Dental Implants...Cheap???

brook2jack

The cost of living in Hungary is much cheaper, the cost of property and the cost of doing dentistry is much, much , much cheaper. A dentist in the UK will pay , if they are doing implants , around £15,000 indemnity or more (malpractice insurance) a year, as opposed to a normal dentist who pays around £5000 a year. Hungarian dentists pay around £200 a year.

Registration for dentists, dental nurses, hygienists,therapists and dental technicians is compulsory in the UK . A dentist pays roughly £900 a year , a nurse £150 a year etc. It is free for dentists and dental nurses etc do not have to be registered in Hungary.

The UK has a system of compulsory inspections . CQC is around £800 a year. Hungary does not. The UK dental practice has to have a series of inspections and validations on all equipment used . E.g. For each autoclave , which is just one piece of equipment , you are talking £200 to £400 a year. Hungary does not have this.

Dentistry in the U.K. Is the mostly highly regulated in the world , around 300 times more so than the rest of Europe. This makes it very expensive to provide dentistry.

If you provide implants the costs of running your practice shoot up. A friend a few years ago reckoned it cost him £250,000 just to train and adapt one of the surgeries in his practice to place implants. It cost £16,000 every time he sets up for a new implant system just for the bits to fit the implants and each implant system uses different parts.

It is not economically feasible for a British dentist to do only a few implants a month as the change in indemnity costs alone would eat up any profits . So those who do tend to be referral centres, which often are in big cities where property costs etc are also very high.

silvercar

I am currently in the throes of having one single implant. The tooth was removed in December and I then had to wait 3 months for the first stage of the implant. That was done in March and I now have to wait another 3 months for the next stage. After which the final crown can then be fitted.

What differences are there in the treatment abroad, if they can fit implants immediately?

brook2jack

Some dentists in the U.K. fit immediate loaded implants. However the success rates are not as good as delayed loaded implants , particularly if grafting is needed etc. Also you get better aesthetics (better looks) with doing the implant in stages.

Toothsmith

brook2jack wrote: »

The UK has a system of compulsory inspections . CQC is around £800 a year.

That, of course, is just the annual registration fee.

Keeping all the (pointless) bits of paper up to date requires costly staff time - as a usual inspection is done with 2 weeks notice, and unannounced inspections are not uncommon. You cannot risk allowing things to lapse then have a blitz when you know they are coming!

Having a discrimination policy which has gone a month over it's review date would be a serious transgression to these people!