I am a dental assistant, so I know the behinds the scenes reasons why dentistry is so expensive. I am amazed at the number of people on here who call dentists money hungry and complain about the amount of money that dentists make, but a dentist isn’t so bad when that same person has a horrible toothach. Do patients really think that the money they pay a dentist goes directly into their pocket? Do patients not realize that everything that they see in that office, from the drills to the anesthetic down to a single piece of paper, costs money, and that a dentist has to pay for all of this, rent, lab bills, utilities, salaries, malpractice insurance, continueing ed courses, repairs to computers and other equipment, before he pockets a dime of the money patients pay him? I can tell you, if I went to school for 8 years, paid over 0,000 for dental school, and had to deal with the issues that dentists do, I would expect to take home over 00,000 a year. Wouldn’t you?
I don’t mean to be on a soap box here, but there are alot of people on here complaining about something that they know absolutely nothing about. It would be like me complaining that my daughters pediatrician charges too much, when I don’t have the slightest clue what it takes to run a pediatric office or how much their overhead costs. I would be "talking out my _ _ _." That is what I think some on here are doing. You shouldn’t critisize something you know nothing about. And if you are not in the dental field or never have been, then you have no right to critisize, till you know all the facts.
I meant to type 00,000 at the end of my first paragraph, not a million.
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