Dog's Dental

ItsyRV wrote:

doxiemom11 wrote:
Why the huge difference?

Phoenix is not some sleepy wild west town in the desert It's a sprawling major metropolitan area that is becoming a suburb of California's high tech and bio medical industries. Just drive along Main Street from Tempe to Mesa and you'll see all those antiquated RV parks giving way to new lofts and tech firms. Farmers's markets with craft foods are replacing flea markets. The metro area is redefining itself from snowbirds and retirement villages to exchange tech workers and town-homes. With that has come the end of Fido and Fluffy going to the neighborhood vet to now their designer pets and concierge veterinarian medicine. Vets in Phoenix are just charging what people are willing to and can now afford to pay.

Don't leave out the fact that the rent/real estate costs for that veterinary clinic is multiple times higher in a metro area then it is in a rural town. Those clinics need to hire employees and must compete with the other local businesses, so wages are much higher. It just costs much more for the metro vet to operate, so prices are going to be much higher.
The other thing nobody has taken into consideration is that no two procedures are exactly alike. There may be complicating factors involved that makes the OP dog's procedure much more expensive. The owner's preferences for treatment may be different. Even the breed of dog may have an impact on costs. A tiny dog may require specialized tools and a large breed may require more anesthesia for all that us lay people know.