and their professors will perform the more complicated stuff.

I don't live in the US so I dunno if it's applicable where you live

Ahhhh I want to call them out on it but it seems unwise

>>12539554
Floss you absolute nigger. Your gingivitis probably worsened which is why they held off.

By not having proper dental hygiene you are risking a lot. Including chronic debilitating toothaches, tooth loss, heart disease, respiratory infection, dementia, erectile dysfunction, endocarditis, and kidney failure.

Only literal subhumans don't clean their mouth

>>12539554
A lot of times when you're gums are in pretty horrific condition there's no real way to remove all of the plaque and calculus (tartar) that's hardened below the gum level without causing the patient a lot of pain. A "deep cleaning" is kind of a misnomer. The procedure is technically called "scaling and root planing" which is an indication that there's actually an infected root surface (below the gums) that needs to be completely debrided to get your gums healthy again, and 99% of the time this needs to be done with at least local anesthetic (novocaine) to keep you comfortable.

When a random person like you calls up they don't exactly know what they're getting in to and a basic cleaning like what you got is the bare minimum even for someone that is completely healthy and goes to a dentist every 6 months. You even said yourself it's been a long time. Your gums were/are probably a mess. Your complaint about the "basic cleaning" vs "deep cleaning" is one of the most common complaints patients have and I think it's due to the fact that their office didn't do a great job of telling you that you have gum disease because it's an uncomfortable thing to just come out and tell a person, but it is what it is. Give them another shot.

t. US dentist

>>12539849
Plaqued and toothpilled

>>12539849
op is not wrong.... with that much tartar and bone loss, should be pretty evident that a deep cleaning is needed even at the initial visit. He should've been told that at the first visit, instead of let me do the cleaning... oh yeah btw, you need deep cleaning too.

>>12539849
Why do they call it gingivitis a disease? It goes away if you get everything fixed.

>>12539655
Dentist deal with quality of life issues, not life or death. They are small business owners, so yes, you will get milked, you will get sold to just like a car dealership. If you have ppo insurance just get a second opinion. i wouldn't want to call someone out, then have them pull my tooth out

>>12539798
Based good oral hygiene poster

>>12539798
Flossing is so fucking annoying tho

>>12540051
>with that much tartar and bone loss, should be pretty evident that a deep cleaning is needed even at the initial visit.
All of this stuff is about having good communication with the person so they understand what's going on. If you aren't being clear then people think they're getting taken for a ride. Maybe it was evident, maybe it wasn't. Either way it's probably better to do something than nothing if there is shit all over a person's teeth. It's up to them whether they want to do "more" after that. All you can do is inform them.

>>12540055
Gingivitis is just the most basic kind of gum infection. It's totally reversible once the plaque is removed. Evidence of gum pocketing that involves a loss of attachment of the tooth to the gum is the next phase of gum disease which usually is treated by the "deep cleaning" OP was talking about, at least as the first step.

>>12540098
>They are small business owners, so yes, you will get milked
Just because they own a business does not make them unethical.

post pics of teeth or didn't happen