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19 July 2017, 04:35 AM | #31 |
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Guys thank you for the advice (those that weren't taking the p!) Truthfully, I thought that I was just unlucky with my teeth and that he was doing his best. I've written to the head of practice who looked after me yesterday. I'll let you know.
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Curious. What are the 'top 5' (or 10) least trusted professions? I've got a vague hunch as to what they might be.
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Btw what do you two think the percentage is of dentists that send their laboratory work to china to save some money and not use American labs. I'd say around 50%. So that means about half the people in America don't realize that their teeth are made overseas and the metals in their teeth might contain toxins. The dentists would never disclose that to their patients would they? Yeah real trustworthy. |
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This alleged routing to Chinese dental labs would increase their profit margins even more so. What's the actual story behind all of this other than "Baby needs a new Porsche". |
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Now if a dentist sends the same tooth to china they charge as little as $35 so the dentist saves a little more than $100 but puts his patient at grave risk not to mention that the quality of the tooth will be horrendous. The man in china probably works 20 hours a day for who knows how much. I'll guess $5. Then there is the issue of Chinese labs using inferior metals that may or may not contain lead. So to me this is not trustworthy. Don't even ask me how I know all this. It's a long, sad story. |
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Dentistry and mortuary-related occupations will always be lucrative trades as they are always needed and often go unchecked. |
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Excuse me gentlemen I'm the one in pain here!
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Agree with opinion of finding another dentist.
What's done is done. Get someone else to look after your remaining teeth. |
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The amount of misinformation and use of anecdotal evidence (at best) as fact in this thread is alarming. Good thing I'm only here to satisfy my passion for time pieces.
I hope the original poster finds himself in a better situation soon. |
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Ask me how much the dentist charged my grandmother to fix her cracked denture.
Then I found out how much the dentist pays the lab to actually fix the dam thing. It's like $75 and the dentist got almost $500 for doing absolutely nothing. |
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You seem to have it 'in' for the dentistry profession as a whole for some reason. There's almost 200,000 working dentists in America. You're unfairly grouping them all together based on (what I assume are) some isolated situations. Even if you've been to 5 dentists in your area, at the end of the day that's a mere .000025% of all working individuals. There's good and bad apples in all professions. I've definitely gotten a few bad haircuts in my life. Yet, I would never sit here and claim all hairdressers are incompetent based on these negative experiences. |
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And I'm just trying to tell people the truth about dentistry. Where in all my posts did I say all dentists are incompetent? Please point this out to me. |
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It came about a few years ago when it was found that the quality of string deteriorated to such an extent that teeth weren't extracted the first time when the door was slammed, it either stretched or broke. It was disgraceful.
Oh, and don't get me on about the quality of door knobs... Some horror stories there.
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In regards to the hairdressers, I was just making an (perhaps not the best) analogy. You're saying dentists are thieves (and insulting the profession) based on what a few charge that you've personally experienced. I mentioned hairdressers being 'incompetent' based on a few not having good technique in my personal experience. That's silly to draw these conclusions about an entire profession with such limited exposure to the actual population of working individuals. Perhaps you came into the office with this horrible attitude ranting about how dentists are the least trustworthy profession and they gave you their 'special pricing'. I probably would too. |
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Perhaps dentists do in fact care more about the bottom line than the wellbeing of their patients. |
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Here's another tid bit for you. My father went to the dentist and needed a crown. Ok that happens are you with me so far? The dentist goes over all the available options for teeth and my father agrees on a full gold crown due to metal allergies he's had in the past. Well not days after the crown is glued in and my father has a bad reaction to the crown. So he goes to another dentist to question how this could happen with dental yellow gold. Well guess what? The dentist stuck in a non precious yellow metal crown and tried to pass it off as real gold and of course he charged my dad for the real gold. It was found out that the dentist sent the crown to china and he put all the blame on them. My father had to have the second dentist rip out the bad crown and start over with a real gold one. Real trustworthy huh. So people of trf. Even if you think I'm full of it just make sure to ask your dentists where he sends the lab work. If he won't tell you run away. If it's to a foreign country run away. |
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And all the people suing shops because they fell on ice on the sidewalks in front of the said shops. I lived 9 years in the US, there are even lawyers making commercials like "an accident happened to you? You might be eligible for a ton of cash". Also guys jumping in front of moving cars and stuff, might be wrong but have seen a few documentaries on insurance doctors and surgeons had to pay in the US because of incessant law suits, seemed crazy, with surgeons paying close to one million a year in insurance... |
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About dentists when I see that a top notch porcelain facet in Odessa costed me 400 dollars, 300 now with the crisis, and in France they go from 900 to 2500, clearly the guys asking more than 1200-1500 are really crooks, I get the high taxes, but there are limits. Happy to live in Odessa and have a top notch dentist who is great and super honest. The big difference between when I am in Paris and Odessa, is that in Paris I have the impression of getting screwed every time I need to pay for something, in Odessa no, you get a double Jack Daniels for the orice of a coke in a small bistro in a normal neighborhood in Paris, and everything is like that, amazing... |
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At this point I find anything you say, quite hard to even believe. No need asking if people 'follow' your story, you make zero sense to anyone remotely intellectual. Nobody is listening to you, and I'm tired of responding to you. Cheers. |
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