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[quote=Anonymous]If you are asking this question, the answer is most definitely no.

My dad was a practicing general dentist all the way up until the day he died. He loved what he did for a living, but worked extremely hard to establish his own practice starting in the 1970s. That is impossible now. And it wasn't easy then. He took on work from other dentists in our state and hacked and scraped for a long time crashing at friends' houses to get the money together to start his own shop. And took a lot of chances with a ton of loan leverage, numerous times.

My brother started working with him and has since taken over the practice. We are lucky in that its all paid for, including the real estate. All of his friends work for somebody else, except for a small handful of rural practitioners.

Its physical work. My dad was not trained to work standing up for a lot of procedures. That took its toll. People in here talking about how few days dentists work have no real understanding of the physical nature of the job.

Then imagine what it was like during COVID.

As for specialized practice - good luck landing that residency. And the GP education is already extremely expensive.

And, even when you are honest and trying to help people, they act like you are trying to upsell them. Even though poor dental health has been repeatedly proven to have significant downstream consequences. by the same token, with PE now involved, its virtually impossible to find a family run dental business anymore that doesn't upsell.

Enshitification indeed[/quote]

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