Some private Dentists and Vets are at it, charging consultation fees before carrying out the work you asked them for. It no longer seems possible to ring up and get a filling appointment without being examined and x-rayed despite having been examined and x-rayed within the last 12 months and incurring a hefty £80 charge for the privilege.
Vets are doing it too, a friend took his dog for minor dental treatment and was quoted £250 by a branch of one vet group, £650 by a different branch of the same group and told that the dog must be given a medical examinaion first, despite the dog having no health problem, that cost £70 and he ended up paying a further £475 for scaling and polishing the dog's teeth. He was also told that the dog must have a tooth extracted pushing the bill to £800. My friend's daughter is a dentist so she took a look and found nothing wrong with the tooth.
Whoever wins on 4/7 I for one will be asking my local MP to take up the issues raised.
Vets are doing it too, a friend took his dog for minor dental treatment and was quoted £250 by a branch of one vet group, £650 by a different branch of the same group and told that the dog must be given a medical examinaion first, despite the dog having no health problem, that cost £70 and he ended up paying a further £475 for scaling and polishing the dog's teeth. He was also told that the dog must have a tooth extracted pushing the bill to £800. My friend's daughter is a dentist so she took a look and found nothing wrong with the tooth.
Whoever wins on 4/7 I for one will be asking my local MP to take up the issues raised.
) I paid £99.99 this morning in advance for a 'consulation' with a dentist. I hadn't been for five years so I didn't know whether or not that was expensive by today's 'cost-of-living-crisis' standards. I had no complaints, though, as my dentist is excellent and quickly found out the problem; this included an X-ray.
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