I don't live in the us but I have friend who does we were talking and I told him that I had to get some dental work done a root canal and cap cleaning all in all it was about 70-80 dollars and my friend couldn't believe how cheap I got it done even though I live in a different country he said the same thing here in the us would have cost have thousand dollars without insurance is it really so expensive here and if so you how do people here afford this ?