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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dentists work low hours and[b] their reimbursements are painfully [/b]low. Do you see what the insurance pays out for your annual cleaning?  So if you're working 4 days a week from 8-4, I'd expect they don't make much more than $150-250k at most.  I'd expect maybe even on the low end of that.

The dentists making more have typically gone the PE route, or otherwise are "running a business".  They're not really practicing dentists anymore. Or at least that's not the majority of their time. They're making money off dental assistants pushing tooth whitening and other junk, not making money of filling cavities.  [/quote]

That’s why more and more dentists no longer participate with insurance. Our dentist doesn’t take insurance, the kids dentist used to be in network but no longer. When the kids needed wisdom teeth removal I called 3 practices before finding one that was in network etc.

Although I imagine it would be hard to do that right out of dental school, you’d have to get established first. [/quote]

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