• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        To be fair, anyone with elderly parents will tell you, multiple dental visits a year is normal. Bridges, implants, dentures, etc.

        He’s an 80 year old man who bathes his teeth in a dozen diet cokes a day.

        • Sarah Valentine (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          To be fair, anyone with elderly parents will tell you, multiple dental visits a year is normal. Bridges, implants, dentures, etc.

          Folk wisdom is cute, but this borders on willful ignorance.

          He’s an 80 year old man who bathes his teeth in a dozen diet cokes a day.

          And we can all see that his fake-ass, extensively capped and veneered teeth, aren’t showing signs of phosphoric acid damage. And that kind of damage doesn’t happen in the span of a year, let alone needing to be addressed multiple times in one year.

          Just because you can think of a reasonable explanation doesn’t mean it’s the most reasonable or likely explanation in this case.

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            4 days ago

            It’s not folk wisdom. Old ass people, who can pay for it, get more restorative dental work and are more likely to be dealing with diseased oral tissue, etc.

            And we can all see that his fake-ass, extensively capped and veneered teeth, aren’t showing signs of phosphoric acid damage.

            But that’s the point of restorative cosmetic dentistry, to hide the damage.

            Dude is old and decrepit. His brain is clearly rotting, but he’s absolutely clocked in extra hours getting dental work too.

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      Trump likely had a stroke about a year ago. He disappeared for a bit and came back with some droop to one side of his face and he walks favoring one leg. He’s been going to the doctor for MRIs so they can track how fettermaned his brain is. So his dentist appointments are MRIs. They been giving him so many cognitive tests right now and in such a short period of time to evaluate his active cognition regardless of the brain damage they see in the MRIs.

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            4 days ago

            John Fetterman is a US Senator from Pennsylvania. He was already one of the more conservative Democrats, but he had a stroke during his Senate campaign, and when he got better he took a sharp right turn.

            At this point, whenever there is a vote where all the Democratic Senators except one vote in a bloc, that one lone holdout is often Fetterman.

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      5 days ago

      That he is using the dentist as cover for medical treatments he is hiding. That might have nothing to do with dentistry.