• Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    I think this is also worldwide

    In Italy healthcare is Free but dental isn’t included.

    In my city there’s a free service for dental emergencies but it’s open from 8 am to 8.30 am so that means if you didn’t camp outside the door at 3 am it’s already full

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      Hungary used to be just like that, but it lead to people dying of complications, so it had to be undone, but not for replacing teeth, because that will surely lead to children eating sweets instead of fruits, and of course adults won’t buy Brandname™ electric toothbrush and toothpaste (it lead to people in general avoiding dentists like the plague due to “fear of having your teeth pulled with no way of replacing them”).

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        LOL when I noticed the time range I had the feeling like “we’re contractually obligated to offer that service but we don’t actually want that”

        How many people can be done in 30 minutes? Only extractions without anesthesia maybe? 🤔

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          i imagine they line them up and run down the line with some kind of swiss army knife of unsanitized dental tools.

          yeah this is fucked.