dentist's bill for dd 576 - steep for two fillings?

[marriedinwhiteagain]

DH has taken dd to the dentist - he has paid nearly 100 for a check up and some XRays. DD needs two tiny fillings, in adjacent molars, and four fissure sealants. One one hour appointment and one 45 minute appointment. Oh, and a referral to the hygienist for 56 more when it's been done. He has made the three appointments. DD is 15 and generally we have good teeth so not much precedent to judge by. Private dentist, SW London, but woah!!! Or in MNet speak WTF .

Total: 98+576+56 - 730!!!!!

The work hasn't been done yet so it is a quote. But dd had a bad experience when she was five and this dentist has been very kind over the last ten years and she is not scared to have the work done.

15 - the veneer was to close a gap between her two front teeth (I think it was a veneer but might have been called something else)

Blimey that's expensive innit!

I have Denplan, I think I pay about £9 per month and DH pays around £13 as he always needs more work than me but for that you get 2 full dental check ups per year, scale and polish every 12 weeks and all dental work that might be needed is covered apart from any cosmetic dentistry - if I needed a filling and wanted a white one it would cost £65 per filling.

I paid that much for a crown, but I'm in the US and have great insurance for it. That was my share of the bill.
Our dentists office prints of the costs, showing how much you have to pay and you have to read and sign before any care. No way I'd do any of the care with a private dentist without seeing the costs up front.
Fillings are a lot less, I think you paid way too much even for private practise.

Your DD is 15. so much more rational than at 5.

the quote seems to be taking the proverbial. go and get other estimates for the work that actually IS necessary and then compare.

Take the figures to the dentist she attends and show him what others charge and to justify to you why on earth his bill is so exorbitant.

Given the circumstances, whereby work that would ordinarily be done for FREE is being given to him, he seems to think that you are daft enough to keep shelling out and is chancing it I think.

With all the money you have given this guy, you could have paid for therapy for her instead and still had change AND DD's good teeth.

DH pays around £13 as he always needs more work than me but for that you get 2 full dental check ups per year, scale and polish every 12 weeks and all dental work that might be needed is covered apart from any cosmetic dentistry

Really? A scale and polish every 12 weeks? that's £18 on the NHS, so £72 per annum, check up every 6 months, gain £18 x2, so thats £108 per annum, plus any fillings @ £49 a time - all for an outlay of £156 per annum?

That's a really good bargain

My last bill was £199 for two large fillings, I told her to stuff another £50 for the hygienist. I live on black coffee it's totally pointless.

Not London, but no NHS dentists for adults.

my ds's are registered with a private dentist but the NHS pay for their treatment