Because dentists have routinely fought tooth and nail to keep it separate to make more profit. Quite the rabbit hole. Ideally dentistry would be a part of medicine. 100%
@@lifeunderthestarstv maybe they have recently but dentistry developed separately from medicine in the US because in the 1800s the first medical schools determined that dentistry was not going to be taught. Doctors looked down upon dentists as they usually also doubled as barbers. As a result dentistry has fought tooth and crown to get respect as a medical profession since.
@@rph_redacted I have to pay $250 just for a Partial for my 6 missing teeth. Then I need a Root Canal and fill 4 more Cavaties...with NO Dental Insurance..😱😭😭😭
I had oral surgery by a surgeon out of state, then was to see my own dentist to have the stitches out. When it came time, the dentist was out of the office due to an emergency. My family doctor had to do it and yeah, there was panic. He just kept saying “It’s just stitches…I know stitches” as he stuck tools in my mouth. He announced himself amazing once they were out. lol
I was lucky, when I needed a gum graft there was a periodontist near by and he did it all like it was nothing. I imagine many places wouldn't have a specialty like that around.
@Kyle Richard I've met electricians that have issues looking at bolts and figuring out if it's metric or standard. Get an electrician who is just an electrician and your be surprised how little they know outside of their field. I only know so many things because I'm in maintenance and need to know several trades for my career.
@@YasugoLiehu It's Ubuntu 😉 Nah I actually like Ubuntu, I sideload load it though. I am not that good with Linux though. I can do a lot with computers and some programming but Linux I haven't spent much time tinkering with. Hope you figure it out though.
In the US at least, medicine and dentistry are weirdly separated, to the detriment of patients. I knew a woman who had diabetes 2 and bipolar, along with several neglected teeth that had abscessed. She couldn't find a dentist to remove her teeth for the low low price of nothing (she was on disability) and ended up constantly in the ER getting antibiotics and painkillers. Both her diabetes and mental health got worse as her dental problems mounted. It seems like there should be more coordination so that overall health doesn't decline.
I'm in a v similar situation and I'm currently debating if I should just yank the tooth instead of spending a half year of wages on getting a root canal to stop the pain. Poor people don't deserve teeth or eyes.
@@drkrishnap If someone can afford a round trip ticket to India, hotel cost, food AND to miss days of work they probably aren't terribly concerned about financing dental work.
Actually they're seperated because the first doctor's association, when proposed to include dentistry, refused to include it because dentistry was stupid and unnecessary. There's a Sawbones episode on that (it's a podcast)
Kr s - a lot of Americans actually go to Mexico for medical procedures since it can be way cheaper there. Even after hotels and plane tickets, the surgery is still cheaper.
Dental health is so vital to cardiac health and digestive health. It's absolutely criminal that dental isn't apart of regular healthcare. And don't get me started on mental health!!!
@@dana102083 I feel like if our government really cared about the health of their citizens (I know, it sounds silly even saying that) medical units wouldn't have to want for basic necessities. I know people neglect everyday things (basic hygiene, brushing teeth, nutritional health, healthcare), but if our government made those things easily accessible we as a society could focus on it's importance and make a healthier society as a whole. That's how we lower costs in the long run.
“It’s aaaa tooth”… “but do antibiotics even work for teeth?”… “maybe there’s an antibiotic toothpaste”… “you got a hundred teeth, don’t worry about this little one. It’ll grow back…they always do!” Hahaha! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@@kaitlinbuhler1775 weird my doctor went quite fast to the teeth as cause for my back pain. Still don't understand how that works but got sent to the dentist and the pain is gone.
@@kaitan4160 thats crazy! I’m happy that you feel better. We just learned today inflammation (anything thats red hot and puffy, even your tooth gums) can cause inflammation in other parts of the body too
@@kaitan4160 that is a doctor that knows his way around the body beyond what he was taught in school and make the connections. Those are wonderful and few.
Dentist here…. Lol!!! That was hilarious…There’s a lot to dentistry - like a speciality of medicine… my dental school was partnered with med students for the first 2 years of med/dent school. So we learned all the basics of medicine together, but the med students didn’t learn about dentistry 🤦♀️
Oh man I just cracked a filling and half the tooth went with it. Couldn't afford replacement. Had it extracted in a Little Shop of Horrors in East Baltimore. I remember gripping the stuffing that was coming out of the chair as a woman excavated the tooth like a miner digging for gold. Had to sign a waver beforehand for things like broken jaw, etc. I've had nightmares about my teeth falling out, but this was scarier by far.
Dentist here. This all started when barbers doubled as dentists, which back in the day consisted pretty much of pulling teeth. From there, the practices of medicine and dentistry remained separate. I learned in my residency how little medical students were taught about the mysteries of the oral cavity. As if that part of our body is siloed from the rest. As if infection and inflammation in your mouth doesn’t travel abroad. And the insurance system has determined that oral health is optional, and throws about a thousand bucks a year at it. Shameful.
I wish we treated dental care as important as health care. So many Americans suffer social stigmas, pain, illness, & in the worst cases death w/ no way to get help. It's way too cost prohibitive for something so important!
@@MakaylaPaterson our health insurance doesn't cover teeth and so we have to buy it separately. Even then, it's a weird afterthought that isn't offered everywhere. You're right though, health care/insurance isn't deemed important either so you can imagine how bad it is for our teeth.
As someone whose dental and medical issues often overlap, THANK YOU!! Neither discipline wants to hear about the other, even though the structures of the teeth, jaws, head, neck, ear and throat are often affected by each other. It gets so tiring, but hey - I can laugh at it today! (and call my dentist/ortho/max-fax/ENT teams tomorrow maybe?!) 😂 Thanks Doc Schmidt! 💚 your videos!
I'm on a feeding tube, and when I asked if that could cause nutrient deficiencies in my teeth my dentist looked like I'd just asked complex surgical questions, complete blank as he scrambled for an answer "Yeah, that's definitley possible, maybe.....take a multivitamin or something? If you're really worried about it talk to your normal doctor you see for your feeding tube" It's basically the doctor equivalent of a shrug
@@ThatOneCorvusKing You said it, the 'doctor equivalent of a shrug' haha, like "get them out of here, they're reaching the limits of my realm of knowledge, and i am v uncomfortable with that!" In all seriousness though, if you can try to get your teams nurse practitioner's contacts - they're great for questions, as are hospital dietitians, always good to lean on the team you have and see where you can get those answers from
This is so true and this video was perfect. I used to have cavities every dental visit for years despite taking care of my teeth. I also had other chronic health issues. I found a doctor familiar with thyroid and Lyme disease. His intake form asked about the teeth and it was so surprising. Found out I had Lyme which can cause nutrient deficiencies that affect the teeth. Whenever I remind my dentist he just nods like I'm telling him what I did that weekend lol.
My mom’s dentist actually brought some issues to her attention that were symptoms of bigger medical problems, and told her to tell her doctor. She was able to nip things in the bud because of it. I do wish dentistry was treated like a regular medical specialty, because 1. It is medical and can also affect other parts of the body. and 2. You have to buy completely separate insurance, often from a completely different company, and it just adds to all the confusion.
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Our histology teacher was lecturing and everyone was writing so fast, taking pictures, records and in general going their best, than she started talking about teeth and everyone _stopped_ at the same time, it's like everyone's brains died simultaneously. No one knows teeth till nowadays
Here's a fun story about my experience with doctors and teeth! When I was 9, I knocked out my adult tooth and chipped the one next to it. I fell in my house and the two top front teeth went into the hardwood floor. I got taken into the ER, i think because it was a Friday or Saturday night. They stuck the tooth back in my head almost completely intact, then made some temporary braces to hold it into my head. They said keep it there for a bit then go see an Endodontist. My dentist and endodontist put bonding to make them look somewhat normal and root canals (1 early on on the dying tooth that fully came out of my head, the other 10 years later on the tooth next to it which suddenly became affected). I still can't believe the ER just shoved my tooth back in, bit I'm grateful since for 12 years now I've managed without needing an implant or fake tooth. So thanks, doctor, for not being afraid of teeth!
As a hospital dentist this is something you can do when the tooth hasn’t been out for too long. Im suprised the ED doc was comfortable doing it himself and not just paging a dentist/omfs. Likely the ED doc would splint the tooth in the wrong position.
@@iono1019 After checking with my parents, he said that a nurse practitioner put the tooth back in but an oral surgeon ended up coming in to check everything was good and put on some temporary braces to help it hold.
This as a dental student, living in a family filled of doctors with my brothers and father, always cracks me up how they are unfamiliar with teeth and the mouth in general, but thanks for being this up and that laughs specially the one with antibiotics every time they get astonished that we prescribed antibiotics.
In italy we do have a tiny exam about densitry but it’s been separate uni course from med for like 20 years ago so no doctors younger than 50 years old have any idea of what to do with teeth…
All joking aside. I've been a dentist for almost 10 years and I can tell you that day 1 of leaving 4 years of school solely based on teeth..... I still had a ton to learn.
I am an orthodontist and I went to school for what felt like forever but, 1999-2003 for undergrad, 3-6 I for med school and then a few years of school w gaps to become a fully licensed ortho and then I had more to learn after all the school.
I had an absessed tooth a few years ago. It's part of why I fell in love with my husband. I was home sick alone on Christmas and he showed up while I was all unshowered in my bathrobe with an obviously swollen infection in my face, and he told me I was beautiful and delivered gifts from himself and his family. So that's my worst and best Christmas ever.
Italian dentistry student here, and we have to study a lot of medicine, but doctors don't, I hate this thing 🤣 and every time we have to hear "you're not a doctor" 😂
Lmao, I have experience with this too. The only surgeries I've ever had were dental/oral surgeries. One to pull down an adult tooth that wasn't coming in properly, and one to get my wisdom teeth removed. When new doctors ask if I've ever had any surgeries and I say "yes" and mention the two dental surgeries, they always ask something like "okay but, no like... surgeries surgeries, right?" Like, for both of them, I *was* put under anesthesia, and they *did* have to open up my gums. But that's the one area of my body that my primary care physician has no involvement with whatsoever, lmao.
Lol this reiterates how much we veterinarians need to know! I have to answer teeth questions all the time. And eye questions, heart questions, skin questions, GI questions…you get the idea. Love your videos!
It's true! Every time I hand my primary doctor a tooth she seems so uncomfortable, she starts asking questions like "omg whose tooth is this?" and "how do you keep finding all these teeth?" Haha so weird.
A strong exception would be emergency physicians. We may diagnose +- treat alveolar osteitis, periapical abscesses, tooth fractures, tooth avulsions, etc (aside from analgesia, antibiotics, and tetanus vaccination update). Also depends on ED resources, how busy the shift is, provider training/preference, and local ED culture.
Conversely: "Who told you you were allergic to adrenaline (epinephrine for you N. Americans)? That's... ... that's not possible." "The dentist." Right, you had a reaction to the anaesthetic or you have a rare adrenaline sensitivity.. if you were allergic to adrenaline, you would be dead. Also, dentist killed a molar while performing a basic filling, there is no recourse, I had to spend thousands out of pocket to correct her mistake. If a surgeon was as incompetent as her, I'd have been able to sue. Talking to the truth of this though, just found a massive buccal extosis the other day, told the docs I work with... none of them had much of an idea of what I was talking about. "did you see a dentist?" was the average response. "ah, tooth things..." was the other response.
How do you know it was basic if you’re not a dentist? It was likely close to the nerve and that nerve may have been dying anyway - it isn’t your dentists fault you got a deep cavity…
@@PCayMan Because it was a checkup and my first time at the clinic. The dentist specifically stated "This is an easy filling, so we'll do this today and figure out a plan for the more complicated work." I'm not sure if you work in dentistry, but in healthcare (like... other than dentistry) the medical practitioner legally has to explain possible adverse events/reactions and the purpose behind any given medical intervention. For example, when you go and see your skin doc, they legally have to tell you about the risk of infection, scar tissue formation etc. If I was getting a procedure with a medical doctor that was near a nerve, they would legally have to inform me of that; along with the possible neurological sequelae. My dentist did none of this, didn't discuss a care plan and gave no indication that the tooth may die. How long do you think a nerve takes to die Tom? If the nerve was being impacted, it was her responsibility to tell me that. IF she was a medical doctor, I'd hang her ass out to dry.
Imagine losing your teeth twice, and then having to deal with all of the shark jokes... I got x-rayed to check for wisdom teeth at age 18. They said I didn’t have any buds and wouldn't have any come in. Cue 4 years later, and all 4 had impacted. *All the shark jokes were true...* 🤣😳
If you have pain in your tooth, you should see an endodontist. An endodontist is a type of dentist who received additional years of specialized education. They can help you save your tooth and take care of dental pain, infection, or trauma.
This is so funny! You just gained a subscriber 😂😂😂. This was me when I asked my PCP about my teeth. He didn’t even allow me to finish my statement before saying I should go see the Dentist😂
Dental student here: it’s so true that you guys know nothing about dentistry. Our shared patients come back repeating the darnedest things about dentistry that you told them
Lived with abscesses and like 8 broken teeth for 3 years waiting for a dental surgeon that would finally work on me freezing doesn’t work on me and I have asthma so they had to put me under in the hospital and work on me about 12 times originally I put in the request for the surgeon I only had 2 broken teeth I needed removed by the time they finally saw me I needed 15 teeth removed
This reminds me that even though I have health insurance it doesn't cover my teeth. I need a completely separate insurance just for my mouth even though it's part of my body and effects my overall health 🤔
dental med student here and i found this hilarious lmao and its true! some of our professors who teach medicine subjects to us such as physiology, internal medicine and stuff clearly don't like teeth that much as well
Omg pulling out the phone at the mention of something... "Ehlers-Danlos? So you mean *googles* oh, it's a rare disorder so that can't be your problem." Cool, but my geneticist says it is.........
Agreed. Except when they do. I was nearly prohibited from having my first surgery a few weeks ago when they began questions about my teeth during pre admission testing. I do get the concern, I think it's to prevent possible tooth damage from the anesthesia process. But, I've needed to put off my dental work because I'm paying for my daughter's braces. Both are expensive and while I'd been saving for my own it turned out she needed an expander and the rest. As a parent that's what you're supposed to do, put your child ahead of yourself. I felt really hurt and ashamed by the many medical people that kept saying you nearly missed the boat on getting the ok for surgery- over and over. And we are a two income family who try to live under our modest means. Impossible sometimes :( I don't know how single income people or parents can keep up with dental needs.
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This separation between dentists and doctors is really bad in the US. It's one of the reasons why it took So long for me to get diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. I had two root canals before they finally figured it out. I saw a doctors complaining about the pain and they kept prescribing opioids ( that I really didn't want and really didn't work), and sending me to dentists. Luckily I had a endodontist that was really on top of things. I was completely shot up with anesthetic And my root was completely drilled out, and I was still in pain. He wrote down exactly What my problem was And sent me directly to the ER.
but for dental students we read bits and parts of medicine (idk about other countries but in India) they make us read 3 years of med subjects like anat, bio chem, physiology, in first year and Pharma, path, microbiology, in 2nd and gen med, gen sug in third year… we also have A and E posting in internship, we have seen ulcer dressing, lump excisions, management of medical emergencies during any dental procedure and we also have done head and neck dissections
There is a single dentistry module in our entire curriculum, that too is geared towards more O&MF Surgery and there was no evaluation, we were just supposed to write a paper! Having said that, I think at least the GP's should be taught more.
Once, in the ER, a doc looked at my teeth. Said, yeah, it looks like you have cavities. I had an abscess. Three hours later my lip swelled up and philtrum disappeared and stuck out instead of indenting. It was the weekend. No dental offices were open.
I asked my doctor recently about a lump growing right at the top of my gumline. Wasn't sure if it was a tooth issue or not but can confirm the doc was very uncomfortable with my inquiry! Off to the dentist 😆
As a dentist, this hurt me on a deep level, and also gave me a good laugh, thanks Doc! P.S. I can assure you we dentists feel the same way when patients start asking us about general medicine.
The easier thing to do would say "Sorry bro, that's outside of my scope of practice." Then maintain eye contact and smile in silence until the patient gives in.
This really happens. It takes forever to get into see dentists. Medical doctors should prescribe antibiotics for infected teeth. I had a heart problem happen to me and caused me to have a heart attack from the drainage of infected tooth.
Fun fact: if a tooth is infected, a dentist won't work on it until you go to a doctor to get a prescription for antibitotics. Source: a person with a lot of teeth problems
We have a hospital that has dentists in the facility and on call. So if you get something like meningitis from a tooth infection you get treatment from both doctors and dentists
I've always thought of a dentist as like a specialist on that part of the body like you have an ear nose and throat doctor, you have a tooth doctor, and you have a foot doctor... kind of just makes sense to me.
Tmi incoming (And note, don't go to your dang clinic doc for tooth problems, lol): Cavity (that I couldn't afford to fix because dentistry isn't considered healthcare where I live!) turned into tooth abcess. Dentist got me on clindamycin, destroyed my gut bacteria. Ended up with c. diff. In hospital with sepsis because I didn't know what to do with the constant, but not dehydrating diarrhea. 4 months of retesting, flagyl and wishing vancomycin was not worth more than gold, and having a rare reaction to the flagyl because I was on it so long (developed liquid filled cysts in several joints), and my gut bacteria never properly recovered so I can't digest most vegetables now. ... Yeah. But for a cavity I couldn't afford to fix until the price dropped due to it being an "emergency" lost me so much. Dentistry needs to be covered by healthcare. The fact it is not can kill or disable you.
As a trainee in special needs carer and social work (Heilerziehungspflege in German- which is a fascinating branch of studies to go into, I highly recommend it) I love the fact that we have an opportunity to learn about every aspect of our job. From medicine, to physical caring, to psychology, to anthropology, to arts, music and theatre, to law etc. It's a branch that is so widely needed and put into use. You have opportunities to work at kindergartens, hospitals, special needs homes etc. You can also take Further training to become a art or music therapist, or a position that's on the same level as a psychologist. It's so cool!
Dentist here… physicians know so much, I don’t get how you don’t care about the most beautiful and important organs in the human body! ( yeah… teeth are considered organs,btw)
Omg🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i once had bad pain with my wisdom teeth while i was in hospital..... the nurse gave me aspirin.... she was awesome 🤣👍 n i took it like a champ btw🤣🤣🤣
😂this is so accurate. I was hospitalized once and I started having horrible tooth pain and swelling. I kept mentioning it to the doctors during rounds, hinting that maybe they should call the dental people to come take a look because there is a school of dentistry on the hospital property. Instead I was told that No, they cannot give me those cool heating pads that they use when they can't find my veins because those are expensive. Instead one of my nurses goes up to L&D and brings me back a DIAPER soaked in scolding hot water and tells me to put it on my face to help with the pain and swelling. Im not making this up 😂 I asked for a heating pad of and was given a diaper soaked in very hot water.
The only reason I ever had to have a doctor look at my teeth was because I started having extreme jaw pain on Saturday. Found out it was an infection because they Missed a drilled out filling spot on Thursday. Novacaine made it hard to realize they missed it and slight pain is normal the next day.
Okay so I have a story about this. I got hit in the face with a frisbee playing frisbee golf and got my bottom row of teeth messed up. Two popped out and three were super loose and pushed back. I could only find one of the popped out ones and I went to the ER because, yeah. Yknow what they did? They were just like “uhh, so we’re gonna give you pain meds and shove the tooth back in. Cool?” When I went in for surgery at a dentist guess what the dentists found? THE ER DOCTORS PUT THE TOOTH IN THE WRONG TOOTH HOLE!
Med student here, never really understood why dentistry isn't part of medicine. And it's true, the fear of teeth is taught early on! 😂
I remember one med student who told me with great conviction that humans have 40 teeth 😃 thank god we dont
Because dentists have routinely fought tooth and nail to keep it separate to make more profit. Quite the rabbit hole.
Ideally dentistry would be a part of medicine. 100%
Dental student here, i have the same concern....when did we divorce?
Girl bye I can’t learn teeth on top of everything else
@@lifeunderthestarstv maybe they have recently but dentistry developed separately from medicine in the US because in the 1800s the first medical schools determined that dentistry was not going to be taught. Doctors looked down upon dentists as they usually also doubled as barbers. As a result dentistry has fought tooth and crown to get respect as a medical profession since.
Hahahaha this was good. "You have like a hundred of them they will grow back" best line
this gives me real meet the medic vibes
We're sharks now 🦈 c:
They GROW back? I'm still waiting for my 6 Extracted teeth to come back....🤔🤷🏽😭😭
@@vanessathomas7437 i am saving to get an implant for myself
@@rph_redacted I have to pay $250 just for a Partial for my 6 missing teeth. Then I need a Root Canal and fill 4 more Cavaties...with NO Dental Insurance..😱😭😭😭
I had oral surgery by a surgeon out of state, then was to see my own dentist to have the stitches out. When it came time, the dentist was out of the office due to an emergency. My family doctor had to do it and yeah, there was panic. He just kept saying “It’s just stitches…I know stitches” as he stuck tools in my mouth. He announced himself amazing once they were out. lol
I was lucky, when I needed a gum graft there was a periodontist near by and he did it all like it was nothing. I imagine many places wouldn't have a specialty like that around.
That's a funny story. 🤣
Interesting they didn't use dissolving stitches.
Comforting himself “It’s just stitches... I know stitches.” 🤣
I found this oddly wholesome lol.
Lmfao I’m glad you’re okay!
When someone finds out I'm an electrician.
"Hey, you're an electrician. Can you help me figure out why my car won't start?"
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@Kyle Richard I've met electricians that have issues looking at bolts and figuring out if it's metric or standard. Get an electrician who is just an electrician and your be surprised how little they know outside of their field. I only know so many things because I'm in maintenance and need to know several trades for my career.
@@YasugoLiehu It's Ubuntu 😉
Nah I actually like Ubuntu, I sideload load it though. I am not that good with Linux though. I can do a lot with computers and some programming but Linux I haven't spent much time tinkering with. Hope you figure it out though.
The driver’s seat is three feet too far forward, just move it back by about four feet.
@Kyle Richard That's actually a pretty fair assessment of the statistics 🤣
Dentist here ✌🏻 and even I hate teeth sometimes 😂
Dentist here too and someday I just dnt want to hear a question about teeth at parties and get together with family n friends
Same!
@@natty9112 Hey this tooth looks like it has a crack. Is this a crack or just a weird stain *points*. More wine?
Cmon man. What’s not fun about a crown prep on #18, sub-g margins, close to the pulp, large tongue, saliva everywhere, pt won’t be still...
Amen haha it's usually most of the time.
“You've got a like hundred teeth! Don’t worry about this little one, it’ll grow back. They always do!”
So people are land sharks
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did you know that sharks have smooth skin?
What is man but a featherless biped
Real life land shark here. I lost my teeth twice. We exist...
*Fear us...*
@@andrewe.7299 behold! A CHICKEN
In the US at least, medicine and dentistry are weirdly separated, to the detriment of patients. I knew a woman who had diabetes 2 and bipolar, along with several neglected teeth that had abscessed. She couldn't find a dentist to remove her teeth for the low low price of nothing (she was on disability) and ended up constantly in the ER getting antibiotics and painkillers. Both her diabetes and mental health got worse as her dental problems mounted. It seems like there should be more coordination so that overall health doesn't decline.
I'm in a v similar situation and I'm currently debating if I should just yank the tooth instead of spending a half year of wages on getting a root canal to stop the pain. Poor people don't deserve teeth or eyes.
From US it might be cheaper to travel to India, get everything done 👍 try Kerala, our indices are at par with developed countries.
@@drkrishnap If someone can afford a round trip ticket to India, hotel cost, food AND to miss days of work they probably aren't terribly concerned about financing dental work.
Actually they're seperated because the first doctor's association, when proposed to include dentistry, refused to include it because dentistry was stupid and unnecessary. There's a Sawbones episode on that (it's a podcast)
Kr s - a lot of Americans actually go to Mexico for medical procedures since it can be way cheaper there. Even after hotels and plane tickets, the surgery is still cheaper.
Dental health is so vital to cardiac health and digestive health. It's absolutely criminal that dental isn't apart of regular healthcare. And don't get me started on mental health!!!
Yup 👍
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Many people still wouldn't care about their teeth unfortunately.
Medical units didnt even get toothbrushes. Was nuts.
@@dana102083 I feel like if our government really cared about the health of their citizens (I know, it sounds silly even saying that) medical units wouldn't have to want for basic necessities. I know people neglect everyday things (basic hygiene, brushing teeth, nutritional health, healthcare), but if our government made those things easily accessible we as a society could focus on it's importance and make a healthier society as a whole. That's how we lower costs in the long run.
As a dentist with a father who is a physician, we both found this hilarious 😂
You've got a family of doctors! I can relate lol
“It’s aaaa tooth”… “but do antibiotics even work for teeth?”… “maybe there’s an antibiotic toothpaste”… “you got a hundred teeth, don’t worry about this little one. It’ll grow back…they always do!” Hahaha! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Who determined that the mouth wasn’t part of the whole body? And that a whole different insurance entity was needed?
Pretty sure it was an insurance company.
Doctors did it. Some said we don't wanna study the foot since pulling teeth is what pays good munny.
And eyes for that matter
And a different language too. Medical lingo and dental lingo are completely different
@@stargirl91291 you are right about that.
Being a dental student it does crack me up how much we take classes with PA's and nurses, but they never take classes with us 🤣
a dentist can fuck up a patient's health, but it's unlikely other doctors could fuck up a patient's teeth
Also a dental student, this is so true, we had a class with the pharmacy students but they know NOTHING about teeth lol
@@kaitlinbuhler1775 weird my doctor went quite fast to the teeth as cause for my back pain. Still don't understand how that works but got sent to the dentist and the pain is gone.
@@kaitan4160 thats crazy! I’m happy that you feel better. We just learned today inflammation (anything thats red hot and puffy, even your tooth gums) can cause inflammation in other parts of the body too
@@kaitan4160 that is a doctor that knows his way around the body beyond what he was taught in school and make the connections. Those are wonderful and few.
Dentist here…. Lol!!! That was hilarious…There’s a lot to dentistry - like a speciality of medicine… my dental school was partnered with med students for the first 2 years of med/dent school. So we learned all the basics of medicine together, but the med students didn’t learn about dentistry 🤦♀️
Same here!
Hahaha I’ve always wondered why doctors do everything but teeth 😂 I’m a vet student and we have to do the dentistry ourselves
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@@JoeMama-1diot I know :(( kinda annoying, but that’s the internet I guess 😢
As a dental hygienist, I feel this. There really is a lack of access to care for many.
Oh man I just cracked a filling and half the tooth went with it. Couldn't afford replacement. Had it extracted in a Little Shop of Horrors in East Baltimore. I remember gripping the stuffing that was coming out of the chair as a woman excavated the tooth like a miner digging for gold. Had to sign a waver beforehand for things like broken jaw, etc. I've had nightmares about my teeth falling out, but this was scarier by far.
@@carmengogeidnas9670 holy fudge, sounds shady as hell 😂
"You should see a dentist"
"Oh, you mean the Healthcare my insurance *won't* cover?"
Dentist here. This all started when barbers doubled as dentists, which back in the day consisted pretty much of pulling teeth. From there, the practices of medicine and dentistry remained separate. I learned in my residency how little medical students were taught about the mysteries of the oral cavity. As if that part of our body is siloed from the rest. As if infection and inflammation in your mouth doesn’t travel abroad. And the insurance system has determined that oral health is optional, and throws about a thousand bucks a year at it. Shameful.
I wish we treated dental care as important as health care. So many Americans suffer social stigmas, pain, illness, & in the worst cases death w/ no way to get help. It's way too cost prohibitive for something so important!
Truth!
If wishes were nickles I would be the richest fool alive.
America doesn’t even treat health care as important though? I really don’t know how y’all are alive
@@MakaylaPaterson our health insurance doesn't cover teeth and so we have to buy it separately. Even then, it's a weird afterthought that isn't offered everywhere. You're right though, health care/insurance isn't deemed important either so you can imagine how bad it is for our teeth.
The same can be said about psychiatric care.
As someone whose dental and medical issues often overlap, THANK YOU!! Neither discipline wants to hear about the other, even though the structures of the teeth, jaws, head, neck, ear and throat are often affected by each other. It gets so tiring, but hey - I can laugh at it today! (and call my dentist/ortho/max-fax/ENT teams tomorrow maybe?!) 😂
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I'm on a feeding tube, and when I asked if that could cause nutrient deficiencies in my teeth my dentist looked like I'd just asked complex surgical questions, complete blank as he scrambled for an answer
"Yeah, that's definitley possible, maybe.....take a multivitamin or something? If you're really worried about it talk to your normal doctor you see for your feeding tube"
It's basically the doctor equivalent of a shrug
@@ThatOneCorvusKing You said it, the 'doctor equivalent of a shrug' haha, like "get them out of here, they're reaching the limits of my realm of knowledge, and i am v uncomfortable with that!"
In all seriousness though, if you can try to get your teams nurse practitioner's contacts - they're great for questions, as are hospital dietitians, always good to lean on the team you have and see where you can get those answers from
This is so true and this video was perfect. I used to have cavities every dental visit for years despite taking care of my teeth. I also had other chronic health issues. I found a doctor familiar with thyroid and Lyme disease. His intake form asked about the teeth and it was so surprising. Found out I had Lyme which can cause nutrient deficiencies that affect the teeth. Whenever I remind my dentist he just nods like I'm telling him what I did that weekend lol.
My mom’s dentist actually brought some issues to her attention that were symptoms of bigger medical problems, and told her to tell her doctor. She was able to nip things in the bud because of it.
I do wish dentistry was treated like a regular medical specialty, because 1. It is medical and can also affect other parts of the body. and 2. You have to buy completely separate insurance, often from a completely different company, and it just adds to all the confusion.
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Our histology teacher was lecturing and everyone was writing so fast, taking pictures, records and in general going their best, than she started talking about teeth and everyone _stopped_ at the same time, it's like everyone's brains died simultaneously. No one knows teeth till nowadays
Dental care is health care. It makes absolutely zeros sense why our eyes and teeth need their own insurance!
Here's a fun story about my experience with doctors and teeth!
When I was 9, I knocked out my adult tooth and chipped the one next to it. I fell in my house and the two top front teeth went into the hardwood floor. I got taken into the ER, i think because it was a Friday or Saturday night. They stuck the tooth back in my head almost completely intact, then made some temporary braces to hold it into my head. They said keep it there for a bit then go see an Endodontist. My dentist and endodontist put bonding to make them look somewhat normal and root canals (1 early on on the dying tooth that fully came out of my head, the other 10 years later on the tooth next to it which suddenly became affected). I still can't believe the ER just shoved my tooth back in, bit I'm grateful since for 12 years now I've managed without needing an implant or fake tooth. So thanks, doctor, for not being afraid of teeth!
In the ER, they aren't afraid of anything!
As a hospital dentist this is something you can do when the tooth hasn’t been out for too long. Im suprised the ED doc was comfortable doing it himself and not just paging a dentist/omfs. Likely the ED doc would splint the tooth in the wrong position.
that's basically what we do in pediatric offices when it's fresh out :)
@@iono1019 After checking with my parents, he said that a nurse practitioner put the tooth back in but an oral surgeon ended up coming in to check everything was good and put on some temporary braces to help it hold.
@@diyeana except labor and delivery
“They always do” 😳 me after counting my stupid gaps from having teeth pulled 🤨
I once worked with an ER doctor who used to tell patients complaining of tooth pain that the MD after his name stood for “me no dentist.” 😂
Jokes aside physicians really should learn at least the basics. Would have saved me so much hassle.
This as a dental student, living in a family filled of doctors with my brothers and father, always cracks me up how they are unfamiliar with teeth and the mouth in general, but thanks for being this up and that laughs specially the one with antibiotics every time they get astonished that we prescribed antibiotics.
I always wonder why they don't teach us at least a little about teeth 😂
In italy we do have a tiny exam about densitry but it’s been separate uni course from med for like 20 years ago so no doctors younger than 50 years old have any idea of what to do with teeth…
'It'll grow back, they always do!' 😂
My fave line 😁
@@Doc_Schmidt Having grown a second of teeth myself, you never know... 😏😉
Also dentist here and I agree with previous dentist who posted haha. Love your videos.
So strange to me that dentistry is not just a sub-discipline of medicine
very strange indeed
All joking aside. I've been a dentist for almost 10 years and I can tell you that day 1 of leaving 4 years of school solely based on teeth..... I still had a ton to learn.
I am an orthodontist and I went to school for what felt like forever but, 1999-2003 for undergrad, 3-6 I for med school and then a few years of school w gaps to become a fully licensed ortho and then I had more to learn after all the school.
Teeth are complicated as hell but I do NOT like doctors.
@@ThatDataLady you went to med school?
I had an absessed tooth a few years ago. It's part of why I fell in love with my husband. I was home sick alone on Christmas and he showed up while I was all unshowered in my bathrobe with an obviously swollen infection in my face, and he told me I was beautiful and delivered gifts from himself and his family. So that's my worst and best Christmas ever.
Ahhhh, that's a keeper!!
Italian dentistry student here, and we have to study a lot of medicine, but doctors don't, I hate this thing 🤣 and every time we have to hear "you're not a doctor" 😂
Don't listen to that. Dentists are doctors
"Do antibiotics even work for teeth?". As a dental student, it would be great if they didn't.....
Lmao, I have experience with this too. The only surgeries I've ever had were dental/oral surgeries. One to pull down an adult tooth that wasn't coming in properly, and one to get my wisdom teeth removed.
When new doctors ask if I've ever had any surgeries and I say "yes" and mention the two dental surgeries, they always ask something like "okay but, no like... surgeries surgeries, right?"
Like, for both of them, I *was* put under anesthesia, and they *did* have to open up my gums. But that's the one area of my body that my primary care physician has no involvement with whatsoever, lmao.
Lol this reiterates how much we veterinarians need to know! I have to answer teeth questions all the time. And eye questions, heart questions, skin questions, GI questions…you get the idea. Love your videos!
Can you treat humans to a degree?
@@ber1779 lmao no
Plus you're talking different species.
It's true! Every time I hand my primary doctor a tooth she seems so uncomfortable, she starts asking questions like "omg whose tooth is this?" and "how do you keep finding all these teeth?" Haha so weird.
i remember asking my doctor at what age I needed braces, she wouldn’t even touch the subject lol, she very insistently told me to ask a dentist
A strong exception would be emergency physicians. We may diagnose +- treat alveolar osteitis, periapical abscesses, tooth fractures, tooth avulsions, etc (aside from analgesia, antibiotics, and tetanus vaccination update). Also depends on ED resources, how busy the shift is, provider training/preference, and local ED culture.
Conversely:
"Who told you you were allergic to adrenaline (epinephrine for you N. Americans)? That's... ... that's not possible."
"The dentist."
Right, you had a reaction to the anaesthetic or you have a rare adrenaline sensitivity.. if you were allergic to adrenaline, you would be dead.
Also, dentist killed a molar while performing a basic filling, there is no recourse, I had to spend thousands out of pocket to correct her mistake. If a surgeon was as incompetent as her, I'd have been able to sue.
Talking to the truth of this though, just found a massive buccal extosis the other day, told the docs I work with... none of them had much of an idea of what I was talking about.
"did you see a dentist?" was the average response.
"ah, tooth things..." was the other response.
How do you know it was basic if you’re not a dentist? It was likely close to the nerve and that nerve may have been dying anyway - it isn’t your dentists fault you got a deep cavity…
@@PCayMan Because it was a checkup and my first time at the clinic. The dentist specifically stated
"This is an easy filling, so we'll do this today and figure out a plan for the more complicated work."
I'm not sure if you work in dentistry, but in healthcare (like... other than dentistry) the medical practitioner legally has to explain possible adverse events/reactions and the purpose behind any given medical intervention.
For example, when you go and see your skin doc, they legally have to tell you about the risk of infection, scar tissue formation etc.
If I was getting a procedure with a medical doctor that was near a nerve, they would legally have to inform me of that; along with the possible neurological sequelae.
My dentist did none of this, didn't discuss a care plan and gave no indication that the tooth may die.
How long do you think a nerve takes to die Tom?
If the nerve was being impacted, it was her responsibility to tell me that.
IF she was a medical doctor, I'd hang her ass out to dry.
You have a hundred of them, lmaooo. Try 32, unless you’re missing wisdom teeth. Imagine if human teeth grew in rows like sharks.
Imagine losing your teeth twice, and then having to deal with all of the shark jokes... I got x-rayed to check for wisdom teeth at age 18. They said I didn’t have any buds and wouldn't have any come in.
Cue 4 years later, and all 4 had impacted. *All the shark jokes were true...* 🤣😳
A mystery to us all. Thank goodness they grow back.
They don't 😂😂
If you have pain in your tooth, you should see an endodontist. An endodontist is a type of dentist who received additional years of specialized education. They can help you save your tooth and take care of dental pain, infection, or trauma.
This is so funny! You just gained a subscriber 😂😂😂. This was me when I asked my PCP about my teeth. He didn’t even allow me to finish my statement before saying I should go see the Dentist😂
What do you call a doctor that's comfortable looking at teeth?
A Veterinarian!
haha, loved when he read the definition straight from his phone!
“You’ve got, like, a hundred teeth!” 😂😂😂😂
He's not wrong about the teeth. I've have grown up teeth grow back a gew times in the same place. And now my teeth are perfect!😁
Dental student here: it’s so true that you guys know nothing about dentistry. Our shared patients come back repeating the darnedest things about dentistry that you told them
You can’t leave a comment like this without giving a few of the best examples!
@@michellej9638 Seconded!
Intern hospital dentist here, Ive been waiting for this video for a long time. Thank you sir
You are quite welcome
Lived with abscesses and like 8 broken teeth for 3 years waiting for a dental surgeon that would finally work on me freezing doesn’t work on me and I have asthma so they had to put me under in the hospital and work on me about 12 times originally I put in the request for the surgeon I only had 2 broken teeth I needed removed by the time they finally saw me I needed 15 teeth removed
This reminds me that even though I have health insurance it doesn't cover my teeth. I need a completely separate insurance just for my mouth even though it's part of my body and effects my overall health 🤔
dental med student here and i found this hilarious lmao and its true! some of our professors who teach medicine subjects to us such as physiology, internal medicine and stuff clearly don't like teeth that much as well
Omg pulling out the phone at the mention of something... "Ehlers-Danlos? So you mean *googles* oh, it's a rare disorder so that can't be your problem." Cool, but my geneticist says it is.........
Agreed. Except when they do. I was nearly prohibited from having my first surgery a few weeks ago when they began questions about my teeth during pre admission testing. I do get the concern, I think it's to prevent possible tooth damage from the anesthesia process. But, I've needed to put off my dental work because I'm paying for my daughter's braces. Both are expensive and while I'd been saving for my own it turned out she needed an expander and the rest. As a parent that's what you're supposed to do, put your child ahead of yourself. I felt really hurt and ashamed by the many medical people that kept saying you nearly missed the boat on getting the ok for surgery- over and over. And we are a two income family who try to live under our modest means. Impossible sometimes :( I don't know how single income people or parents can keep up with dental needs.
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This separation between dentists and doctors is really bad in the US. It's one of the reasons why it took So long for me to get diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. I had two root canals before they finally figured it out. I saw a doctors complaining about the pain and they kept prescribing opioids ( that I really didn't want and really didn't work), and sending me to dentists. Luckily I had a endodontist that was really on top of things. I was completely shot up with anesthetic And my root was completely drilled out, and I was still in pain. He wrote down exactly What my problem was And sent me directly to the ER.
but for dental students we read bits and parts of medicine (idk about other countries but in India) they make us read 3 years of med subjects like anat, bio chem, physiology, in first year and Pharma, path, microbiology, in 2nd and gen med, gen sug in third year… we also have A and E posting in internship, we have seen ulcer dressing, lump excisions, management of medical emergencies during any dental procedure and we also have done head and neck dissections
There is a single dentistry module in our entire curriculum, that too is geared towards more O&MF Surgery and there was no evaluation, we were just supposed to write a paper! Having said that, I think at least the GP's should be taught more.
Once, in the ER, a doc looked at my teeth. Said, yeah, it looks like you have cavities. I had an abscess. Three hours later my lip swelled up and philtrum disappeared and stuck out instead of indenting. It was the weekend. No dental offices were open.
DOC..... TEETH CAN AND WILL EFFECT THE WHOLE BODY.... AND THE HEART..... 😭😭😭
I asked my doctor recently about a lump growing right at the top of my gumline. Wasn't sure if it was a tooth issue or not but can confirm the doc was very uncomfortable with my inquiry! Off to the dentist 😆
As a dentist, this hurt me on a deep level, and also gave me a good laugh, thanks Doc!
P.S. I can assure you we dentists feel the same way when patients start asking us about general medicine.
The easier thing to do would say "Sorry bro, that's outside of my scope of practice." Then maintain eye contact and smile in silence until the patient gives in.
This is why you gotta binge Wikipedia articles at least bidaily so you’re prepared for anything
In case anyone didn't know, dental health really impacts physical health! Get your teeth checked!
I was a chairside dental assistant for 8.5 years....can't even tell you how many times I explained dental health to MDs.....😅😅
The exasperated “You’ve got like a hundred teeth” really gets me because most people have no idea how many teeth they have. 😁
This really happens. It takes forever to get into see dentists. Medical doctors should prescribe antibiotics for infected teeth. I had a heart problem happen to me and caused me to have a heart attack from the drainage of infected tooth.
You need to address the great divide, when medicine and dentistry got separated
Fun fact: if a tooth is infected, a dentist won't work on it until you go to a doctor to get a prescription for antibitotics.
Source: a person with a lot of teeth problems
Bad dental issues can drop straight down - into your heart. Your teeth can kill you, we really need to roll dentistry into general healthcare.
We have a hospital that has dentists in the facility and on call. So if you get something like meningitis from a tooth infection you get treatment from both doctors and dentists
😂As a Dentist, I found this very hilarious.
I LITERALLY had this EXACT conversation with a doc once.
This is why we veterinarians are the unicorns of doctors. 😂😂
I've always thought of a dentist as like a specialist on that part of the body like you have an ear nose and throat doctor, you have a tooth doctor, and you have a foot doctor... kind of just makes sense to me.
Isn’t it ironic/interesting that barbers used to be “dentists” and in many ways, “physicians?” My how medicine has evolved!
For adults teeth don't grow back
Hahaha that’s why they make specialist shirts that say, “That’s not my organ.” 😁
He may be brushing his teeth but what about that hair?!! 🙀🦷
This is also how er staff act when someone is going into labor
I'm a doctor, and we always scared to go to the dentist
When he looked it up on google, I really felt that.
Brush and floss twice or more a day
Teeth freak me out. So do eyes. 🙀
They’re the worst 😋
"it will grow back. They always do"
I laughed out loud. On my own. Sitting in the Bus🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣 All the things he said
running through my head,
Running through my head...
as in a family with 5 MDs, I am the only DDS 😂. This is how it's is.
Yup...that's a tooth
Tmi incoming (And note, don't go to your dang clinic doc for tooth problems, lol):
Cavity (that I couldn't afford to fix because dentistry isn't considered healthcare where I live!) turned into tooth abcess. Dentist got me on clindamycin, destroyed my gut bacteria. Ended up with c. diff. In hospital with sepsis because I didn't know what to do with the constant, but not dehydrating diarrhea. 4 months of retesting, flagyl and wishing vancomycin was not worth more than gold, and having a rare reaction to the flagyl because I was on it so long (developed liquid filled cysts in several joints), and my gut bacteria never properly recovered so I can't digest most vegetables now.
...
Yeah.
But for a cavity I couldn't afford to fix until the price dropped due to it being an "emergency" lost me so much.
Dentistry needs to be covered by healthcare. The fact it is not can kill or disable you.
Yup, it’s true. We don’t even like going to them unless absolutely necessary🤣
As a trainee in special needs carer and social work (Heilerziehungspflege in German- which is a fascinating branch of studies to go into, I highly recommend it) I love the fact that we have an opportunity to learn about every aspect of our job. From medicine, to physical caring, to psychology, to anthropology, to arts, music and theatre, to law etc. It's a branch that is so widely needed and put into use. You have opportunities to work at kindergartens, hospitals, special needs homes etc. You can also take Further training to become a art or music therapist, or a position that's on the same level as a psychologist. It's so cool!
Dentist here… physicians know so much, I don’t get how you don’t care about the most beautiful and important organs in the human body! ( yeah… teeth are considered organs,btw)
Omg🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i once had bad pain with my wisdom teeth while i was in hospital..... the nurse gave me aspirin.... she was awesome 🤣👍 n i took it like a champ btw🤣🤣🤣
😂this is so accurate. I was hospitalized once and I started having horrible tooth pain and swelling. I kept mentioning it to the doctors during rounds, hinting that maybe they should call the dental people to come take a look because there is a school of dentistry on the hospital property. Instead I was told that No, they cannot give me those cool heating pads that they use when they can't find my veins because those are expensive. Instead one of my nurses goes up to L&D and brings me back a DIAPER soaked in scolding hot water and tells me to put it on my face to help with the pain and swelling. Im not making this up 😂 I asked for a heating pad of and was given a diaper soaked in very hot water.
Only babies and kids
The only reason I ever had to have a doctor look at my teeth was because I started having extreme jaw pain on Saturday. Found out it was an infection because they Missed a drilled out filling spot on Thursday. Novacaine made it hard to realize they missed it and slight pain is normal the next day.
Okay so I have a story about this. I got hit in the face with a frisbee playing frisbee golf and got my bottom row of teeth messed up. Two popped out and three were super loose and pushed back. I could only find one of the popped out ones and I went to the ER because, yeah. Yknow what they did? They were just like “uhh, so we’re gonna give you pain meds and shove the tooth back in. Cool?” When I went in for surgery at a dentist guess what the dentists found? THE ER DOCTORS PUT THE TOOTH IN THE WRONG TOOTH HOLE!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m a dental hygienist and it killed me! OMG! Reading wiki for cavity🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
AAAAH-HAHAHAHA! OMG! I'm dying laughing right now! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😅😆🤣