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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
perhaps, you're right.
but to me it did come across as a cheap shot towards dentists to say plenty of them intentionally game the system to pad their billing.
especially by prefacing it by saying I don't want to talk about ethics, but...
like any other profession, there are bad apples, but it's not standard practice for dentists to pad billing to scam more money from benefit coverages.
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I've briefly complained generally about poor practice from healthcare practitioners in Canada and I would wager to bet that dentists are among the worst.
I don't believe many are malicious (and I could never prove it even if I did) but many dentists' practice involve things such as over treatment and over assessment (ie xrays) that go directly against scientific evidence.
This is all off topic, however, because I feel like a dentist helping me get something covered is being a patient advocate.