NHS Dentists

Gemmzie

Noozan wrote:

Oops, I copy and pasted the above details from a search and it's come out a bit funny; but the gist is that those two practices are accepting new patients.

Thanks but don't live in those areas and they are very particular, anytime there is somewhere we phone, but no luck

Toothsmith

Try putting your postcode into this, and see whether it throws out anything different to what you've had before.

Find-A-Dentist

anguk

I found it easier to ring NHS direct to find a dentist. I'd tried the website but every dentist that was listed as accepting new patients wasn't taking any new ones when I rang them. NHS Direct gave me a list of dentists currently accepting patients and luckily the first one I rang accepted me and is only about 5 miles away.

Toothsmith

Gemmzie wrote:

Or we pay £42.50 per month, every month and only have a yearly checkup :eek:

How many people does that £42.50 cover? It won't be £42.50 each. And I would be very surprised if that was the cost for 1 check up a year, even if it were for 10 people!

Gemmzie

Toothsmith wrote:

How many people does that £42.50 cover? It won't be £42.50 each. And I would be very surprised if that was the cost for 1 check up a year, even if it were for 10 people!

Two adults

They wanted £27 for myself and my brother at the time - but then decided to keep under 16s and they can't de-register me because I'm having orthodontic work and they aren't allowed apparently.

Now brother has left education, he is without a dentist too

Toothsmith

Gemmzie wrote:

Two adults

They wanted £27 for myself and my brother at the time - but then decided to keep under 16s and they can't de-register me because I'm having orthodontic work and they aren't allowed apparently.

Now brother has left education, he is without a dentist too

So £42.50 = £21.25 per adult for just one check up per year and NOTHING ELSE?

No X-rays, no hygine visits, no emergency cover or insurance?

Fillings and all other treatments are extra and at full private rates?

Gemmzie

Toothsmith wrote:

So £42.50 = £21.25 per adult for just one check up per year and NOTHING ELSE?

No X-rays, no hygine visits, no emergency cover or insurance?

Fillings and all other treatments are extra and at full private rates?

Emergency cover and one check per year, £20 extra for a filling I think they said

Hidious

Toothsmith

It would seem that there is a discount on treatment items then.

But at £255 for one check-up a year, this is about the dearest dental practice I have ever heard of.

This place would struggle to get patients if it was the best place on Harley street, and all the Arabs had won the lottery the day after oil went through $100 a barrel!

I can only suggest that you haven't understood what is on offer here for the money, or that your whole family was such a pain in the bottom to treat that they quoted this figure to get rid of you all!

(And I really don't think it was the second one)

Often when patients are having a new system explained, they don't get all the facts right straight away. I remember during my conversion to private practice, we had feedback from the Denplan helpline about what our patients were ringing up and asking about. Some of the stuff they were saying we had told them was so far from the mark that we wondered what was going through their heads as we were explaining things!

It is not unusual to get these details wrong. It may well be worth getting in touch with them again and going through it all. It may well not be as bad as you are imagining.