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mk  ·  3916 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer

Push for the MRI. CT scanners are cash cows for hospitals, that's one reason they are over used.

Also, decline the dental X-ray; another revenue motivated imaging procedure. If you don't have discomfort, why would you need one?





user-inactivated  ·  3915 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Every time I try to decline the x-ray, the dentist tries to tell me that it's the best way to figure out if I 'need' wisdom teeth surgery.

I'm honestly half-convinced the wisdom teeth removal is a scam too.

decoy  ·  3907 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not so sure it is. When they grow in from the back they can push your other teeth forward, crowding them out and causing all sorts of other issues.

JamesTiberiusKirk  ·  3906 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're absolutely right. That said, wisdom teeth removal might be the adenoidectomy/tonsilectomy of the present - something that has a real medical indication but is perhaps performed way more than it should be.