What’s the deal with dentists? Hey that sounds like a Seinfeld episode or something. How come you go in with a little pain in a tooth, or just for a cleaning and you end up needing your entire dome rotor rooted and a root canal on every third tooth? Sure they have a nice black and white X-ray of your teeth. But a normal person couldn’t tell the difference between a prehistoric rock carving and their #31 tooth that needs endodontic therapy (a nice word for hollowing out, hammering a rod down the center and then filling back up with some metal).

This brings me to my next question: What’s the deal with insurance? You make a payment every month to some company that will supposedly back you up when you need some cash flow. Then the time comes and you have to pay 30% and before your treatment is half paid for you are totally out of insurance. So let me get this straight, I am out of insurance so I have to pay the full inflated cost of a root canal (inflated because the dentist can charge mondo bucks to the insurance company) and any other treatment that I may need for the rest of the year, BUT I still have to make monthly payments to the insurance company?

What have we learned here? Absolutely nothing, all I know is I am broke, my teeth are throbbing and my dentist is a rich dude. Sometimes I wish I lived in Canada.