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kenny1999
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I don't want to write too long to bore people I try to highlight the key points. I have visited four dentists because of worrying of periodontitis and teeth loss (I am 30 and was super lazy, I didn't go for scaling for many years and didn't even brush once a day, I didn't use floss until recent months)
The first dentist's comment (General dentist): Gum recession, teeth loss is more likely in the future, scaling is required. Get out of here.
The second dentist's comment (Professional periodontist, 20 years experience):
Gum recession is not obvious, all of your teeth is tightly fixed in place. SERIOUS gum ''inflammation'', Some pocket depth is 7mm, Deep cleaning treatment is necessary, but not urgent. You can consider first for some months. Everything else is fine.
The third dentist's comment (General dentist, fresh graduate);
You don't really need to spend thousands of bucks for deep cleaning recommended by the periodontist, you only need surface/simple scaling. You don't have much gum recession or inflammation. However, you are highly recommended to remove the wisdom tooth at the back (left back) which has only emerged for half.
his comment:FLOSS daily, put down the floss as deep as possible to the gum
The fourth dentist's comment (General dentist, almost 40 years experience)
You don't need deep cleaning. Your gum and teeth is fine. No problem. And you don't need AT ALL to remove the wisdom tooth at the back (left back). However, the one at the back of the right (right back) is decayed and required filling. This doctor has a very impressive new comment - DON'T FLOSS if you can't floss properly, OK, I guess you don't know how to floss, so please don't floss! Improper flossing will lead to periodontitis. You don't really need to floss to avoid periodontitis.... (Oh my god, who I can trust??)
I am so frustrated, after visiting FOUR dentists in 2 months they all give me different comments, the only thing I can agree from the four dentists and a lot of consultation fee and time. They all give diffferent stories and NEW brainstorming for me every time (e.g. Don't floss , improper flossing will lead to periodontitis....)
Now,
I don't know who I can trust.
I don't know if I need the very expensive deep cleaning treatment
I don't know if I still need to floss. (Books say we should floss, the old dentist said it's not good.. hahahahaa...)
I don't know why they are giving very different comments about my teeth. Isn't dentistry something logically standardized and different dentists should logically do the same thing?????
Now, The only thing I know is
Visiting more doctors might not give more useful comments
I don't want teeth loss in the future so I am struggling to avoid this now....if not, I won't have visited a lot of dentists. But I don't know what I can do now....
The first dentist's comment (General dentist): Gum recession, teeth loss is more likely in the future, scaling is required. Get out of here.
The second dentist's comment (Professional periodontist, 20 years experience):
Gum recession is not obvious, all of your teeth is tightly fixed in place. SERIOUS gum ''inflammation'', Some pocket depth is 7mm, Deep cleaning treatment is necessary, but not urgent. You can consider first for some months. Everything else is fine.
The third dentist's comment (General dentist, fresh graduate);
You don't really need to spend thousands of bucks for deep cleaning recommended by the periodontist, you only need surface/simple scaling. You don't have much gum recession or inflammation. However, you are highly recommended to remove the wisdom tooth at the back (left back) which has only emerged for half.
his comment:FLOSS daily, put down the floss as deep as possible to the gum
The fourth dentist's comment (General dentist, almost 40 years experience)
You don't need deep cleaning. Your gum and teeth is fine. No problem. And you don't need AT ALL to remove the wisdom tooth at the back (left back). However, the one at the back of the right (right back) is decayed and required filling. This doctor has a very impressive new comment - DON'T FLOSS if you can't floss properly, OK, I guess you don't know how to floss, so please don't floss! Improper flossing will lead to periodontitis. You don't really need to floss to avoid periodontitis.... (Oh my god, who I can trust??)
I am so frustrated, after visiting FOUR dentists in 2 months they all give me different comments, the only thing I can agree from the four dentists and a lot of consultation fee and time. They all give diffferent stories and NEW brainstorming for me every time (e.g. Don't floss , improper flossing will lead to periodontitis....)
Now,
I don't know who I can trust.
I don't know if I need the very expensive deep cleaning treatment
I don't know if I still need to floss. (Books say we should floss, the old dentist said it's not good.. hahahahaa...)
I don't know why they are giving very different comments about my teeth. Isn't dentistry something logically standardized and different dentists should logically do the same thing?????
Now, The only thing I know is
Visiting more doctors might not give more useful comments
I don't want teeth loss in the future so I am struggling to avoid this now....if not, I won't have visited a lot of dentists. But I don't know what I can do now....