When A Patient Asks: "Why is Dentistry So Expensive?" | Dental Practice Management Tip!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2017
- "Doctor, why is this SO expensive?" Every dentist hears this question from time to time. And it can become awkward if you can't provide a smooth (and transparent) answer! In this week's tip, we share how to address this question head-on and respond in a way that patients can understand and appreciate.
And my counter to this doctor is, why always go for the best? I don't need to always ride in a Rolls Royce; I just need to ride in a Toyota. Get me something that works and affordable.
Hi sfbluestar, Thanks for your comment. Obviously, in some cases, there's a degree of choice in the matter - although not all dental issues have multiple treatment options. In many cases, while some choices are more expensive, the trade off is it lasts longer and functions better. Obviously, it depends on what the doctor recommends and what the patient is looking for. Best, The MGE Team
Go to Mexico. It's a third of the price same work.
Chairs $15,000K? Lights $5000K$? that doesn't sound right. I'm not saying he's lying but someone is overpricing.
That's because he is lying, chairs run about 3 to 8K (which includes alot of the equipment attached to it. Oh yeah and they all generally come with a light (you know the one he claims costs 5k on its own)..... Also leaves out the fact that most dental offices are not solo practice, they are generally company owned group practices. So the dentist didn't even invest into that equipment to start with. Dentistry is expensive, because people are willing to pay it and there is minimum oversight or regulation in regards to pricing.
If the dentist is in network with your insurance company, then the insurance company set the pricing. There is literally extreme oversight of the pricing. Thats what being in network means.
you got ripped off on your chairs and lights
I am a dentist starting my own office and I can say No, he was not lying.Sad to say I just got a quote for a Belmont dental chair and it costs $16000, plus between the chair’s light and the loupes is easily $5000 😭
I hope you go bankrupt.
@@quietauntie why are lights so expensive tho ?
@@milannikolic3371 most probably because it makes the patient bankrupt at the speed of light
This is why you book a plane ticket go to different country n get all teeth done for 3k
Then you will come to me and get it REdone properly 😊
I live in California and have the same dentist all my life. She is expensive in my eyes but I look at what she has done with the money. She has grown her practice to a office building full of dental offices offering different specialties in dentistry. I know how much taxes are in this area for retail or business locations. I have a great understanding of the cost of employees. She took on a great deal of extra education in dentistry to be able to understand all sides of dentistry. I respect all this about her and am happy to pay those high prices as long as I am a patient of hers. Also if you just spend a little money and take care of your teeth what a couple hundred bucks a year for a good cleaning. At least I only am asked to come in yearly as I take very good care of my teeth.
So… essentially… Dentistry is expensive because it’s expensive!?!?!?
Got it, thanks Captain Obvious
So pretty much what he is saying is dentist's are expensive because we are paying on their debt and business loans.
If the chair n light is so expensive, then this profession should be less profit making or to be profitable after longer time, it simple doesn't mean that every single suffering patient should pay for chair n light, they should be paying for your practice i.e.treatment (don't charge more than that treatment deserves)
Like wise we don't pay a taxi driver for his car or car loan, we simply pay to travel from one spot to another. He manages to pay for his car, loan, ect...
Well let’s see I just had a bone graft done $6500 that paid for your light part of your chair and that was just one patient
I have horrible teeth I’m 22 and have had 3 teeth pulled because I can’t afford a root canal or a crown or a denture the pain and the sadness I feel is overwhelming I hate my self and I hate the dentist
business medicine.
I always like to tell my patients that if anyone ended up in a physician’s office and told em that they needed some kinda of expensive surgery for sure they would accept bringing up how the health of their teeth is just as important as their general health.
But, unlike expensive surgery, we don’t have acceptable insurance coverage to help with the cost of these expensive procedures. If you need a $20k surgery and you have good insurance, you’re only going to end up spending fractions of that out of pocket. $20k worth of dental work and even the best dental insurance on the market won’t cover even half of it. You’re right though. The health of our teeth is just as important as our general health and it is an absolute abomination that dental procedures are not covered under medical insurance.
Dentist, unlike the healthcare providers don’t allow you to make a payment plan. They want all the money upfront. Some of us can’t afford to pay it all upfront.
Not our job to pay their debts
really good video... the question becomes why are dental supplies and equipment permanently expensive? why doesn't competition drive down prices?
why don't manufacturers pass cost cutting on to patients? why can you get the same care cheaper in foreign countries?
I have grown up with computers and seen installations that used to cost millions now cost a few dollars. dental costs NEVER GO DOWN!!!
Why so expensive while its just a simple kind of Medicine practice compare to example neurosurgeon
A more honest approach for sure. My dentists usually gives me options when i grimace at the price lol ,.
BULLOCKS! With insurance I can get a quadruple bypass and only have to pay my co-pay. But with dentistry, even with insurance, it costs just as much??? Why is my co-pay NOT sufficient???
That's the question I'm looking to hear an answer about?
That’s the way the dental insurance industry is set up in America. Dentists didn’t choose that. Dentists would love to have insurance pay everything for patients, they would all be very busy.
Dentist are criminals if you ask me that “tube” of dentist paste can what repair 200 teeth? And it costs $300 I got one tooth pulled and it cost me $550 in Canada you could probably pay for everything in your dentist office in half a days work the guy took what 3 minutes to pull my tooth? So poor families have to go through absolute torture for months or years maybe their entire life because they can’t afford to fix their teeth! That’s $500 for a tooth pulled no teeth filling paste used, but a tooth can cost up to $2,000 to $3,000 to get fixed if you need a root canal. It should be under medical insurance. Not a different insurance called dental insurance.
Tooth pain is the worst pain ever! There is no worst pain. Sometimes I would rather die then go through the pain.
Okay but the chair and light are covered by dental implants for 1 single client...
I had serious surgery that was cheaper than getting my teeth fixed seriously what a scam
So what are his rates?
I can understand maybe basic medical care, but Dental is also vital to health care.
I think I might have an isssue with my Wisdom teeth, and its probably going to go rotten, and hurt my health because I dont have the money to fix it.
Dental that fixes your life should be free, Aesthetics should cost money
I feel your pain and agree with you 100000%! Our mouth is part of our body. People can literally die because of bad teeth and yet the insurances are terrible. May as well not have it by the time you get that bill. And I don't want to go to Mexico for help but, it's WAY cheaper there WITH TOP NOTCH technical equipment. SMH. Good luck to you.
I just paid $1,347 for a crown, with dental insurance. Dental insurance doesn’t help very much, which is why it’s cheap.
how to give a non-answer.
Not a good answer sir
Because it is business
Be careful with that term, yes you can run an unfair business practice. But, when you f over the wrong person, they CAN do what they want if they feel it's bad enough, and we CAN sit here and laugh at the irony of what our free will allows us to do. Best advice, be and play fair.
Most of our dental issues and illnesses arise from our diet and posture. Weston A Price wrote a book (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration) back in the early 1900s about his research on some of the African tribes and communities having perfect dental health, no diseases as such, and attributed this to their nutrition and way of life quickly realising that our food and other bad habits are what keeps us in the dental chair! Sugar is the main culprit, from child to adult, from sweets to alcohol and smoking or lack of vitamins......WE are keeping these dentists in business apparently
Go to Mexico. It's a third of price.
How many times has that chair been payed for
The tools you use how many times have them been payed for.$$$$$$ It all comes down to greed.
Hey is that Bill Clinton😁
Yeah just go to a different country and get it done for waaayyyyy Cheaper!
But they are little teeth, seems like it should be cheaper.
So sad, and so many dentists are full of it. I would never go to this guy, sad that retired have to go to Mexico to get the same work done, why can't medicare cover dentistry, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Is why,
dentists cost more than some doctors visits
Go to a second hand car dealer…. You get what you pay for…30 years later i now have a bill for 50k… for bad advice and yesteryear hill billy out dated teqniques
Ok understand but its not a patients fault you put yourself into debt... also dont get into a field for a select few to completely afford... no responsability of medical field workers sometimes..
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