$$$ Part Two--Why grumble when you pay hundred for your hair dresser?

YOUR TEETH and oral strutures is one of the body parts you use very regularly- you need it for eating, talking, singing, kissing, biting for defence, and other who-knows-what-you-did purposes.Hee. For eating alone you use it at least 3 times a day for 365 years for as long as you had lived. Maybe it justify the money you spend on "maintanence" 2 times a year?

My rationale for going for regular checkups:
It's cheaper. For normal scaling and polishing, you spend about $50-60 each time that amount to 120 plus per year (MINIMUM lest if you got other complications or small decay) for your whole year of usage. If you refuse to go for regular checkup, (and don't on top of that, brush/floss your teeth regularly), and wait till pain has occured, i', sorry to say that there's bound to be bad decay done to your teeth(it take times for these decay to form!). SO filling is done, 50 PER filling?
For worse cases, you have to do Root canal treatment or dentures ie more complicated procedures that you have to pay more- hundreds to thousand. In worst scenario, you extract you precious teeth and to replace the empty ugly gap, you make a denture or do implant. An implant in s'pore costs about 3000 bucks PER TOOTH, even if not done by a specialist.

Back to the case where you go for regular checkup,and hence only 120 per year FOR YOUR WHOLE SET OF TEETH, that 3000 bucks PER TOOTH ONLY is enough to last you for 2 years plus. (and usually decay don't affect only one tooth only)
With regular maintainence, you probably be painless or problem free or at least less problems for the rest of your life--it's like your car, better maintained car gives less problems and last longer. In this sense, you enjoy your trip to the dentist more too!
Please give your TEETH or gums the appropriate treatment they need!
Give them the royal bath treatment. Let them enjoy the ultimate spa experience after days of hard labour. Give them same treatment you give to your hair/face if not more.

You are willing to pay hundreds for a haircut. You cut your hair every 1 or 2 months. I hope you can go for just a "dental SPA" once a year at least.

Your Priorities, Your Choice.


Think about the time, effort we went through to get this degree. Year One Timetable: 8am-5pm.Lunchtime 1-2pm. Mon-Fri. Rest of time, at least for me are spent on studying what I've learnt in lessons. Imagine how many we have to cover if the lessons are so long and so little time to self study if the lessons are - so long-. Maybe i shouldn't complain, Cos My Year 3 fren claimed to sleep only 3 hours daily. I'm trying to manage my time better so for normal days i can meet up with frens. but somethinga can't be changed. eg our Exam schedule and hence hol is different with those with other frens! We become anti-social with displeasure. “我这大半辈子都在读书， 都忘记怎么谈恋爱了！” Oh our longest hol is only 5 wks.
We have to learn medical subjects, all about the teeth, gums and related structures.... all these because dentistry is not just what you see/thought is about manual work. We're also physicians making diagnosis like your medical doctor (Well, medical physicians make longer life-time scacrifices, of different form so respect them too) did for your other parts of body. In addition, we are called Dental Surgeons because we cut up things eg your teeth very commonly as treatment.

So if you're willing to pay your hair stylists hundreds, you can really considering not complaining of the price when you come to us. Note however, different dentists charge very differently, some can charge 2-3x more than others. but it's the same with restarants- some charges more though they provide similar food but perhaps because of the different atmosphere provided, different skill level/experience of dentists(doesn't meant ALL who charges more are better though), or simply the brand name or exclusivity especially celebrities love.
SO DO CHOOSE YOUR DENTIST WISELY. YOU HAVE A CHOICE! CHOOSE ONLY THE BEST FOR YOURSELF! AND THE BEST MAY NOT BE THE EXPENSIVE ONES!