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Signs of the times … the dentist goes begging

03.13.2009 by David Murray // 2 Comments

Our neighborhood dentistry, East Village Dental Care, sends us a letter saying that because of the economic crisis they're not raising their fees.

Instead, "we have turned them back to 2006 prices!"

O, 2006—the salad days!

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  1. Eileen says

    March 13, 2009 at 11:58 am

    I was so encouraged by this story froma friend last night…he’s newly married, a new dad, 22 years old. He’s currently working one week on one week off. He had to get a root canal which would cost him $700 out of pocket after the insurance was paid. The dentist got in, drilled the tooth and realized that they would go a different direction than a root canal after all AND REFUSED TO CHARGE HIM A DIME FOR THE HOUR-LONG PROCEDURE. Encouraging to know that people are giving one another a break during this time. Hurrah for dentists! (Never thought I’d say that.)

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  2. murray dentist says

    April 20, 2009 at 1:58 am

    Ok storytime:
    I’ve had only one filling in my life (it was done at a shady dentist in Texas in my younger years) and one night a piece of that tooth fell off while I was brushing my teeth. I thought it was weird and seeing that I dont have dental insurance, I opted to hold out a couple of weeks until I was going to be visiting Texas and already had a dental appointment set up. Well about a week later I popped in a piece of gum and it pulled my filling out of my damn tooth! And of course it had to happen on a Friday night so Monday morning I called East Village Dental to see if they could squeeze me in that afternoon, which they did. And I chose this office because it is literally across the street from my house and the yelp reviews seemed pretty positive.

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