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I was just brushing my teeth and this wonder popped into my head. Has anyone who's interviewed been asked about their dental habits? I mean, like brushing/flossing/office visits, etc. Or heck, I'll go a step further, has anyone ever been asked to open up and have their teeth "examined/looked at"?
 
On a related note.. I know this will raise some eyebrows.. but doesn't anyone else find it weird when they meet a doctor that is a smoker or obese?

I just don't understand how you can arrange a career in promoting health when your own personal values don't align with what you see day in and day out in the research literature. It's always made me wonder...
 
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On a related note.. I know this will raise some eyebrows.. but doesn't anyone else find it weird when they meet a doctor that is a smoker or obese?

I just don't understand how you can arrange a career in promoting health when your own personal values don't align with what you see day in and day out in the research literature. It's always made me wonder...
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I thought this same thing...same thing for a dentists to have a horrible grill.
 
it's easy. people are human. if people were so infallible, we'd be a population of nonsmoking, long living, lean, physical specimens.

by the way, i would also fail an oral examination in the interview. I do quick brushes.
 
Funny question when it is brought up! I would of course pass it, I love my teeth...and ma grillz hahah
 
I have heard that courses in nutrition are not even offered in medical school... The focus seems to be on treating the sick, rather than preventing preventable diseases. I hope things change in our lifetime.

My orthodontist had extremely crooked bottom teeth and he ended up mildly ripping us off. Never trust a snaggletoothed orthodontist!
 
I'm not shocked at docs and other health care workers that smoke, but I was initially. Now I just shake my head. I work in respiratory therapy now, and plenty of my co-workers and old classmates smoke/d, how's that for irony.

Hopefully with the anti-smoking adverts, education on the consequences, and the simple fact that many(?) cities are putting laws in place or already have to prohibit smoking in many many places, it will get better.

What I'm worried about is all the coffee I drink, will my teeth look stained in a few years? :scared:
 
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