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Making $400 an hour minus overhead doing cleanings sounds extremely unappetizing.

 

[charlestweed]

Because **** needs to change, what if in 15 yrs cleaning fee has not gone up? Don't tell me it's not possible! Clearly that's what you thought 15 yrs ago if faced with the same question. Jeez, no business sense is needed, common sense tells you otherwise. I come on here to tell these folks to buck the trend, plant the seed in their heads to not accept it! To stand up to this bull**** work harder mantra has dentistry is already hard enough. Wake up man, this is serious stuff. If said to you 15 yrs ago that you will get the same fee in 2025, you would smile and work harder?

Presents, understand you going into this field and you have to fight for higher fees. Don't look at old timers, they are confused!

I am all for high fees and less work. If you can get your patients to accept tx, then go for it.

 

[charlestweed]

Making $400 an hour minus overhead doing cleanings sounds extremely unappetizing.

Practicing dentistry won't make you rich. That's why you need work hard to produce a surplus (after paying all your bills) and invest that surplus in the stock market or real estate. The more you save, the sooner you can throw that cavitron away.

I have a friend who is a GI doc, who works for Kaiser Permanante. According to him, he gets paid $150 for each colonoscopy, which also takes about 10-15 minutes to perform. And if he does it too fast and misses the polyps, he's in trouble. If we, dentists, miss a piece of calculus, we are still ok....we can always get that same piece of calculus out 6 months later.