COLC……..what crisis?

[Dustydog]

My dentist went private 35 years ago. Not overly expensive but in an emergency one of the three partners will sort you out. State of the art kit.
Kev I wouldn’t do a multi NHS / Private practice because of the prejudice Mags experienced. Very wrong!

 

[Buckman]

Mags had a dentist appointment for today, being a routine check up, booked over 6 months ago.
But on Sunday she developed toothache so rang dentist Monday morning to ask for emergency appointment, NO wait until your appointment on Wednesday (today).
BUT you can have a private appointment at £85.00 to sit in the chair plus the cost of any treatment.
Despicable policy, can get you in if you go private but not on the NHS and that is going to the same practice for over 40 years!!
And yes she suffered and went today.

I had a 3 month wait with the NHS for an issue with my back, but the same specialist was able to do it the next day for a fee. I paid the fee as I was in total agony.

 

[RogerL]

Aren’t you in Scotland which has as different payment regime cf England and Wales.

https://www.dentalprotection.org/uk/articles/regulatory-differences-between-scotland-england

No - South Staffordshire - we just go to Scotland frequently.

 

[Beachball]

My wife went to Dentist she been with fortysix years had a checkup and clean for £25 but there are three levels of payment on what you have done .

 

[RogerL]

My wife went to Dentist she been with fortysix years had a checkup and clean for £25 but there are three levels of payment on what you have done .

That sounds like NHS rates.

 

[Buckman]

With the COL crisis, I wonder how many people will be rushing out this year to buy Halloween stuff and then a week later, fireworks?

I suspect we will seeing Halloween things at knock down prices closer to the date and also afterwards. Same with fireworks.

 

[otherclive]

With the COL crisis, I wonder how many people will be rushing out this year to buy Halloween stuff and then a week later, fireworks

Probably a lot more than buy breed specific dog food at £11.99 for 1.5kg

 

[Buckman]

With the COL crisis, I wonder how many people will be rushing out this year to buy Halloween stuff and then a week later, fireworks

Probably a lot more than buy breed specific dog food at £11.99 for 1.5kg

Maybe they breed Chihuahua dogs hoping to cash in. When we were breeding dogs we spent a lot of money buying Royal Canin breed specific food especially for the pups. It made OH happy so who am i to argue?

 

[otherclive]

Below are the rates for NHS dental care in England and Wales. I cannot even get the car washed and vacuumed for Rate 1 and that rate includes for things like "N" treatments within that band, as do the other rate bands too.

Can anyone say that the rates are anywhere near to realistic?.No wonder so many dentists have left the NHS, and moved to private care.

How much will I pay for NHS dental treatment?

Find out about NHS dental costs and what’s included in each band of fixed charges.

www.nhs.uk

 

[Dustydog]

I’m surprised the NHS hasn’t offered to pay for patients to attend a private practice for dental emergencies. Knee and hip replacements are routinely farmed out to private hospitals. Thus relieving some pressure on the NHS and probably cheaper in the long run🤪

 

[otherclive]

I'm told that if you are a private patient and require an emergency treatment then a local NHS emergency dental centre will take you. But if you are a NHS registered dental patient the local NHS emergency dental centre will not take you. Can that be correct?

 

[Beachball]

That sounds like NHS rates.

Spot on and very satisfied with there service

 

[Beachball]

With the COL crisis, I wonder how many people will be rushing out this year to buy Halloween stuff and then a week later, fireworks

Probably a lot more than buy breed specific dog food at £11.99 for 1.5kg

Hi clive already brought it set up for the kids but we are away bonfire night near Alnwick Castle .

 

[RogerL]

Below are the rates for NHS dental care in England and Wales. I cannot even get the car washed and vacuumed for Rate 1 and that rate includes for things like "N" treatments within that band, as do the other rate bands too.

Can anyone say that the rates are anywhere near to realistic?.No wonder so many dentists have left the NHS, and moved to private care.

How much will I pay for NHS dental treatment?

Find out about NHS dental costs and what’s included in each band of fixed charges.

www.nhs.uk

And yet there are dentists who offer NHS rates to their "private" patients - my dentist does, and was recently advertising for NHS patients - the dentists tend to be foreign and on a short-term contract but the treatment is top-class.

 

[Dustydog]

I'm told that if you are a private patient and require an emergency treatment then a local NHS emergency dental centre will take you. But if you are a NHS registered dental patient the local NHS emergency dental centre will not take you. Can that be correct?

This may help?

NHS England — South West » What to do if you need urgent dental treatment

NHS England — South West

www.england.nhs.uk

 

[Buckman]

And yet there are dentists who offer NHS rates to their "private" patients - my dentist does, and was recently advertising for NHS patients - the dentists tend to be foreign and on a short-term contract but the treatment is top-class.

Unfortunately not always are foreign dentists okay. We had a foreign dentist at our local. She attended to OH once as it was an emergency and the whole procedure was painful.

OH had to go back when our regular dentist returned. Heard on the grapevine apparently quite a number of complaints about the foreign dentist and shortly after an incident she left.

 

[Hutch]

Unfortunately not always are foreign dentists okay. We had a dentist from Poland at our local. She attended to OH once as it was an emergency and the whole procedure was painful.

OH had to go back when our regular dentist returned. Heard on the grapevine apparently quite a number of complaints about dentist from Poland and shortly after an incident she left.

That's a total. Unfair posting, my previous Dentist for 20 years was Irish, my present one is British with Indian heritage, overseas I have had Egyptian and ,Nigerian. There are good and bad everywhere.

 

[Dustydog]

That's a total. Unfair posting, my previous Dentist for 20 years was Irish, my present one is British with Indian heritage, overseas I have had Egyptian and ,Nigerian. There are good and bad everywhere.

My second dentist in 44 years is a qualified Doctor who then trained to become a Dentist. She spent four years with the Australian Flying Doctor service.
I agree it really doesn't matter what their origin is😎😎

 

[Johnb]

My second dentist in 44 years is a qualified Doctor who then trained to become a Dentist. She spent four years with the Australian Flying Doctor service.
I agree it really doesn't matter what their origin is😎😎

It does to some Hutch. It would appear that any opportunity to criticize anyone including health professionals who are not "White English" is fair game to some.

My present dentist is from Sri Lanca and I have no cause for complaint. The last time I had a trip to a hospital I was looked after by nurses who were immigrants and doctors who were not born in the UK. Heaven forbit they had black skins!

Frankly I find it distasteful to see the frequency that some take every opportunity to taint their posts with a degree of racism.

Of course this is just my view and may not be shared by others.

 

[Buckman]

I agree that any one making racist comments should be reprimanded.

 

[Parksy]

I agree that any one making racist comments should be reprimanded.

Actually anyone adding racist comments to the message boards is banned.
After my earlier private warning to you has been disregarded, your membership of this forum is suspended for one month, even though you edited the original version of the offensive post before I'd seen it.
( I can still see the edit and your substitution of the word "foreign" is in any case racist ).
Further transgressions after this could result in a permanent forum ban.

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[Gagakev]

My dentist went private 35 years ago. Not overly expensive but in an emergency one of the three partners will sort you out. State of the art kit.
Kev I wouldn’t do a multi NHS / Private practice because of the prejudice Mags experienced. Very wrong!

COLC just got more expensive for us.
As you know Mags had appointment last Wednesday, told she needed extraction, but cant do it now the dentist says!!, make another appointment on way out.
So Mags being Mags did this and got an appointment for two weeks time!! We went away on Thursday with her still in pain, but she soldiered on, said I would pay for her on Friday to get somewhere in Devizes, she wanted to wait GRRR!!
Finally got the better of her and we cut the holiday short came home today, private appointment tomorrow,
Changing dentist after this diabolical situation!!!
So £195.00 for the extraction and lost pitch fee.
But she's worth it ( but please dont tell her I said that)

 

[Dustydog]

COLC just got more expensive for us.
As you know Mags had appointment last Wednesday, told she needed extraction, but cant do it now the dentist says!!, make another appointment on way out.
So Mags being Mags did this and got an appointment for two weeks time!! We went away on Thursday with her still in pain, but she soldiered on, said I would pay for her on Friday to get somewhere in Devizes, she wanted to wait GRRR!!
Finally got the better of her and we cut the holiday short came home today, private appointment tomorrow,
Changing dentist after this diabolical situation!!!
So £195.00 for the extraction and lost pitch fee.
But she's worth it ( but please dont tell her I said that)

Name and shame Kev. An extraction takes less than 15 minutes normally. Good on you binning the to**ers

 

[Jcloughie]

Below are the rates for NHS dental care in England and Wales. I cannot even get the car washed and vacuumed for Rate 1 and that rate includes for things like "N" treatments within that band, as do the other rate bands too.

Can anyone say that the rates are anywhere near to realistic?.No wonder so many dentists have left the NHS, and moved to private care.

How much will I pay for NHS dental treatment?

Find out about NHS dental costs and what’s included in each band of fixed charges.

www.nhs.uk

I use a local NHS dentist. Part of a group specialising in NHS work. They have been fine for years. But now they are struggling for dentists and trying to shed patients. I had a call about 6 months ago telling me that my dentist was leaving so they would not be able to help me in the future. I told them that I had never actually seen that dentist so they relented and gave me an appointment. A bit later I lost a filling. No pain, but it was a useful tooth.

I had my appointment last Saturday morning. A new dentist (to me anyway). He made me laugh calling it an emergency appointment. He did not have enough purchase to put a filling on so put a hard covering on instead. which is doing the job. That cost £23.80 as in your list. He then said I could go ‘adventurous‘, I could have a peg into the root then a cap. But that would be £600 plus!

John

 

[otherclive]

I use a local NHS dentist. Part of a group specialising in NHS work. They have been fine for years. But now they are struggling for dentists and trying to shed patients. I had a call about 6 months ago telling me that my dentist was leaving so they would not be able to help me in the future. I told them that I had never actually seen that dentist so they relented and gave me an appointment. A bit later I lost a filling. No pain, but it was a useful tooth.

I had my appointment last Saturday morning. A new dentist (to me anyway). He made me laugh calling it an emergency appointment. He did not have enough purchase to put a filling on so put a hard covering on instead. which is doing the job. That cost £23.80 as in your list. He then said I could go ‘adventurous‘, I could have a peg into the root then a cap. But that would be £600 plus!

John

Yes I recently had a crown 3D printed, cost £700+
Why didn’t your dentist offer to fit a crown under NHS Band 3 treatment?