Was this a scam?

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The last dentist I went to said a scaling was going to be 2000 dollars because my mouth is four quadrants and each quadrant is 500 bucks each. They even offered me a Care Credit line to open up so they could do it the day they told me I needed it. They told me my dental insurance(Delta Dental USA) wouldn't cover the 2,000 dollars. I declined and just got a normal teeth cleaning since my insurance covered that.

Fast forward to a year later. That same dental place tells me Delta Dental is no longer taken at their place, so I go to a different dentist office in another town.

The new dentist tells me I need a scaling. I tell her I don't have two grand, she tells me that my insurance covers scaling and my co-pay is 420 dollars. I got the scaling done.

Is it normal for two places to have such radical price differences? Was the first place trying to scam me?

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  • litelander8
    1 year ago

    The healthcare system is a massive scam in the US. so yeah, normal.

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  • olderdude-xx
    1 year ago

    The 1st dental clinic was using scam tactics.

    I once had a dentist tell me that I needed to replace all of my filling because they had mercury in them (which is true - but its locked up and not normally a health issue).

    This was back when composit fillings were new.

    I walked and never went back there again.

    A few years later i got a composite filling that only lasted a few years (the modern ones last much longer). I still have some of my original silver fillings from about 40 years ago. Yes, I've had to replace about half of them. But neer more than once. I've seen a lot of replaced composite fillings.

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