many people like their job but would not do it for no pay you could just as easily say, techers don;t teach for love of teaching just because they do not do it for free, yes 90% of dentists are self employed and they have to make a profit to pay staff themselves etc, no profit = bankruptcy no dentist for patient no jobs for staff, no dentists are not poor then but then neither are doctors teachers solicitors nurses all of whom get more than average wage
zelda i doubt very much you would for PCT for free either, very very few people work for altrutristic reasons
success rates for RCT are quite good 10 year survival rates are above 70% on average, nearly 90% for upper front tooth
they are lowest if requires a post and crown, also teeth with one canal more sucessfully than multi-rooted teeth, most likely to require extraction are back teeth that have huge fillings in as well
The success rates for NHS and private general dentists are much the same, the success rate of specialists is obviously better, salaried dentists for various reasons see half the number of patients that high street dentists do, often they are more used to seeing children and vulnerable adults and SN patients ( what used to be called school dental service) but now often emplyted to run emergency NHS dental centres so spend more tie dealing with dental pain than check -ups
the vast majority of dentists and doctors care about their patients obviously there are some that do not play ball but to generalise that all are moneyt making cheats, in scotland system is different so if you need 10 fills you pay for 10 upto a max of about 375 the system in england is unfair on both patient and dentist,
if OP needs molar root treatment the £47 does not even cover one root treatment in terms of cost so dentist needs to see 5 other patients you just need 1 fill at same 47 pounds for equation t balance not fair on the five patients etc
there is some over sunscribing of bite guards, but as mentioned earlier in thread undiagnosed grinding problems used to result in multiple fillings and Rct to get rid of pain whe the correct biteguard in first place would have solved problem,
the balance of types of treatment changes over time as advances made etc, when i was first in practice 20 years ago I probably did 2-3 extractions a daynow i would rarely do that in a week, because then most people in OP position would have chosen extraction now most people want to save tooth, no-one wants dentures, again I used to probably seen 5-6 patients a day for dentures now it is more likely 1-2
sorry that was very long