'Why does going to the dentist sometimes feel like a scam?'
In this edition of the Today, Explained podcast from Vox, Jonquilyn Hill considers complaints that "going to the dentist sometimes feel like a scam" and looks at how insurance treats dentistry different from medicine — "and makes things weird." She notes that there are major differences between the ways dentistry and medicine operate, including the way dental and medical offices do billing and how patients pay for services. Dr. Lisa Simon, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School who is also a dentist and a doctor, agrees. “I realized that the ways that dental care and medical care were separate was really harming my patients,” she tells Vox, “and I wanted to do something about it.” Simon says: “I think it’s this legacy, and maybe partly this dichotomy between medicine and dentistry, where we almost act like dentistry is optional and medicine is obligatory, which is not how our bodies work at all.”
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