"Don't cast your pearls before swine" … #pearlywhites

Arguments that the dental industry is "equally as bad" as Big Pharma often center on profit motives leading to potential over treatment, conflicts of interest, and significant barriers to care, drawing parallels to pharmaceutical industry criticisms like high drug prices and marketing influence over doctors….

What we have been told -

Without timely treatment, periodontal disease can have severe consequences. Beyond chronic bad breath and bleeding gums, untreated gum disease erodes the bone and tissues that support teeth. If allowed to progress, this can lead to loose teeth and eventual tooth loss.

Common surgical treatments for periodontal disease include:

* Flap surgery — Lifting back the gums to clean the roots and remove bacteria buildup.

between $2,000 and $8,000 for a full mouth

* Bone grafting — Bone grafts for gum disease involve adding supplemental bone material to the jaw to replace lost bone tissue and support the teeth and gums.

Simple/Socket Graft (Synthetic/Animal): $300 – $1,200

Allograft (Human donor bone): $650 – $1,600

Autograft (Your own bone): $2,000 – $5,000

* Soft tissue grafts — Reinforcing or replacing damaged gum tissue to cover exposed roots.

between $600 and $3,000+ per tooth

* Guided tissue regeneration — Stimulating the regrowth of bone and tissue in areas affected by periodontal disease.

between $500 and $2,500 per site

The Evidence -

Price had noticed a rapid increase in dental problems roughly around the end of the nineteenth century (Oks, 2022 ).

More advantageous would be promotion of foods and food ingredients from our ancestral era that have been shown to possess health benefits in the form of functional foods (Jew, 2009).

During the study period, 644 claims were litigated against dentists related to periodontology. Overall, 508 cases were ended by a decision either by the insurance company or by the courts (Nassar et al., 2021).

Conclusions: The main cause for lawsuits was related to aggravation of periodontal disease during prosthetic or implant therapy and related to suspected faulty or inexistent preoperative diagnosis and planning. Practical implications: Periodontal consultation before dental treatment may reduce malpractice risks, adverse events, and un-necessary changes of treatment plans (Nassar et al., 2021).

Legal Help

If you’ve suffered due to periodontal disease that was misdiagnosed, mistreated or ignored by a dental professional, you could be entitled to make a negligence claim.

Seek Legal, Mental Health, or Critical Thinking Assistance - Performing procedures that are not medically necessary or that are done purely for billing purposes may be considered fraudulent and harmful.

it’s free…

https://www.forthepeople.com/blog/when-dental-work-goes-wrong-can-you-hold-your-dentist-accountable/

Patients speak out over alleged poor care at Aspen Dental

Two former Aspen Dental patients say the company mishandled their treatment, leading to costly and painful corrective

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=793482346383556

Aspen Dental faces several class-action lawsuits, most prominently a recent $18.7 million settlement for a privacy case (Donnelly, et al. v. Aspen Dental) alleging illegal sharing of website visitor data (like booking appointments) with Meta and Google via tracking pixels between 2022-2025, potentially violating privacy laws. Other suits accuse the company of deceptive advertising (leading to a Mass. settlement) and an illegal corporate dentistry model (prioritizing profits over patient care).

Cause -

When those same groups started eating what he called “the foods of commerce”—white flour, sugar, jams, marmalades, canned goods—their teeth rapidly degraded, with cavities becoming endemic. He was horrified by what colonization had done to the health of the Aboriginals of Australia: “In their native life where they could get the foods that keep them well and preserve their teeth, they had no need for dentists. Now they have need, but have no dentists” (Oks, 2022 ).

When these same populations adopted modern diets — white flour, white sugar, vegetable fats, canned goods — the pattern of decline was immediate and predictable. First came dental decay. Then narrowed jaws. Then susceptibility to chronic disease. The change occurred within a single generation, in children born to parents who had switched diets (Jew, 2009).

Cure -

A reader recently described a situation that millions of people will recognise. He has had receding gums and jaw bone loss for over a decade. He flosses. He uses interdental picks. He brushes. He water flosses. He uses mouthwash. He does everything his dentist has ever told him to do. None of it has slowed the recession down. (Unbekoming, 2026).

References

Jew, S., AbuMweis, S. S., & Jones, P. J. (2009). Evolution of the human diet: linking our ancestral diet to modern functional foods as a means of chronic disease prevention. Journal of medicinal food, 12(5), 925–934. https://doi.org/10.1089/jmf.2008.0268

Nassar, D., Tagger-Green, N., Tal, H., Nemcovsky, C., Mijiritsky, E., Beitlitum, I., Barnea, E., & Kolerman, R. (2021). The Incidence and Nature of Claims against Dentists Related to Periodontal Treatment in Israel during the Years 2005-2019. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(8), 4153. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084153

Oks, David. “The Modern Diet Is a Biosecurity Threat.” Palladium Magazine, 4 June 2022, www.palladiummag.com/2022/06/04/the-modern-diet-is-a-biosecurity-threat/.

Unbekoming. “Receding Gums, Thinning Bones: The Shared Disease Your Dentist Doesn’t See.” Substack.com, Lies are Unbekoming, 26 Feb. 2026, unbekoming.substack.com/p/receding-gums-thinning-bones-the. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.

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