Dentists

[PAH]

Try harder !?

It's easy getting a list off the NHS website. Just try phoning them all. No chance. I did this recently when moving to the area and was forced to go private.

Maybe this explains some of the problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7189448.stm

[BoredBloke]

About 4 months ago I called my PCT for names of dentists taking on. They gave me a number and now I have a NHS dentist.

[cailin maith]

Try harder !? I know when mine went private it meant there was then a pot of money available for local NHS dentistry and in theory a new one will open or an exisiting one expand to pick up the slack. Look around in the rougher areas in your neck of the woods, at my new one the dentists are polish, chinese etc but seem good.

Sod off - I did try hard... and got no place...

About 4 months ago I called my PCT for names of dentists taking on. They gave me a number and now I have a NHS dentist.

Well perhaps your PCT is better off than mine, I don't know but out of all the ones I rang - and there must have been about 40, none were taking on new patients.

I'm hardly going to pay over the odds am I just because I can't be bothered.

Honest to God, you lot are so ******* argumentative.

[Pondlife]

I hadn't been for years but went the other week.

£35 for initial consultation and £28 for the old scale and polish.

Still no fillings


Edit: Took my mobile so it's all billable time. Think I might be up on the deal TBH.

[darmstadt]

Been 12 times so far this year but Monday was the last for a while, €3000 spent so far. Got to go for a proper cleaning session later this year which is private here in Germany and will cost me €140.

[rootsnall]

Sod off - I did try hard... and got no place....

I beg your pardon. Just trying to help motivate you !

[PAH]

About 4 months ago I called my PCT for names of dentists taking on. They gave me a number and now I have a NHS dentist.

Is it a fairly new practice, so were/are building up a client base?

I see dentists similar to driving instructors. They only have so many hours a week they can earn money so are naturally going to go for the type of work that pays more money.

So I wouldn't be suprised if some do have vacancies but are keeping whatever free slots they have open for when the person rings back later and accepts private treatment.

With the number of new laws the govermin likes to bring out, it's only a matter of time before they force dentists to accept a certain proportion of NHS patients, if they do want to try and sort it out. As it is they seem happy with the two tier system they bang on about wanting to avoid.

[Xenophon]

I beg your pardon. Just trying to help motivate you !

You did say 'try harder'. That is about as motivating as poking someone up the bum with a snooker cue.

[NotAllThere]

Dental treatment in Switzerland is incredibly expensive, as is dental insurance. My daughters 3 year braces treatment has cost the best part of £5000. When we had to take her for emergency treatment when in the UK, the UK dentist was not impressed with the quality of the work - "The kind of thing that was taught 20 years ago".

So, Swiss dentistry - expensive and out of date.

When we visited Hungary a few years ago, we had some emergency out of hours treatment for our other daughter. 10'000 Forint it cost. That's about £30. And it was all the very latest equipment.

It's not unknown that when root canal surgery or something similarly expensive is required, to fly to Budapest, have the treatment, stay in a nice hotel etc. It's cheaper.

[Cyberman]

Go abroad and have dental work done far cheaper !!

If you have toothache, try taking antibiotics. I did that two years ago after a month of pain and have been fine ever since, and have had no work done even though the dentist wanted to give me root canal fillings for 800 quid.