Dentist wants £32 to pull 2 wobbly milk teeth.

pookienoodle

Toothsmith wrote: »

So have I!! And left the pound under the pillow!!

Shouldn't you have left a bill under the pillow Toothsmith?;)

Toothsmith

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

jimexbox

Toothsmith wrote: »

The cost of keeping a dental practice open, when worked out at a hourly rate is about £170 - £220 per hour.

Ive never had the pleasure of meeting a poor dentist. :rotfl:

Toothsmith

How many dentist have you know well enough to be intimate with their financial details?

The BDA benevolent fund is as busy as ever, and we're usually in the top 3 of professions most likely to top themselves.

If you think life's good over here, why not retrain, and join us? It would take you a few years, but surely the financial rewards you seem to think are available would more than make it worth your while?

jimexbox

Toothsmith wrote: »

How many dentist have you know well enough to be intimate with their financial details?

The BDA benevolent fund is as busy as ever, and we're usually in the top 3 of professions most likely to top themselves.

If you think life's good over here, why not retrain, and join us? It would take you a few years, but surely the financial rewards you seem to think are available would more than make it worth your while?

Im probably too old now, and have already completed a 5 yrs apprenticeship in the dim and distant past, so it would be a waste of all that training. But, I would certaily recommend any of my kids to become a dentist or GP. Lets face it brilliant job security with a fantastic wage. This is not a criticism, you have to train long and hard for what you get. Top 1 percentile of UK wages would be my guess, am I close?

Toothsmith

It is a good job if you enjoy it. It can be horrible if you find you've made a mistake and don't enjoy it.

With how things are in this country at the moment, with a Government that hates us and is doing all it can to make doing decent dentistry impossible - I would recommend the career so long as your prepared to go abroad after qualifying and work in another country.

If I was 15 yrs younger and unattached, I'd be off to somewhere like Australia or New Zealand like a shot.

jugglebug

Toothsmith wrote: »

It is a good job if you enjoy it. It can be horrible if you find you've made a mistake and don't enjoy it.

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I know at least 2 people who quit the profession due to this.
One is a librarian now, the other went backpacking and we lost touch.

Certainly as an undergrad I had a fair few folks in my year who joined thinking it was a great career, without realising exactly how important it is you have the right temperament / personality / whatever to do it. They got to the main clinical part and dropped like flies. Wasting years of their life studying all the basic sciences only to change direction entirely.

minimoneysaver

From memory, I remember my mum buying a packet of rolos and that did the job nicely! Good luck.

Mely

jimexbox wrote: »

Let them fall out for free.

They've been falling out this way naturally since we evolved from ape's with no problem, why why does a dentist want to pull them out? Sounds like a right con!

A pound each to the tooth fairy, or sixteen pounds each to a rip off dentist? Tooth fairy every time.

Yes just let them fall out. Ive never heard of children having milk teeth taken out at the dentists unless they have gone bad or theres some other problem. I should imagine that as the new teeth are pushing through, they will push the milk teeth out anyway, as thats what normally happens.

remembered_nights

I had a milktooth removed, as the adult tooth had completely emerged but the milktooth was still completely firmly lodged and ended up in front! I certainly wasn't traumatised by it (Luckily, since I ended up having four teeth out to make space a few years later and wore braces for many years after that, alas.)