Paid £65.20 for a filling this morning! That's the NHS rate.
Feel like I've been hurt in my wallet as well as my mouth!
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Paid almost double that for a white one privately a couple of years ago.
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Porsche 911s have gone up massively in the last few years so the dentist has no option but to charge more.
I snapped a root on a front crown. The NHS offered only a plate. Tried an Edinburgh Dentist that did crowns - £3,000 and £150/ year maintenance. They also said I needed some £300+ maintenance on other teeth.
I paid the local dentist for a bridge @ £320 and last year another one as my gums had shrunk £280 for a new one
Not cheap but better than a plate and somewhat less than a 1 tooth implant!
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Blimey FB, Good memory - I had forgotten this post...
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=29168&m=632761#
Different dentist this time; a very pleasant Asian chap. The practice has two new staff members and they still do NHS work.
Last edited by: zippy on Thu 2 Feb 23 at 09:33
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>> Porsche 911s have gone up massively in the last few years so the dentist has
>> no option but to charge more.
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Mrs BB is a dentist, and her Mercedes CLK is 16 years old! (she spends her money on me instead - if only!!!)
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>> Feel like I've been hurt in my wallet as well as my mouth!
First you are lucky you got to see an NHS dentist, and second I pay twice that to get through the door at my dentist.
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My wife is having some dental implants. They cost £2,500 per tooth. Expect total cost to be around £9,000.
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Almost cheaper with a divorce and getting a newer model!
Only joking.
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Lawyers have even higher fees that’s dentists.
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Looking forward to charging similar as a GP.
Might get some comfy chairs for the waiting room, a coffee machine and a TV for punters to watch while I empty their wallets.
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>> Might get some comfy chairs for the waiting room, a coffee machine and a TV
>> for punters to watch while I empty their wallets.
Dont forget sacking the old harridan you have on the reception, replacing her with a younger model, and your own sexy young nursing assistant.
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>> Dont forget sacking the old harridan you have on the reception, replacing her with a
>> younger model, and your own sexy young nursing assistant.
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The old harridan was still there.
The dental nurses however!!!
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Going rate for a GP at local BUPA health clinic is £79 for a fifteen minute consultation and they do indeed have very nice coffee and up to date magazines.
Dentistry is where the money is.
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Damnit! I've just broken my plate and the dentist recommends a new one, a 'chrome' plate is advised.
Looks like I'll need a mortgage.
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...try a local "Chrome Plater" for a better price....
(I'll get my coat!)
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>> Damnit! I've just broken my plate and the dentist recommends a new one, a 'chrome'
>> plate is advised.
>> Looks like I'll need a mortgage.
Bout 3 grand I reckon. You could buy about two years of fortisip for that.
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>>Going rate for a GP at local BUPA health clinic is £79 for a fifteen minute consultation and they do indeed have very nice coffee and up to date magazines.
SPIRE is £120 for 30 minutes.
The real money is made from what you can upsell during your 30 minute pitch: blood tests, ECG, XRay, referral to specialist, etc etc.
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Hypochondriacs are easy pickings I guess if you were to be the unethical sort of doctor. The wealthy worried well must yield a nice income for some.
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>> Paid £65.20 for a filling this morning!
Is that all. I paid £109 recently for one.
Private dentist. £15:10 per month dental plan, which gives me 20% off dental work, and 2 free check ups and hygienist visits a year, free x-rays and worldwide dental insurance.
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I paid £140 this time last year to have one removed. I was in the chair about five minutes max.
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Would you have liked him to take a lot longer?
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>> Would you have liked him to take a lot longer?
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Five minutes were fine but I'd have liked to pay a bit less
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That dentist will have had five years study and two years of supervised practice before he can set up on his own. Apart from his own wage he has the costs of ruining the surgery to pay. In that light it looks pretty cheap.
I just paid £230 to have my gutters cleared out and the windows cleaned. I don’t think it took the guy seven years to learn how to do it?
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What is this dental hygienist stuff ? I’ve never felt the need to make an appointment.
I know how to brush my teeth. Have done most of my life. After meals, when you wake up and before beddies. Occasionally use a tee pee thing, but not often. Never floss, or gargle with some strange solution.
Teeth reasonably ok so far, used an Oral B leccy brush the past several years.
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Odds odd your teath are covered in plaque. Hygenist will remove this and help slow down the onset of decay and gum disease and bone loss. A bit o f money spent now might save you living on porridge in your old age
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I go see a dental hygienist once a year. They do a good job, my teeth always feel weird afterwards though.
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To the best of my knowledge my dentist removes the plaque when I have my 6 monthly inspection.
A sharp implement between my teeth to remove small bits of hard detritus, then a very fast spinning brush, with water, over the gnashers.
Spit and rinse
I don’t think my NHS dentist has ever mentioned the need for me to see a hygienist..
Maybe I’m missing something ?
ps. I like porridge. Have it most mornings, Flahavans, with a handful of blueberries and rasps.
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pretty simple. what do you want your money on your teeth.
swm paid £224 yesterday for a check up and repair chipped tooth. i'm in next week£53 for 20 minutes with hygenist.. my dentist also likes his porsche
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>> To the best of my knowledge my dentist removes the plaque when I have my
>> 6 monthly inspection.
>> A sharp implement between my teeth to remove small bits of hard detritus, then a
>> very fast spinning brush, with water, over the gnashers.
>> Spit and rinse
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>> I don’t think my NHS dentist has ever mentioned the need for me to see a hygienist..
Your dentist is doing what a hygienist does.
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>> Your dentist is doing what a hygienist does.
My excellent dentist has not done the scale and polish since Covid, nor has he suggested that I should see one of the resident hygienists.
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Mine has.
Every 6 months, although from memory in the immediate aftermath of Covid there was a hiatus.
Being slightly anal I keep my dental receipts..last year I had inspections in February ( a few days before I went to Spain) and September ( likewise) £23.80 per visit, which included the sharp scrape implement and high speed polish. I distinctly remember the dentist telling me to brush my gums, as well as gnashers.
Same dental practice for 30 years. Different dentists over that period, but we’ve built up a repartee because I’m there so often.
I don’t know what car my dentist has.
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>>I don't know what car my dentist has
My dentist has a para-glider (one of those big kite things with a motorised fan on the back), but not in this country!
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I do not know how much a dentist earns today but I do know how much my late brother earned in the past.
1972 I was making £1,700 per year as a graduate, he was making more than 10x that as profit per year. His own practice and employed 2 other dentists, a dental mechanic + 6/7 others. 2 x Volvo estates in 1972 which evolved into Range Rovers for roughly 30 years!
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Local to us was a dentist who used to drive a Roller.
He was investigated by World in Action around the early 1980s for doing unnecessary work on his patients.
Money corrupts - I suspect doctors will be no less tempted than dentists if we more to a pay-for-treatment system.
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>> Money corrupts - I suspect doctors will be no less tempted than dentists if we
>> more to a pay-for-treatment system.
Its a lot more tricky to replace body parts unnecessarily.
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>> Its a lot more tricky to replace body parts unnecessarily.
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...more easy to whip spare ones out...
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>>Its a lot more tricky to replace body parts unnecessarily.
Indeed but it's super-easy to recommend pointless tests, examinations, referrals and medications.
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...the former owner of my dental practice was a family acquaintance.
In conversation he was quite adamant that he could run the practice quite profitably on NHS income only (though there was private work done).
"We don't all run Porsches, you know" he said. (I was looking out of the window at his two-month -old BMW M-series cabrio at the time).
Mind you, he also assured me that one could live on beer alone so he might have been having me on :-) (funny how conversations in the chair go).
I think the Patels who bought the practice are probably better dentists, and just as affable.
Interestingly enough, having sold the practice, I assumed he'd retired (though he's younger than me). This thread prompted me to check, and I note he is now on the role at another dentist, closer to his home village, but not a partner. Presumably settled for an easier life, whilst earning enough to maintain his BMW and sailing habits.
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One of my besties was a dentist with his own practice. Retired early, bought a house in the Eden Valley and restored it himself. Wife carried on running a big lawyers firm and commuted. No kids. Retired now. He's just sold his 1946 Rover and LWB Landrover. Now has a Tesla, Nissan Leaf, Audi TT convertible, SWB Land Rover for the caravan, Sprinter which he made into a very professional motorhome. Has a horse and dogs and has built a double garage with stable out of local stone.
Can't do all that on a state pension !
He collapsed and died last year in the kitchen. Wife rand 2 retired GP living on the other side of the river and they rushed round and brought him back. I don't know if it was used but he has a defibrillator in a steel box on the barn wall by the road as a first respondner. Lucky man, it was too foggy for the helicopter and the ambulance is about 12 miles away in narrow lanes !
Ted
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Thread drift....I like the Eden valley and it’s surroundings. Some lovely villages, with good pubs.
We walked the 80 mile Eden Way over 5 Tuesdays in summer 2021, using the Settle- Carlisle to access the route, so easy peasy from home. A long (short) distance walk I’d happily repeat.
Friends live in a tiny hamlet overlooking the River Petteril, great long distance views of Lakeland peaks and great sunsets.
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"great long distance views of Lakeland peaks and great sunsets."
It'll be good when they get this levelling up done and we get some of that down here in the Sarf. :-)
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Maybe levelling up means using the valleys as landfill sites.
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>> Thread drift....
Cant quite get my teeth into that one
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>> Thread drift....I like the Eden valley and it’s surroundings. Some lovely villages, with good pubs.
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Our friends actually live in the Lyvennet Valley at Maulds Meaburn. Have you tried the White Horse in Kings Meaburn ?
Traditional pub, small, log fire good food and beer and no pretensions to anything but a village pub.
Went to a beer festival in the field next door in 2006 when I went to Fort William on the bike and had a stopover in Maulds. Some great beers, still have the pint pot !
Ted
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Dental Charges - Lygonos
