I’m in software. I just happen to be able to actually read a balance sheet and see that dentists have a lot more overhead than you’re willing to acknowledge. Keep sticking your fingers in your ear, it’s a good look. But it doesn’t change the facts and the facts are you’re wrong. And your need to label them cosa nostra shows you know it. You haven’t even tried once to present a single fact. Just hyperbole.
A drill costs $1,000. Paid for in five fillings at $200 a piece. An Amalgam dental filling costs between $15 - $25 for a kit which can do up to four regular sized fillings. netting between $175 and $750 per kit.
Dental Needles are $60 for a box of 1,000. Enough to numb up a small town. Novocain isn't exactly expensive either.
http://interguidedental.com/Dental-Needles-First-Choice-p42258.html
Refurbished chairs run between $2,500 and $4,000. He isn't buying a new one every day or every ten years for that matter.
http://interguidedental.com/Dental-Needles-First-Choice-p42258.html
A complete digital dental x-ray machine costs around $5,000. Less than a bad used car.
http://interguidedental.com/DIGIREX-Digital-XRay-System-p14001.html
One days drilling pays for that! Hell three root canals with stainless Steel caps, not even gold, pays for a system.
Guta Persia pins run 15 - 20 for the kit. Crowns cost 120 wholesale to 200 depending on material and the dentist charges $800 -$1200.
http://interguidedental.com/Adult-1st-Permanent-Upper-p31279.html
As I said. They have no more overhead than most any other business. The cost is in the sheep skin, but that is the case for most professions.
If bankers charged like this they would be imprisoned, after they where bailed out of course.
When you look at the cost a barber has as much over head and he only charges $15 for twenty minutes of his time and if he screws up the pain goes away in two weeks when your hair grows back. Like I said Cosa Nostra: criminals in white coats.