Why Patients Ignore the Logic of Dental Treatment
james2026-06-16T00:00:00-04:00Why don't patients accept treatment that clearly makes logical sense? Because patients do not decide with logic, and we keep forgetting that. To us, dentistry makes perfect sense. I have an incomplete fracture on a molar, I know exactly what it is and that it will need treatment in a year or two, and I am fine waiting until I am ready. That is logic. Patients do not run on that. I call it the Mr. Spock attitude. Spock found everything logical because he was Vulcan, and as dentists we are all a little Vulcan. We sit there believing logic should [...]