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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by gochi on Sunday August 06, 2023 @04:02PM (#37026012)
That sounds like what private clinics offer around here, certainly not for free, but they tend to perform an onslaught of tests.

I don't know how effective it is, and how much of it is theater.

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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by Scoundreller on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:13AM (#37030801)
> I don't know how effective it is, and how much of it is theater.

They may not know either.

Most of our research is studying how well treatments work on "patients that came in with _____ symptoms and we found test X Y and Z was outside of the normal range".

Does that mean you should use the same treatments when you have X Y and Z out of range but without symptoms? We often don't know.

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