Have you ever tried to get a dentist to pull your tooth?!

Have you ever tried to get a dentist to pull your tooth?

When you ask a dentist to pull a tooth, even when you are paying him in cold hard cash, they always try to find a way to convince you that you don't want to get that tooth pulled afterall, they can save it.

I think this is because the dentist's around the world have entered into a silent pact between them that for every tooth that is pulled from a patients mouth, is one less tooth that some dentist somewhere in the world can not work on, and if everyone got their way in having the dentist pull their tooth, dentists would go out of business.

I have had dentist's refuse to pull the tooth that I wanted pulled, even when I offered to pay them in cash and not use my dental insurance, they just hate to do this.
Does anyone out there in Yahoo Land know the reason why dentists do this?
Please do me the courtesy of enlightening me on this issue, cause I sure would like to know their reasons.

Thank you in advance!

As a dentist, it saddens me to see the responses from you people. Seems dentists are thought of in a similar way to car mechanics. Most unfortunate!
For the record, nothing is as healthy in your mouth as your own, healthy tooth. If for whatever reason the tooth is damaged, keeping the tooth gives you options for treatment that may be lost if you just remove the tooth, such as a crown or a bridge. Once a tooth is gone...it is gone. Dental implants have helped us when attempting to restore a mouth, but even they can fail and they are certainly expensive. I have had many many patients who have regretted so easily parting with a tooth at some point in their lives. Kind of like a tatoo, it comes back to haunt you later.
Root canals are perhaps one of the most challenging dental procedures. You are trying to find, access, clean, shape and seal off from bacteria and body fluids, canals that for the most part you can not see. They are curved, blocked and hardly ever like a straw, but more like a river delta or fan. Dentistry is an art and a science. It is rarely easy. It does not help when you have a patients best interest at heart and they are more concerned with the cost. By the way, a dental office is extremely expensive to run.
So, all that being said, if you need any more teeth pulled, and don't care what the consequences are down the road for your mouth, come and see me. I have done thousands and am good at slicking them. And if you tell me that that is the treatment you want, then that is the treatment you will get.