I also came here to say that I’ve never had a dentist even suggest an x-ray in the course of a routine checkup (living in Finland). The only time I recall having had one taken was when I had an issue of grinding my teeth while sleeping, and they did some extra investigation.
Interesting. A quick search of dental outcomes by country turns up Evaluation of different oral care systems: Results for Germany and selected highly developed countries. An update of a former study. I only have time to read the abstract right now, but it does call out the Netherlands and Finland as having somewhat worse outcomes on the measure they’ve created, which is: “an expanded composite indicator that measures dental health on a population basis in the form of one overall indicator – the Dental Health Index (DHI). If the DHI is combined with a Dental Care Cost Index (DCCI), an efficiency index [is created]”
I also came here to say that I’ve never had a dentist even suggest an x-ray in the course of a routine checkup (living in Finland). The only time I recall having had one taken was when I had an issue of grinding my teeth while sleeping, and they did some extra investigation.
Interesting. A quick search of
dental outcomes by countryturns up Evaluation of different oral care systems: Results for Germany and selected highly developed countries. An update of a former study. I only have time to read the abstract right now, but it does call out the Netherlands and Finland as having somewhat worse outcomes on the measure they’ve created, which is: “an expanded composite indicator that measures dental health on a population basis in the form of one overall indicator – the Dental Health Index (DHI). If the DHI is combined with a Dental Care Cost Index (DCCI), an efficiency index [is created]”