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In reply to the discussion: Don't Let Them Pull Out Your Teeth [View all]adieu
(1,009 posts)Most aren't quite corporatized, yet. (There are no dental version of Lenscrafters, say.)
The dentists are there to make a buck by squeezing you with new and novel techniques, and claims that procedures X and Y must be done. It's like a Jiffy Lube or Oil Changers. You go in for a basic $30 oil change and they tick off a list of problems you have: air filter needs cleaning, transmission fluid, etc., etc. When you leave, you just paid $160 instead of the $30.
Dentists do the same thing, although they have you two ways: you can't check on what they said as easily as checking your car's fluid levels, and you can't go to another one that easily.
That's the end-game of for-profit medicine.
This nefarious game doesn't quite work with optometry because people can generally tell if the glasses they have on works or not. They just ding you on the fashionable frames, which I guess is all right as it doesn't hurt the person and they are generally quite fashionable.