• plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Just because a dentist in America or Europe charge $5000 vs $500 in other countries doesn’t mean they are a better dentist lol. There’s just different ways of doing things, and of course your local denstist is going to assume their way is the best, or why else would we do it that way?

    If anything, they are the regular price and yours are inflated, always other perspectives.

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      10 months ago

      My dentist upgrades like every year or two. It’s groundbreaking stuff, I’d hate to “go back in time” to sone other dentist.

      Like a long time ago they used higher speed drills, like half the pain. Or lately the 3D camera, or low emitting xray, …

      Then there are the materials! Things nowadays just lasts, all my old stuff has like fallen out, the newer (but still oold, like 3 layers of plastic with the big ir dildo) not at all.

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        3 months ago

        My dentist would pull that 1960’s xray machine on the arm attached to the wall out. It was that industrial pea green color with a nice metal data tag. He’d set it up, give you the lead vest, and leave the room. Oh yeah. You gettin’ some real radiation today, boy.