Nowadays, a growing number of people with health problems are trying alternative medicines and treatments instead of visiting their usual doctor. Do you think this is a positive or a negative development?

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, an increasing number of

people

with different diseases are using other types of medicines, in the place of going to a doctor. I reckon

this

is a negative development, which can lead to a lot of problems.

To begin

with,

people

are conducted and influenced by a huge number of smear companies, which try to sell their products and make money. As a consequence, we use several drugs, without being consulted by a specialist, and in fact, these cause more health problems.

For instance

, in different advertisements, it is sad that the toothpaste "Parodontax" is used for gingival inflammation, but the fact is that only scaling might treat properly gingival sore.

Nevertheless

, that toothpaste is amazing as an additional treatment, but not the main one.

However

,

people

are influenced by that advertisements, they buy them, and visit a dentist once in a blue moon when the condition of their teeth is worse. My take on

this

,

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think it is a negative development because a well-skilled specialist is meant to help patients because different types of medications have plenty of side effects, which might lead to unpleasant situations. Through thick and thin, if the

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hadn't been cured by their selves, morbidity and even mortality wouldn't have increased considerably in our society.

For example

, in Romania, patients come to a dentist when they really have big problems, and it is too late to save that tooth, which will be extracted. Every time I hear the same thing, I used a lot of medication for my toothache, but the drugs didn't help me anymore. In a nutshell, the government should try to inform

people

that the prevention of a disease it's a way better thing than the treatment. So, we might think about our health, and make a routine of once in six months to be consulted by a doctor.