mmm, yes and no. My parents had health and dental insurance from their jobs and thought they were doing the cool thing by taking their kids to the dentist a lot. My mom wasn't all that ignorant, she was a registered nurse and pretty much till her dying day held the pro-medical staus quo view no matter how much information she was given to dispute the 'facts' she thought she knew... which, in the end killed her. She died of cancer just a few years ago.

One time after a dental visit, I asked what was in the fillings... she said... silver... some mercury. I said 'isn't mercury poisonous? she said "I don't know'.

I was about 12 years old, and if I had heard mercury was poisonous you can be sure she had long before me.

I mostly only took my daughter in for the required vaccinations so she could attend school, and even then I waited till the very last minute. I think she was a year old or more before getting any, and she missed some very early ones, oh well too late. We avoided the dr unless pushed. She didn't get as many as most kids as a result, and she was born with a midwife (so as to avoid drugs and staph) so she did not get anything at birth except eye drops and love.