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Medical card - Dentist

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  • 10-05-2010 5:30pm
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    lucy2010
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭


    I have the worst tooth ache in living history so i booked an appointment with the local dentist. The girls briefly asked was I in agony, I replied I was, she said thats ok as with changes they can only do an emergency exam if you are on a medical card . Does this mean I have to pay for anything they need to do ?I tried looking up welfare.ie but couldnt figure it out.


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    burkey85
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭burkey85


    Afaik, the medical card doesn't cover dentist work anymore.


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    lucy2010
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭lucy2010


    Oh christ im having the week from hell - I got letter this morning to say illness has been cut off as I didnt attend a medical ... what bloody medical ????? Cant get through to them...... & I will gladly take a pliers to my own mouth very shortly to get rid of this pain ........ Thanks for letting me know


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    burkey85
    Registered Users Posts: 202 ✭✭burkey85


    Don't hold me to that now;)
    But it was planned to stop dentistry work under the med. card this year.


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    kardarie
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭kardarie


    The medical changes are as follows as far as i know, they only allow you to have up to three free fillings a year and unlimited amount of extractions. This is what my dentist has told me as i was booked in to get a few filled but will have to wait a year now or pay...! Its gone mad.


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    lucy2010
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭lucy2010


    kardarie wrote: »
    The medical changes are as follows as far as i know, they only allow you to have up to three free fillings a year and unlimited amount of extractions. This is what my dentist has told me as i was booked in to get a few filled but will have to wait a year now or pay...! Its gone mad.

    Thanks for that - once they can extract the thing I dont care.. The dog is booked into the vet just after my appoint today & I would have gladly told HIM to remove it .. Just in agony


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    eth0_
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    Lucy can you not borrow the money off a friend or family member? It's an awful state of affairs but you want to avoid extracting a tooth at all costs.


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    lucy2010
    Registered Users Posts: 774 ✭✭✭lucy2010


    well....

    That was so confusing .... I lost my job last year so I am still under PRSI. So technically they can do x under medical card, x under prsi & I pay the balance. Emergency's are covered under medical card.

    My gum/jaw whatever is infected so they will take the tooth out in a few days. Loaded me with drugs so hopefully kill the pain.

    I omitted initially im not a dentist person. I had a tooth out 12 years ago & my roots had fused together my gums had to be cut open to get it out; but she was really nice & good so im going to get whatever needed done. My mother was so facinated at the fact I went in the first lace ( shes been on at me for years - 12 to be exact) she will pay for it.

    Thanks for the advice guys but really is awfully confusing out there in dentist world with regards whats covered & what isnt


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