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Dentist recommendations up north??
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17-12-2008 1:00pm#1
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Hi there, I just sent you a PM with the details of a good dentist up North. I think there might be some restrictions about putting actual dentists names and contact details up on the site as I thought I saw someone giving out about that on another post.
Anyways, I have a really good practice to recommend up North (totally calmed me down and I have to be the most nervous patient ever, they have really skilled dentists, a fab modern practice, offer conscious sedation for nervous patients and best still are way way cheaper than dentists down South)
So just wanted to post this up on thread also as if anyone needs a recommendation for up north, feel free to contact me.
For the record, I have no affiliation with the practice whatsoever other than finding them on google and taking a visit to them this week!
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hi all - sorry i havent been on this in ages. I posted a lot of info on my clinic on a different post on here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055443187&goto=newpost
I'll copy it in below here aswell in case anyone has any probs accessing it. Sorry its a bit long but will hopefully give people everything they need. Just to let you all know though that a few people I have given recommendation to have told me that they are not taking bookings now for a couple of weeks as they are so booked up. Give them a shot though as plenty of cancellations come up and you will def get an appointment once you can wait.
Its Appletree Dental in Newry (appletreedental.co.uk) They are based on Kilmorey street which is less than ten mins walk from the two main shopping centres in Newry (The Quays and The Buttercrane) I have been getting the train from Connolly station in Dublin up for my visits as I live in Dublin city centre. Train only cost €29 euro for a day return. Usually I hop in a cab then in Newry station to take me to town centre as station is a bit far out. Standard cab fare is £5.00. Alternatively my sister has told me its only a 50 min drive there from Ashbourne. Appletree clinic has plenty of parking directly outside it.
I have been to the clinic three times so far and genuinely could not recommend the dentists and clinic staff highly enough. The value for money is second to none. And the practice and facilities and excellent and very modern for example on my first appointment I found out I had a load of work to do (as per previous post). They give you a treatment plan with a mini printout of your xray on the top so you can see exactly what you are going to be having done at each of your visits (I have about 6-7 visits to go so it was really useful for me to have) It shows the expected cost of each of your visits so you can budget accordingly and also links the activities in the appointment to the teeth in the xray so it shows that in your second appointment you are having root canal on tooth number 5 etc. This might be standard, I dont know. But I thought it was very good.
The owner and dentist I have been going to is called Katrina, she has been excellent. I cant over emphasise how nervous I was going up and she has just been brilliant to deal with and I am really overcoming my dental fears and dental problems because of her. I also met the guy who is going to do my wisdom teeth extractions. His name is Conor and he specialises in Oral Surgery etc. He couldnt have been more helpful and spent 20 mins going through the wisdom teeth situation with me and all my options etc.
The costs of my visits have been my main driver for going up North. I paid £120 sterling (under €130 euro at the time) for my first visit a few weeks ago. This included a 20-30 min checkup and consultation, xrays, 2 small fillings. I know from talking to people here that fillings down South cost anywhere between 60 and 140 euro depending on who you were talking to so this was really good value.
My root canal cost £130 sterling (the root canal filling will be about another £100 I think and this will be done on next visit) I talked to a guy in work the other day who said his root canal procedure cost him almost a grand here. I don't know where he got it done but it just gives people a sense of it.
All the prices etc are on their website. Go to the 'About Us' section and you will find their fee guide.
I'm not trying to diss the dentists in the south in any shape or form. I'm just telling people about my experience and giving people the choice. I'm getting married next year and cant afford to spend a fortune getting my dental work done (or my guests will be eating beans and toast!) so that was the main driver of looking into going up North for me.
On a related point, I have done some other shopping up North and the prices are excellent value. Don't let other people tell you its not. I know we are in recession (ban that word) and should be supporting local shops etc but at the same time if you are affected by redundancies and job cuts like we are, then you have to buy as cheaply as you can. Some examples of price differences:
I priced Wii fit up north and it was about 20 euro cheaper. The xbox lips game was 15 euro cheaper (the south prices i checked were argos prices)
Clarins Multi Active Day Cream is 54 euro in Clerys. Its 35 euro up North (that was on last weeks exchange rate of about .88) Anyways, just to give people some info.
Good luck with all the dental pursuits!0 -
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