My Dentist is going private !

Hereford_Wolf

I have just been told my dentist is going private. I have just completed my last bit of NHS treatment which was a Check up, Scale & Polish and 2 fillings. According to his Private Fee Guide this will now cost me nearly two hundred pounds in the future.

He is asking me if I want to take out Denplan Care which would cover all those treatments (but not Crowns or Bridges) at a cost of #16.50 p/m.

I have checked the Health Cashplans on this site but they only pay out smallish amounts on dentistry work.

Should I take out the Denplan or does anyone know of anything better ? (besides finding another NHS Dentist !).

keatergreyhound

Hiya
Weve got a health care cask plan. Its costs us around £20 a moth for both of us and it certainly pays out more to us that what we pay in. Including £300 when I had my baby last year. Very handy. I shopped around to get the best plan for us as the cheapest isnt the best (well I found so anyway) the one we have is with Healthsure. Why not have a look for them and see

sullly

keatergreyhound wrote:

Hiya
Weve got a health care cask plan. Its costs us around £20 a moth for both of us and it certainly pays out more to us that what we pay in. Including £300 when I had my baby last year. Very handy. I shopped around to get the best plan for us as the cheapest isnt the best (well I found so anyway) the one we have is with Healthsure. Why not have a look for them and see

what health plan is that with ,

hsa starts at 2.20 per week

up to 13.20 a week

trace-j

Boots do there own dental plan. Haven't looked at the small print though. Says its from £9 a month

sockospice

I go through healthshield, it's similar to hsa but through payroll deduction (if your company agrees to set it up). Not sure how it compares to hsa directly but I know there are corporate discounts if you do go through the payroll scheme. https://www.healthshield.co.uk

Hereford_Wolf

Thanks for all your suggestions. It's looking like Denplan is my best bet at the moment.

I forsee bad dental health for the GB in a few years time - its just madness.

daveboy

With reference to Boots - I remember media coverage not too long ago saying they are going to pull away from doing that. Not sure when though.

Health should be private, except for accident and emergency and child birth.

I actually enjoy seeing a Labour government carrying out Conservative policy (well, in a way at least).

trace-j

daveboy wrote:

With reference to Boots - I remember media coverage not too long ago saying they are going to pull away from doing that. Not sure when though.

Health should be private, except for accident and emergency and child birth.

I actually enjoy seeing a Labour government carrying out Conservative policy (well, in a way at least).

I agree, I'll be surprised if there's be much left of an NHS service when I'm ready to retire.

5yrs ago use to have a health plan policy that paid out for eye tests, frames, dental and stays in hospital amongst other things. Then I went onto a planned contact replacement scheme and the company I was with decided they wouldn't pay out. This with fact I was a full time student and could get free checkups and prescriptions there wasn't much point carrying it on.

Long gone are my days of free dental checkups and since moving from home I didn't see much point in travelling 100 miles for a checkup. Now having lost my place on a patient list travelling 100miles once in a while didn't seem that much of a daft idea!

Does anyone know of a health care plan that will payout for planned contact lens replacement schemes? Failing that I'll be joining you on a dental plan of some sort.

digp

the NHS is a joke

mah_jong

Just for clarification, ....

My dentist went private a few years ago and I HAD to take out insurance, done through the dental practise.. (No other dentist for miles ).

The dentists then changed from one plan to another, three or four years later, and if I wished to stay with the first plan I could, BUT there would be an administratice charge of £1 a month!! I thought..... blackmail ... again only practice available to me, so changed, the paper work all done through the pracitise.

SO....... do any dentists take any plan, or what? How does it work?

ma ....whose teeth cost her £22 a month

keatergreyhound

I think the site I use it https://www.healthsure.co.uk its good value for us anyway