Is medicine not an exact science?

— You can say, but in a different context, — Sirius-Dent head doctor Denis Valkevich is confident. — Medicine is really not an exact science, but this does not prevent it from achieving results in treatment. It is imprecise in the sense that one doctor may have one opinion about treatment tactics, and another doctor may have another opinion. There are treatment protocols agreed by the Ministry of Health, and for one or another disease there may be, for example, 3-5 different protocols, choose the one you want. And when two specialists of the same field meet and discuss the same medical centeral case, they can differ in their opinions and even sincerely argue with each other, because one doctor treats in one way, and the other – in another, but both methods work and give a positive result. But if the doctor undertook to treat, but there is no result or it is negative, then it is wrong to hide that medicine is not an exact science. So something simply went wrong: maybe the doctor lacked experience and knowledge, maybe an accident happened during the treatment.

What we recommend to the patient before starting any dental treatment:

• ask your doctor to warn you about the possible risks of a particular treatment option;
• ask the doctor what the treatment plan is and what the expected result is;
• find out what unpleasant moments are possible during or immediately after treatment (pain, swelling, numbness in the oral cavity, etc.) and when they should disappear during the normal course of treatment;
• ask what the prognosis is for the near future after treatment.

Do not be afraid to ask: a normal doctor knows that the patient must be informed about what will happen to him during the treatment and how he will experience it.