Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis

Re:Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis by kiba on Sunday August 02, 2015 @01:03PM (#9991382)

Another big problem is, that we ignore the fact that we age. I do not think that care for the elderly should be an area of medicine. When your body breaks apart at 80 years old, that does not make you unhealthy, you are just old. You should not get the needed social interaction from doctors, who try to fix something that is perfectly natural to fall apart.

'Naturally' or 'natural' is a poor argument to make about not caring for the elderly.

If the elderly is not able to walk, eat, or think, then they're sick or disabled. It doesn't matter if you are 80 or 20 years old.

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Re:Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis by rosser on Sunday August 02, 2015 @02:13PM (#9991664)

I think there's a pretty wide gulf between caring for people with a disability, and keeping your teeth toilet-bowl white after decades of drinking tea or coffee, or whatever.

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Re:Teeth Whitening and the Hygiene Hypothesis by allendoerfer on Sunday August 02, 2015 @07:32PM (#9992942)

I am not saying you should not care for your body, when you are old. I am just thinking that the amount of care you put in should have a positive ROI in quality of life and I am not so sure about that in any case of so called elderly care.

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