Originally Posted by
vickig626
See if there's a dental school near you. I'm in Michigan and in the same situation. Univ. of Michigan Dentistry School has a very large clinic that not only helps the students get their skills ready for graduation, they offer very affordable rates. Example - I needed a tooth pulled -- quotes from several dentists averaged almost $300. It cost me $70 at the dental school.
I'm very impressed with how thorough they are and there are professors who work very closely with the students. They don't go onto the clinic floor until they're almost ready to graduate.
Rambling but very impressed and getting much-needed work done.
I was going to suggest the same thing. My husband had to have extensive work done this year because of his TMJ and very expensive. So I checked with Univ. dental school but they would not allow students to do that work but I am going
to have my work done there at half the cost of regular dentist.