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Originally Posted by Vipergrün
There was a show on Discovery Channel (or similar) about Appalachia and the backwater folk in them hills. Evidently those are the "Mountains" Mountain Dew is named after. Those folks drink so much their teeth rot and there are dentists who have a mobile service and go to the remote areas to do dental work.
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Appalachia has no corner on tragic teeth. We see it about 150x per year (I'm not a dentist...it's much worse for them). Children with parents who don't understand (or are too lazy to care about) dental hygene, young adults, middle aged, elderly, disabled, drug addicted, smokers...it never ends. And the vast majority are state medicaid subscribers.
My perosnal "favorite" was a couple with a nicer home than I who brought in their young child on medicaid for dental restoration. When finished, they didn't like how it looked. Off to a cosmetic dentist they went...and paid cash for that. The father told me this himself.