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Excellent Experience with Budapest Dentist

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  • Registered Users Posts: 13,865 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    ”Average dentures” most often need to be replaced due to changes in the patients tissues which lead to them becoming loose, not because they fall apart.

    Hillman, you didn’t travel to Hungary for “average dentures”, if you did, that would make you an idiot, at least tell the truth.



  • Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    You're great at firing off questions, but not so good at answering them. There are approx. 9,000 Hungarians in Ireland and approx. 2,000 dentists. Unless you're specialising in Hungarians 😀 the average dentist will have less than a handful of Hungarian patients.

    So let me ask again. How many Hungarian patients do you have? How many conversations have you had with Hungarians concerning the dental standards in that country?



  • Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    Another dodge!

    Who do you think would be a fair price comparator for the Carlow practice?



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,865 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Okay, I’m going to have to spell it out for you. The irony is that here we have a Clinic run by Hungarian Dentists, but just as expensive as ones run by Irish Dentists, perhaps it has to do with the jurisdiction and costs of doing business.

    Considering they provide all general and some specialist treatments, you can compare there general dental fees with any Clinic that provides routine dentistry, and their specialist treatment fees with any clinic that provides those treatments.

    A case in point, you mention an “average denture” above, which is an acrylic denture, that clinic charges €1200 for a full upper denture, that is very much at the higher end of prices in Ireland.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,865 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Are you assuming the Hungarian population is spread evenly throughout the country?. But going back to the relevant post, the poster asked what my experience with Hungarian patients is, not what the general level of dental health is in Hungary. I’m afraid I do not have a search function by nationality on my practice software, so I’m going to guess more than 30, but less than 50.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    10 times the mathematical average! Is there a "little Budapest" somewhere near your practice?😂

    And you did opine on the general level of dental health in Hungary. You said that you hadn’t noticed that Hungarians have very good teeth and that the average wage in Hungary does not make dentistry at that price point affordable.

    Which of course is BS.



  • Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    No need to spell anything out - that is just an attempt to dodge the question.

    So for the third time, who do you think would be a fair price comparator for the Carlow practice?

    Post a like to a price list, like I did.



  • Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    I have invited the moderator to close this thread again at a time of his/her choosing.



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,865 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    My Clinic is close to a densely populated area and also has GPs/health services, so attracts a lot of patients, of all nationalities.

    Before this thread closes, I’d like to summerise.

    • You asked for the thread to me opened to update on the 10 yr success of your dental treatment.

    • Your treatment began to fall apart after 5 yrs, you returned to have it redone, at your cost, and you accepted when told that it was normal for veneers to fall off after 5 yrs, so you were happy to return for re-treatment at your expense.

    • And now you seem happy that the re-treated veneers/overdenture seem to be lasting longer than the last one.

    • You don’t believe travel costs/time are considered a factor in getting treatment in Hungary, cause you like the country.

    How could you possibly be a qualified economist?



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,865 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    Same town, general dental fees.

    Hillman, most clinics now have websites, it is not difficult to look up a few to compare prices.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭Fitz II


    @Hillmanhunter1 "it is certainly possible to travel to another country and get excellent dental treatment."

    Depends on your definition of excellent.....5 years is on the low end of average, so average treatment would seem more appropriate, and a set of overdentures is a average enough treatment plan to begin with, and certainly a treatment option I would not consider involved enough to travel for. But look people can go where they want, and spend their time and money doing what they want with their own mouths.

    As to how excellent they are, I dont think we ever got a picture of how they look. Medium term survival is not success, and it sound like disease progression is ongoing, usually overdentures have vertical dimension issues that lead to suboptimal aesthetics due to space constraints. But I dont know.

    I have seen some pretty good cases myself of dental tourism. But I have seen bad ones much more often, but I would as people dont attend without problems. If the global pandemic has taught us anything its that there is value in having access to local healthcare, and any patient with a lot of dental work done abroad will have difficulty accessing remedial treatment locally as dentists dont want to touch other people's work.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    All false apart from the first bullet, but sure you know that😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,865 ✭✭✭✭Dav010


    You literally posted that the veneers fell off after 5 yrs, you had a new overdenture made, you were told that is normal for the type of treatment you had, you believe that travel cost isn’t a factor, you consider it an “opportunity cost”, how could it be false if you posted that yourself?

    Weird.

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