Student Dental care? [Split Thread]

rosa

I'm just after chipping my back tooth horribly on a particularly crispy pizza slice and now I have a gaping hole where there should be tooth....does anyone know if there's a dental service for students and if so where is it and is it expensive? not in too much pain luckily but I'm feeling very disturbed....

ApeXaviour

rosa wrote:

I'm just after chipping my back tooth horribly on a particularly crispy pizza slice and now I have a gaping hole where there should be tooth....does anyone know if there's a dental service for students and if so where is it and is it expensive? not in too much pain luckily but I'm feeling very disturbed....

As far as I know (I did some research there about a year ago) there's none which is an absolute crying shame, especially considering the dublin dental hospital is IN trinity :rolleyes:

If you need A&E dental treatment:

You will be liable for a charge of 55 Euro for your treatment and you must pay this before treatment can begin.
Payment covers:

Your initial visit to Accident and Emergency Department

Any return visits with the same problem to the Accident and Emergency Department only within three months of your first visit.

You will not have to pay the 55 Euro fee if you hold a current Eastern Region Health Services Executive (HSE) Medical Card.

Fees for Accident & Emergency services must be paid in advance.

If you're looking for subsidised dental health care as far as I know the DDSH do a student clinic. This isn't for students but rather procedures are done BY students for a (significantly?) reduced fee afaik:

We provide dental training for students of dentistry at both undergraduate and specialist post-graduate levels. This means we need patients with suitable dental treatment needs for treatment by our students under supervision.

Suitable patients are identified through our General Assessment Waiting List. Please ask the Receptionist for more details. This is a self referral clinic but you can also be referred by your General Dental Practitioner (GDP).

Qualified dentists closely supervise all student treatment procedures.

It is important to note that dental care undertaken by a student will generally take a lot longer than would be the case in general practice.

Thirdfox

Having dental students learning from drilling into your mouth??? How much is the reduction in prices? Do they do all procedures or a limited amount?

ApeXaviour

Thirdfox wrote:

Having dental students learning from drilling into your mouth??? How much is the reduction in prices?

I don't know. They don't specify on the site. I've sent them an email however asking that very question. I don't even know for sure if there is a reduction. Though I imagine there is, I doubt anybody would elect to go on a waiting list to have a student do their teeth without some form of discount. Also when I checked before (back in the day) I seem to recall them mentioning it.

Thirdfox wrote:

Do they do all procedures or a limited amount?

They don't do all procedures, afaik specialist treatments like orthodontry etc are not done.

[Student Clinic] Treatment will not be provided to patients requiring specialist care via this screening clinic for example: orthodontics, extraction of wisdom teeth, implants etc.

ApeXaviour

It is roughly a third of the Price, if you wish to be placed on the
waiting list just send me your details

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>From: Dec [mailto:********@tcd.ie]
>Sent: 14 February 2006 22:18
>To: Patient <patient@dental.tcd.ie>
>Subject: Student Clinics
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>Is there a reduced fee for procedures done through the student clinics?
>If so, to what extent?
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>Thanks,
>Declan

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Pet

Roughly on topic, I just found a small piece of STONE (!) in the avonmore soup I was having for dinner. I very nearly cracked my back tooth while chewing. Now, I COULD ring them up and say it was the cause of my already chipped front tooth, and get them to pay for the cap I'll be getting put on it soon enough, but I'd feel quite guilty if I did. But I definitely have a complaint here, so what should I do?

wheresthebeef

Ring them and tell them what you found. Tell them your shocked that they allow their workers to churn the soup by dancing in the pot wearing the boots they came to work in.Tell them you will be forwarding the matter onto the Consumer Association of Ireland, and to environmental health. And that you'd like your soup replaced without stones.

They will probably send you a truck of soup and some vouchers or some ****.

Time Magazine

wheresthebeef wrote:

Consumer Association of Ireland

Wrong body, really.

The Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs is the legal body to complain to: Linky.

I'm such an economics student I even have their number in my phone: (01) 4025555.

If you say that it cracked your tooth, you're lying. But if ya did, the relevant Act is here.

And yes, write to them, and be angry.

And share the spoils.

Crash

Ronan you're gonna end up so sick of avonmore soup - seriously.

vishal

if you not in pain then you will not be seen in a&e in the dental hospital.
usually posterior teeth (back teeth) break when they are undermined by either a large filling in it or it is undermined with dental caries (decay/tooth rot)
if you want to be seen by students their is a waiting list and you will be waiting a while.
if there is a hole in your tooth you should go to your dentist as soon as possible (not urgent but in the next week or two) because if their is caries in your tooth than you may need Root Canal Treatment and seeing the dentist may prevent the need for this (your nerve in your tooth can become irriversibly damaged).

rosa

ok now I'm scared...I really have a terrible fear of the dentisit but don't like the sound of this possible root canal business. Damm you crispy pizza! I'll never look at you in the same way again.

Pet

crash_000 wrote:

Ronan you're gonna end up so sick of avonmore soup - seriously.

Meh, I can always give it away if I get sick of it.

wheresthebeef

I knew it was one of those places with Consumer in the name of it.

Either way, i still want a share of the truckload of soup.
Make sure you get your compensation in a variety of flavours.

Thirdfox

A friend of a friend once complained to Coca Cola about their product... got a load of coke, wrote back to them saying that he has stopped drinking Coke as a result of the incident and that their lastest gesture was an insult to him (and that he donated the coke to charity)

.....they then sent him a mini-fridge, sofa and various other goodies....

moral of the story???