Do many programmers have problems with their teeth?

Question

Career in IT

Hello, I have long noticed that various companies in their vacancies write that the company helps employees with health, and many pay special attention to teeth. So I pay too much attention to this and I have complexes, or do many programmers really have problems with their teeth?

Answer 1

This is not "the company helps with health", but "the company pays (in whole or in part) for health insurance."
The VHI plan, as a rule, provides for dentistry for extra money, so this is separate and highlighted as a bonus.

Answer 2

Personally, I have problems with my teeth, but not fatal. And I do not associate them with the type of activity, only with my own gouging in this area.
I believe that this emphasis (on dentistry) is due to the fact that most people face these problems in one way or another. And modern dentistry is expensive (fillings are still tolerable, but implants are already hard on the pocket). Therefore, this is a good way to draw attention to the vacancy.

Answer 3

It's just that dentistry is a frequently demanded and at the same time very expensive medical service. For this reason, it is rarely included in medical insurance, and therefore it is separately mentioned by those companies that have dentistry in VHI.

Answer 4

Many people have dental problems, not just IT people)
Caries is the most common disease in the world.
And when mentioning VHI, they pay attention to dentistry, because it always comes as an additional option to insurance.
PS: but in general, in theory, programmers have a predisposition to caries due to nutrition and daily routine

Answer 5

It came from the West. If I remember correctly, in Canada, in principle, state medicine covers everything except the eyes and teeth.
In the Russian Federation, too, dentistry, by and large, has long become paid.
This is where she stands out.

Answer 6

And they are also paid money - apparently it is the programmers who have problems with money. From Wikipedia - 99% of people have or have had tooth decay. The situation was reversed before the advent of grain processing technologies, and with an increase in sugar production about 100 years ago, we came to what we came to. You still wait until your eights come out - you will look at your question in a new way.

Answer 7

If you grind your teeth a lot when working with a computer, you can grind them down.
And the rest of the prejudices are complete crap)
There is no effect on the teeth when working with a PC.

Answer 8

And here are the problems? For example, at my 36, all my teeth are intact and my own - not a single crown, not a single removed nerve, but I spent about half a million rubles on them last year: an orthodontist, professional cleaning, whitening, strengthening just so that they continue remained their own and whole. If you do not go to the dentist once every 3 months, then problems will definitely appear, and if someone paid me for my dental care, this would be a significant savings.