No that’s your assumption based on emotion. The facts actually run exactly the opposite. But you find those facts inconvenient so you stick your fingers in your ears and yell LALALALALALA hoping they go away. But they don’t, the facts stay, and you stay wrong.
As I said, everyone in business has overhead, A dentist may have to spend a hundred grand on a piece of equipment, but he only buys one or two for an entire career. A dental chair will last for decades. A drill for at least a decade and an X-ray machine for many years. A new autoclave every century and let’ not forget that oh socostly rubber gloves.
Two dollars of composite for a low low $200. An hour for a root canal, that will be $750, Oh and lets not forget the $1,200 gold crown complete with $50 worth of gold. Highway robbery. Straight up theft. An industry of collusion and crime. Dentists the new Cosa Nostra.