We will not fool anyone, in recent years private centers have lost much of our patients as a result of the emergence and proliferation of mutual and franchises. Undoubtedly there is a group of patients who benefit from this fact, they are healthy patients, without problems, who basically look for a center in which to maintain their good oral status through periodic cleanings and some other food as much.

However, the patient with a real problem has gained very little by going to these centers. Unfortunately, more and more cases are coming to the consultations of “all-life” dentists due to over-treatment or poor treatment in these centers. The population should not lose sight of the fact that oral health is a field of medicine, which requires a precise diagnosis, the implementation of a good treatment plan, a good communication with the dentist to clarify expectations and possibilities and finally adequate execution capacity. Each of these steps is imperative to arrive at good result and the patient should be entitled to them, but obviously also must assume that the price is higher.

It is so true that in the mutual and franchise is not gold everything that shines, as in some private centers dentists are desperate and charge barbarities for making things simpler.

These are difficult times that lead us to risky and absurd behaviors, but more than ever in these cases the patient must appeal to common sense and the search for information and the dentist to empathy and adherence to his ethics and morals.

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