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    >    Cyberpop wrote --   
      
    > > She repliess, ever so sweetly, "That's right, sonny, & we're not going to   
    > > hurt each other, are we?"   
      
    >   LOL.   
    >   I moved around a lot in my younger days (cross town, across the state,   
    > across the country) and when in a new area I would need dental work.   
    >   Each time the dentist would examine me and say all the previous dental   
    > work had to be removed and start over again.  I had bridges, crowns, caps,   
    > etc replaced.   
    >   When I went to a dentist here I asked after some work was done if   
    > everything needed to be replaced.  "Not unless you want it" he replied.  He   
    > became   
    > my dentist right then and was until he died several years later.   
    >   Dentists seem(ed) to be very protettive of their work and wanted each   
    > mouth to be their own creation.   
    >   He also did a lot of denture work and when I got mine his place did the   
    > work.  (He had passed away by then).  Never have had a problem with them.   
      
   Dentists, Vets, & Funeral Directors only get the big bucks by fudging just a   
   little in deniable ways sometimes technically within the law.   
      
   In my job I've talked to 100s of funeral directors and ONLY ONE, worldwide, was   
   honest & didn't try to overcharge or oversell us.   
      
   Their(dentists) problem is they can only do so much billable work per day, so   
   to earn more from their trade they need to upgrader their billingcodes per   
   patient.   
      
   Part of my job is to prevent that (some is the debntist trying to cash in, some   
   is the beneficiary trying to get cosmetic work paid for by insurance; either   
   way, nope! Simplest way is I tell the denbtist, "We'll pay you x for this &   
   that work; anything else you must negotiate with the patient.")   
      
   Puts a stop to it quite nicely!   
      
   I had a dentist who wanted to drop me as a patient (because I was on government   
   disability & it paid less than private; legally he can't drop me as a patient   
   for this, so he cooked uyp a way to get me to quit myself --involving much pain   
   then billing my insurance for my year's max for doing half a job); in my new   
   community, a friend who is a lawyer agreed ths was shjoddy, & wrote a strongly   
   worded lawyer's letter to him to refund all the 'overbilled' amount asap or he   
   would see them in court, acting pro bono for me.   
      
   Then he refered me to his childhood buddy, who was a dentist(retired now) who   
   fixed me all up, & didn't even charge me! Natch, I kept him as my new dentist   
   until he retiired, now I'm shopping around in the practice trying to find a   
   dfecent human dentist. I'm not expecting free work; I'll pay the overage, if I   
   can have 3 months, max, to do so.  The finance girls there know how to get half   
   my work billed under a separate budget, so my max survives longer before I need   
   to kick in.   
      
   Got a new vet who's not as bad/greedy as the last one, but I still need to   
   start tightening the chain on him, though. :(   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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