Originally Posted by will76

You also have to take in the cost of living of where you are at. A dentist in Mexico or central america can live like a king for a fraction of the cost vs living in SoCal for example. Also, I bet there isn't any malpractice insurance in those countries, so the dentist doesn't have to pay out of the ass for his own insurance. Which also means if they fuck up your mouth, you fucked. Where in the US you have recourse at least.

It's all relative, and not so much the US's fault, like the Dentist here are greedy or the "but I can go to Mexico and get is 1/2 price what the fuck is wrong with you, USA" mentality some of you have.

If a dentist in the US has to pay 5K a month in rent for his office, and a dentist in Mexico has to pay 1K a month rent. The dentist in US has to pay $15 hour for dental assistants, the one in Mexico pays $5 hour, etc... You get it? Even their own houses, A dentist in socal might pay 1 Million for a house, the one in Mexico can get a nicer house for 250K. So yeah, of course the one in Mexico can charge a lot less, because he doesn't need to make as much money to still live better than the dentist in the US.