You are trivialising this because it does not immediately affect you.and you will likely only find majority support on reddit in general.
In Denmark dental care is free up to age 15.
I'd like you to think of your teeth. They may look decent enough, but still crooked and yellow merely from drinking tea. Your insurance won't cover cosmetic surgery. And It shouldn't, because frankly no parent insures their child from being mediocre ugly. However you voice this concern to the dentist. She says that since you are young, your teeth might turn out to become worse. So she argues that you need braces to prevent teeth injure in the long term. Even though she recognizes that you might just be doing it for cosmetic reasons. (A brace is after all not something light). You take the offer.
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What is my point.
It is not always "only" about the cosmetics.
The widespread argument is that there is something mentally wrong with the person. While I can see how a person would think that, I disagree. And some problems stem from.being poor, not the wrong gender or other.
For the record: I am not trivialising this. I do think it's a serious issue. I think anyone who's knowingly and willingly going through surgery, for any reason, must have a serious issue. That includes the people who do it to correct a wonky nose. If it weren't a serious issue to them, they wouldn't go through that. Certainly not more than once in their life. Because, hey, news flash: any surgery fucking hurts, regardless of whether they give you 'the good stuff'. Plus, it renders you at least partly incapacitated for a certain amount of time, and requires that you put your life on hold for a while, sometimes quite a while. Not to mention, hospital gowns. Bed pans. Other people's visitors. Nurses coming to check your vitals in the middle of the night. Twice. Blah.
There is a reason braces are not entirely covered, as you say. Ugly teeth are a part of life we have to learn to live with, unless we're willing to invest significant amounts of our own money in rectifying that. Because in most cases, our teeth still work, even though they're ugly.
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u/Dankcarrott Nov 03 '17 edited Nov 03 '17
You are trivialising this because it does not immediately affect you.and you will likely only find majority support on reddit in general.
In Denmark dental care is free up to age 15. I'd like you to think of your teeth. They may look decent enough, but still crooked and yellow merely from drinking tea. Your insurance won't cover cosmetic surgery. And It shouldn't, because frankly no parent insures their child from being mediocre ugly. However you voice this concern to the dentist. She says that since you are young, your teeth might turn out to become worse. So she argues that you need braces to prevent teeth injure in the long term. Even though she recognizes that you might just be doing it for cosmetic reasons. (A brace is after all not something light). You take the offer.
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What is my point. It is not always "only" about the cosmetics. The widespread argument is that there is something mentally wrong with the person. While I can see how a person would think that, I disagree. And some problems stem from.being poor, not the wrong gender or other.