[Nickshu]

Tough to say. Possibly the old dentist would "watch" stuff while the new DDS prefers to treat it. Likely not financially motivated. Could be experience vs inexperience. Could be risk tolerance of each dentist. Neither are wrong. One the one hand the old DDS approach could cost you more when something fails catastrophically vs. new DDS approach treating it when you still have the control to do so and expenses are less.

If I have learned anything in my 22 year career it's that not all dentists match all patients. I have no heartache when a patient recognizes that and goes elsewhere. I often recognize that as well and dismiss patients from my practice that I am not getting anywhere with. I don't want to waste my time any more than I want my patients to waste theirs.

Maybe go have a conversation about your concerns posted above directly with the new guy. Make your decision based on how that goes. Maybe you are the type of patient who would rather risk catastrophic failure of something than spend the money, but he doesn't know that yet. Maybe he is the type of dentist who will do everything he can to avoid you saying "why didn't you catch this earlier?" when something does happen. Perhaps you two just need to get to know each other.