Dentistry is a medical specialty not a business.
Many patients ask us why the dentist charges the first visit, while in the so-called "dental centers" they do not pay for it and even some even do the X-ray for free. To be able to answer this question it is necessary to understand the different nature and purpose of dental centers and dentists. Dental office centers have the sole purpose of benefiting from the sale of dental services, while the dentist's doctor has as its purpose the protection of the health of the patient's mouth and the profit is only a natural consequence of the care he performs, like other doctors medical specialists. It follows that dental centers use this mechanism of the free visit, only to be able to sell a greater quantity of medical services in order to obtain the greatest possible profit. It is common for a patient who is first visiting one of these centers to always find therapies to do and obviously always those that have a higher cost because these centers need to cover adverti