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Dental Fees?

  • 13-07-2010 11:50am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭


    Is there anywhere online that gives a guideline on dental fees?

    I'm booked in next week for a polish and 2 fillings replaced. It's costing me €240, I'm sure I can get the same work done significantly cheaper elsewhere...am I deluded?

    I'm a medical card holder but it seems to be worthless to me?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭georgieporgy


    240 is not expensive for 2 fillings and cleaning.

    However, if you have not had dental treatment on your Med Card this year so far, then you are entitled to get up to 2 fills done on it. Not every dentist operates under the Med Card scheme. Does yours?

    Cleanings are not paid by med card under current rules.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Agreed , that is not expensive you wouldn't get that done many places that cheap.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    I got 1 filling and a cleaning before and it cost €180. So yours sounds about right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    In fact you would pay only 20 or 30 euro less in eastern europe for two fillings and a cleaning according to my brief internet research.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,292 ✭✭✭TangyZizzle


    How much does a cleaning cost? on average?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 599 ✭✭✭day dreamer


    according to the competition authority a cleaning varies from 60 to 90


  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My dentist charges €80 for filling, charged me €115 for a filling and clean & polish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭Monkey09


    My dentist charges 50 for a cleaming and 80 for a filling so yours doesn't sound unreasonable at all!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 fuzzywossy


    Sounds good to me. My dentist is usually €100 approx (could be more depending on the tooth) per filling and then the clean is generally €70. I think your getting a good deal. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,463 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    good to read this, makes me realise I'm not being ripped off.
    Dentist charged me €50 for a clean (did a thorough job and carried out a little x-ray thingy to show up a small cavity as suspected).

    I'm going back for the filling next week, cost is between €85 (amalgam) and €120 for white. I love mercury so I'm going got the cheaper option:D

    bonus is that he will see me at 7pm, now that's great service.


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  • Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]



    bonus is that he will see me at 7pm, now that's great service.

    Makes it cheaper again if you don't lose the work hours, my dude is the same, only on a Tuesday though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭FOXFISH1


    I have been quoted 2,000 for an implant,
    I've no idea if this is good value or not, anyone no what the average price would be, and is it much cheaper in the north?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    google it, depends on who is doing it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭FOXFISH1


    google it, depends on who is doing it.

    Cheers @Addilyn Obedient Mission,
    had a look on google and 2,000 seems very competitive.
    The price range seems to be from 2,000-2,500 with one exception being a place in Leixlip, <snip>, quoting 1,400 on it's website.
    (yes i know these are only guide prices).

    ....also discovered that there are so many dentists who don't seem to have a website, and those who do have a website, often don't give the prices.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    the implant has three parts, the implant part or artificial root, the abutment that sticks out of the gums and the final crown. Make sure the price is "fully restored" the 1400 you say would suggest that thats the implant only. Also make sure the implant is one of the big brands or a compatable. In 20 years you want to be able to get replacement parts and if its some weird implant you might not be able to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 324 ✭✭jenny4385


    i got 3 white fillings yday... 250 euro:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭tregan


    just thought i'd find out what dentists charge for filling and clean as got CC bill which gave me the true cost of getting my teeth done up north - it cost £80 which worked out at €104 so think i did ok and it was a white filling as was a repair to a perferoated crown so he had to do a lot of picking to clean the tooth first sorry if tmi?!

    i had heard a rumour that northern dentists weren't taking new southern clients so i asked the receptionist about this as my husband wants to get his teeth done and she said that wasn't the case and she hadn't heard anything like that anywhere else


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Sound like its cheaper get it done hear, a white filling down south would be about 120 euro so by the time you travel, take time off work etc its a lot cheaper down south. The price difference between north and south has evapourated with the sterling price. Of course northern dentist will take southern clients, lovely private patients instend of NHS.


  • Moderators Posts: 1,589 ✭✭✭Big_G


    FOXFISH1 wrote: »
    Cheers @fitzgeme,
    had a look on google and 2,000 seems very competitive.
    The price range seems to be from 2,000-2,500 with one exception being a place in Leixlip, <snip>, quoting 1,400 on it's website.
    (yes i know these are only guide prices).

    ....also discovered that there are so many dentists who don't seem to have a website, and those who do have a website, often don't give the prices.

    That is implant only, but placed by an oral surgeon.


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