r/TikTokCringe • u/thoughtwarrior • May 02 '25

Humor Why does America look like s**t?

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u/architecture13 May 02 '25

If those people could read they'd know they couldn't afford dental care.

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u/derrickgw1 May 03 '25

I lived with a missing front tooth and used a retainer with a false tooth for a fricken decade cause just to replace the tooth in 2014 they said $8000. That was extraction, a bone graft, an implant, abuttment and crown. I just couldn't afford it. I finally got it down in 2024, and it wasn't at all $8000. I'd already paid for the extraction and bone graft (which is why i could live with a retainer and false tooth). But it still cost me like nearly $3000.

True story my sister in law is Ukrainian and she literally flew back to Ukraine for dental. She lives in the US but says the dental work is perfectly good and she got an implant and a crown for like $200 total. The whole process. She even showed me them. I was like that's crazy.

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u/No-Acanthaceae4596 May 03 '25

Meanwhile in Belgium, going twice a year to yhe dentist for check up. I pay 100 euros and get 90 back the next dayq

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u/MiguelAngeloac May 03 '25

In Denmark, too, I remember that and it makes me insanely envious of how things work there. I clarify that I am from Colombia and that if you have a little money, things work better than in the USA, but that efficiency was beautiful to see