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As a kid in elementary school, my parents sent me to a dentist. He told them I needed almost all my molars filled in the centers. I looked at my teeth and told my mother I didn't see anything to which she said, He's a dentist and he knows what you need." So most of my molars got large fillings right in the centers. Decades later the teeth began to crack and the fillings had to be removed and the teeth had to be capped. I commented to my current dentist about it. She just said there were some instances where some dentists weren't always especially interested in always doing right by their patients.
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I had lots of fillings as a kid. Many of those have had to have crowns put on them. A dentist friend said that in the "old days" they were a lot more aggressive in tooth material removal, leaving a lot of teeth weak.
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