In our eastern european backwater and largely primitive country (Slovakia), greed has its prime. New dentist offices sprang up recently all over the place from

In our eastern european backwater and largely primitive country (Slovakia), greed has its prime. New dentist offices sprang up recently all over the place from where I come from. They took relatively big loans, and as greed is bottomless, want to pay them as quickly as possible to move to other investments. I had similar experience as others - one guy wanted to set series of visits (4 hours each) to remove all older fillings. He was doing a fine work otherwise (replacing urgently one that started breaking apart). The detail being, he didn't do an X-ray to check if older fillings actually needed replacement (the idea is, your teeth can handle only few filling replacements depending on situation, so definitely don't fix things that aren't broken). After that (and few months), went to another dentist who first did full x-ray, found that one filling needed replacement and the rest were fine and I ended up paying 5% of the price of first one. Good dentists are worth gold (same as many other professions for that matter) - if you find a skilled professional who is not ripping you off, you stay there till you die. This quality mix is unfortunately not easy to find.