Are dentists better off than physicians?
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Originally Posted to the Sermo Community
By: happysign, Physical Medicine and Rehab
Are dentists better off than physicians?
It seems to me that the dentists I come across do very well financially. I would venture to say that they fare better than physicians and work very reasonable hours. It also appears that they get 100% of what they charge for ( insurance will pay but almost always patients pay the rest of what insurance does not cover). Why is it that patients seem more willing to pay their dentists?
Why do politicans not interfere as much with dental practices? Is is because most dental services are not covered by medicare? Dental care is also expensive, my sister had to pay for $27,000.00 cash for a few implants. How do dentists get away with this? What is their secret? Are the dentists more united? Does the American Dental Association have stronger lobbying?
My daughter is a sophomore in college and wants to be a physician, with the current climate of the practice of medicine, I have been encouraging her to go into dentistry instead. I do not want her to go thru the anguish , that we are all going thru.
Is there something we can learn from the dentists? What are they doing right?
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