There is little doubt I am completely confused as to the so called “Dental Crisis” here is the U.S.
I am not understanding why the Pew Institute or any other “institute” wastes time and money on access to care and certainly no one is wasting their time on studying access to quality care.
For the primary teeth we are lucky enough to be born with, corporations want to “drill ‘em, fill ‘em, cap ‘em and bill ‘em. They stress the importance of early treatment of caries and developing good hygiene habits so you can keep your natural teeth for the rest of your life. Hell, the AAPD is now recommending you get your infant to the dentist at age 6 months or when the first tooth erupts, even if in-utero I suppose.
Why?
The clinics down the street, such as Aspen, Affordable Dentures and the like, what to pull every last tooth in your head and slap in some cheap ass dentures.
What’s the whole point?
It’s not about proper medical treatment, it’s about Sales!
See – The below is from Aspen Dental.
As you can see about, it’s about the “prize”, it’s about highest possible sale comes first, it’s about “hey, office manager, even if the patient says they are not interested in the “treatment” plan, get the doctor or hygienist first so they can “re-stress” the sale, it’s not about medical care.
Below you’ll see a note. These notes are attached to each file reviewed (audited)by regional operations managers at Aspen clinics. Read this carefully, Aspen was NOT concerned about the medical care the patient needed, only the commitment to a sale.
In the case of this patient, they were concerned that no impressions had been taken to use as a sales tool. They actually suggested maybe the staff should have contacted her husband at home to see if they could get him to commit to spending the $8,000, or offered her a coupon if she called back later today to “commit” .
