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by quickthrowman 1466 days ago
> If my experience is as ubiquitous as I suspect, there seems to be a perverse incentive among dentists to allow adults to ruin their own teeth.

If you read the thread, some dentists will perform needless work on healthy teeth to make money, so I doubt there’s an incentive to let adults ruin their teeth when you can just lie and say they need the work anyways.