Re: adult invisalign orthodontics in Honolulu
- From: "prospectivegeek" <y9047mt1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Apr 2005 17:29:30 -0800
> For a full case, my impression is that $5000 (the benchmark used by
the
> poster as a "ripoff") is a bit on the low side of average.
Please do tell us how much it should cost. Give us a range that is
flexible to the complexity of the treatment, assuming it would take 12
months for the complete treatment.
>This shows a total lack of understanding of both the cost of RUNNING
an
>office (much less "sprucing" it up) and of the actual service the
>orthodontist provides.
So you mean that multiplying the profit per patient times the number of
patients isn't enough for you to run your office? What do you want to
run? A clinic or a microprocessor chip fabrication plant?
>I defy you to take your own impressions with PVS material.
Who told you anyone was perfect?
> If you think that Invisalign is idiot-proof, that nothing can go
wrong,
Who said so?
> I'd advise you go google this newsgroup and read the several
> stories about how Invisalign can and has gone wrong.
Yes, I already did several times over several years. I have found
numerous cases. All those treatments were conducted by reputed
orthodontists educated in non-correspondence dental schools. That does
not mean that a patient treating themselves would be any better or
worse. And it does not mean that an orthodontist educated in a
correspondence dental school would be any better or worse. Well, my
guess is that it would be worse as the patient and the orthodontist in
question would have had little practical experience. It's practice,
talent and knowledge that counts. As a patient, I really don't care who
treats me, as long as they have these three qualities, and they do not
rip me off. That was the basis of my post. However, it looks like you
saw my post as a challenge to your profession of dentistry as a whole.
There's too much sentiment in your response. It wasn't meant as a
challenge of any sort.
My views were a patient's analysis of the situation, after collecting a
lot of information and visiting dozens of dentists in three continents
that I have lived for business reasons over five years. If you really
want to find the costs of these braces, go to a country other than the
US, where the dentists receive their set of braces by mail from the US
company. Look at their receipts. The receipts from the US company don't
lie. Those are the real costs involved. Add some more money to it, to
pay for other things, including the cost of shipping. Also leave some
room for the orthodontist to make profit. Then you get a ballpark
figure. That's how I got my numbers.
To others who have posted,
If anybody has a better way to estimate, please let everyone know the
numbers and how you calculated the costs. I would certainly welcome
your ideas. Just don't post short sentences ridiculing other posters.
Those short messages are rhetoric, not rational or logical statements.
.
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