<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>donatj</author><text>Novamin toothpaste has been life changing for me. Cannot recommend highly enough. A tooth that was deteriorating and the dentist wanted to cap is now fine enough for them to simply keep an eye on.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so sad that most dentists optimise for billable revenue, even at the detriment of long term patient health.&lt;p&gt;Fillings for example always degrade and need repairs after X years. Drilling and filling even the smallest cavity puts that teeth on a lifetime progression to bigger and bigger fillings, eventually a root canal, eventually an implant.&lt;p&gt;Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don&amp;#x27;t tell you that!&lt;p&gt;Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; heal.&lt;p&gt;My personal lived experience: a dentist told me I must fill 2 cavities six years ago. I got a second opinion. That dentist told me I should wait, focus on oral care, chew xylitol gum, and use a toothpaste with novamin.&lt;p&gt;Both cavities have &amp;quot;arrested&amp;quot; and need no restorative work.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: Not a dentist. Listen to your dentist you trust, and get second opinions if you have doubt.</text></item><item><author>giardini</author><text>Whatever progress it may provide, I am certain that dentists and dentists&amp;#x27; associations will slowly and surely entomb any process that reduces the sum of their individual annual incomes. I believe Adam Smith called it &amp;quot;the invisible hand&amp;quot; (w&amp;#x2F;o explicitly noting that the &amp;quot;invisible boot&amp;quot; is jammed into the &amp;quot;invisible customers&amp;quot;&amp;#x27; collective asses).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study</title><url>https://www.u-fukui.ac.jp/en-news/67075/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>logicchains</author><text>&amp;gt;Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don&amp;#x27;t tell you that!&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and can heal.&lt;p&gt;Do you have any sources for this? I&amp;#x27;m not disagreeing; I hope it&amp;#x27;s true.</text><parent_chain><item><author>dannyw</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s so sad that most dentists optimise for billable revenue, even at the detriment of long term patient health.&lt;p&gt;Fillings for example always degrade and need repairs after X years. Drilling and filling even the smallest cavity puts that teeth on a lifetime progression to bigger and bigger fillings, eventually a root canal, eventually an implant.&lt;p&gt;Cavities, on the other hand can be arrested (stopped), and if small can even be remineralised. Yes, most dentists don&amp;#x27;t tell you that!&lt;p&gt;Careful monitoring and patient education on the other hand can lead to permanently keeping that natural teeth, as our teeth are living and &lt;i&gt;can&lt;/i&gt; heal.&lt;p&gt;My personal lived experience: a dentist told me I must fill 2 cavities six years ago. I got a second opinion. That dentist told me I should wait, focus on oral care, chew xylitol gum, and use a toothpaste with novamin.&lt;p&gt;Both cavities have &amp;quot;arrested&amp;quot; and need no restorative work.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: Not a dentist. Listen to your dentist you trust, and get second opinions if you have doubt.</text></item><item><author>giardini</author><text>Whatever progress it may provide, I am certain that dentists and dentists&amp;#x27; associations will slowly and surely entomb any process that reduces the sum of their individual annual incomes. I believe Adam Smith called it &amp;quot;the invisible hand&amp;quot; (w&amp;#x2F;o explicitly noting that the &amp;quot;invisible boot&amp;quot; is jammed into the &amp;quot;invisible customers&amp;quot;&amp;#x27; collective asses).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Suppressing a gene by using its antibody can lead to tooth growth: animal study</title><url>https://www.u-fukui.ac.jp/en-news/67075/</url></story>