The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists

Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by ekanes on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @01:54PM (#1784247)

Areas like this (essentially, a complex combination of psychology combined with differing motivations along with a little information disparity for good measure) could be an interesting opening for a startup.

If you could get over the admittedly uncomfortable social dynamic of implying a lack of competence in your dentist, you could ask them to send your Xrays over to "2ndopinion.com" where trained and certified dentists would give a second opinion. You might pay $80 for the privilege, and for that price maybe 2 dentists would review it.

Anyways, you get the idea. I love disruption around information disparities.

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Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by almost on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:04AM (#1786925)

I just came here to post the same, I think that could actually work. Maybe there's some other value add that could be done that would make it not just a straight "I don't trust your opinion" thing. Like maybe it's useful to have these things stored so you can see something or other over time. The second use doesn't need to be hugely useful, it's just a polite fiction for the patient-dentist interface :)

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Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by stellar678 on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @02:52PM (#1784442)

Or just crowdsource the reading! It would be really interesting to check out the aggregated quality of this kind of technique.

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Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by olefoo on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @04:46PM (#1784875)

If by crowdsource you mean have multiple dentists look at every image set, then maybe. But if you're suggesting that a random selection of people look at dental x-rays and guess where the cavities are... that would be an interesting experiment, but I wouldn't expect too much.

In either case, I doubt you'd find much traction since looking at dental x-rays isn't something most people are going to want to do on a regular basis without being compensated.

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Re:The 'Irrational' Way Humans Interact With Dentists by Someone on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @05:46PM (#1785102)

Such compensation need not be financial. I can see a market brokering between people in the same boat "if you look at my x-Ray, I'll look at yours."

First, however, you would have to find out whether lay people are any good at this task.

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