10 Most Stupid Lies About Dentists That Will Shock You – Dental Practice Management
Check out 10 most idiotic ideas on Dentistry! What the F ! In the 21st century there are still some prevailing ideas and notions about dentistry that will not only make you laugh but also very angry. These hilarious yet idiotic lies show that many people are still not very aware regarding oral health and dentistry as a medical science.
Myth 5: “No one can see the back ones,
it will be just fine to only fix the front.”
If I just had a nickel for every time I’ve heard that one! However insane the sentiment seems, it does point out one thing: that people value the appearance of their smile. And indeed, a lot of times people can’t see the back ones. But there are serious problems with such logic. Your back teeth are made for chewing and grinding your food.
The front teeth are made for viewing. If you try to chew with the teeth made for exposure, the teeth will break down. The back teeth are there for a reason. They give you the ability to chew and to function. Think of your front teeth like a pair of scissors: they’re good for incising, smiling, speaking, singing, and expressing yourself. But they aren’t so good for chewing up a steak.
It just doesn’t work well. And in fact, just like a pair of scissors, when you try to chew with your front teeth, you wear out the edges, your teeth shorten, start to break down and break off. Not good.
Myth 6: “My poorly aligned bite isn’t that big a deal.”
Actually, it may be a very big deal. We know that for some people, their bite being off causes them pain with chewing, pain to the jaw joints, pain in the neck, and chronic headaches. In fact, some estimate that over 75% of all headaches are muscle-contraction headaches that could be related to a poor bite.
If you think of your head as about a six-pound ball sitting on your spine, balanced by all the muscles in the neck and the face and the head, you realise that when one muscle or several muscles get into a bad place -a strained position- it can pull in such a way that all the other muscles are strained. And that muscle strain causes muscle contraction. Those contractions can cause headaches.
We often find that people whose bite is off will accommodate by changing their neck posture. And as soon as their neck posture changes, they start to have neck pain. This frequently occurs with computer users who sit in front of a monitor all day long. Additionally, whenever you affect the spine, that effect ripples from the top to the bottom of the spine.
Not only that, bite misalignment can cause you to break or crack teeth, or cause the dental work to wear prematurely, excessively or even fail. So, the bite being off can be a very big deal. We know that a bad bite causes a lot of stress to the entire chewing mechanism, and this stress doesn’t relieve itself easily. It takes time and a lot of relaxation. So I sometimes see people that are heavily medicated just to put up with their pain. It isn’t necessary. I’ve seen people whose bite is off who have accommodated for years and years and suddenly, because of their other stresses in life, they no longer have the “body energy” necessary to maintain themselves in spite of that bad bite, and things start to go downhill.
Often, and to my dismay, I hear: “This is the way God made me, so it must be okay.” Well, it isn’t okay. When you can’t see, most get a set of glasses or contact lenses or have some type of surgery to correct things. If your hand isn’t working correctly, almost anyone would seek therapy and sometimes surgery to get his hand functioning correctly.
The “God made me this way” argument usually doesn’t work out so well.
Wouldn’t you agree?
