So, dentists are usually something of a mom and pop kind of office. Maybe a few dentists strike a friendship in college, and form a practice together, or a prof

So, dentists are usually something of a mom and pop kind of office. Maybe a few dentists strike a friendship in college, and form a practice together, or a professional merger occurs in a network of colleagues sometimes, but maybe not. If you know your dentist well enough, e.g. they are family, insurance is the sole form of payment, and you might enjoy a 100% out of pocket discount. In this way, dentists still get paid for complex, specialized medical tasks on the people that know them well, and trust them implicitly. Of course, there’s that whole thing about the hypocratic oath, that doctors are a bit more strict about, and operating on family members, separating business from family, and of course, from an accounting and auditing perspective, family discounts need to be tracked properly. But friends of the family and family members of dentists have something closer to an insiders perspective on dental care.