By: nobilgates
16/05/2008
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Is there an industry watchdog to check what dental clinics charge? Walking into a dental clinic is like having an open blank cheque book. What's Fair Trading doing?
How can a dentist justify $250 for a 20minutes quick fix on a dental chair. Then patient asked to return for more visits to fill up the dentists' loot with a total of $2100 quoted.
Dental care is beyond the reach of the average working class families. It is about time that the hardworking fairdinkum average Australian families get their share of affordable dental care besides those on single mum pensions, aged pensions and the long term unemployed!
Can someone help stop this shameless rip off? Where's the moral dentists? You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. Did dentists choose their profession to justify daylight robbery without illegal weapons but just with their shiny dental tools?
Dentists how can you sleep at night doing this to your countrymen?
Come Australians - it is about time we shake this up! |
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By: nessa_sarily_so
16/05/2008
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| We save up - only one member of the household can go to the dentist each year. |
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By: lostie_fan
16/05/2008
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| i have only been to the dentist twice, once when i was 19 and last year (21) |
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By: tanyamae2000
17/05/2008
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| Unfortuately dental care and mental health seem to be put in the too hard basket for most governments. I would have thought thaat dental health was as basic as seeing a doctor, but who am I? |
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By: ellimccool
17/05/2008
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| If you suspect that the dental bill is going to amount to a few thousand dollars, and that's after any private health reimbursement, then perhaps you'd be betteroff flying overseas to a third world country and queue up where the australian volunteers doctors are providing free denatl assistance. |
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By: larjorgan2001
18/05/2008
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Nobilgates - I checked the Australian Dental Association website some time ago & searched for "recommended scale of fees". Turns out there is none & each dentist may charge what he/she thinks is reasonable having regard to material costs, complexity of the procedure & their amount of experience.
It is indeed an industry that needs to be monitored with regards to pricing. |
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By: larjorgan2001
18/05/2008
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Ellimccool -I have done exactly as you suggested. First had dental work performed in the Philippines 2 years ago - required a triple crown bridge which cost me the equivalent of $285 AU. (My Australian dentist noticed the work on my next periodic check-up - said it was of a high standard & would have cost me $3000 in Australia.)
Am in the Philippines at the moment getting further work done - can't afford any elaborate dental treatment in Australia. Don't believe the negative comments made by the A.D.A. re going o/s for treatment - I can say that the facilities & skill of dentists here is equal to - if not better than many at home. Many of the dentists in the Philippines are U.S. trained & can perform complex procedures such as tooth implants.
There are websites which offer dental/medical holidays o/s & a large number of Aussies as well as other nationalities are availing of the cheaper prices. |
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By: bluey_the_bloo
18/05/2008
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larg, i am in phils too, having dental work done..
'availing'? Hmmmmmmmmm, you been here too long, ol' son, lol |
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By: bluey_the_bloo
18/05/2008
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what i do like, is the dentist i am consulting is right downstairs here in my Condo tower (Makati)
the work i am having done will save me so much i could have travelled here on a 1st class return ticket, had a pentouse condo, and still come out in front...
and, funny thing, the dentist wants to go to Oz to practice... |
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By: lowther_jeff
18/05/2008
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| Hmm! must have heard of the land of milk and honey |
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