Are dental fillings easy money?!
Question: Are dental fillings easy money?
What do I know? Im just a trainee dental assistant. Nuff said. But all the time I see people from all ages come for just a check up or a cleaning, no complaints of pain and they end up getting at least two fillings. And they don't even realize they needed fillings in the first place. If the dentist saw my teeth, I honestly think I will end up with 4 fillings! I never knew how common it was.
Answers:
There can always be decay in a tooth and the person maybe not have any pain. You don't want the cavity to get so bad that they are in pain. Because the decay could have already made it down to nerve and the patient would need a root canal or worse have the tooth extracted. I work in the dental field and when I got a cleaning I had no idea I have 2 cavity's but the x-rays didn't lie...there was decay.