Dental schools provide low cost and free treatment. ...and dental care is generally not all that expensive to begin with.
Dental schools here are not all that cheap. Routine care is not too bad, but dentures and people with really bad dental problems usually cannot afford even the dental school.
But...as I said there are other programs for the very poor.
If you never have to visit a dentist, I guess it isn't all that expensive.
On the other hand, most folks who do go to dentists would probably disagree with that statement.