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When families disagree about elderly parent's dental treatment resistance

Our elderly father needs multiple tooth extractions but he's terrified of dental procedures from childhood trauma, and my siblings and I are fighting about whether to push him or support his avoidance while his health deteriorates.

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Trauma, dignity, and medical necessity create an impossible knot that siblings must untangle together.

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