How do you choose your dentist for your teeth

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You unfortunately cannot treat yourself. What criteria do you look into for your selection or do you just have one of your dentist friends hook you up? Do you guys charge each other at considerable discounts or not charge each other at all?

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You unfortunately cannot treat yourself. What criteria do you look into for your selection or do you just have one of your dentist friends hook you up? Do you guys charge each other at considerable discounts or not charge each other at all?

For a while I justeither did it myself or had a friend do my exams and cleanings. Decided to start going to a dentist I didn't know just cause I felt like having the patient experience also to understand some of what they perceive, though it's really not worth it after a couple visits.

I chose mine based off convenience. The office is literally half a block from my apt so if I take a weekday off, I just book an appt and walk over. I wanted a nice office that appeared clean with a doctor that had at least 5+ years of experience and luckily, that was what was there. Don't give a crap about all the bells and whistle technology; old fashioned dentistry is fine for me. Since I'm a dentist, it's different...she's not going to try to doop me or sell treatment to me. She asked what I did and I told her I was a dentist, after that, she pretty much treats me like a colleague...shows me my radiographs and intraoral pics and tells me what she sees and suggests stuff but discusses it with me but zero pressure and always conservative since she knows I take care of my oral health.
 
Considering that I'm in a 2 dentist group practice, well you'd be correct if you guessed that my business partner does any restorative work that i've needed. My business partner and I also have 1 other dentist who has a solo practice in the same town as ours who comes to see one of us when he needs some restorative work (we don't charge him, and if he needs a crown, he has the lab he uses fabricate the crown and pays for his own lab work).

If treatment needing a specialist is needed, well then I just go to the same specialist as I send my patients too. I've never been charged for work in my own mouth by a specialist whom I refer too, since as they put it, "it's just a cost of doing business" Likewise the same goes if a specialist comes to my office for work, they don't get billed. Atleast in my area, we also do a good job at taking care of staff, with atmost nominal charges for labwork being passed on to them. That's how things tend to happen within the dental community in my area when a colleague needs some work done
 
Considering that I'm in a 2 dentist group practice, well you'd be correct if you guessed that my business partner does any restorative work that i've needed. My business partner and I also have 1 other dentist who has a solo practice in the same town as ours who comes to see one of us when he needs some restorative work (we don't charge him, and if he needs a crown, he has the lab he uses fabricate the crown and pays for his own lab work).

If treatment needing a specialist is needed, well then I just go to the same specialist as I send my patients too. I've never been charged for work in my own mouth by a specialist whom I refer too, since as they put it, "it's just a cost of doing business" Likewise the same goes if a specialist comes to my office for work, they don't get billed. Atleast in my area, we also do a good job at taking care of staff, with atmost nominal charges for labwork being passed on to them. That's how things tend to happen within the dental community in my area when a colleague needs some work done

That's awesome!
 
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