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[BrianNole777]

I see my primary once a year unless I’m sick and need to go in, but I see my dermatologist every six months because I’ve had some squamous cells removed along with basal cell skin cancers. I go to the dentist once a year and my eye doctor once a year.
So far I have been very lucky (knock wood) but health care has become a business instead of medicine being an healing art practiced by doctors.

Dermatologists charge like $500 for a 15 minute visit around here.

I got an allergy test last month and the ENT charged my health insurance company $1,000.

 

[GeddyLee09]

I've never had or heard of a dentist saying come in every 3 months. We go every 6 months.

Same for me, including the dentist (the dentist is even pushing for cleanings every three months) and the optometrist.

Well now you have. Twice just on here. I think it's an insurance thing.

 

[BrianNole777]

My grandmother was a dental hygienist back in the day, and she was a strident advocate for getting cleanings every three months, if not more. She was pretty brutal with a dental scaler.

Did she have access to modern dental technology like x-rays?

 

[BrianNole777]

As I am not yet an octogenarian, she most certainly had access to dental x-rays throughout the entirety of her career.

I shudder to imagine what going to the dentist was like in the past.

 

[fsufool]

I shudder to imagine what going to the dentist was like in the past.

Dentist were the surgeons...............so lots of amputations...........LOL

 

[goldmom]

As I am not yet an octogenarian, she most certainly had access to dental x-rays throughout the entirety of her career.

Correct. X-rays were around in the 50’s so we Boomers got a LOT of them, and I’m now wondering if they’re behind the rise in thyroid and head and neck cancers.

 

[goldmom]

I shudder to imagine what going to the dentist was like in the past.

Not fun. But once you got Novocaine it was okay.
I had tons of cavities as a kid.

 

[BrianNole777]

Not fun. But once you got Novocaine it was okay.
I had tons of cavities as a kid.

Me, too.