my dentist is charging me an extra $360 for lab fee over the price of crown

[dick]

He says that is what the lab charges him. I think he is lying and just inflating to make more $. Is he crooked or am I being paranoid. How can dentists get away with this

 

[Zuri Barniv]

Only very high-end labs would charge that much to make a dentist a crown. And that would be the total bill for the whole crown, not a surcharge on top of another fee. Many dentists charge an extra fee to make a "white crown" or one with no metal or some other "upgrade". It is commonly done when a patient has an HMO type insurance that pays the dentist a reduced fee for a basic metal crown and the dentist looks for ways to increase the fee with "upgrades". Not sure that is what is going on, but that's my guess.