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Do dentists accept payment plans?

  • 03-06-2013 10:21am
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    silentrust
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    Ok so I've just moved to Dublin and think my teeth are so far gone it'll make repairing the Hubble telescope a walk in the park.

    One of my lower wisdom teeth has grown out at exact right angles to the other teeth. The other is growing in sideways and one pre molar which I call my "sweet tooth" is broken and causes severe pain whenever I eat something sugary (have lost half a stone since I had it!)

    I am surviving less than 100 Euro a week until I find a job. Is there any dentist who'll accept a payment plan for the heavy excavation I need that anyone knows of?

    I have e-mailed my local dentist but have had no reply. Not asking for charity but surely I am not the first person living in Dublin who couldn't pay hundreds up front?

    All thoughts are welcome.


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    For small jobs (100 euro is a small job that wont take many visits) dentists generally will not give payment plans. Dentists are not banks, they don't give credit no more than tesco's give credit, or a petrol station gives credit.

    However you can use a credit card, credit union load, overdraft, loan from family or friends to pay the dentist, then pay back the loan at your leisure.

    Its nothing personal its just that the dentist doesn't know you, and there are a proportion of people who don't pay their dental bills. The dentist would be better off not doing the work than having to case you for small repayments.

    Its different of large work like braces, crowns, implants etc where there are many visits of a long period and you dont get the final work until the end.


  • #3
    silentrust
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    Ariel Eager Radiator wrote: »
    For small jobs (100 euro is a small job that wont take many visits) dentists generally will not give payment plans. Dentists are not banks, they don't give credit no more than tesco's give credit, or a petrol station gives credit.

    However you can use a credit card, credit union load, overdraft, loan from family or friends to pay the dentist, then pay back the loan at your leisure.

    Its nothing personal its just that the dentist doesn't know you, and there are a proportion of people who don't pay their dental bills. The dentist would be better off not doing the work than having to case you for small repayments.

    Its different of large work like braces, crowns, implants etc where there are many visits of a long period and you dont get the final work until the end.

    Thanks Ariel Eager Radiator, I suspected as much! Think I'd better do as you suggest and apply for a credit card once I'm working again to pay it all off in one go, you can't put a price on good health after all. :-)


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