Is 300 lei for a dental check up and one tooth cleaning honest pricing?can anyone translates what she wrote on the receipt? she also told me that couldn’t take card
Is 300 lei for a dental check up and one tooth cleaning honest pricing?can anyone translates what she wrote on the receipt? she also told me that couldn’t take card
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That “38” means you have 38 teeth so this is why they asked 300 lei.
Maybe a bit on the pricier side but I think the least you could have paid would have been around 200 lei. It’s quite common for dentists not to accept card payments unfortunately.
One tooth cleaning = a single tooth has been cleaned or the entire mouth?
If only one tooth has been cleaned, what does that mean? Plaque and tartar removal, airflow and so on or a cavity has been cleaned and filled out?
If she cleaned out the entire mouth, the price checks out.
If she cleaned out a cavity, the price checks out.
If she removed the plaque and tartar from only one tooth, you got a bit scammed.
One tooth cleaning you mean repairing tooth decay right? I would consider this ok, I paid more for that. And yes cheap dentists don’t take card but at more expensive ones they do.
The check up is usually free.
If you went to a luxury place, then the price is right.
It looks pricy to me, but what do I know. However, I don’t know if I would trust a dentist where you can’t pay by card (at least in Bucharest, but also in every other city). It’s 2022.
I hope at least conditions are top notch inside.
I think I paid less (~200 something) for a cavity repair some time ago. Maybe the prices got up in 2022?
Just fyi, for 300 lei I got a panoramic dental x-ray + checkup + plaque removal + professional brushing at one of the top dental joints in Bucharest.
it’s really confusing as to what exactly they did to your teeth. if it’s a check up and cleaning (usually the whole mouth which involves brushing and tartar removal) it’s ok-ish price, on the upper side.
It’s usual for dentists to not accept card, if they do it’s probably a more expensive clinic than this. If you do feel that somethings not right, you should just find another dentist, there are lots of them. Can ask here aswell, just tell us the city and surely there will be a redditor to help you out.
I find it’s actually on the cheap side.
Usually, a consultation is around 100-250 lei and a proper dental cleaning 300-400 lei (includes plaque removal, airflow, professional brushing and in most cases, some whitening).
! I am not a dentist.!
The diagnostic is ‘pericoronitis’.
It’s quite a painful condition in which the gum surrounding a wisdom tooth becomes swollen and infected, usually due to food that got trapped there.
The cleaning might be the dentist’s attempt to remove any sort of food debris that might still be trapped between the gum and the wisdom tooth. They probably used a dull point needle to ‘inject’ either betadine or dilluted hydrogen peroxide between the wisdom tooth and the gum to get any food/blood/puss out of there, and if successful, the pain should’ve reduced in intensity.
Regarding the price – it depends. If you schedule the wisdom tooth removal with the same dentist, they might diagnose and clean the affected area for free (this is what happened in my case), if not, then I’m sure they’d charge something for the service, but unsure how much is fair.
What to expect, since I went through the process as you a month ago: the area is clean, keep it clean. Don’t eat on that side. Schedule a wisdom tooth extraction. The dentist you schedule the extraction with will give you some antibiotics to reduce the infection, a special mouthwash to use before, and after the extraction and maybe recommend a CT Scan. Once the infection has reduced, they will proceed with the extraction, which is quite painless.
Hope this helped.
300 adica “trei sute(three hundred)”
Reprezentand: pericoronarita supurata (pericoronaritis). Basically price 300 lei and your diagnosis is pericoronaritis.
I think the price is fair for what you described in the comments, maybe there could be some cheaper dental clinics but overall is not that big of a scam
Why are you even questioning this? Are you assuming Romanians are out to scam you at every step?
Very problematic that this doctor helped you with your issue and you are asking us whether they are honest.
Seems about right,could have found something cheaper but it’s better not to take the quality risk
A bit overpriced, yes, just for cleaning and checkup.
200 is fair but prices may vary.
bussines …
Seems like a fair price, dental services are anything but cheap
That’s pretty cheap. Why do you assume you were scammed?
Do you have puss?
In my nowhere village the price is about the same if you have a infection. The cleaning, whatever is for the proper diagnosis.
If there’s an infection and requires some extra interventions ( antibiotics and co. ) before the removal, then it’s cheap.
The POS is still new. I only have 1 POS in my hole.
Did you also get an x-ray done? If yes then its about 70 for an x-ray, 70 consultation and 160 for the cleaning of the infection…a bit price but reasonable
The price is fine but the fact that he or she refused a card payment means that they are evading tax or are fraudulent about their studies, meaning they might not be doctors at all.
To fill a simple cavity it can cost anything from 100-300 depending on the city and dentist. A root canal will usually be over 300.
I got charged 100 lei for a 20 min consultation and they glue one of my tooth back . Took 5 min
Unfortunately yes it is. Still cheaper than most EU countries but the reason why many Romanians just let their teeth fall out and never deep clean them.
Just make a trip to Moldova.Dental care is very cheap here.In my experience, A check-up (including a CT scan) and a crown instalment usually costs me about 550 moldovian lei which is about 28 euros,yet the quality of the service is pretty good and I didn’t encounter any misconduct or had any complications after that.Dental tourism is actually a thing here.Every summer people from all other Europe (Italy, Ireland,Germany etc) come here for dental medicine because it’s very affordable and of high quality.
Do you have local insurance? State one, etc? I am asking s because if you are under any of the local insurance houses (Casa de asigurari), then the check would have been free of charge once a year. Maybe for emergency they would still charge.
Price seems ok. Is this public or private?
How much would this cost back in your country?
You pid 50 bucks. Calculate by yourself if its a lot or not.
I think it’s a good price.
People tend to forget that when you go to the dentist you’re not just paying for the service, you’re also paying part of the costs associated with the service such as materials used, instrumentation, etc. even if you’re not using one time use materials (unlikely, there’s tissues, wipes, gloves, all sorts of things involved) the dentist still has to sterilise the instruments used, etc.
If you think about it like any other services, like construction, you can see how the prices are going to be higher. If you’re hiring a team to fix your roof, you’re also paying for the materials, not just labour. It’s the same at the dentists’s office.
So the price seems fair, but we also don’t know what exactly was used during the procedure. I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you, not at all.
300 sounds fair