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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is all the upselling legal? When I go to an MD or NP or PA they don't upsell other services?

So much of dentistry is unregulated and seems like invented procedures to make more money like two phase braces for most kids, selling expensive electric toothbrushes, in office whitening, insisting you need crowns when a filling will do, etc. [/quote]

In general medicine selling you more services means your insurance company might have to cover them. They sell you the minimum they can get away with.

I know a lot of people believe that in dentistry they try to sell you more procedures, but my family and I get all our dental care and braces free. They still give us all routine x-rays and braces went about the same way. Wisdom teeth came out for free. They weren't making a profit by doing more things. The only thing not covered for me in the last 20 years was when I needed a gold crown for a very back molar that fell apart and I had to pay for the gold. They aren't going to cover that.

I'm never sure about the vet. My old dog had a few lipomas and they charged to biopsy each one individually. Likewise, I have a cat they want to do a heart ultrasound on every year but I've started to decline. I don't see the point. I'm not going to have heart surgery done on a cat. If it's her heart then either it fails or it keeps ticking. I also decline lyme treatment because it's endemic to our area. If you live here, your outdoor animal has been exposed.

With horses we always accept that treatment because things like potential lameness are a huge deal.

And the same flea and tick stuff at the vet always costs more than what you can buy at Costco or something.

Anyway, all our dogs have always tested positive for lyme and over like 10 dogs over time, only one suddenly was having trouble with her hind legs. Antibiotics solved the problem and she was right as rain in a week or two. [/quote]

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