I had multiple similar experiences and I’ve had deep mistrust of dentists since.

I had an amazing dentist while I lived in Japan, never upsold. There was a complication after a root canal (which I heard is just inherent possibility) and then they took full accountability and fixed the issue without charging me a dime.

Now I’m back from Japan and the first dentist tries to sell me some toothpaste and toothbrush wtf

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m463 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I have friends from japan who think japanese dentistry is not that good.

	▲	servo_sausage 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've found that the mentally around medicine in JP is pretty different to the west, dentistry included. It's a bit different to the quality of care. Personally I'd say the quality and availability of the latest technologies is limited, but the honesty around up selling and responsibility for ongoing outcomes resulting from their intervention is better. There are some other aspects, like the general bias against intervention in JP.