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To: locogringo who wrote (1043288)	12/15/2017 6:26:55 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1578906

Locogringo, I had to get a crown for one of my molars. The first time, it was a painful experience despite the local anesthesia. The dentist who was doing the procedure was relatively young, so she took her time in doing the procedure. She also didn't want to use too much anesthesia. The double-whammy made it an experience that I did not want to repeat. Then of course the crown broke, because it was made out of porcelain. This time I took the opportunity to go to a different dentist, one who had experience in doing metal crowns. After numbing my mouth using two different anesthesia compounds, he then proceeded to work on my mouth like a car at a body shop. The pain didn't completely go away, but at least I didn't have to suffer through it as long as before. Now maybe one of the thread regulars can tell me, can a robot do this procedure better than a real dentist with experience? If so, I'll go to the robot. Maybe said robot will know what I had to go through and make sure to administer the right amount of local anesthesia. Maybe said robot can either work fast, or work carefully so that it won't cause me too much pain. Maybe said robot can figure out when to put the suction hose in my mouth, or how dry to keep the tooth, or how to set the crown, etc. And when a robot can do all of that, then I can trust that robots can start replacing doctors, dentists, and even pharmacists. Tenchusatsu