dentist just cant afford it !!!!!!!!1

acemelhaz

hi everyone i am married with 3 children i work my wife is on maternity im having alot of trouble with my teeth had 2 taken out in last 3 months costing me £45 a time at this rate will have no teeth left im only 31 but there are no nhs dentist in portsmouth taking patients and i just cant afford it any ideas or know of a way of getting treatment thanks

16011996

sorry i can't help but i'm in same boat. am on tax credits so should get free dental treatment, but can only get private, and it was £78 to have a tooth out 2 months ago. madness.

acemelhaz

we will end up a nation of gummys i cant understand why on nhs we used to get free dental treatment and now cant madness still health at end of the day ehhhhhhh

16011996

it is. my tooth had to come out because of aninfection doctor couldn't cure with antibiotics. but even emergency dentist said it wasn't emergency enough. madness.

tshrbhag

I fully sympathise with your situation. About a month back i had a pain in my tooth and landed up with a heavy treatment for just below £200.

How about purchasing dental covers from HSA? I think they give you about £296 per year

Loaded_Bachelor

I think that you can get free dental treatment by going to your local NHS hospital. I think the service might be called Dental Line and may be intended primarily for emergency out of hours treatment.

I have used it a couple of times. It does usually involve queueing for a while, much as you might queue in Accident & Emergency, but they do see you eventually. I am no expert on this method but I feel that if you try it you need to go out of usual dentist's hours and "lay it on thick" as far as saying that the pain is really bad and too bad to suffer while waiting for a conventional appointment with your usual dentist.

The other thing to mention is that I am reasonably sure that many or most of the dentists doing routine stuff in the out of hours hospital dentist are either newly qualified or virtually qualified. I suppose that they have to complete their training somewhere! This sounds off putting but both times I have been treated it has been fine.

My view is that a filling, extraction or treatment for an abcess would be fine but perhaps something more complex like a route canal filling should be left to your regular dentist.

I hope this all helps.

jockettuk

have you thought abt denplan... you pay a monthly fee of around £15 £20 depending on how much treatment you have had in the past. You should at least be able to see your dentists when you in pain and also you can use them when you away in other cities.. and the best thing is that when you pay monthly you dont have a huge bill to pay ... you also get a yearly trip to they hygenist and also the 2 half yearly vists to your dentist

16011996

do you know of any good ones??

Allexie

I count myself as lucky cos I've got an NHS dentist but have just been told I need £1,000's worth of treatment doing which, (surprise, surprise!), cannot be done on the NHS :-/ :-/ :-/

hrafndot

do you know of any good ones??

I did a search using Moneysupermarket.com and came up with a plan via WPA (Western Provident) as the best value. I signed up. They don't enquire into your history like Denplan.

Hrafndot

mini

You are meant to be able to call NHS Direct and then can tell you where yu can find a NHS dentist, I haven't used it myself only read about it.

NHS Direct - 0845 4647