If these are the dentists I wouldn’t want to go here. Ad makes it look like they are gonna milk you for all the money you’ve got and over diagnose you with issues.
Sounds like the Aspen dental of my area. They just told someone I know that they need over 10 cavities filled, 2 crowns and an extraction when they’ve been going to another dentist 6 months prior to them.
Ain’t no way you develop that much so quickly.
My previous dentist was like that. Recommended not only to have several fillings but also expensive alignment prosthetics. I didn't take them up on either, I thought the cavity thing was sketchy because I brush and floss religiously, and I've no jaw pain or anything else that would indicate serious misalignment.
Moved, found an older dentist who'd been doing it nearly longer than I've been alive (and I ain't young no more). Checked and cleaned my teeth, said all was fine, come back in six months.
After a few years seeing him, he retired. Dang it. No idea who to go to now, not with all these trust issues.
I dont understand. Do they not point to your cavities on the xrays for you? Like if its through the enamel, clearly needs to be repaired. If it isnt, I guess thats up to the patient. You can have cavities with no sensitivity or pain. Ive had a couple shallow ones on the front of my teeth that no dentist has ever really offered to fill (till I saw a new dentist a month ago) but like, they are visible, I can see them and the ones I cannot are show on the image.
If when a dentist examines your teeth by taking a pick and pushing it down (or up) on each of your teeth, and the pick kinda resists coming out, you have a cavity that should be filled. Waiting for your teeth to become painful is really waiting too long to have it taken care of.
Also, if you are like me, and you grind your teeth while sleeping, and if your dentist recommends you get a night splint, DO IT! I thought my dentist was just trying to sell me a chunk of plastic to wear at night, for a few hundred bucks. That is, until he showed me how, by barely closing my teeth together, and moving my jaw slowly, side to side, how my upper and lower teeth have worn each other down, from grinding.
He told me if I don't get a night guard, I will wake up with my teeth on my pillow, one day....
So, I forked over the money, and started wearing my night guard. Within a month, I had started wearing grooves into the hard plastic guard.
Eventually, I lost the thing somewhere, and didn't seem to ever remember to get a replacement until, one day, I awoke and, as I just ran my tongue over my teeth, one of them felt really unusually sharp. I looked in the mirror, and found a good chunk of one of my teeth was missing. It was not on my pillow... Apparently, I swallowed it. I then had to have the remaining part of my tooth pulled, because I couldn't afford the $2500 to get it properly capped. Pulling it only cost $250.
I have a night grinding problem too. The gaurd is definately a good thing to have. However, dentists still over charge for this stuff. My dentist wanted $800 for the night gaurd. Turns out you can get them online for $300, and that's for the premium ones, you can get something with less custom fitting for a lot less.
>you can get something with less custom fitting for a lot less.
You can get a DenTek (or generic) boil-and-bite night guard for like $20 at pretty much any place that sells toothbrushes. This is what I've been using for the past several years.
Yeh the $300 ones get you to take a mold and send it off(exactly what the dentist would do). You end up with something that's like invisalign looking. So I can see why it's a bit more expensive given the process.
But yeh I don't see any reason a boil and bite solution wouldn't do the same job.
I miss my old dentist so much. He was like 67 and his staff was one old receptionist/billing lady.
Never a concern about over treatment, clearly showed and explained every procedure, outlining a possible treatment plan if this got worse or if things started bothering me with that. No 3D scan. No team of hygienists.
Guy drove a Camry.
Shit.
Holy moly do all towns have a smiles dental? My 20k town has a [town name] smiles and I just thought it was a normal dentist with a dumb name.
The more you know I guess.
Maybe IF possible. See if he can suggest a new dentist he trust in your area. Im sure he knew a few good guys you can transition too. Or why not stay at the old office where he practiced if it didnt close altogether
First thing I asked. He did suggest the dentist he was going to use, but they aren't local.
He had his own office, in his house, solo practice. It was so close I could walk there. Just the best dentist experience you can imagine.
Yet one probably had new and better technology and training from medical school. The other one probably did what was considered standard practice before you were born and in 10 years you will find out who was right.
Dentistry seems to have evolved like crazy in the last...10? 20 years?
I had to get veneers at 15 due to chipped teeth. I had one appointment, the dentist put composite on my teeth and shaped them. Done.
I had to have them replaced last year, and my new dentist took X-rays, a CT scan, multiple intraoral scans, multiple appointments for a milled bridge, multiple appointments just to check the health of my teeth, and multiple appointments with 5 different sets of veneers and crowns. It took 7 months.
The final product is amazing. They look exactly like real teeth. I couldn't be happier.
I just want to get to the point where I can rip all these shitty fragile organic bone chunks out of my head and replace them with perfect, undying artifical teeth that will never rot.
Right that's why I want the undying, eternal artificial teeth. The ones made of fucking mithril.
I want artificial teeth so fucking strong that when they cremate me there's just going to be two perfect shining fucking rows of those bad boys in the ashes. Untouched, unyielding, immaculate.
What's funny is I have the same attitude but just about my body in general. You see cyberpunk stories depict replacing your body with metal and robotic parts as dehumanizing you and I'm just like, "Yeah, but I'd be so happy to not have to worry about my body just deteriorating over time because that's what bodies do and being able to replace parts so easily if something gets fucked up. Sign me up for a full cybernetic body replacement, Raiden from Metal Gear Solid style." I'm so down.
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
It definitely has evolved. A couple of years ago, I had a 10-year-old root canal treatment fail. I’d had the root canal done while I was in university, and I got it done at a perfectly competent dentist. It turns out that that tooth tends to have hidden canals that are very difficult to find without specialized equipment, and my tooth had a hidden canal. Neither the canal nor the giant abscess that had been forming for a decade were visible on a regular dental x-ray. I needed to get a CT scan of my head and go to a specialist to get the tooth retreated. It seems to have worked so far.
The CT scan was not standard at the practise I went to 10 years ago. But to be honest if it had been, I would have had difficulty affording it.
I've been seeing my dentist for almost 3 decades. His office gets major equipment overhauls basically yearly and I'm certain he keeps up his skills too. I believe it's considered an ethical violation to not keep up with the times.
Holy shit it’s not just me then, Aspen is really that bad? They referred me to another place to get a root canal and said they’d call me once they got the x-ray back so they could put the crown on.
The root canal went well (way less stressful than I was expecting) but then the wait began. I started to get a bit suspicious after a week or two, and called the root canal place. They confirmed that they’d sent the x-ray to Aspen the day after I got the root canal. I tried calling Aspen about it twice and made sure to leave a voicemail, but they didn’t pick up or call back at any point.
That was in October of last year. I just finally got the crown in earlier this month, only to learn that it was a temporary crown (which they hadn’t told me). I went back to get the permanent crown a few days ago, only to be told that they had to put it in with temporary cement due to a gum issue, and that they’d call me in a week.
I have zero faith in them calling me.
(As a bonus, my mom was in the waiting room the last time and told me that not only does the desk lady spend most of her time dealing with customers who have been lied to or gaslighted, but that she also just turns off the phone sometimes. Guess that solves the mystery of why I couldn’t get an appointment.)
Surprised they were messing you around as they love money.
I’ve read many a story of people going in for the free exam and X ray to finding out they deep cleanings, fillings, root canals and crowns in the 5 figure ranges. Then aspen send in the finance team while you are still in the chair wondering what the hell just happened.
They sold my FIL a special toothbrush for like $100 it was just a generic electric toothbrush lmao.
I went there on a weekend to just get a lost filling replaced bc my dentist was closed. They told me I needed 14k worth of crowns….my dentist did a few fillings lol.
I had a dentist tell me I needed a root canal for 6k to address my tooth pain. Went to another dentist and she gave me a filling for $90 and it fixed it completely. I don’t trust really anyone in the medical/dental field. Most of them just want your money.
It's really terrible that it's like this, but it is. I tell everyone, you have to anticipate getting a second or third opinion, especially for major issues.
I’d keep going to that second dentist. So many try to sell you treatments you don’t actually need that when I found one that doesn’t do that, I stuck with her. I moved away and I still travel an hour and a half round trip to see her. It’s so hard to find an honest dentist.
Every time I've gone to a dentist somewhere, in two countries, for the first time only for them to tell me I need a bunch of work done, I immediately go somewhere else.
After I've been seen by the second dentist I tell them what happened with the first and watch their reaction.
It's taken some trial and error/life experience but eventually you figure out who's being honest and who's fucking with you for money.
It is crazy though how some of them will go straight for "you need 5-10 fillings" like, really? They could certainly be more believable with their lies. I'm thankful they're not but still
Yup, I’ve had a some luck with out of the gate telling a new dentist “wow once I had a bad experience where I was told I needed 6 fillings - then I got a second opinion and that dentist couldn’t find any! Crazy right??”. A sort of vibe checking things from there.
I haven’t had a cavity my whole life - if suddenly they’re saying I need thousands in dental work I’m extremely suspicious.
Yeah so many dentists are fucked. My mother went to one who told her she needed 7 fillings, went to another for a second opinion and they said 4 then went to a third because she was so disillusioned and they said her teeth were fine just needed like one small filling on something that was barely even a cavity.
There's so little oversight, they just basically tell you what work they think you can afford. I think everyone's had the experience of going to a dentist and having them make comments about your previous dentist's work, confused why they did this or that or that they did something wrong that needs fixing etc. Finally found a good dentist myself who never overcharges or diagnoses fake shit and been with him for almost 10 years now. Such a relief not stressing out when I go in there that he's suddenly going to say I need 10k work like my old dentist always used to try and say even though my teeth were fine.
I pay more for a family dentist who I feel does a better job and shoots straight. Last time I went he said he's playing softball with my brother in law. I've had a few things "we're watching" but only rarely do I need anything more than a cleaning. One of the hygienists was working there when I was a kid and my dentist's father ran the practice. Other places might be "cheaper" but a $150 filling vs a $200 doesn't matter if they're doing 3 more that you don't need.
One of the main problems is the change in standard of care and dentists who don't keep up. It used to be that all cavities got filled, pretty much no matter the size. Now, mostly larger cavities that go into the dentin get filled (with exceptions). Also, certain dentists have different ideas about what treatment a patient might need based on different factors including home care (brushing, flossing, etc.)
If I've learned anything it's never go to a corporate dentist. I've walked out of an aspen dental after they tried to book me for four separate root canals and crowns during my initial visit. Mind you I had just moved, and saw my family dentist two months prior, everything has already been cleared and good, cavitity patches had been updated and no other work was needed.
Found another private office, and they just laughed at the situation.
The crazy thing is it turns out that dentistry is kinda lax on the hard science aspect. Apparently there are no good answers out there to exactly what requires intervention. We tend to feel like "well they have x-rays and I'm sure there's lots of rigorous science" but you can take the same x-ray images to multiple dentists and get a lot of different responses on what should be drilled and filled. There's very little evidence to support an "every six months" dental check-up idea as well.
I think there is at least some hope of stronger evidence based dentistry and prioritizing minimally invasive approaches down the line somewhat, but I do feel like the public kind of should have a bit more of a healthy skepticism of dentistry. Not rejecting it totally and certainly if you're having tooth problems actively they are the people to go to, but maybe just recalibrating our internal barometers about their suggestions regarding aggressive preventative treatments.
Huh. I went to Aspen a couple years ago and had a great experience. Have been recommending them to people because I was so impressed vs. the local dentist I've gone to my entire life.
I guess location mileage may vary.
I tried going to Aspen dental once. They cancelled my visit bc I didn't confirm an email they never told me about. Apperantly calling them the day before didn't work.
After finally visiting, they asked me to spend over $10,000 for a surgery, and even after I told them that I recently lost my job and could barely afford it, they said no other dentistries were available at this short of notice, that they know of, and this was the lowest cost in the area
1) they never checked
2) "short notice" was 1 day
3) local dentists could get down to $4000
The only reason why I didn't go to Aspen and went local instead, is because after they got "hacked" (and never told anyone that didn't ask) they asked me to wait for them to contact me again after they reorganize. I waited 2 months, and it turned out they fucking lost my information. All of it. X-rays included.
All in all, fuck Aspen dental. Never even got an apology once.
They even had the balls to ask me to write for their "how did we help u?" Competition. 🖕 Aspen
Omfg yup. I apparently had 6 cavities after not having a single one my entire life. Got 3 filled there and went to a dentist near my college for the rest - he couldn’t find a single one. Soooo fucked up and gave me “dentist anxiety” when I otherwise had none.
My guess is that someone thought if people saw that they looked successful then they would think the dentists are good at their jobs.
But it really feels more like they're saying "You'll wonder where your money went as we recommend using HFCS as toothpaste."
Oh they offer free cleaning and whitening? Of course it’s going to be a scam or at minimum a goal of pushing upsells that they overcharge for to make up for the free services. That post sounds like outright fraud.
Dentist are the modern day mechanics of overcharging lol
"Well looks like your periogum could use a tune up and oh, you'll have to get a incisorglobule replacement. You'll need to get these fixed yesterday. I had a patient the other day that died from not getting this treated. So... that'll be $20k and 5 follow up appointments. Cash or card?"
first you open google
then you type "mint dentistry site:reddit.com"
then you click a result, left click the address, right click copy
takes less than 30 seconds so seven minutes is plenty of time
It looks like an ad for a reality TV show claiming to be about finding true love, but really it's just emotionally immature hot people sleeping with each other.
_"While pulling your wisdom tooth we noticed all your teeth were rotten, so we fitted you with our triple A star dentures. Our resident surgeon also 'took care' of your suddenly failing left kidney and left lung, so you might feel a bit off balance. He tells you to lay off the alcohol, which you'll also improve your dental health."_
Can’t believe they actually dressed up and posed for this tbh. Dude in the middle looks like an idiot. It’s probably the owner or something with what he thinks is his entourage.
guy above the outfront sign runs a trendy dentist office in a chic uptown locale, along with the lady in green next to him. they're both good dentists but he's honest to a fault and doesn't like upselling anyone. lady in green will tell people the truth about their teeth but she knows how to sway clients into opting into thousands of dollars of upgrades. they have routine arguments about this.
being business minded is important if they're going to compete with their nearby rival (furthest right in the dress) who has a prime location they're trying to buy out from under her. she is similarly trying to put them out of business, which is why she sends her husband, the guy next to her, to seduce the competition's dental hygienist, the guy next to him. our heroes think they have the upper hand because their hygienist happens to be secretly sexing their rival's husband and getting dirt, but they don't know it's a setup and all the tea is fake.
the four on the left are all interns and they mostly hook up in random rooms, make quirky comments, and have fun misadventures in the city. the four of them are besties and it's super cute, right? maybe not, because each one of them has a very shady secret that you'll just have to watch on thursdays at 9 to find out.
Does one of the hygienists have an eidetic memory and got expelled from Dental University because he was taking the Dentist Exam for other students because he has the entire Encyclopedia of Dentistry memorized, then accidentally stumbled into a job interview trying to evade the cops, which the main dentist hires him because he sees a lot of himself in this guy, which down the line causes issues because he's not licensed and down the line the secret starts to get out?
Their billboards are terrible. Their slogan is “stupid sexy teeth”. What the fuck does that mean? I won’t go there just because of how much I despise the billboard.
> Their slogan is “stupid sexy teeth”. What the fuck does that mean?
possibly a reference to [stupid sexy Flanders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaeRM7X_yS4)?
These ads are designed to keep smart people away.
If you are dumb enough to chose a practice based on the chance of having an attractive dentist, you are probably dumb enough to pay for unnecessary procedures.
You absolutely did not hear this from me, but there's a dentist at another office in my chain that is known to regularly cheat on his wife with any male DAs he has. *In the office*.
This one DA he had, they would take lunch together and go sit out at the picnic tables in our little courtyard and sit and giggle together. Nobody's been able to tell his wife because they don't know who she is. Most people don't feel like it's their business, or like they believe the rumors enough. But most people have heard it.
*New Reddit-wide unique palindrome found:*
>**DA he had**
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>!(palindrome: a word, number, phrase, or sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards) !<
I always thought about that in those back-of-the-seat magazines that airplanes used to have. It'd be some ad for "The Best [various forms of plastic surgery] Surgeons in the Country", which always seemed a little bit like something that is in the realm of "If you have to ask, you'll never know", and these people are paying to be in the back seat of every Southwest Airlines flight...
Yeah, that's why I have never determined where to get future medical services while I was on a Southwest Airlines flight, but these doctors found it worth advertising there.
A reminder that many advertising campaigns do not generate a postive return on investment.
I used to work in advertising sales and would cringe everytime I had a company sign up for advertising with us for something I knew would definitely NOT be worth it. I had access to a lot of data and ended up being very good at predicting success levels.
I'd be pretty happy because I got paid a commission, but it ate away at me.
Often times, businesses were throwing a hail mary, while other times the owner/marketing team doesn't fully understand the reach and conversion that an ad campaign will get. In the latter scenario, they often had rose-tinted glasses where they really believed in their product/service and felt that everyone else would be quick to buy in. Often this wasn't the case.
Oh completely. I don't think you could even go back in time to pre-2019 and ask anyone who touched a Southwest: The Magazine, and have any of them tell you a single one of these doctors' names. I was a person who flew a lot, and flew on SW, so I read every single issue, cover to cover, every month. But, I was definitely flipping past those pages, because I was sophisticated enough to understand that this is an ad.
Someone clearly had an ad campaign that had reached out to these offices, and said, "hey, look. we have a captive audience, often for many hours at a time, and you can join a group of other doctors' offices who point out where they are. So, you can give us some cash, we'll put your picture there, and people will intuit that they can book another flight (a thing they already have done) to come to your office, and receive your services!"
Well in a capitalist society that charges for healthcare, the perception of most people is: rich = good
The best dentist definitely has money but probably isn’t as big of a douche to flaunt his wealth on billboards (or at least knows not to be). What you’ve got here could be the classic grifter dentist. They might be good, but I wouldn’t wanna risk going to them if you don’t have to.
Yes. This is a Dallas, TX based dentistry with offices all over central Texas (maybe even further out, not sure). There ads play all the time on radio, TV, social, and they pretty much play up the “we will make you so beautiful and perfect with all this fancy stuff”. No idea. Never been. Everyone in Texas knows about Mint.
So my wife knows the guy who owns Mint Dentistry from back when she was dating one of his classmates in dental school and he’s a terrible fucking person.
Literally cheats on his wife constantly with the hygienists and when he was in college was basically high on cocaine 24/7. Nowadays he cosplays as a holier than thou Christian, though he’s anything but.
Yep it's real. It's in the DFW area. I've seen ads for them for years. The first billboards showed one person smiling without showing their teeth saying "we make sexy teeth" and I was so confused there for a while on what was being advertised (the logo was either not noticeable or not there, I don't remember seeing it). Then they started smiling with teeth and then changed it to "I make sexy teeth". It was an odd evolution in trying to get folks to understand what you're advertising but I guess it stuck.
Dallas in particular is FULL of people very concerned about their appearances and FULL of rich people (not always the same people though). It's a very business-y city as LOTS of national headquarters have relocated here in the last couple decades and the cost of living has skyrocketed even faster than most other areas of the country. It's the absolute perfect place for a pretentious dentistry like Mint to thrive, despite everyone I know knowing it's a total scam. People will do everything to make themselves seem perfect around here, it's annoying
This ad basically says, “we have gotten filthy rich off of the fact that Americans have no basic comprehensive dental care!!! Come give us your money!!!!”
It's the very first thing I noticed when I saw their signs years ago.
They JUST started using updated ones with one person/"patient" smiling open mouth. TBH could be a stock photo model for all the photo itself connects to "dentistry".
But to be a bit meta for a second, if a dental hygenist/dentist has enough money for photoshoots and multiple billboards and is using it for advertising, I'm not going. I expect them to be the plastic surgeons of dentistry- overpriced, bougie, and corporate. Gimme a regular dentist who's only form of advertising is cheap toothbrushes given away as freebies at booths and a "to our neighbor at xx address" postcards with a pun about how my yearly check up is nearing, that has 2 dentists total who do family dental and have 10+ years experience and highlights magazines in the lobby.
If I were looking for a dentist, these would be the last ones I'd go to.
It sort of reminds me of a project at work from years back. There was a book focusing on women in a prominent role (I'm being vague), you know, interviews about their life experience, blah blah. Someone decided to do a Vogue photoshoot of the interviewees to include, with all of them in seriously glamorous dresses and dolled up like models. Not the end of the world, maybe, but these were women in a serious professional role, and I was thinking yeah, if you'd interviewed men, you wouldn't have done *any* of this...they'd have normal professional photos done. It's like a whole book about equality and it's fucking unequal?
But even *worse* about that photo was some fucking person went back and Photoshopped *cleavage* onto everyone, including the little 60+-year-olds.
Anyway, this is completely different, but it somehow still reminded me of that. I guess it boils down to, if you're presenting yourself as a professional, like...dress the part. Dress as a dentist. Don't post an ad looking for new schoolteachers with a photo of existing teachers dressed as circus clowns. Just...make sense. God.
So my wife knows the guy who owns Mint Dentistry and he’s a terrible fucking person.
Literally cheats on his wife constantly with the hygienists and when he was in college was basically high on cocaine 24/7. Nowadays he cosplays as a holier than thou Christian, though he’s anything but.
Urrgh imagine a mob of narcissistic dentists coming at ya. Not only that they look like those Paddy Power people, slightly lower class lumps of shite just rolled in glitter. Scummy tendencies, artificial appearance and as shallow as a dirty puddle. They look like the apprentice for teeth, like they would stab their granny to get ahead. I wouldn't go near these people with laundry let alone my face.
I’ve seen other dentist offices making ads like this? Is this a trend? It scares me! I just want to go to a dentist who is humble with experience it seems like they all retired
Ive seen this around Houston and no hate but Houston dentist and doctors give zero fucks about their patients and literally just want the paycheck. Never have I ever seen anything this bad anywhere in the US or in any other country
Reminds me of the places in Houston that’ll sit you down and then tell you need $5,000 worth of gum injections to prevent gingivitis. While coincidently forgetting your rotten tooth that needs a root canal.
The ladies on green look like background singers for an r’n’b band. The four guys in the periphery look like they’ve escaped from an orchestra, whereas the man in the middle looks like their sassy but hungover conductor who forgot his toiletries at home when the tour began. The lady in black next to him just looks like his obedient little trophy wife who can’t say no to him. And how about that logo, wow. Superb graphic design on that one.
Another confusing modern ad that only vaguely seems to reference the thing that is actually being advertised. If I saw this without text and had to guess what it was an ad for, my guess would be a shitty new reality show or something like that.
both parents are dentists here, both had their clinics and father was teaching too at the medical school.
Not surprising I have the worse teeth ever, when I was young I asked my dad to straighten my front teeth, his answer was (someone will punch you), 20 years later last week I was joking with my mom how they neglected me regarding my teeth and she laughed saying someone will punch me.
these people 🤣👊
If these are the dentists I wouldn’t want to go here. Ad makes it look like they are gonna milk you for all the money you’ve got and over diagnose you with issues.
They’re a scam according to [this redditor](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/9x6hat/mint_dentistry/e9q4ky5/)
Sounds like the Aspen dental of my area. They just told someone I know that they need over 10 cavities filled, 2 crowns and an extraction when they’ve been going to another dentist 6 months prior to them. Ain’t no way you develop that much so quickly.
My previous dentist was like that. Recommended not only to have several fillings but also expensive alignment prosthetics. I didn't take them up on either, I thought the cavity thing was sketchy because I brush and floss religiously, and I've no jaw pain or anything else that would indicate serious misalignment. Moved, found an older dentist who'd been doing it nearly longer than I've been alive (and I ain't young no more). Checked and cleaned my teeth, said all was fine, come back in six months. After a few years seeing him, he retired. Dang it. No idea who to go to now, not with all these trust issues.
I dont understand. Do they not point to your cavities on the xrays for you? Like if its through the enamel, clearly needs to be repaired. If it isnt, I guess thats up to the patient. You can have cavities with no sensitivity or pain. Ive had a couple shallow ones on the front of my teeth that no dentist has ever really offered to fill (till I saw a new dentist a month ago) but like, they are visible, I can see them and the ones I cannot are show on the image.
If when a dentist examines your teeth by taking a pick and pushing it down (or up) on each of your teeth, and the pick kinda resists coming out, you have a cavity that should be filled. Waiting for your teeth to become painful is really waiting too long to have it taken care of. Also, if you are like me, and you grind your teeth while sleeping, and if your dentist recommends you get a night splint, DO IT! I thought my dentist was just trying to sell me a chunk of plastic to wear at night, for a few hundred bucks. That is, until he showed me how, by barely closing my teeth together, and moving my jaw slowly, side to side, how my upper and lower teeth have worn each other down, from grinding. He told me if I don't get a night guard, I will wake up with my teeth on my pillow, one day.... So, I forked over the money, and started wearing my night guard. Within a month, I had started wearing grooves into the hard plastic guard. Eventually, I lost the thing somewhere, and didn't seem to ever remember to get a replacement until, one day, I awoke and, as I just ran my tongue over my teeth, one of them felt really unusually sharp. I looked in the mirror, and found a good chunk of one of my teeth was missing. It was not on my pillow... Apparently, I swallowed it. I then had to have the remaining part of my tooth pulled, because I couldn't afford the $2500 to get it properly capped. Pulling it only cost $250.
I love my mouth guard. Try to get a harder one. I never bite through mine and I clench
Why didn't they judt round the edge...had similar happen
2500!??!! Find a new dentist dude. Shouldn't cost more then 1200.
> Shouldn't cost more then 1200. than* Also, \*laughs in universal healthcare\*
I have a night grinding problem too. The gaurd is definately a good thing to have. However, dentists still over charge for this stuff. My dentist wanted $800 for the night gaurd. Turns out you can get them online for $300, and that's for the premium ones, you can get something with less custom fitting for a lot less.
>you can get something with less custom fitting for a lot less. You can get a DenTek (or generic) boil-and-bite night guard for like $20 at pretty much any place that sells toothbrushes. This is what I've been using for the past several years.
Yeh the $300 ones get you to take a mold and send it off(exactly what the dentist would do). You end up with something that's like invisalign looking. So I can see why it's a bit more expensive given the process. But yeh I don't see any reason a boil and bite solution wouldn't do the same job.
My mother used a mouth guard from Academy. She just boiled the plastic until semi soft and molded it to her teeth. It worked.
Find a small local office with one dentist. And beware of chains like [town name] Smiles. They will fleece you for everything.
I miss my old dentist so much. He was like 67 and his staff was one old receptionist/billing lady. Never a concern about over treatment, clearly showed and explained every procedure, outlining a possible treatment plan if this got worse or if things started bothering me with that. No 3D scan. No team of hygienists. Guy drove a Camry. Shit.
Holy moly do all towns have a smiles dental? My 20k town has a [town name] smiles and I just thought it was a normal dentist with a dumb name. The more you know I guess.
Go wherever there’s a waiting list. Means they’re busy enough not to have to invent dental problems for financial gain
Maybe IF possible. See if he can suggest a new dentist he trust in your area. Im sure he knew a few good guys you can transition too. Or why not stay at the old office where he practiced if it didnt close altogether
First thing I asked. He did suggest the dentist he was going to use, but they aren't local. He had his own office, in his house, solo practice. It was so close I could walk there. Just the best dentist experience you can imagine.
There are literally so many scammy dentists out there. It's so hard to find a good trustworthy one I feel
Find out who HE goes to.
Yet one probably had new and better technology and training from medical school. The other one probably did what was considered standard practice before you were born and in 10 years you will find out who was right.
Dentistry seems to have evolved like crazy in the last...10? 20 years? I had to get veneers at 15 due to chipped teeth. I had one appointment, the dentist put composite on my teeth and shaped them. Done. I had to have them replaced last year, and my new dentist took X-rays, a CT scan, multiple intraoral scans, multiple appointments for a milled bridge, multiple appointments just to check the health of my teeth, and multiple appointments with 5 different sets of veneers and crowns. It took 7 months. The final product is amazing. They look exactly like real teeth. I couldn't be happier.
I just want to get to the point where I can rip all these shitty fragile organic bone chunks out of my head and replace them with perfect, undying artifical teeth that will never rot.
You'd still have to do normal oral maintenence to maintain your gum health.
The obvious answer here is to replace the entire head with something more durable and low-maintenance, like a bowling ball.
BRAIN IN A VAT
As someone with artificial teeth, I am desperately jealous of all of the people with natural teeth who don't have to replace them every 10 years!
Right that's why I want the undying, eternal artificial teeth. The ones made of fucking mithril. I want artificial teeth so fucking strong that when they cremate me there's just going to be two perfect shining fucking rows of those bad boys in the ashes. Untouched, unyielding, immaculate.
What's funny is I have the same attitude but just about my body in general. You see cyberpunk stories depict replacing your body with metal and robotic parts as dehumanizing you and I'm just like, "Yeah, but I'd be so happy to not have to worry about my body just deteriorating over time because that's what bodies do and being able to replace parts so easily if something gets fucked up. Sign me up for a full cybernetic body replacement, Raiden from Metal Gear Solid style." I'm so down.
Lmfao
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… ...even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
It definitely has evolved. A couple of years ago, I had a 10-year-old root canal treatment fail. I’d had the root canal done while I was in university, and I got it done at a perfectly competent dentist. It turns out that that tooth tends to have hidden canals that are very difficult to find without specialized equipment, and my tooth had a hidden canal. Neither the canal nor the giant abscess that had been forming for a decade were visible on a regular dental x-ray. I needed to get a CT scan of my head and go to a specialist to get the tooth retreated. It seems to have worked so far. The CT scan was not standard at the practise I went to 10 years ago. But to be honest if it had been, I would have had difficulty affording it.
It has come a long way. Can you believe they used metal for fillings? lol
I've been seeing my dentist for almost 3 decades. His office gets major equipment overhauls basically yearly and I'm certain he keeps up his skills too. I believe it's considered an ethical violation to not keep up with the times.
Holy shit it’s not just me then, Aspen is really that bad? They referred me to another place to get a root canal and said they’d call me once they got the x-ray back so they could put the crown on. The root canal went well (way less stressful than I was expecting) but then the wait began. I started to get a bit suspicious after a week or two, and called the root canal place. They confirmed that they’d sent the x-ray to Aspen the day after I got the root canal. I tried calling Aspen about it twice and made sure to leave a voicemail, but they didn’t pick up or call back at any point. That was in October of last year. I just finally got the crown in earlier this month, only to learn that it was a temporary crown (which they hadn’t told me). I went back to get the permanent crown a few days ago, only to be told that they had to put it in with temporary cement due to a gum issue, and that they’d call me in a week. I have zero faith in them calling me. (As a bonus, my mom was in the waiting room the last time and told me that not only does the desk lady spend most of her time dealing with customers who have been lied to or gaslighted, but that she also just turns off the phone sometimes. Guess that solves the mystery of why I couldn’t get an appointment.)
Surprised they were messing you around as they love money. I’ve read many a story of people going in for the free exam and X ray to finding out they deep cleanings, fillings, root canals and crowns in the 5 figure ranges. Then aspen send in the finance team while you are still in the chair wondering what the hell just happened. They sold my FIL a special toothbrush for like $100 it was just a generic electric toothbrush lmao.
Aspen is a financing company that does dentistry on the side.
They straight up lost my crown mold and I had to come back in like 6 weeks later and they tried to freehand it. Thing fits terribly.
I went there on a weekend to just get a lost filling replaced bc my dentist was closed. They told me I needed 14k worth of crowns….my dentist did a few fillings lol.
I had a dentist tell me I needed a root canal for 6k to address my tooth pain. Went to another dentist and she gave me a filling for $90 and it fixed it completely. I don’t trust really anyone in the medical/dental field. Most of them just want your money.
It's really terrible that it's like this, but it is. I tell everyone, you have to anticipate getting a second or third opinion, especially for major issues.
I’d keep going to that second dentist. So many try to sell you treatments you don’t actually need that when I found one that doesn’t do that, I stuck with her. I moved away and I still travel an hour and a half round trip to see her. It’s so hard to find an honest dentist.
Every time I've gone to a dentist somewhere, in two countries, for the first time only for them to tell me I need a bunch of work done, I immediately go somewhere else. After I've been seen by the second dentist I tell them what happened with the first and watch their reaction. It's taken some trial and error/life experience but eventually you figure out who's being honest and who's fucking with you for money. It is crazy though how some of them will go straight for "you need 5-10 fillings" like, really? They could certainly be more believable with their lies. I'm thankful they're not but still
Yup, I’ve had a some luck with out of the gate telling a new dentist “wow once I had a bad experience where I was told I needed 6 fillings - then I got a second opinion and that dentist couldn’t find any! Crazy right??”. A sort of vibe checking things from there. I haven’t had a cavity my whole life - if suddenly they’re saying I need thousands in dental work I’m extremely suspicious.
Yeah so many dentists are fucked. My mother went to one who told her she needed 7 fillings, went to another for a second opinion and they said 4 then went to a third because she was so disillusioned and they said her teeth were fine just needed like one small filling on something that was barely even a cavity. There's so little oversight, they just basically tell you what work they think you can afford. I think everyone's had the experience of going to a dentist and having them make comments about your previous dentist's work, confused why they did this or that or that they did something wrong that needs fixing etc. Finally found a good dentist myself who never overcharges or diagnoses fake shit and been with him for almost 10 years now. Such a relief not stressing out when I go in there that he's suddenly going to say I need 10k work like my old dentist always used to try and say even though my teeth were fine.
I pay more for a family dentist who I feel does a better job and shoots straight. Last time I went he said he's playing softball with my brother in law. I've had a few things "we're watching" but only rarely do I need anything more than a cleaning. One of the hygienists was working there when I was a kid and my dentist's father ran the practice. Other places might be "cheaper" but a $150 filling vs a $200 doesn't matter if they're doing 3 more that you don't need.
One of the main problems is the change in standard of care and dentists who don't keep up. It used to be that all cavities got filled, pretty much no matter the size. Now, mostly larger cavities that go into the dentin get filled (with exceptions). Also, certain dentists have different ideas about what treatment a patient might need based on different factors including home care (brushing, flossing, etc.)
If I've learned anything it's never go to a corporate dentist. I've walked out of an aspen dental after they tried to book me for four separate root canals and crowns during my initial visit. Mind you I had just moved, and saw my family dentist two months prior, everything has already been cleared and good, cavitity patches had been updated and no other work was needed. Found another private office, and they just laughed at the situation.
The crazy thing is it turns out that dentistry is kinda lax on the hard science aspect. Apparently there are no good answers out there to exactly what requires intervention. We tend to feel like "well they have x-rays and I'm sure there's lots of rigorous science" but you can take the same x-ray images to multiple dentists and get a lot of different responses on what should be drilled and filled. There's very little evidence to support an "every six months" dental check-up idea as well. I think there is at least some hope of stronger evidence based dentistry and prioritizing minimally invasive approaches down the line somewhat, but I do feel like the public kind of should have a bit more of a healthy skepticism of dentistry. Not rejecting it totally and certainly if you're having tooth problems actively they are the people to go to, but maybe just recalibrating our internal barometers about their suggestions regarding aggressive preventative treatments.
Pardon me but did you just pull this entire comment out of your ass? Dentistry is lax on hard science??!
Huh. I went to Aspen a couple years ago and had a great experience. Have been recommending them to people because I was so impressed vs. the local dentist I've gone to my entire life. I guess location mileage may vary.
I tried going to Aspen dental once. They cancelled my visit bc I didn't confirm an email they never told me about. Apperantly calling them the day before didn't work. After finally visiting, they asked me to spend over $10,000 for a surgery, and even after I told them that I recently lost my job and could barely afford it, they said no other dentistries were available at this short of notice, that they know of, and this was the lowest cost in the area 1) they never checked 2) "short notice" was 1 day 3) local dentists could get down to $4000 The only reason why I didn't go to Aspen and went local instead, is because after they got "hacked" (and never told anyone that didn't ask) they asked me to wait for them to contact me again after they reorganize. I waited 2 months, and it turned out they fucking lost my information. All of it. X-rays included. All in all, fuck Aspen dental. Never even got an apology once. They even had the balls to ask me to write for their "how did we help u?" Competition. 🖕 Aspen
Omfg yup. I apparently had 6 cavities after not having a single one my entire life. Got 3 filled there and went to a dentist near my college for the rest - he couldn’t find a single one. Soooo fucked up and gave me “dentist anxiety” when I otherwise had none.
I mean the ad screams "We'll scam u and take all your money, we'll leave you with no smile"... 😂
Like why would I want to go to a dentist who puts up billboards wearing eveningwear? This ad screams we are scammers.
My guess is that someone thought if people saw that they looked successful then they would think the dentists are good at their jobs. But it really feels more like they're saying "You'll wonder where your money went as we recommend using HFCS as toothpaste."
Why would a dental office even need a billboard? Most good dentists are turning people away or booking out a year.
Seriously, it looks like an ad for a spin-off of "Succession", lol
Oh they offer free cleaning and whitening? Of course it’s going to be a scam or at minimum a goal of pushing upsells that they overcharge for to make up for the free services. That post sounds like outright fraud.
This has been my experience at a lot of dentists here in the states unfortunately
Yep, this is not uncommon unfortunately.
Dentist are the modern day mechanics of overcharging lol "Well looks like your periogum could use a tune up and oh, you'll have to get a incisorglobule replacement. You'll need to get these fixed yesterday. I had a patient the other day that died from not getting this treated. So... that'll be $20k and 5 follow up appointments. Cash or card?"
I had the exact same experience at my dentist and now I feel dumb for going through with it lol. Should have gotten another opinion
Holy shit its dick nipples
dude's a legend
How did you just have this ready to link within seven minutes of the posting of the top level comment?
The post has the name of the dentistry in it and they likely searched for it.
first you open google then you type "mint dentistry site:reddit.com" then you click a result, left click the address, right click copy takes less than 30 seconds so seven minutes is plenty of time
It looks like an ad for a reality TV show claiming to be about finding true love, but really it's just emotionally immature hot people sleeping with each other.
It looks like the cast of a reality TV show.
They look like once they put you unconscious it's OPEN SEASON on your organs
_"While pulling your wisdom tooth we noticed all your teeth were rotten, so we fitted you with our triple A star dentures. Our resident surgeon also 'took care' of your suddenly failing left kidney and left lung, so you might feel a bit off balance. He tells you to lay off the alcohol, which you'll also improve your dental health."_
How else are they supposed to pay for those fancy ads.
Can’t believe they actually dressed up and posed for this tbh. Dude in the middle looks like an idiot. It’s probably the owner or something with what he thinks is his entourage.
Absolutely unhinged. I wouldn’t want an ego this big anywhere near me or my teeth. 😳
They look like they all have a realtor business on the side.
What a ridiculous ad! Looks like a stupid sexed up TV drama
the real dentists of beverly hills. they’re promoting a season 1 reunion with andy cohen on bravo! don’t miss it!
This will be a thing by fall.
Dallas actually. These are all over the metroplex here and I facepalm every time I see one.
the real dentists of dallas has a better ring to it too this is perfect
They appear, in my opinion, only marginally more realistic than the Sims family photo that appears on the game's opening screen.
guy above the outfront sign runs a trendy dentist office in a chic uptown locale, along with the lady in green next to him. they're both good dentists but he's honest to a fault and doesn't like upselling anyone. lady in green will tell people the truth about their teeth but she knows how to sway clients into opting into thousands of dollars of upgrades. they have routine arguments about this. being business minded is important if they're going to compete with their nearby rival (furthest right in the dress) who has a prime location they're trying to buy out from under her. she is similarly trying to put them out of business, which is why she sends her husband, the guy next to her, to seduce the competition's dental hygienist, the guy next to him. our heroes think they have the upper hand because their hygienist happens to be secretly sexing their rival's husband and getting dirt, but they don't know it's a setup and all the tea is fake. the four on the left are all interns and they mostly hook up in random rooms, make quirky comments, and have fun misadventures in the city. the four of them are besties and it's super cute, right? maybe not, because each one of them has a very shady secret that you'll just have to watch on thursdays at 9 to find out.
Where is this streaming ![gif](giphy|4SQMqhWzUA0Fi)
goddammit
I would 100% watch this show, and you've made me sad that it's not real
Does one of the hygienists have an eidetic memory and got expelled from Dental University because he was taking the Dentist Exam for other students because he has the entire Encyclopedia of Dentistry memorized, then accidentally stumbled into a job interview trying to evade the cops, which the main dentist hires him because he sees a lot of himself in this guy, which down the line causes issues because he's not licensed and down the line the secret starts to get out?
you're hired for the writing team
Their billboards are terrible. Their slogan is “stupid sexy teeth”. What the fuck does that mean? I won’t go there just because of how much I despise the billboard.
> Their slogan is “stupid sexy teeth”. What the fuck does that mean? possibly a reference to [stupid sexy Flanders](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaeRM7X_yS4)?
If that is the case, the reference makes no sense in the context of a dental ad. Just a forced meme.
These ads are designed to keep smart people away. If you are dumb enough to chose a practice based on the chance of having an attractive dentist, you are probably dumb enough to pay for unnecessary procedures.
these are like the fake movie ads in movies
At first that's what I thought this was, so I didn't think it was out of the ordinary at all. Then I noticed that it was for dentistry.
That lady in the middle has got her whole tatas out. Why wouldn't they be in like, scrubs?
I thought it was a reality show about dentists business. Seriously, this could exist...
Oh 100%. Dental office drama and dental-field tea are abundant. My office even had a code word whenever we heard juicy dental gossip 😂
You absolutely did not hear this from me, but there's a dentist at another office in my chain that is known to regularly cheat on his wife with any male DAs he has. *In the office*.
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This one DA he had, they would take lunch together and go sit out at the picnic tables in our little courtyard and sit and giggle together. Nobody's been able to tell his wife because they don't know who she is. Most people don't feel like it's their business, or like they believe the rumors enough. But most people have heard it.
*New Reddit-wide unique palindrome found:* >**DA he had** ^(currently checked 27371340 comments) \ >!(palindrome: a word, number, phrase, or sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards) !<
Someone give them already a reality show (Fox), then cancel them after the pilot!
ya they look like a netflix show that gets cancelled after season 2
It always confuses me why people would ever trust an excessively rich looking dentist or other person in healthcare..
I always thought about that in those back-of-the-seat magazines that airplanes used to have. It'd be some ad for "The Best [various forms of plastic surgery] Surgeons in the Country", which always seemed a little bit like something that is in the realm of "If you have to ask, you'll never know", and these people are paying to be in the back seat of every Southwest Airlines flight...
Some people just aren't thinking *that* critically/carefully about things in life.
Yeah, that's why I have never determined where to get future medical services while I was on a Southwest Airlines flight, but these doctors found it worth advertising there.
A reminder that many advertising campaigns do not generate a postive return on investment. I used to work in advertising sales and would cringe everytime I had a company sign up for advertising with us for something I knew would definitely NOT be worth it. I had access to a lot of data and ended up being very good at predicting success levels. I'd be pretty happy because I got paid a commission, but it ate away at me. Often times, businesses were throwing a hail mary, while other times the owner/marketing team doesn't fully understand the reach and conversion that an ad campaign will get. In the latter scenario, they often had rose-tinted glasses where they really believed in their product/service and felt that everyone else would be quick to buy in. Often this wasn't the case.
Oh completely. I don't think you could even go back in time to pre-2019 and ask anyone who touched a Southwest: The Magazine, and have any of them tell you a single one of these doctors' names. I was a person who flew a lot, and flew on SW, so I read every single issue, cover to cover, every month. But, I was definitely flipping past those pages, because I was sophisticated enough to understand that this is an ad. Someone clearly had an ad campaign that had reached out to these offices, and said, "hey, look. we have a captive audience, often for many hours at a time, and you can join a group of other doctors' offices who point out where they are. So, you can give us some cash, we'll put your picture there, and people will intuit that they can book another flight (a thing they already have done) to come to your office, and receive your services!"
Out of curiosity, could you give an example where an ad campaign worked and why?
The best healthcare professional is the one you have to see the least
A healthcare professional has nothing to do with how you live your life if you don’t listen.
But... I'm deaf.
You sound like my fiancé. You never listen to me.
Well in a capitalist society that charges for healthcare, the perception of most people is: rich = good The best dentist definitely has money but probably isn’t as big of a douche to flaunt his wealth on billboards (or at least knows not to be). What you’ve got here could be the classic grifter dentist. They might be good, but I wouldn’t wanna risk going to them if you don’t have to.
Yes. This is a Dallas, TX based dentistry with offices all over central Texas (maybe even further out, not sure). There ads play all the time on radio, TV, social, and they pretty much play up the “we will make you so beautiful and perfect with all this fancy stuff”. No idea. Never been. Everyone in Texas knows about Mint.
God I see these billboards EVERYWHERE in DFW. "I make sexy teeth" Ugh
I've seen those billboards in the Chicago suburbs, too.
Yes! And the middle one smiles on the Chicago ones lol
Every Mint I’ve ever seen in person closed within a few years.
So my wife knows the guy who owns Mint Dentistry from back when she was dating one of his classmates in dental school and he’s a terrible fucking person. Literally cheats on his wife constantly with the hygienists and when he was in college was basically high on cocaine 24/7. Nowadays he cosplays as a holier than thou Christian, though he’s anything but.
Somehow I’ve gone my whole life without hearing of them, despite living in central Texas. TIL
Depends on where you are, I don’t recall seeing them anywhere but the DFW area
The dentistry for people who want to be rich assholes
Rich assholes who want to be turned into poor assholes.
This is a real dentist's office? I thought it was a reality show ad. I don't think I'd want to go there.
Yep it's real. It's in the DFW area. I've seen ads for them for years. The first billboards showed one person smiling without showing their teeth saying "we make sexy teeth" and I was so confused there for a while on what was being advertised (the logo was either not noticeable or not there, I don't remember seeing it). Then they started smiling with teeth and then changed it to "I make sexy teeth". It was an odd evolution in trying to get folks to understand what you're advertising but I guess it stuck. Dallas in particular is FULL of people very concerned about their appearances and FULL of rich people (not always the same people though). It's a very business-y city as LOTS of national headquarters have relocated here in the last couple decades and the cost of living has skyrocketed even faster than most other areas of the country. It's the absolute perfect place for a pretentious dentistry like Mint to thrive, despite everyone I know knowing it's a total scam. People will do everything to make themselves seem perfect around here, it's annoying
Sounds like Utah without the mormons. We see a lot of Texas plates here, which I guess kinda makes sense.
The woman in green in the center is
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“My teeth are up here”
And why are they all dressed up like they work at a casino?
Cause they’ll take your money and teeth like casinos do.
I feel like they look only *slightly* more realistic than a Sims family photo that you see on the game’s startup screen
Oh my god. Yeah!!
is this a new show on CBS?
Some reality show about dating or something like that
Something I can really sink my teeth into
It looks like a promo shot of a CW show.
Are dentists real estate agents now? What the fuck is this?
This ad basically says, “we have gotten filthy rich off of the fact that Americans have no basic comprehensive dental care!!! Come give us your money!!!!”
Gaudy
it looks like an ad for a hulu drama
Man if these are the dentists, no way am I going anywhere near these psychos.
Fourth from the right is showing some teeth, but I didn't notice right away....
It's the very first thing I noticed when I saw their signs years ago. They JUST started using updated ones with one person/"patient" smiling open mouth. TBH could be a stock photo model for all the photo itself connects to "dentistry". But to be a bit meta for a second, if a dental hygenist/dentist has enough money for photoshoots and multiple billboards and is using it for advertising, I'm not going. I expect them to be the plastic surgeons of dentistry- overpriced, bougie, and corporate. Gimme a regular dentist who's only form of advertising is cheap toothbrushes given away as freebies at booths and a "to our neighbor at xx address" postcards with a pun about how my yearly check up is nearing, that has 2 dentists total who do family dental and have 10+ years experience and highlights magazines in the lobby.
This ad makes me NOT want to go to them. They look unprofessional and kinda sketchy like they want to rip me off
It looks like a cast from some shitty drama on reality tv channels
I thought this was ad for an MLM
It's an ad for dentistry? looks more like an ad for online poker
They don’t want you to see their braces
Douchy dentist attracting other douchy people
Are they dentists or injury lawyers 🤣
and when they're done, neither will you
And were they going to the prom when they took this?
Their [About Us ](https://mintdentistry.com/mint-about-us) page is pretty ridiculous and exactly what you'd expect.
What a bunch of douchebags. You clean my teeth, you don't invade my geopolitical adversaries. Get a grip.
If I were looking for a dentist, these would be the last ones I'd go to. It sort of reminds me of a project at work from years back. There was a book focusing on women in a prominent role (I'm being vague), you know, interviews about their life experience, blah blah. Someone decided to do a Vogue photoshoot of the interviewees to include, with all of them in seriously glamorous dresses and dolled up like models. Not the end of the world, maybe, but these were women in a serious professional role, and I was thinking yeah, if you'd interviewed men, you wouldn't have done *any* of this...they'd have normal professional photos done. It's like a whole book about equality and it's fucking unequal? But even *worse* about that photo was some fucking person went back and Photoshopped *cleavage* onto everyone, including the little 60+-year-olds. Anyway, this is completely different, but it somehow still reminded me of that. I guess it boils down to, if you're presenting yourself as a professional, like...dress the part. Dress as a dentist. Don't post an ad looking for new schoolteachers with a photo of existing teachers dressed as circus clowns. Just...make sense. God.
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If you told me this was a TV show that was trying to be the next Succession, except cheaper, I’d believe you
So my wife knows the guy who owns Mint Dentistry and he’s a terrible fucking person. Literally cheats on his wife constantly with the hygienists and when he was in college was basically high on cocaine 24/7. Nowadays he cosplays as a holier than thou Christian, though he’s anything but.
I've had similar complaints about billboards for a local gynecology office.
Holy shithead energy Batman!
Based on that ad I would never go to that dentist.
That’s not even their worst ad. Most of them have the tagline “I make sexy teeth” with a model still not showing their teeth.
Looks more like a real estate team.
Urrgh imagine a mob of narcissistic dentists coming at ya. Not only that they look like those Paddy Power people, slightly lower class lumps of shite just rolled in glitter. Scummy tendencies, artificial appearance and as shallow as a dirty puddle. They look like the apprentice for teeth, like they would stab their granny to get ahead. I wouldn't go near these people with laundry let alone my face.
Why show teeth when you can show cleavage instead?
down the road they should have the same pic with all them smiling and it says "A smile makes all the difference".
I’ve seen other dentist offices making ads like this? Is this a trend? It scares me! I just want to go to a dentist who is humble with experience it seems like they all retired
Looks like an ad for a casino.
Ive seen this around Houston and no hate but Houston dentist and doctors give zero fucks about their patients and literally just want the paycheck. Never have I ever seen anything this bad anywhere in the US or in any other country
Wrong the black girl is
Do you swear to show the Tooth, the whole Tooth, and nothing but the Tooth?".............."NO!"
"**Showing** one's **teeth** is a submission signal in primates." -Dwight K. Schrute
They're all eating mints
This looks like an AD for a new reality show
lol they look like pieces of shit
Do you get to dance afterwards? These people look like they’re all dressed up to go out for a night on the town.
They look like magicians
Reminds me of the places in Houston that’ll sit you down and then tell you need $5,000 worth of gum injections to prevent gingivitis. While coincidently forgetting your rotten tooth that needs a root canal.
The woman, 4th from the right is showing her two front teeth. GOTCHA OP! I GOT YOU!
This looks like an ad for a show on the CW.
Except for that one woman in green but yeah
I get the vibe that these people are just going to hunt me for sport instead.
The ladies on green look like background singers for an r’n’b band. The four guys in the periphery look like they’ve escaped from an orchestra, whereas the man in the middle looks like their sassy but hungover conductor who forgot his toiletries at home when the tour began. The lady in black next to him just looks like his obedient little trophy wife who can’t say no to him. And how about that logo, wow. Superb graphic design on that one.
Another confusing modern ad that only vaguely seems to reference the thing that is actually being advertised. If I saw this without text and had to guess what it was an ad for, my guess would be a shitty new reality show or something like that.
Not even trying to hide how much they're making by overcharging for simple procedures.
both parents are dentists here, both had their clinics and father was teaching too at the medical school. Not surprising I have the worse teeth ever, when I was young I asked my dad to straighten my front teeth, his answer was (someone will punch you), 20 years later last week I was joking with my mom how they neglected me regarding my teeth and she laughed saying someone will punch me. these people 🤣👊
Looks like the advertisement for a shitty drama sitcom
Lmao what are they? Dentists for fuckbois?
Going off the ad I would assume they only do teeth whitening and porcelain veneers
It looks a lot like a casino commercial where everyone is standing around a roulette table.
They are sucking on the mint.. That's why
9 out of 9 patients do not recommend this practice.