Update ‼️ Let’s talk about teeth and tooth care! π¦· ❤️ Why in the world do dentists charge so much money for tooth care? As kids you don’t care, as adults the cost is always prohibitive, and gets worse every year!
Let’s talk about teeth and tooth care! π¦· ❤️ Why in the world do dentists charge so much money for tooth care? As kids you don’t care, as adults the cost is always prohibitive, and gets worse every year!
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Bottom line…wait for it at the end of this article!
The elephant in the room ❗️ Dentists and Doctors should be vetted yearly for competency in their fields for better business practices and ethical medicine.
From the average cost of $250-$500 per every six month dental care exam and X-rays, to the additional cost of $200 and up per filling. Each tooth is good for on average three fillings before a root canal and cap and or crown are in order for the cost of on average $1500 and up to $3000 if an expert is called in for a double root canal. A cap you may think is good for several years but hold the phone!
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Here’s my story about tooth care. I am posting this as an awareness article for you to see what you may be facing now or in the future regarding your dental health.
My first recollection of the dentist was in the waiting room as my year and a half older brother was seeing the dentist. All I knew was he was getting attention for his teeth and afterwards the office receptionist offered him a toy. All I could think about was how I wanted to see the dentist and get a toy too! I had no other conception of anything else that day when I was only about five years old.
Time went by and before long I was the kid seeing the dentist, and got a toy that after all was said and done I didn’t actually care about at all getting. And far more so after my first cavity was found and filled.
Like most kids in America I discovered sugar and candy and before long most of my baby teeth were filled with amalgam, a toxic substance that should never go into kids teeth fillings. The years rolled by into teenage years and my teeth were fine. At twenty one trouble began and never ended regarding my tooth care. I lost several teeth because I couldn’t afford to fix them at the high cost to do so. I had no idea that every future tooth needing care would be needing care only much more so because every time a tooth is in for service it will need more the next round of care it needs. Ten years later and having already spent more than a fortune of money on dentist care, I was about to double, triple and quadruple my tooth care expenses at the dentist.
How come it costs so much money to get dental care for teeth, it’s a big amount of money. My tooth care regimen was faithful brushing with toothpaste at least two times per day. I began flossing in my mid thirties because my teeth are tightly packed together.
By the time I had my first child, thereafter my teeth needed another great fortune to keep them from falling out or being pulled out. Repeat two more times after my second and third children were born. Then it seemed like every year without fail a fortune had to go towards dental care, not just me now, but my family too.
A cap and crown can go bad and need replacement in as little as a year! That’s over $3000 in about a year for one tooth! That’s a lot of money for tooth care. There’s no rhyme or reason behind high costs of dental care and nobody seems to be doing anything to make the costs bearable for all age groups.
Teeth are the windows to good health and if people can’t afford tooth care then what has become of the business? Dental insurance is seldom free and costs another fortune especially as people age. There’s got to be caps on dental care and subsidies allowed for each dental visit and service so care to good health is possible at reasonable rates, not extortional rates!
In recent years my dental cost was the highest ever, $11,000 for dental care! That included $1000 for two exams and some X-rays. Think this can’t happen to you or someone you know, think again, because I never in my entire life heard of this happening to anyone I know until now.
Even dentures are on average $5000 and need replacement every few years. Tell me who in God’s nation have money to spend on teeth like this, it’s a crime against humanity is what it is! Also most kids need to have braces for health care not so much cosmetic appearances. Braces on average cost $5,000 and up. Braces once in need to have reinforcements with a retainer or the teeth will go back to pre-braces positions. The toll of braces on teeth is huge, they weaken and damage teeth and as you may have guessed by now that leads to large quantities of cash outflow to care for future damages.
Add that to general tooth health declines and care and a whopping bill awaits annually after that!
Help advocate for reasonable tooth health care and general health care too because general health care is astronomically high costs another fortune too for everything needed and done!
Doing some basic estimates of total tooth care for approximately a little more than 60 years cost is $60,000, and that’s a conservative estimate! How can society offer such extreme expensive tooth care and expect it’s citizens to pay for everything else it takes to make a living and life? It certainly puts a stop gap on all other spending! Ironically the expense of X-Ray and cleaning twice a year without any other dental cost which almost never happens, hits right at Christmas, birthdays or other venues that actually hit so hard the party and holiday mood gets a rainstorm on the event! “Sorry kids, the dentist cozy this year is making your Christmas the most humble ever! Maybe next year will be better!” But next year comes and it’s not better!
Also it’s too heavy a burden for everyone to deal with and the stress can cause PTSD especially when seniors have to use most of their social security funds simply to keep their teeth healthy! Not keep their teeth perfect just healthy! This means folks that social security doesn’t pay for seniors and the other group of hard up and sickly people to have a very good quality of life unless there are family members shoring up the difference in some ways. In any case it’s one thing too high, way overboard to be charging so much money to keep teeth from rotting out of your head! Blunt words but fact. It’s almost ironic how dentist offices say l, “Do you have insurance?” They know very well how expensive dental care costs, it also amplifies the high cost each person has to pay out of pocket too!
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Then there’s the price of trying to have a great smile!
They wanted Hollywood smiles. They got dental nightmares.
Why some people experience veneer regret.
Lyndsay Carreno was on a date a few years ago when she bit into a sushi roll and felt a veneer slip out of place. She didn’t panic; it was a sensation she had felt before.
Carreno was 24 when she had porcelain shells placed over four of her own front teeth, something she did to improve the appearance of her smile. Within a couple of years, she’d had two of her new teeth replaced, and she regretted having the procedure done in the first place.
“Aesthetically, they give me what I want,” Carreno, who is now 31, tells Yahoo of the veneers. Her natural teeth were jagged and too large for her liking. “But to this day, I’m still dealing with issues.”
The pursuit of perfect-looking teeth has fueled the demand for veneers, which has a global market that’s predicted to be valued at $3.88 billion by 2031. Data shows that over 50% of dental visits are currently driven by aesthetic concerns rather than dental issues. Such was the case with Carreno, who only had cosmetic rather than functional complaints about her teeth.
It was her mom’s dental makeover — she got a set of implants and crowns after losing her front teeth in an accident — that drew Carreno to consider veneers. “I just remember hers looked so beautiful,” she says. “She had no issues with them, and she was ecstatic to have them.”
But dental implants are different from veneers (which also vary in technique). “Hers are screwed into a surgical peg; they're actually more structurally sound than her teeth were,” Carreno points out. “What is a veneer? It's a porcelain piece that they glue to the top of your now-shaved-down tooth. When you hear it explained like that, obviously, you shouldn't do that to your perfectly functioning, healthy tooth. But you just hear that it’s gonna look the way you want it to. And again, I was so young. I just did it.”
TikTok influencer Alix Earle recently talked about having a similar feeling of regret after getting 10 veneers a few years back. She told her followers about the experience in a video in which she was filing down a veneer that had chipped while traveling, and encouraged viewers to embrace their natural teeth.
Dr. Sandip Sachar, a New York-based dentist who specializes in smile makeovers, tells Yahoo that veneer regret is a real thing that’s often experienced by people who don’t do enough prior research about the process or go to the wrong doctor. “These patients were not fully educated and informed on the process and what to expect prior to starting, leaving them in shock after realizing a good amount of healthy tooth structure had been filed off irreversibly,” she says. “This can have lasting consequences that no one really talks about.”
‘I didn't really know what I was getting myself into’
Carreno was living in Washington, D.C., when she got her veneers and went with a dentist who was friends with her colleague. “He’s the first dentist I saw, and he says, ‘We can make them look beautiful,’” Carreno recalls. “I don't get a second opinion, I don't talk to anyone else. I don't even look up reviews on him to see if he's good at cosmetics. I just go, ‘OK, let's do it.’”