What price the maintenance of a good set of nashers?

[Barry]

What price the maintenance of a good set of nashers?


My dentist, with whom up until now I have been happy, now informs me he will be charging £139 for the six-monthly check-up. This does include a session with the hygienist (necessary in my case, as I have a problem with tartar build up), but it does seem rather a lot of money for routine dental work.

I have already spent around £2,500 with him for root canal surgery.

What are member’s thoughts? Am I being a bit of a "cheap skate" over this?

[prestonchipfryer]

What price the maintenance of a good set of nashers?


My dentist, with whom up until now I have been happy, now informs me he will be charging £139 for the six-monthly check-up. This does include a session with the hygienist (necessary in my case, as I have a problem with tartar build up), but it does seem rather a lot of money for routine dental work.

I have already spent around £2,500 with him for root canal surgery.



:stalks: £278 a year for a check-up? Ludicrous amount. It is far too much.

And 2.5k for root canal? Frickin' robbery.

Isn't there an NHS dentist willing to look after your teeth in your area? I've just had a check-up and it cost me £19. This was with an NHS dentist based at the local community hospital in Weymouth. Don't know though what is charged for root canal work, but it is certainly not 2.5k.

[sq225917]

£49 per check up and polish with my private dentist, yours is having the piss. How much root canal work did you have done. An extraction, temporary cap and then a gold crown shouldn't be more than £800 with any dentist, unless they're giving you a damn good reach round at the same time.

[Val33]

I had two lots of root canal work, one of which was very complicated as my wisdom tooth was growing over the rotting molar making access very difficult. I guess that in total the work was done over 10-12 visits and cost me around £2k.

The same dentist charges £30 for a check-up and the hygienist is £50.

HTH

Val

[Thing Fish]

What price the maintenance of a good set of nashers?


My dentist, with whom up until now I have been happy, now informs me he will be charging £139 for the six-monthly check-up. This does include a session with the hygienist (necessary in my case, as I have a problem with tartar build up), but it does seem rather a lot of money for routine dental work.

I have already spent around £2,500 with him for root canal surgery.

What are member’s thoughts? Am I being a bit of a "cheap skate" over this?

I wouldn't pay that much out of principal as it is far too much.

[Barry]

Thanks Guys. You are confirming my thoughts.

However just to make things clear - the "£2,500" I spent on root canal surgery was for work on three teeth, involving three or four sessions of at least one hour. I believe the amount charged was reasonable for the quality of work delivered.

However, the more than doubling of his charges for routine six-monthly check-ups (including hygenist work) from £65 to £139, is "taking the piss"!

What should I do? Tell him to "stuff it", or tell him at that rate I only want to have an annual check-up. Or look for an alternative dentist?

[MikeMusic]

From memory my dentist and hygienist are £40 each session. I could be wrong
My dentist is also a gum specialist which is why I go to him

[kenworthy100]

some years ago my dentist went private, I only have an annual check up as my teeth are stable, he charges £49 for a checkup and carries out a routine scale, if there is severe tartar requiring more than a basic scale he would charge an additional £25 so in total it would be £74 ( I have never needed that)

Every two years he xrays the back teeth (included in the £49) checkup fee

[Macca]

I knew a dentist once. He lived in a mansion and he owned a speedboat. A good speedboat, too, not like those ones you could win on Bullseye.

[prestonchipfryer]

Thanks Guys. You are confirming my thoughts.

However just to make things clear - the "£2,500" I spent on root canal surgery was for work on three teeth, involving three or four sessions of at least one hour. I believe the amount charged was reasonable for the quality of work delivered.




£600 per hour, he really is taking the piss, isn't he? :eek:

[MikeMusic]

Dentists and Vets are the highest paid general medic going from what I know

[walpurgis]

I just pay standard NHS rates, which to me seem realistic and reasonable, not to mention that the service at my local practice is excellent and friendly.


I bet your dentist can afford a nice Hi-Fi Barry. Looks like you've been helping to pay for it! :rolleyes:

[Beobloke]

I changed dentist a week or so ago, mainly due to the prices (£160 for a 6-monthly checkup and hygenist visit) but also because of the pain I was having from a tooth that was filled back in January.

Well, the new dentist is much cheaper, very nice and after complimenting my previous dentist on the filling that was apparently "a work of art", he drilled it out to see why I was in pain, found the tooth pulp rotten and 20 minutes later I'm in the middle of a root canal procedure!

I've got to go back next week for it to be finished off but I am pain-free for the first time in weeks and successfully ate ice cream at the weekend - the last time I tried it, it felt like I'd been hit in the face with a hammer and I ended up with a splitting headache all down the right side of my head. As a bonus, the cost for the full lot of treatment is £450. I dread to think how much it would have cost with my old dentist...

[walpurgis]

Isn't toothache murder. Whilst last on holiday I had a crown loosen due to an infection that had got underneath and into the root, but the crown stayed attached to the filler in the tooth and it remained flapping about. The pain was truly something for several days until I got back to see my dentist.

[Tarzan]

l stick to a tried and tested rule with dentists- only go when you have a toothache( that has put a bok on it:)


Seriously, clean your teeth twice a day and stay away from sweets.

[Tarzan]

Isn't toothache murder. Whilst last on holiday I had a crown loosen due to an infection that had got underneath and into the root, but the crown stayed attached to the filler in the tooth and it remained flapping about. The pain was truly something for several days until I got back to see my dentist.


l have had this happen also, the pain is hideous- like watching The X Factor at loud levels and no door to the room .

[Covenant]

We pay for Denplan and all the family are seen twice a year for a total of £230, that's a check up and hygienist spit/polish. As we are in Mediicash we get about half of that back.

[Effem]

My teeth have always been a big problem all my life. When I was at primary school I had the whole lot pulled out under gas and that was terrifying for a little boy to go through, so little wonder me and dentists never got on for the rest of my life. It was more the fact that nobody told me what the heck was going on that scared me so much and the hallucinations I had while under the dreaded gas simply defies description.

When I was in my late 30's I started having toothache just before xmas and with each passing hour it got worse and worse. On xmas day it was unbearable and even after downing a bottle of whiskey I was still in absolute agony so I went to the hospital to get it sorted. They x-rayed me and found 6 abcesses, so no wonder I was in so much pain :eek: After that episode it was trouble and more trouble with the gnashers so the only cure was to have the lot out. My mother said they no longer hurt when they are all in the dentist's bin and she was right :lol: