The Deep Clean Scam

[mk378]

get the x-rays first as I don't want to redo them.

There is such a thing as bad X-rays. They will not show small features like cracks that are there. I had this happen with a cracked foot bone. The specialist doctor took one look at the X-ray films sent from the original office and said "These are terrible X-rays" and had a new one taken. I still didn't see the crack until he pointed it out, it was visible on the new X-ray but not the old one. To me as an admitted layperson taking a quick over the shoulder look they looked the same -- you know, bones.

Dental X-rays are all digital now and cost very little to take. My dentist will have the assistant X-ray problem areas as necessary and doesn't charge extra for the X-rays.

 

[64bawagon]

Its almost as though BG has branched into dentistry.
Sorry, I had to say it and it should be viewed with the utmost degree of sarcasm.
Unfortunately I have had similar issues with dentists and am on the verge of starting the search for a new one since the office I had used for the last 10yrs or so was sold and now all of the sudden they want to schedule me for fillings that were supposedly noted before the sale and no one ever told me about. I think someone has a seasonal boat slip payment coming up. I dont like dealing with people that make me feel like I am being hustled. I had some health issues last year and got run through the gauntlet during that mess.

 

[Zee09]

Its almost as though BG has branched into dentistry.
Sorry, I had to say it and it should be viewed with the utmost degree of sarcasm.
Unfortunately I have had similar issues with dentists and am on the verge of starting the search for a new one since the office I had used for the last 10yrs or so was sold and now all of the sudden they want to schedule me for fillings that were supposedly noted before the sale and no one ever told me about. I think someone has a seasonal boat slip payment coming up. I dont like dealing with people that make me feel like I am being hustled. I had some health issues last year and got run through the gauntlet during that mess.

Exactly that's where I came from too...I have medical fatigue and I am soured because it seems you can never get resolution no matter how many doctors you go to.

In my experience nobody cares at all.

 

[64bawagon]

I worked in EMS as a paramedic for 25 yrs, nothing shocks me in the medical field. Lots of people have this God complex about Doctors. Personally I believe they are just humans prone to the same failings as all of us. Theres good ones and bad ones, honest ones and liars.

 

[dumkid]

I always figured doctors were like mechanics. They try and fix stuff but sometimes it's hard to find the cause of the problem or multiple things are broken so they can't give you a clear answer, and they want to make sure what you say is broken is actually broken before they try and fix it (diagnostics)
There's also doctors who are like the mechanics that change $1000 for some brake pads

 

[Zee09]

I talked to a customer of mine from Thailand yesterday. He just had a root canal done. Got in the same day and the procedure and meds were $30 without insurance...

I told him what that cost over here and I think he had a stroke..

 

[levi]

Hop a plane to Thailand? Gee whiz that's cheap!

 

[Zee09]

Hop a plane to Thailand? Gee whiz that's cheap!

You know he told me the same..lol.
He said many Americans do..

 

[walterjay]

Sadly many Americans fly out of the country for medical procedures.

 

[Zee09]

Sadly many Americans fly out of the country for medical procedures.

At least in Thailand a deep clean would be $20 instead of $2000

 

[dumkid]

My grandparents go to Mexico for dental work

 

[Pew]

My grandparents go to Mexico for dental work

Some coworkers that retired to AZ drive down South of the border for their meds also

 

[walterjay]

My wife gets a prescription from Canada for one quarter the cost in USA.

 

[Zee09]

My wife gets a prescription from Canada for one quarter the cost in USA.

I used to do the same but the fentanyl crisis scared me off foreign mail order meds..
Plus now most are free with my insurance.

 

[mk378]

The fake pills that aren't supposed to be narcotics generally don't have any active ingredients at all. Though some of them contained lead-based paint to get the color right.