Why do dentists charge so much?

4:21pm Wednesday 13th August 2008

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MY partner has just registered at a dentist in Stretford, we had to pay £40 to register and she had a five minute exam!

Some work is needed and all was put into the system, she has had two x rays, she needs a few fillings repairing, and also she is booked for a clean up, yet the dentist complimented her on her clean teeth and mouth so why a clean up!

We went into reception and the receptionist gave her her plan, not including the £40 already tendered the rest of the treatment comes to £254.

My God, is this profession licence to print money or what.

My partner only earns two times that amount per month. I am amazed that dentists are allowed to make such extortionate charges. A total of as good as damn it £300 for what will be less than an hour’s treatment including the initial consultation. Is it not time that these prices were regulated, I can understand why some people will take a pair of pliers to their own teeth and pull them out.

Dental insurance is more costly than insuring my car, what on earth is it all coming to. Smokers moan at prices of £200 and £300 pounds to stop smoking with hypnotherapy, and they will recover the fees within a month, does no one complain to the regulating body about fees charged by dentist in private practice?

Maybe it is time people started making it known these fees are too much.

Gobsmacked Mr T