Re: Why dentists charge differently for different patients for the same procedure?

abc wrote:
As Steve has already pointed out, the office overhead in dentistry can
be as high as 75% or even 80%,


If I understand correctly, this means profit margins are 20% to 25%?
That's not as much as I had thought. If people knew that, they'd
probably be much more sympathetic towards their dentists. I mean, it's
long time in school, then years to establish clientele, lots of
liablility, and the pay must be just a little higher than the pay of an
average computer geek then?


From Managed Dental Care: The average U.S. dentist, the association says, including specialists, earned net income of $213,065 in 1998. Probably $275,000 now. Quite a bit for than a geek.
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