[adolph]

> Dentistry is practiced as a business focused on maximizing revenue.

All medicine is practiced as a revenue maximizing business (or it would cease as an ongoing concern). It's easier to see this in dentistry since at some early point in the US the field/cartel opted out of many of the omnibus health payment plans that otherwise obfuscate value chains. Aside from the notable exception of tobacco cessation, disease prevention gets short shrift compared to intervention. This is slowly changing but has started from a tremendous deficit.