Two Things with the Same Name Are Not the Same

Is a car a car? How about if one car has 12 air bags and another car has only 4 air bags? Are they the same.

How about if one car stops 25 feet shorter than the other car from 70 mph? Will your life be saved by stopping 25 feet sooner? Are the two cars the same?

If two people play golf and one earns $25 million a year playing golf and the other plays once a month and earns nothing...Are they the same just because they both play golf?

Americans are very quick to say all dentists are the same. Why? Because if all dentists ARE the same, you might as well go to the dentist that has low fees, participates with your insurance company and is around the corner from where you live.

I recently saw the following photo on Facebook and it perfectly explains the above visually:

Things that cost more are usually better made and last longer and in regards to dentistry, the work can actually last DECADES longer.

Many years ago I heard a dentist lecturing and he said, "If you don't charge what you are worth, you will become worth what you charge." The real interesting thing is that the dentist that put the filling in   the left photo probably makes much more money than the dentist that so beautifully restored the tooth in the right photo. Why? Because the dentist who fixed the tooth on the left spent 10-15 minutes fixing that tooth and could fix 5 or 6 additional teeth in the same amount of time that the fabulous dentist took to  perfectly fix the tooth on the right.

In general, you get what you pay for.