Why do dentists ask you questions regarding your medical history when they are not medical doctors? Is this done to simply impress the public that they are somehow connected and in league with the medical profession? is that it's only real purpose?

Doctors do not generally ask people for their dental history because they are not dentists. So why are dentists asking about medical histories when they are not doctors?

'Standard Procedure' requires dentists to ask those questions but 'Standard Procedure' does not allow them to make informed decisions based on a person's medical history. It's been my experience that most dentists never read the medical history questionaire. So I can only assume the questions were asked to give me the false impression that the dentists knew something about medicine.

At my last dental visist the dentist said to me quote unquote 'I'm not a doctor so I really can't make a diagnosis about your swollen glands.' (glands swell up when you have a toothache or tooth infection, dentists do not know this I guess)

So why were the questions asked???? I really need to know.

'Standard procedure' encourages dentists to place amalgam fillings but it does not approve of dentists removing amalgam fillings. Even if you have a medical history of heavy metal illnesses.

Standard procedure requires that dentists ask you if you have any allergies but standard procedure does not require a dentist to investigate the chemical composition of the materials he uses for substances that might be included on your allergen list.

In case of any mistakes on the part of the dentist in regard to your personal needs and the medical history you provided the dentists with, even if you get ill from his work as a result, Standard Procedure is to pat the dentist on the back for doing standard work in the mouth of a person who was not a standard patient in every regard. Standard Procedure does not generally make exceptions for anything outside the bounds of what it considers 'standard'. In other words, even though you may need dental care, if your needs fall outside the bounds of what is considered 'standard' you are pretty much SOL a far as dentists are concerned. That SOL group includes a large number of people who are forced to somehow try to accept standard care when their needs are not standard needs.

Standard procedure in dentistry does not include making exceptions to the rule based on your medical history. Dentists, though required to ask about your medical history are not allowed to make decisions based upon it, they simply are not qualified to do that and they will tell you so.

So why do they ask the questions? Dentistry is a sham.