Why Everyone’s Scared of the Dentist | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/casket. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. Being a dentist is like being a doctor for your teeth—sort of. There may be less science to dentistry than you realize. This doesn’t mean that all dentists are scammers, but there’s probably more overlap between the two than we care to admit. Between expensive procedures and harmful complications, the world of dentistry has quite a few cavities of its own. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/3cqkx Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's worse nightmare, a visit to the dentist. It can be painful for your mouth and your
0:18.5	wallet. But at least if you go to one, you can trust that you're in the hands of a medical professional.
0:24.0	After all, dentists are the doctors of your mouth.
0:26.8	They can prescribe painkillers, steroids, muscle relaxers, and other non-over-the-counter
0:31.3	medicine that you might need to help you get through whatever you're going through.
0:34.8	And for a while, medical and dental care went hand in hand, but the father of modern dentistry,
0:40.2	Pierre Farsjar, elevated dentistry as its own science around the 17th century.
0:45.1	He's part of the reason why doctors and dentists are separate.
0:48.6	Basically why you need health and dental insurance is two different things here in the
0:52.4	United States.
0:54.0	There's no doubt the dentistry field is important.
0:57.0	Gum disease and other issues with your mouth can affect her entire body.
1:00.0	However, this separation has had some massive consequences over the years.
1:05.0	Some dentists have used it to their advantage,
1:07.0	seeming like professionals in their field,
1:09.0	while extracting thousands of dollars
1:11.0	and an unnecessary amount of teeth from their patients.
1:14.5	The divide between the medical and dental sides of things has led people to be unable to get the
1:19.0	care they need and a feast or famine mindset among the latter.
1:23.2	Some say that this has also led to the dental field
1:25.7	being woefully behind when it comes to the latest medical technology
1:28.9	as well as a whole host of dental scams.
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