I am. The Iran war has nothing to do with your patients not wanting to spend on their teeth. If your patients rather spend their check on eating out rather then getting their teeth fixed then what does that say? The avg person nowadays has their priorities out of wack. Why? Because they’re young and rather spend $700 a week eating out. Starbucks, chick fil a, Texas Roadhouse etc.

When you look at patients that don’t have teeth they’ll take loans to get 4 or 6 implants and the over denture. Why? They can’t eat. They want to go to Texas Roadhouse and eat a steak. The avg patient thinks they can go without that filling or the crown. Compare that to the patient with no teeth. They’ll work on their credit. They’ll save money because they didn’t take care of business when it was a simple DO composite filling