How To Get Bargain Dentistry And A Vacation To Boot

(By Mike Salmon for Kaiser Health News)

“Do you want numbing gel?” the dental technician asked me as she prepared to plunge into my mouth.

In the entire history of dentistry, from caveman days to now, who has ever said no to more painkiller? Smear that gel around like spackle! She did. And then ground and scraped. And scraped and ground, for a full hour and a half.

Ninety minutes later, I was writhing in a different kind of pain. The office assistant handed me a bill for $930. That was $900 for root planing and $30 for the numbing gel. I had to bite my gel-numbed tongue to avoid asking why they stopped there. “Sir, would you prefer we do this while you lie on the floor or would you prefer the Chair Package?” “Care for our Adequate Lighting Option?”  Continue reading article here…

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