The best description for teeth in the context of insurance that I’ve ever heard was “luxury bones”.
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pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 5 days ago
Teeth has got to be one of the most disrespected and undervalued parts of your body. Your body's other bones can heal but then it's like "fuck your teeth, I'm not doing shit about them". And then we got health insurance companies who have the gall to not consider teeth an important part of your body that should be covered, got to get it separately and the costs are fundamental.
I mean, you smile with these things and they are key responsible for how you digest food, by chewing on it before swallowing. You can't just swallow whole pieces of food without risk of choking on them at somepoint.
You can pretty much die from bad teeth, like rot and cavities. It is just a matter of when.
db2@lemmy.world 5 days ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Gum disease has been linked to heart disease and now there might be a link to dementia due to the bacteria that can enter the bloodstream from the mouth.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Luxury bones
confuser@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Just gonna drop this here for anyone that wants to know about the best way to take care of teeth.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You can pretty much die from bad teeth, like rot and cavities. It is just a matter of when.
Yes, but you’re leaving out how bad a problem gum disease is.
Wooki@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Eyes and skin are not far off of it want for the fact they were replied soon so much. (Re WHS protective goggles , sunscreen)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 days ago
mammals pretty much have the short end of the stick as far as teeth goes, we cant replace it often like reptiles can.
Arctic_monkey@leminal.space 4 days ago
I’m not a fan of insurance companies, but the dental/medical insurance split makes sense. Insurance is fundamentally a risk hedging game. It matters what the risks are. Most medical conditions will only happen to a small percentage of people, so we can all put money into a pool and pay out to the unlucky people who, for example, get cancer. Almost everyone needs some dental work eventually, everyone’s teeth wear down. Dental insurance is more like a savings plan than a gamble on rare outcomes. It doesn’t make sense to pool those risks together.
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
A tooth infection can easily spread to your brain and kill you. It’s a very short path.
But even if your teeth are just regular bad, that affects how you can eat, and eating is kind of important to living.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Research has also shown a link between dental bacteria and heart disease. Not sure if it’s causation or correlation, but keeping your dental microbiome healthy seems to have benefits throughout the body.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 days ago
doesnt need to spread to your brain, just cause sepsis lowering your blood pressure to dangerous levels, or to a major organ and kill you that way.