I literally teared up looking at the monitor in the clinic(dont judge pls!!). look at the absolute state of the before picture on the screen. years of black coffee and bad habits just caked on the back of my lower teeth because i was too tight on cash to get it done properly back home. I pay an absolute premium for top tier extras cover with medibank and those bloodsuckers still leave me massively out of pocket for a basic scale and clean so i just stopped going.   
  
Originally just went over to vickong dental in Zhuhai for a general checkup and a consultation for some bigger work while i was passing through on a trip . the dentist took one look at my gums and suggested a quick clean before we even talked about anything else. it was literally just an afterthought, a quick add on procedure, but looking at that before and after screen completely floored me. seeing my teeth actually look healthy and clean again instead of looking like absolute dodgy ruins genuinely hit me hard. the most insane part is they charged me exactly 200 cny which is barely 42 aussie bucks for the full ultrasonic clean and polish. my local guy in canberra used to charge me upwards of 250 bucks out of pocket for a half arsed five minute scrape that left my gums bleeding, the canberra tax on dental is an absolute rort.   
  
you can think I'm a fool but I REALLY THINK this is something we should all know!

affordable dentistry abroad for aussies..the canberra dental tax is a joke and Im genuinely emotional looking at these photos