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In Australia within a few visits to the dentist the cost could easily start going over $5000. I am hearing more and more stories of people going overseas to do
by stana 11y ago
In Australia within a few visits to the dentist the cost could easily start going over $5000. I am hearing more and more stories of people going overseas to do dental work - and a lot of these I would say reasonably well off people - upper middle class.
Considering pretty high educated professionals immigration numbers, it is surprising dental costs staying so high (which is not the case with other professions).
- jacalata 11y agoThat's partly due to the lack of any regulation requiring transparency in pricing or even agreement on best practices. I recently tried looking at some dental work and it's very difficult to even figure out if the different quotes cover the same work. It's bullshit.
- rogerbinns 11y agoThe word you are looking for is "confusopoly". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusopoly
- donatj 11y agoHuh, what country out of curiosity. I've had dental services from several large providers in the centeral US and they have all been able to provide me with itemized estimates before any work was begun.
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- jacalata 11y agoAustralia.
- rando289 11y agoNo different in the US regarding prices.
- vacri 11y agoWhile dentistry is conspicuously absent from government healthcare assistance in Australia, $5000 for dental work for a mere few visits means pretty serious issues. I wouldn't classify it as easily going over $5k, though it still isn't exactly cheap. (I had a bodgy root canal reworked over 3 visits for $3k and a tooth extracted and bone abcess cleaned out under general for ~$1500 all up, including initial consultations. I didn't hunt around for a cheaper option, since that was how I got the bad root canal in the first place...)
- iofj 11y agoBut there's 2 major problems with forcing medical practitioners into a market: 1) at the time you need treatment, you may not have any choice (or you may be in pain, or ...). So expect to see free root canals with $10k pain relief "option". Or have "normal" medicine (e.g. mild ear pain) priced into the ground and get gouged on emergency procedures (e.g. acute inner ear pain). 2) it is somewhere between very hard and impossible for normal people to see the quality of medical treatment. Given what can happen with bad quality medical treatment ... I find this a very scary prospect.