05-01-2016, 12:24 PM
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dental care the UK is third world
Apparently we are now like a third world country for dental care .How can this be?
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35221163
05-01-2016, 12:43 PM
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My dentist, with whom I have been a patient for 28 years, is National Health only and is wonderful. My husband has swapped from his private practice to the one I use. However, in not too far away Birmingham our daughter seemed unable to get into a practice so still used ours. My children only had sweets from me on pocket money day and the youngest aged 33 has one very small filling which was necessary but not due to decay. I see children shoving sweets into their mouths on the way to school and I am filled with horror . I agree, though, that there is room for improvement in dental services here in the UK.
05-01-2016, 12:50 PM
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As a National Health patient for the first 20 years of my life I didn't realise how bad my UK dentist was until I came to Australia and paid for my dental care.Normally I pay about $100 to $200 for treatment, say a filling and/or clean, just recently I paid $299 for an extraction but that was because I required the roots surgically removed. As it took over 2 hours I thought it was pretty good value - I have paid more for a plumber.
BTW there is an expression out here "English teeth".
05-01-2016, 01:10 PM
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Not surprising at all. A few years ago the government of the day changed the way dentists were funded making NHS patients an unappealing proposition . Overnight many dentists moved from NHS to private practice mine included and I was left with no choice but to join a private dental insurance scheme or leave and find another dentist .I have been with the same dentist for many years and had no wish to change and anyway all the other local dentists were either private too or were not taking on anymore NHS patients.
I am sure rather than pay for private health care many people just didn't bother or can't afford it . After all,a dentist is not the most pleasant thing on which to spend your money unless you happen to have toothache.
05-01-2016, 01:43 PM
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Re: dental care the UK is third world
Originally Posted by Meg
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Not surprising at all. A few years ago the government of the day changed the way dentists were funded making NHS patients an unappealing proposition . Overnight many dentists moved from NHS to private practice mine included and I was left with no choice but to join a private dental insurance scheme or leave and find another dentist . I have been with the same dentist for many years and had no wish to change and anyway all the other local dentists were either private too or were not taking on anymore NHS patients.
I am sure rather than pay for private health care many people just didn't bother or can't afford it . After all,a dentist is not the most pleasant thing on which to spend your money unless you happen to have toothache.
I am wondering if, in time, GPs will head in the same direction en masse.
05-01-2016, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by orangutan
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Exactly. When I was still in the UK some years ago my dentist informed me that he was going private and could no longer see me on the NHS. I managed to find another NHS dentist, who shortly after that did exactly the same thing. For years in my area it was nigh on impossible to get NHS dental treatment. I don't know if it has improved much since then.I am wondering if, in time, GPs will head in the same direction en masse.
I hope you're wrong Ania, but there does seem to be alot of unrest of late. More talk of junior docs going on strike, and many leaving to go abroad to work. They are not happy are they.
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