alt Hacker News"Dentists" means very different professions around the world.
In Europe they're more like a health professional, concerned mostly with functionality and health.
In the U.S. and Canada they're sellers of "dental procedures" that can include things that European dentists might find horrendous: tooth whitening, dental cosmetic implants, etc.
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cmrdporcupine • today at 6:20 PM
This has been a shift in my lifetime. When I was a kid it was still very much in the health professional angle. Except for orthodontics. Over the last 25 years it's been a marked shift towards that kind of thing.
And it's happening now for doctors, too, even here in Canada with our single-payer universal healthcare.
In Europe all those things are done by dentists too