Does your Dentist schedule appt. for JUST a cleaning?

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Originally Posted by Stewie

I find it funny that people complain about a dentist bill. For the most part it's pretty cheap. Not doing regular checkups, including x-rays, lead to two things. It's either a very expensive procedure or fewer teeth.

As I was told long ago, "If you ignore your teeth they'll go away."

thats not always true. I had a cavity that couldn't be seen by xrays and the dentist didn't really try to determin the problem until my last visit even though I complained about it at my visit 6 months ago. Turned out that cavity was huge and I had to get a major filling.

Then, the filling wasn't taking so I had to go back in this past week for a better filling and it hurt like hell. I'm fine now but really pissed I have to pay for the same procedure twice when they should have done the better filling the first time.

Actually considering changing dentists for the first time since 1995 because of it.