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Does the medical card still cover dentist work?

  • 06-07-2011 3:52pm
    #1
    mflanagan95
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    I want to go get a check up and i presume ill have to get fillings as well, can anyone tell me if this will cost? also if you know any places that dont charge around the general limerick city area that would be great too.:D


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    see here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056182088


  • #3
    hardship
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭hardship


    Just came back from the dentist in Galway that didn't even hurt!

    *******read charter no names please*******

    Good old fashioned, no frills, honest and reasonable.

    Medical card now covers

    (in one calendar year)

    2 fillings
    1 extraction
    1 check up

    Root canal work on front teeth only!

    Who thinks up these rules....?


  • #4
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    hardship wrote: »
    Just came back from the dentist in Galway that didn't even hurt!

    *******read charter no names please*******

    Good old fashioned, no frills, honest and reasonable.

    Medical card now covers

    (in one calendar year)

    2 fillings
    1 extraction
    1 check up

    Root canal work on front teeth only!

    Who thinks up these rules....?

    Dont think root canal work of any kind is covered without special request. You can have as many extractions as you want. This information is incorrect.


  • #5
    DaveTwenty7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭DaveTwenty7


    Daphne Salmon Snake wrote: »
    Dont think root canal work of any kind is covered without special request. You can have as many extractions as you want. This information is incorrect.

    You can have first stage root cal work with out approval and the second stage with approval, but extractions are what the HSE prefer


  • #6
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Just looking at this again and really its amazing. Imagin you went into A&E with a badly infected toe. You actually have several infected toes but the doctors can only treat one toe, leave the others festering away and tell you to come back in a year for treatment of the others. Also the only treatment you can have is removal of the toe even though if you have the cash you could save them all easily.

    Shambles


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  • #7
    DaveTwenty7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 236 ✭✭DaveTwenty7


    But like toes teeth grow back right?


  • #8
    mflanagan95
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭mflanagan95


    Thanks for letting me know appreciate it :)


  • #9
    marti8
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭marti8


    hardship wrote: »
    Medical card now covers

    (in one calendar year)

    2 fillings
    1 extraction
    1 check up

    Root canal work on front teeth only!

    The info I have is that you can get unlimited extractions. You can also get 1 check up no sooner than 12 months from your last medical card (free) check up and you can get upto 2 filings within any calendar year (that being if for arguments sake - and who doesn't like a nice argument :D - you have 2 fillings done on the med card in say Decemeber, you can get another two done in January, as an example) I was told previously that as I had 2 fillings done on the med card lets say last Sept that I couldn't have any more free fillings doen until the following Sept, that is simply incorrect. Ireland being Ireland you have to double, triple and quadruple check things.


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