Can't Afford the Dentist? You're Not Alone - USA News

[rufus dog]

12. Crazy shit!

I need a lower front tooth replaced. About 25 years ago a bad dentist killed the tooth, and then I went to another guy who put in a Maryland Bridge. Basically a tooth with wings on the back that adhere to the adjacent teeth.

It was starting to get loose so my new dentist was going to do a bridge, $3,600, he got in there, well he was there for five minutes and his assistant did the rest, and he decided a Maryland bridge would be the solution. So the charged me $2,600 which still seemed to high. They called me back and said it really should have been $3,600. I told them we could talk when I came back for the permanent.

Regardless, this is all out of pocket, not sure how someone wh0 doesn't have a good salary pulls this off.