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Ticktock



Member Since: 03 Oct 2010
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Dentists

just a quick poll, when to the Dentists today, his prices were,

1. 6 monthly clinical exam - 28.50
2. Scale and polish - 37
3. mod amalgam filling (small) - 69
4. upper molar root canal work - 270

It's okay, not all for me. This was for 5 of family dental treatment. that said, I ended up paying the total bill, which wasn't cheap.

Interested in prices round the UK.

Post #79824 3rd Nov 2010 9:15 pm
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jp



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It's not NHS prices because they would have been/ should have been cheaper,
Must be privet prices, and could have been more in any big city.

Post #79826 3rd Nov 2010 9:39 pm
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W.D.C.A.P.H.



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Is that because big cities have bigger hedges? Very Happy We Don't Care About Pot Holes !!

Post #79830 3rd Nov 2010 10:13 pm
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Ticktock



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NHS dentist don't exist except in fairy tales.

You don't have a lot of options apart from grim and bear it, so to speak. Unless you want to have rotten teeth.

My dear old mother, who's in her 80's had a couple of crowns and some other dentistry last year - 3k! Like a farmer, you don't see a poor dentist.

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W.D.C.A.P.H.



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Ticktock wrote:
you don't see a poor dentist.


You've got that one right mate Thumbs Up We Don't Care About Pot Holes !!

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athelstan



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Ticktock wrote:
Like a farmer, you don't see a poor dentist.


Absolutely. And another thing those two communities share in common is that they are members of society's "Big Moan Club".

I had a friend, he was a dentist in Clapham Junction - own business. He was a socialist and did everything he could to help his least well-off patients to the extent of falsifying where in the mouth the work was required in order to give them improved treatment on the NHS. He was a excellent dentist - did my teeth as a private patient, superb craftsmanship. I travelled from here in CH to UK just for him to do my teeth.

He put heart n soul into building that business and trying to balance governmental rules on what he could provide for his NHS patients and remain competitive with his private patient charges. He worked on average 14hrs a day, often longer. It cost him his marriage, his business and his life. Drank himself to death in Torquay a very lonely and broken man. I'd known him for 32yrs from Uni and tried everything to save his marriage, getting him to go to AA and offering him financial help to start a new again in the West Country. A tragic needless loss of life. He was the exception - he'd help anyone professionally. He was not a member of the Big Moan Club. Perhaps he should have been.

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Tandemman



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Check up with any x-rays, plus scaling and oral advice £16.50

any number of fillings on the same patient £ 45.60

any number of crowns bridges dentures etc on the same patient £198.00


and I don't moan

Post #79843 4th Nov 2010 7:15 am
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npinks



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Thats what my dentist charges, NHS and private practice

All hail the NHS Bow down Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Post #79844 4th Nov 2010 7:17 am
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athelstan



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Tandemman
First visit to a dentist here in CH will cost you at least GBP600, thereafter they'll charge you whatever to do more work. Her ladyship's father's last visit in Spring cost him GBP2,170 approx on today's FX rate.

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jp



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Tandemman,
your spot on. Thumbs Up

athelstan,
I totally agree with you, there are some very hard working Dentists out there who do put the heart and soul into there work, Thumbs Up

I do now of a few Dentist's who Meanly do NHS work and have a room for a few new patients !!! so some fairy tales can come try. Bow down Bow down

It's like this There are some very good LR service centre's but there is also some very poor one's, The same can be said about plumber's, builder's etc etc Rolling with laughter Rolling with laughter
(Find a good one and stick with it)
all the best

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My dentist went private, I pay £18/mth covering everything except lab work, making crowns etc At work
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npinks



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i have a policy with LHF to claim cost back, cost the wife a few bob a month for the joint policy through her work Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

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mcphersonstrut



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chicken george wrote:
....I pay £18/mth covering everything including making my crowns etc


All hail King Chicken Bow down

Post #79875 4th Nov 2010 5:02 pm
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Tandemman



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if you are prepared to work hard and have a supportive PCT framework then the NHS is viable for some dentists, there are about 60 NHS Dentists in our Town and only a handful of private practices. more than 40 are accepting new NHS patients.
Sunny South Yorkshire you can't beat it.

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Quote:
I pay £18/mth covering everything except lab work, making fangs etc


Shocked Shocked

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