I went to the dentist today, first time since before Covid. Previously the dental practice I frequented had an NHS and a Private section, and as I qualified for NHS dental care, that’s where I went.
When I sought today’s appointment, I discovered that they no longer take on NHS patients and I’d have to go private if I wanted to see my dentist. Well, after several weeks of searching in vain for an NHS dentist, I went private with an appointment with the dentist I had seen previously.
The appointment was SUPER-quick. I had the anaesthetic, the filling and I was out the door in 20 minutes total. It felt very much like I was on a conveyor belt or that the dentist was trying to beat her personal best time.
The cost was £286.00, which came as a bit of a shock. I assume this is now the going rate for a small filling in the UK?
I was just wondering how this compares to the cost of dentistry in France?
Does this help ? From an assurance mutuelle comparison site.
This gives the nationally agreed rates and reimbursements. Dentists are not happy that these have not been increased properly over last x years, so some just refuse to do certain treatments.
I had a root canal that ending up costing about €1000.
The big issue is finding a dentist who will take you on. Once you have achieved that the costs are not that high really for simple things. Complex stuff is outside the parcours santé.
Blimey! My wife had a complicated root canal treatment which needed a specialist but still only paid half that.
My front tooth which I broke playing lax a million years ago finally fell to bits beyond repair and the actual cost of everything to do with sorting it out finally came to just over 1000€ (removal of remains and root, making a temporary replacement, making & fitting a fake china tooth fixed to its neighbour, clean and scale of teeth lots of x rays etc).
It cost me 36€.
You must have a very good mutuelle. It’s one of the things that frustrates me about mid-price mutuelles, how inadequately they cover dental charges, especially as infected teeth can lead to heart trouble, so good dental health is preventative health.
I too lost a front tooth at twelve due to a random hockey stick. The capped tooth collapsed completely a few years back. As I’d already lost some back teeth I now have a bridge across the top of my mouth that takes in the front tooth.
When the dentist first did the work he used an inert metal bridge - lighter than plastic. I was allergic to the metal, so he had to redo the whole thing in plastic.
With the two procedures the total price over a year or so was over 2,000€, most of which I finished up paying for because the amount from our mutuelle was pretty derisory.
His routine consultations are typically 65-90€ depending on what he has to do. CPAM pay a bit, but basically I’ve come to the view that I pay in full for my dental treatment and am lucky if an odd few euros drop into my bank account.
I have the MGEN for both basic and mutuelle, they are rubbish for some things but really came up trumps this time (I have to say, much to my surprise).
At that point I had no carte vitale or mutuelle.
If anyone has to get a root canal and can be in SouthEast of England I have a really good recommendation - PM me. Price not at all ridiculous, a fair price in excellent hands not too distant from prices we’re talking about here and probably rather better if you’re not getting it reimbursed.
We’ve been to Turkey in the past year on recommendation to a particular dentist. I had five implants. Two of which involved extractions. Three fillings and a clean. My wife had a crown replaced that she’d been quoted £600 in the UK. £200 was the price there and included in the overall cost of just under £3000. I also had one sinus lift and a bone graft in the price. From missing several teeth for a number of years to be eating normally again is quite something.
A check-up or détartrage (with carte Vitale) isn’t very expensive, but big dentistry jobs are very expensive.
Went to the dentist in December.check up, X-ray, injection and filling for me, check up, injection and filling for my wife 100€ just have the basic 100% mutuelle