My life is over?

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"My life is Over. I'm going to dental college"
-Billy Crystal

I'm sitting here browsing this forum and comedy central is playing Throw Momma From The Train, and I hear Billy Crystal say that.

What the... I'm really tired of all this dental bashing. I'd like to do some bashing myself. Do the majority of people despise dentistry or what? I hear some places that, oh, Dentists are some of the most well loved, trusted members of the community, and then I hear comments bashing dentists, saying that they are hacks who can't handle a real proffession.
Any thoughts?

 

[Bickle]

Exactly what bashing are you referring to? I havent seen any dental bashing here lately.

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Not in this forum, but in the media, public, among med students, etc.

 

[Bickle]

Personally, I have never encounterd any dental bashing at any time. Dentists are regared as very respected up in Canada, and I'm assuming this is the same in the States. Lets face it, Dental school is not easy to get into, and anyone who thinks it is, is severely mistaken.

And for the profession, ask anyone who has had impacted wisdom teeth, or an infected root, and they'll tell you that the work dentists do is highly valuable and necessary.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Throw Momma From The Train is nearly 20 years old.

Here's my take on all of this (I've posted this before): when the public visits a physician, they physically SEE the pysician palpate them, look in their eyes, listen to the breath sounds, etc.

When the public visits the dentist 99% of the time all they see are hands in their mouth. The public has NO idea what is going on in there. In theory the dentist could do a whole lot of nothing and still bill for it.

So, I think that fuels a certain perception that dentists are greedy or unethical, etc., etc. If the public could see exactly what we are doing they would probably have a frameshift in regards to their feelings toward the profession.

People have got to understand that dentistry is by and large a preventative profession, and that we are literally trying to put ourselves out of business by selling prevention.