Advice Going to Dentists in Northern Ireland?

donaghs

Wondering if anyone got advice on going to the dentist in Northern Ireland, e.g. filings or getting a tooth capped. Preferably somewhere close to Dublin like Newry?

Anyone recommend any good Newry dentists?

I'm posting here as I found lots of threads on the Dental sections, but they were all Locked and heavily edited, and rather abruptly recommend people post here if there are not using Dental service in the Republic of Ireland.

Thanks!

eightyfish

I can recommend the <snip>. The service is excellent, you get picked up from the train station by taxi for free, and dropped back afterwards.

EDIT: I had a root canal with them.

dudara

This is not a Consumer Issue - Moved to Dental Issues - where I believe that they allow recommendation by PM.

Apologies mods if this thread was moved incorrectly.

dudara

btkm8unsl0w5r4

You would seriously want to have a hugh amount of complex work needed to make this worth while ( and then complex work is best done by a specialist ) with sterling at the moment, time off work, travel expenses, parking and the recent drop in Southern prices. Also be sure you are comparing like with like as a root canal by a specialist endodontist in the South might be say 800 euro and only 250 sterling in the north, but in the north it is not a specialist doing the treatment. On small amounts of work the euros you save are offset by time off work and travel expenses.

Recommendations by PM only.

donaghs

Thanks, any PM recommendations and experiences are greatly welcome.

There does seem to be a demand for a free and open discussion on this topic. Is there anywhere on boards.ie where this is possible?

btkm8unsl0w5r4

This forum is for discussion of Dental issues, dental problems and dental treatment, Cost of dental treatment is not a dental issue its a consumer issue. Try the northern forum or a UK forum. No names are allowed on the forum because of rampant shilling and the legal threats of cowards who only wish positive feedback on the forum about them..

harpsman

Would it not be better to have a frank and informed discussion of dental fees on a forum where there are people who know what they're talking about rather than on some consumer forum where there will probably be a fair bit of uneducated comment and distortion of facts?

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Frank and open discussion about dental fees welcome but not on this forum, this is not the first time a thread like this has come up and they all end up the same way.......

Try here

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055751701&page=2

dudara

harpsman wrote: »

Would it not be better to have a frank and informed discussion of dental fees on a forum where there are people who know what they're talking about rather than on some consumer forum where there will probably be a fair bit of uneducated comment and distortion of facts?

TBH harpsman - I wouldn't be too inclined to allow such a thread in Consumer Issues either (a) because CI is mainly for actual issues and not pricing discussions and (b) such threads nearly always descend into a massive mess of arguing, half-truths and flaming.

Davindra

Can I just point something out?

If it is wrong for people to have to have teeth extracted unnecessarily because the HSE will not foot the bill, it is just as wrong for them to have to have teeth extracted unnecessarily because they simply do not have enough money to pay southern dental charges and nobody wants to let them explore alternatives.

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for the Dentists who post here to point out their realistic, workable options, like dental care schemes, and easy payment plans, rather than just gagging them, and giving the impression that, unless people are lucky enough to be able to pay southern prices they do not deserve dental health anyway (which is not even close to an accurate impression of any of the Dentists I know here).

(As for "not comparing like with like" when you need a crown, or a root canal, what counts is whether you can find the money to get it done at all, or whether you have to have the tooth pulled for pain relief because you cannot.)

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Davindra wrote: »

rather than just gagging them, and giving the impression that, unless people are lucky enough to be able to pay southern prices they do not deserve dental health anyway

Also I am not gagging discussion, I just don't want it here, I even linked to a thread on another forum...what more do you want take it there please.

Davindra

Whether people can find ways to afford the dental care they need IS a frontline dental issue. Perhaps THE most significant dental issue of all these days.

Big_G

Yes it is. But you have been told that it is not for this forum. You are lucky not to get an infraction for that. Thread closed.