Why the american dental association has not adopted the International tooth numbering system?

Question by catirrusia77: Why the american dental association has not adopted the International tooth numbering system?
Currently we are using the Universal tooth number system, but it look a lot of practitioner disagree with this system

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Answer by Dan
I don’t know. Tradition. Its what we are used to here. Why doesn’t the United States change everything to metric?

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