Dentist services

brook2jack

sinizterguy wrote: »

If it was for sedation a fee may be payable, as treatment under sedation may be provided as a completely new course of treatment.

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No, if a patient is referred by a nhs dentist to another nhs dentist even for treatment under sedation this is not a new course of treatment as diagnosis and treatment plan and possibly other treatment have been done by dentist one. Dentist one collects the fee for treatment done and dentist two ticks the treatment under referral box on the fp17. It seems strange but is right.

In this case it is only a band one fee op just had an xray ,probably an opg which is not available everywhere, therefore they pay only once to original dentist.

Hintza

In Scotland you pay extra for any XRay.

bod1467

Unless you have an insurance-based plan to cover checkups and treatment. (I'm with Denplan).

Getting an NHS dentist round here is like trying to find rocking horse poo.