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Dentists make a lot more money off of major repairs and general maintenance than they do by replacing teeth entirely.

Oral surgeons on the other hand do make money off major repairs to damaged teeth or teeth replacements. I know people often call anyone who works on teeth a dentist, but technically they are different professions.

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Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Huh? If you could regrow a teeth then they would make money off of anything except pulling them out.

I sure af would not waste money fixing teeth I could just replace.

It would be like Rotors and cars. Nobody resurfaces them anymore - they just replace.

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- snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  But you do replace your brake pads before the wear out completely instead of just letting them grind your rotors, right?
  
  Most dentist visits are like oil changes and vehicle checks to make sure things aren't going to fail catastrophically.
  
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  - Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You would be surprised how many people already don’t maintain their teeth and they aren’t replaceable yet for non ferrets.
    
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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
implants are a niche industry though, not related to general dentistry, its considered cosmetic. so its very EXPENSIVE for implants, per tooth can be thousands(3-6k or more) they would have to go toa cosmetic dentist if they want “replacement teeth, aka implants”. I only ever went to an oral surgeon for bottom wisdom tooth extraction.

plus there is one that is orifacial, which works on the jaw/ teeth, if you have a severe prognathism or overbite/underbit they can consider surgery combined with some dental procedures beforehand. i have prognathism but i never got surgery for it, wish i did when i was younger.

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- snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I have had four teeth replaced with the oral surgeon doing the screw and the dentist did the crowns. Yes it is expensive, but reasonably common, and partially covered by dental insurance.
  
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  - Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    luckily i had root canals and dont need extractions than implants, if you try to get implants on the “cheap” like less than a few thousands you wont get results, i had a family member get1 tooth for 6k, while my parents getting theres for 2-3k, not very good results, plus advertising as using new “tech”
    
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