Anyone been to Poland for dental treatment?

mda99das

As a British qualified dentist, I have seen some shocking work from our Eastern European colleagues. However that does not mean to say that all work done by foreign dentist is substandard. The same can be said from British dentists. The system is fundamentally flawed. Unfortunately EU graduates are not required to do a 1 year training program called vocational training. for some reason under EU law they are exempt from this. This is a 1 year program that all graduates from British universities have to undertake to work in the NHS and complete successfully. Under this scheme competency assessments are undertaken and remedial training offered if necessary. Dentist that do not undertake vocational training are left to their own devices.

This whole system is unfair. Also from a political point of view there are dentist that have been trained and paid for by the tax payer and cannot find jobs as EU dentists are used as "cheap labour"

Sorry if this sounds harsh but many corporate companies have active recruitment programs in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia when they could easily use British graduates.
This creates problems with issues like competency communication ethics etc.

Toomuchdebt

I'm Polish(well OK born here but Polish parents so am bilingual) and I see a Polish dentist here in the UK.I used to see an English one, and sorry but I personally find the quality of treatment much better with the Polish dentist.The English one broke a tooth trying to extract it several years ago. Left the root in my jaw and I had to have it removed surgically.The Polish dentist when I needed another tooth extracted, NOT KNOWING about the previous breakage,actually checked with an x ray first, found out that the root had fused to the jawbone and referred me to hospital.Did some treatment in the meantime and the tooth is still happily in place causing no trouble at all.

welshdent

breaking a tooth when extracting it does not mean they are a bad dentist. I have seen the exact same thing happen from dentists of all nationalities. I wouldnt criticise a dentist for doing that until you have a go at taking a tooth out yourself!! :-/. Also leaving a root in place doesnt mean its a bad thing. We often do this if its not causing problems. In all walks of life there are people good at their job and people that are bad. Likewise some of the best dentists I know at certain procedures are pants at others. Someone excellent at root fillings for example may not make many dentures. I would still want them doing my root filling though

Toomuchdebt

welshdent wrote: »

breaking a tooth when extracting it does not mean they are a bad dentist. I have seen the exact same thing happen from dentists of all nationalities. I wouldnt criticise a dentist for doing that until you have a go at taking a tooth out yourself!! :-/. Also leaving a root in place doesnt mean its a bad thing. We often do this if its not causing problems. In all walks of life there are people good at their job and people that are bad. Likewise some of the best dentists I know at certain procedures are pants at others. Someone excellent at root fillings for example may not make many dentures. I would still want them doing my root filling though

Mine got infected and was incredibly painful due to the nerve being exposed.I had to wait 3 weeks for an appointment and was on 2 lots of antibiotics and copious amounts of painkillers...not a pleasant experience.

Pennylane

Toomuchdebt wrote: »

Mine got infected and was incredibly painful due to the nerve being exposed.I had to wait 3 weeks for an appointment and was on 2 lots of antibiotics and copious amounts of painkillers...not a pleasant experience.

I know that agony Toomuchdebt:( A few years ago I picked up an infection in a very grubby NHS dentists with the most awful staff I've ever met. I was ill for nearly a month following an extraction and it was terrible.