Re: adult invisalign orthodontics in Honolulu



prospectivegeek wrote:
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.

OK, fair question. I don't have a good answer for you though, because I am not an orthodontist, I do not do Invisalign orthodontics, and I cannot estimate the total costs attendent to treating an Invisalign patient for one year. Since you are assuming that the only significant cost is the lab fee, I can understand why you think I was stonewalling you.
The smartass answer is that the appropriate fee is what the market will bear. There is no price-fixing in dentistry, and there is doubtless a wide range of fees out there. If a dentist can make a reasonable profit charging less for Invisalign than the guy down the block, eventually patients will flock to him and he'll clean up.
The real question for me (I don't expect you to be that interested in this one) is that for a given case which can be treated conventionally with wires and brackets OR Invisalign, given the higher lab fees of Invisalign and the considerably greater chair time for conventional ortho, which one affords ON AVERAGE a greater hourly profit to the dentist. To me, this gives a truer measure of value.

Steve



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