Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

In article <b55p04t0d8m9fardsmdeihh2j0065946b3@xxxxxxx>,
mike weber <fairportfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:25:32 -0700, David Friedman
<ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <roIOj.11776$yD2.246@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jette <bosslady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

eah, in the UK up till fairly recently dentists would only consider
braces for teeth for actual _problems_ such as badly misaligned teeth,
whereas in the US fixing purely cosmetic problems seemed to be more
accepted. Probably because in the UK our generation mostly got our
dentistry on the NHS who weren't too concerned with our vanity,
whereas in the US they have always had private dentists. When you're
paying for it you might as well go the whole hog and have teeth that
look as good as they work.


I don't follow the final part of that. If you have the choice between
straightening your teeth for cosmetic purposes or not doing so, I would
think the fact that you would have to pay for the straightening would
make you less likely to do so, not more.

If you're already paying, say, $500 for something, an additional $150
(made-up numbers having no known relevance to orthodonty) doesn't seem
as bad as, say, $300 to start for scratch on the extra.

$150 isn't as bad as $300. But Jette wrote "when you're paying for it,"
which seemed to imply that the alternative was not paying for it. In
your hypothetical, the alternative is paying even more for it.

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