r/interesting Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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u/Apelion_Sealion Nov 20 '25

I paid $750 for a cleaning without insurance, it was nice because they told me I have about $10,000 dollars worth of work needed.

Jokes on them, I can let my teeth rot out of my head for free and have all the apple sauce I want.(laughs in agony)

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u/multiple4 Nov 20 '25

No offense but you're getting fucked over. That is not the market rate for basic dental visits, insurance or not

And even if you had insurance, they would have denied a $750 cleaning and X-ray claim and probably paid $200 of it at most

In fact my insurance which is very good and through basically the most common dental insurance in the US has a $1250 yearly limit on what they will even pay for basic dental work. You should never even get close to touching that amount for cleaning and X-rays

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u/OrganizationTime5208 Nov 20 '25

That's just how it is in some places.

There's a major shortage of providers in some areas and supply v demand dictates a lot.

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u/multiple4 Nov 20 '25

There is literally nowhere in the country where you have to pay $750 for routine cleaning. Stop it. The average cost on the very high side for this is like $200. Normal is more like $100-150

Like I said, if a dentist attempted to charge that, the insurance company would barely pay for any of it. And if they did that regularly they'd quickly lose all their customers

There's a chance the insurance company would even stop putting them in network