Totally confused but always optimistic

Dentist or Car dealer

Last time I checked, dentists were supposed to be dentist first and foremost, and not like my dentists’ office who appears more like a store trying to up-sell me every time they talk to me.

Every time that I have been in the (not MY) dentists’ office, they keep offering me all these new services that I should be getting done to my teeth, and that my teeth are in the worst condition possible, and if I don’t get those services done soon enough my teeth would just fall off.

Notice up there that called him THE dentist and not MY dentist, because every time I go for a cleaning, it is always his assistant who performs the cleaning (mind you, a new assistant every time), and then the doctor shows up towards the end of my appointment to peek into my mouth and say 1 or 2 sentences that the assistant has already talked to me about. Seems like the assistant is my dentist rather than the dentist being my dentist.

Now, as I was saying that the dentist just keeps offering new services.

I usually go for 2 visits per year because that’s what my insurance would pay for, but no, the dentist wants me to come more often and for more thorough cleanings (both of which my insurance won’t cover and I have to pay for them out of my pocket) because my gums need it. Granted, I don’t floss as I am told to do, but still if I feel that I am already paying enough for insurance than that’s it. There is a limit and balance between money and personal hygiene, at least for me.

Then he also wants me to get rid of my wisdom teeth because they are going to mess up the alignment of other teeth, and then the assistant also wants me to think about straightening my two front teeth because its a short procedure and it wont need braces and because I am going into a beauty contest <<sarcasm.

Not to mention, they try to maximize on my insurance benefits by taking x-ray images whenever they can (oh its for preventative reasons!).

Right.

So stop making yourself appear more like a car dealer or a residential broker or a commissioned employee and just be a dentist.

Rip off.

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