4.5 How Were DENTISTS Duped by AGGA?
This is Chapter 4.5 of the JawHacks ebook. See the full Table of Contents here.
Shouldn’t Dentists Have Known Better?
The operating premise of AGGA is that a small, plastic button pressing the nasopalatine nerve is stimulating a biochemical bone-growth process in adults.
Of course, the only biochemical process occurring with AGGA is bone resorption resulting from excessive orthodontic force. Really, it’s a bone-loss process.
That laypeople are duped by the “epigenetic bone growth” claim is understandable. After all, medical technologies operating at the molecular level that do seemingly magical things are all around us.
Think of bionic limbs, gene-targeted chemotherapies that kill tumors, or even just antibiotics. In this context, AGGA seems feasible to lay people.
But how were dentists duped?