My old dentist used to charge reasonably – usually just how long you were in the chair unless there was a serious procedure happening. Check-Up, Cleaning, Fillings, etc the bill was always like €50-100 MAX and usually the PRSI scheme covered all of your check-up. I got probably a dozen fillings as a kid/teenager and it was maybe €15 each on top of a check-up cost. This chap retires and his practice is bought out by the other dentists in the practice and suddenly it’s price gouge city.
Firstly they started surcharging on top of your checkup/cleaning – it’s crept up from a €5 to now €25 per visit for your state covered visit. Maybe this is normal but I always figured the state visit should basically be 100% covered to get people to actually go for it.
Then I had a tooth crack on me, massive pain, ringing for days and eventually they saw me a week later. They refused to bill me for “emergency dental work” which would’ve gotten me a chunk back through my insurance. €400 for 3 fillings in that visit – one of the fillings resolved the crack.
Everytime I go back it’s well over a hundred quid. I basically haven’t been in two years cause I could not be fucked. I know it’s a problem and it’ll come home to roost but it’s just pure extortion.
A lot of people go up north. Me. I’m getting gummier by the year.
Thanks as well to the bizzare decision to limit medical card holders to two fillings a year. It used to be unlimited. Mary Harney said it was ” to stop people getting unnecessary dental work”. As if people were going to the dentist just for the hell of it.
To make it worse, extractions are still unlimited. So if you need a filling, they can’t do it, but will pull the tooth out instead.
This leads to all sorts of dental health problems, pain, and there’s a lot of evidence that bad teeth dramatically increase heart disease.
As well as the social stigma of having bad or missing teeth – people are incredibly judgemental about it
Yippee Holly reads another script!
FFG did this.
Does the medical card cover the repairs for the shit Turkey teeth jobs that will be done in the future.
I have nothing against Social democrat’s but she is a woeful public speaker. Like a secondary school teenager reading out their essay.
It’s even worse if you don’t have the medical card. Get a free check every year. That’s the cheap part. And my dentist throws €75 on top for an x-ray. And then its €100+ for any additional work. God forbid you might need a crown. That’s €1500+
Basically there is no state funded dental care in this country for anyone who works.
I know lads who buy bags of coke on the weekend and girls who spend 200 on Botox, is it a matter of can’t afford or chose the spend their money elsewhere
Don’t be silly we can’t have nice things for all the tax we pay.
We are having people rotting in hospital corridors. Maybe at this point we just need to revise our expectations of the level of service that we can expect.
Absolutely.
I just paid a whopping 2 grand end to end for a root canal and then crown.
Fact is that shit is unacceptable and it’s only trending to get much worse.
That’s before you get in to people on lower incomes or the limitations around medical cards.
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Many dentists are taking the piss by booking double appointments as well. You can’t get a simple clean without a prior consultation in some cases. That needs to be stamped out.
I don’t even know any dentist that takes on people with medical cards anymore. Haven’t seen it in about a decade at this stage, is it like that everywhere?
School dentist for the kids is beyond a joke, they’re seen once in junior infants, and once in 6th class, and tough shite what happens in the 8 years in-between.
She’s class. Love her.
Have a feeling whoever was on the receiving end got a good ripping, without watching the vid yet.
Plenty of working people without medical card cant afford to go to the doctor at 65 euro a pop or120 for a filling at the dentist.
The medical profession is a cartel here. They deliberately restrict the numbers who can be trained. Pharmacy is the same.
I was recently in Madrid, and there’s almost a pharmacy on every street corner and many are open during the night and late evenings.
How many pharmacies are open at night in Dublin?
Because dentists are the biggest price gouging fucking crooks in the medical profession.
Dental plan
I understand that the long term issue is they screwed pooch making dentists purely private and therefore they are profit making businesses but can someone please explain how the fuck they get exempt from PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE on top of this?
Like I’m in the great position of being able to afford private health insurance and want it because of my particular choices in hobbies and sport meaning injury can be common, but I have to get EXTRA insurance for just dental? Absolutely farcical.
320e for a clean and one filling in Galway recently. Brutal
It’s really difficult to find a dentist who takes medical card these days so the reality is that many low income people are still priced out of dental treatment
It is insane that in the 21st century we still treat teeth care as secondary health concerns.
We have known the danger of damaged teeth to people health for literal centuries
I have a good job, private health insurance and I still cannot afford to go to the dentist . Any time the kids it’s at least 100e a pop.
When I went I was told I needed a bit of work quoted over 3 grand… I just don’t have it
I’m still waiting for a law against teenagers that will punish them if they commit crimes, like every day in Dublin.
I wish pregnant women/ new mothers had access to a free dental visit like we do with GPs, every woman I know including myself had some issue with teeth or gums while pregnant. “Gain a child, lose a tooth” became very real for some of us (dental hygiene doesn’t change majority of these situations unfortunately) and it’s a side effect of pregnancy that people don’t talk about.
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My old dentist used to charge reasonably – usually just how long you were in the chair unless there was a serious procedure happening. Check-Up, Cleaning, Fillings, etc the bill was always like €50-100 MAX and usually the PRSI scheme covered all of your check-up. I got probably a dozen fillings as a kid/teenager and it was maybe €15 each on top of a check-up cost. This chap retires and his practice is bought out by the other dentists in the practice and suddenly it’s price gouge city.
Firstly they started surcharging on top of your checkup/cleaning – it’s crept up from a €5 to now €25 per visit for your state covered visit. Maybe this is normal but I always figured the state visit should basically be 100% covered to get people to actually go for it.
Then I had a tooth crack on me, massive pain, ringing for days and eventually they saw me a week later. They refused to bill me for “emergency dental work” which would’ve gotten me a chunk back through my insurance. €400 for 3 fillings in that visit – one of the fillings resolved the crack.
Everytime I go back it’s well over a hundred quid. I basically haven’t been in two years cause I could not be fucked. I know it’s a problem and it’ll come home to roost but it’s just pure extortion.
A lot of people go up north. Me. I’m getting gummier by the year.
Thanks as well to the bizzare decision to limit medical card holders to two fillings a year. It used to be unlimited. Mary Harney said it was ” to stop people getting unnecessary dental work”. As if people were going to the dentist just for the hell of it.
To make it worse, extractions are still unlimited. So if you need a filling, they can’t do it, but will pull the tooth out instead.
This leads to all sorts of dental health problems, pain, and there’s a lot of evidence that bad teeth dramatically increase heart disease.
As well as the social stigma of having bad or missing teeth – people are incredibly judgemental about it
Yippee Holly reads another script!
FFG did this.
Does the medical card cover the repairs for the shit Turkey teeth jobs that will be done in the future.
I have nothing against Social democrat’s but she is a woeful public speaker. Like a secondary school teenager reading out their essay.
It’s even worse if you don’t have the medical card. Get a free check every year. That’s the cheap part. And my dentist throws €75 on top for an x-ray. And then its €100+ for any additional work. God forbid you might need a crown. That’s €1500+
Basically there is no state funded dental care in this country for anyone who works.
I know lads who buy bags of coke on the weekend and girls who spend 200 on Botox, is it a matter of can’t afford or chose the spend their money elsewhere
Don’t be silly we can’t have nice things for all the tax we pay.
We are having people rotting in hospital corridors. Maybe at this point we just need to revise our expectations of the level of service that we can expect.
Absolutely.
I just paid a whopping 2 grand end to end for a root canal and then crown.
Fact is that shit is unacceptable and it’s only trending to get much worse.
That’s before you get in to people on lower incomes or the limitations around medical cards.
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Many dentists are taking the piss by booking double appointments as well. You can’t get a simple clean without a prior consultation in some cases. That needs to be stamped out.
I don’t even know any dentist that takes on people with medical cards anymore. Haven’t seen it in about a decade at this stage, is it like that everywhere?
School dentist for the kids is beyond a joke, they’re seen once in junior infants, and once in 6th class, and tough shite what happens in the 8 years in-between.
She’s class. Love her.
Have a feeling whoever was on the receiving end got a good ripping, without watching the vid yet.
Plenty of working people without medical card cant afford to go to the doctor at 65 euro a pop or120 for a filling at the dentist.
The medical profession is a cartel here. They deliberately restrict the numbers who can be trained. Pharmacy is the same.
I was recently in Madrid, and there’s almost a pharmacy on every street corner and many are open during the night and late evenings.
How many pharmacies are open at night in Dublin?
Because dentists are the biggest price gouging fucking crooks in the medical profession.
Dental plan
I understand that the long term issue is they screwed pooch making dentists purely private and therefore they are profit making businesses but can someone please explain how the fuck they get exempt from PRIVATE MEDICAL INSURANCE on top of this?
Like I’m in the great position of being able to afford private health insurance and want it because of my particular choices in hobbies and sport meaning injury can be common, but I have to get EXTRA insurance for just dental? Absolutely farcical.
320e for a clean and one filling in Galway recently. Brutal
It’s really difficult to find a dentist who takes medical card these days so the reality is that many low income people are still priced out of dental treatment
It is insane that in the 21st century we still treat teeth care as secondary health concerns.
We have known the danger of damaged teeth to people health for literal centuries
I have a good job, private health insurance and I still cannot afford to go to the dentist . Any time the kids it’s at least 100e a pop.
When I went I was told I needed a bit of work quoted over 3 grand… I just don’t have it
I’m still waiting for a law against teenagers that will punish them if they commit crimes, like every day in Dublin.
I wish pregnant women/ new mothers had access to a free dental visit like we do with GPs, every woman I know including myself had some issue with teeth or gums while pregnant. “Gain a child, lose a tooth” became very real for some of us (dental hygiene doesn’t change majority of these situations unfortunately) and it’s a side effect of pregnancy that people don’t talk about.