Originally Posted by: schmangeMy theory is that dentists are out to make money. They fake things like kids needing braces and filling teeth that don't really need it and then do a piss poor job so you end up going back to them years later.
The 6 month dental checkups are designed as a sales opportunity to scare you into getting work done that isn't necessary.

I'm with you schmange. My dentist is always trying to get me to buy crap that, by some crazy coincidence, isn't covered by insurance. :eek: The poor man. I guess he needs the money from the braces I don't need (and don't have, because I don't fall for his game) to fill up his Lexus. Or maybe it's for his Porsche. No, I am not kidding. This guy works in Teulon, the smallest you can get and still be called a town. So this guy has two $50, 000 dollar cars, something's up. I went through years of "appliances" because I had an "underbite", then because I had an "overbite", now my teeth are "crooked", then he wants to do surgery to cut up my jaw, the list goes on. He says in a few years he'll have to take skin from somewhere and put it over a tooth that apparently doesn't have enough? All he wants is money, nothing else. I know it sounds like I have the most messed up mouth in the world, but really there's nothing wrong with it. One time he had a "specialist" do a "biopsy" to take out something that was growing in the back of my mouth that he thought could be cancerous. It was a tooth. 100% serious, folks. Stay away from dentists.