Dentists - tell me about it
I went for a check-up today (NHS) for the first time in many years. I was lucky to get that.
Anyhow, as I was about to go, the dentist told me that she was leaving in a few months. It also transpired that they were currently struggling to fill four NHS positions they had vacant and that, when I rang up in a year for the next check, it was to be hoped that they had the dentists available. In the meantime, even emergencies would now have to be treated on a private basis.
The conversation then touched on the money that dentist earned - NHS versus private. I was met with a prompt rebuke that it wasn't about money. It's because of the way that the NHS treats dentists.
I am here to be educated........in what way can a dentist be treated badly by the NHS? I am genuinely curious.
Whatever, the future is looking bleaker and bleaker!
Dentists - tell me about it
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Originally Posted by
Passenger
Chimes with my own experience of dentistry here. I had an implant done, front upper tooth, required additional bone grafting, costa touch over a 1000 euro. Luxury, healthy maintained teeth.
Assuming we are talking about the same scope and broadly the same methodology: implant, bone grafting, abutment, screw, crown, imaging, suture removal, checks, how on earth can it cost €EUR1000 in Spain yet £3000 +/- £500 in the U.K?
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