I've had a lot of clients over the years ask why we bother doing dental rads, and insinuating or outright declaring that is just a way to make more money
We were expecting this to be a prophylactic dental cleaning. No extractions anticipated. Teeth had minimal tartar and cleaned up gorgeous.
Then I took my rads
Thaaaaaat is a giant ol' patch of periodontal bone loss all the way around the entire caudal root. That is a tooth that is in the process of dying. So out it needed to go
This is already why dental estimates are *estimates*. We never know what we're going to find until we are in there.
This is ALSO why those "anesthesia-free" cosmetic dentals are a scam. They can't find abscesses in the bone around a root like this.















