NHS Dental Charges (hygienist)

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05 February 2013, 10:45 PM

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PS Dr Hu, I placed £37k's worth of implant work (lab cost) one month last year on the NHS.....

Shaun

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05 February 2013, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Midlife......

Bog standard NHS dentist shows the taxman £114k as a broad average.......

David, just out of curiosity when did your wife qualify and where from ?

Shaun

London circa 1970 then Houseman at Georges. Then Diana Davis with her sister Anthea, also a dentist.

PM me if this rings any bells

David

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06 February 2013, 08:36 AM

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PS Dr Hu, I placed £37k's worth of implant work (lab cost) one month last year on the NHS.....

Shaun

Hmmmm - I looked around at the time and everywhere said that a missing tooth would not be replaced by the NHS.

I had a milk tooth that didn't have a adult tooth below it (5th tooth back from top front) - my dentist (who is great BTW) had nurtured it for 40+ years, but it finally gave way & broke in half - half came out anyhow, the other half had to be removed.

That left me with a gap in my 'smile line' which I wanted fixing.

My dentist said its either a bridging crown that damaged the two teeth next to it and will fail again in the future, or an implant with hopefully will be a fit & forget.

Anyhow I'm -pleased with the results - its the strongest tooth i've got now! lol

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06 February 2013, 09:04 AM

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Incidentally I see no point in going private unless you need film star implants so why waste all that money? This assuming there is an NHS dentist in your patch.

David

NHS dentists appear to be few and far between.
Private plans are not really all that expensive, costs me about £170 per year.
I go to the dentist twice per year minimum, and the hygienist 3 times per year.

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06 February 2013, 12:45 PM

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£17:50 for scale and polish .... any more and you are being shafted.

Dentist I know gets £100k+ for a few days a week ......... implants are a Dentists pot of gold, simple engineering yet £1,000's in return. It's a helicoil insert FFS - nowt to it.

Most Dentists are on way over £100k

Still fixated mate?
Unlike your teeth

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06 February 2013, 01:51 PM

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implants are a Dentists pot of gold, simple engineering yet £1,000's in return. It's a helicoil insert FFS - nowt to it.

Really

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07 February 2013, 03:22 PM

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fillings for £38? on nhs then lol

Why the LOL about that, and did you read about and understand the treatment that I said I had in my post?

Les

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07 February 2013, 03:25 PM

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Les,

I thought you may have left your teeth there and collected them later

Can't do that. I was brought up when sugar and sweets were on ration!

Les

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07 February 2013, 04:45 PM

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Really
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KN6Mflaw1s

Since PSL obviously knows bugger all about helicoiling, don't you think he would find this clip more useful?

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07 February 2013, 05:23 PM

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I'm not sure what you are on about?

A Dental Implant in the hands of a Dentist is the same as a Helicoil Insert in the hands of an Engineering Craftsman ...... only difference is that the Craftsman earns £40k a year and a dentist earns £140k minimum.

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07 February 2013, 06:13 PM

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Well I would suggest you watch the clip then.

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07 February 2013, 11:19 PM

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Since PSL obviously knows bugger all about helicoiling, don't you think he would find this clip more useful?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYC4L68LU

WTF - swarf ingress everywhere