So I went to one dentist near work and she seemed pretty good. We did some cleaning and she didn't push too much.
A year or two later I went in for my yearly checkup and it wasn't the friendly receptionist I normally talked to. oh well, guess she left. And for the checkup a different dentist saw me.
It was like one of those movies where aliens/clones had silently replaced everyone you know. Turns out the practice was sold to this new dentist and everyone there was a cloned replacement.
Needless to say that dentist did a comprehensive set of xrays, a mouth inventory cleaning calling out all the gum numbers and came up with a comprehensive multi-year plan to work through things one complete yearly insurance allowance per year.
During the inventory before any plan she noticed I had 32 teeth and said "we should get those wisdom teeth out".
"exactly why do we need to remove them?"
"crowding"
she correctly judged my expression as "don't add wisdom teeth to dental plan"
now many years later I still have those wisdom teeth, two even have fillings.