No it still would have cost £47 see
Mike
No it still would have cost £47 see
Mike
Yes, I find this cheeseparing attitude quite surprising, considering we only get one set of teeth. Once it's gone, it's gone. And £100 is nothing. You can pay that for a day out for two, these days.
I must be a genetic freak then, as I had two:-)
I'm one of the tightarse brigade right enough.
Daft as it sounds, a mate of mine had a tooth fall out and he glued it back in with either superglue or araldite, can't remember which.
Well we all knew that anyway :-)
It gets better, if anything else goes wrong, or part of the work failed up to 3 months later, fixing it is free as its covered by the £47 already paid. providing the work is covered in the £47 band.
And folk moan about our NHS!
Mike
"Only sick people complain about the NHS"
The sense is that everyone needs to pay attention to their teeth, and ensure they can see properly. So the notion of "insurance" for that is pretty meaningless. Few people need expensive surgery.
And it's not free. It's expensive.
How long a spirit level?
My mother had all her teeth out in one go at the age of 34 (1948). My father (3 years older) followed soon after. It was quite common, but I wouldn't call it 'normal'!
Thank you for reminding me that my previous dentist took great delight in telling me about the new BMW motorbike to which he treated himself for his 50th birthday. I thought at the time I'd probably paid for it. Less than year later he retired to spend more time with his bike, series
7 BMW, and 2nd home in the Dordogne.While I admire dentists for their manual dexterity, I feel much the same about plasterers and bricklayers - and of course professional electricians who seem to get their cables to fall into line by just glaring at them.
I stopped going to my optician when he wouldn't stop talking about his Snap on Spanners, ihs saloon car racing and his bloody helicopter
Do tell which one, he sounds vastly more interesting than mine.
Mike
It's the dental nurses that annoy me. The silly cow stabbed herself with the needle that they had used on me. I then had the dentist on the phone asking if I could go to occupational therapy to have some blood tests done.
Some years ago I saw a medical TV program, and one of the patients was a guy who araldited a repair to his tooth, and some years later got cancer in his gum/jaw, which was what he was being treated for on the program.
In article , Andrew Gabriel scribeth thus
So Araldite is carcinogenic then;?...
I don't recall if it was exactly Araldite, but it was some sort of resin glue. I suspect the problem (if it was that, and you can never be 100% sure with cancers) would have been the unset resin or hardener, both of which can be rather nasty, some of which was almost certainly absorbed into the surrounding tissues before it set.
I'm going to guess this is National Elf. Because a filling at any of the dentists around where I live is likely to cost £200+ and there isn't an NHS dentist taking on new customers within a radius of 20 miles.
I chucked in using the dentist closest to home because (a) he was absolutely rubbish, (b) he bullied his staff - openly in the presence of patients and (c) I got sick of hearing him waffle on about his multi-engine pilot's licence.
I now use a very competent Ozzie dentist miles away from where I live, but as a private patient. I hope I never need serious work done, because I've seen his scale of fees and I would need a mortgage to afford them. Even the checkups cost eye-watering amounts of cash.
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