#it seems like people are getting overprescribed these things tbh | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

gloamses · 1 year

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you know, there are plenty of kids getting dental veneers. I’m trying to look up studies on the regret rate of dental veneers, for anybody, whether adults or minors, and if they exist it’s impossible to find them because the marketing around cosmetic dentistry is so aggressive. they may not exist at all, idk. but there are huge numbers of anecdotal accounts of people experiencing terrible regret over veneers. are there studies on this? veneers are permanent. I mean, not exactly, you pay thousands to get them and then they wear down in 10-15 years whereupon you have to pay thousands to replace them again. but you can’t un-get veneers. you can’t undo filing your teeth down to get them put in. things going wrong with your teeth is a quality of life disaster, vastly under-acknowledged in healthcare and especially US healthcare, so if you regret your veneers and you’re stuck with them, you could be really miserable. yet, again, the marketing is aggressive and I know people who have had dentists recommend they get veneers for things like minor staining. weirdly no widespread moral panic or attempts at legislation over this

#text #this is kind of about trans moral panic #but we already know that’s not really about trans people’s welfare #so it’s also just sincere curiosity over whether anyone’s looked into this #as with trans procedures I dont think peoples ability to get them should be legislated #but I think some idea of how many people regret this and how many people experience complications #should be documented and accessible info which is communicated to patients maybe #it seems like people are getting overprescribed these things tbh #I mean my braces weren’t permanent but I still feel some kind of way about the fact that I had them at all #I didnt even need them. I had very minor lower teeth crowding. that was it #and yet I had braces for 2 or 3 years? which actually caused me to have gaps for a time which I didnt have in the first place lol #it was very stupid and to this day Im mystified as to why I had to go through all that misery #and why my family spent all that money #to get me braces I simply did not need. on all my teeth #so it boggles my mind that people are getting recommended veneers for like! minor discoloration!

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