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The incentives in oral care actively work against the patient. Our current system focuses on treating the symptoms instead of the root cause.

You should have the knowledge required to advocate for your own outcomes.

I’m not affiliated with them, but I think that bristle health is a step towards that reality.

They offer oral microbiome testing and suggest personalized treatments to fix issues like cavities.

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Allot of it is also education. I grew up thinking, if you get a cavity the dentist will fix it, no worries. But you're teeth can only be repaired so much, and every time it's more expensive.

I never asked any questions or tried to understand why I got cavities (in part cos of the cost). It was just... I have bad teeth, it is what it is. But it's not. there is allot you can do, foods to avoid, drinks to avoid (beyond the obvious). But things are getting better, some dental hygienists are on YouTube now, who teach how to look after your teeth.

Definitely, you can also add in foods and supplements to promote beneficial bacteria. But until recently finding objective measures of your interventions was hard.

Can you suggests some names? Unbiased (or some kind of polyphony) information on dental is so scarse its crazy

I came across Teeth Talk Girl a few months ago, allot of informative content, and seems pretty unbiased. There is also "Baseline Dental" and "Dr. Brett Langston" channels. Quality a bit mixed and somewhat promoting there place of work.

But yeah, still pretty dry out there, but better then a few years ago. Probably more on tiktok... but that's tiktok.

Bristle's blog is quite good https://www.bristlehealth.com/pages/blog

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