Dentist's - Rip off

Ciphon · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:19

Hello All,

I've just come back from a check up with my dentist, and I believe that I've been played and ripped off.

My appiontment was at 10:45, and I didn't get seen until 10:55.. a minor annoyance, not such a big deal.

After my wait, I went into the dentists office, she had her poke around in my gob and said everything looked fine, but I may need a filling in one of my teeth and recommended some X-Rays.

She took the X-Rays and sent me out of the room and said she'd come get me in 5-10 minutes. 25 minutes later out she comes, and says everything is fine on the X-Ray.

She decides to have another look in my mouth to be sure, then says "Ahh Actually, I'm really happy with that, yeah - really happy!"

So she almost doubled the price of my visit from £29 to £49 to change her mind and say actually everything's fine and she's really happy with the tooth.

Is this normal? Do you need an X-Ray to show if you need a filling or not?

Ciphon · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:25

Private dentist

Ciphon · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:30

Beerbaron said:
Private can charge what they like.

gord said:
You had xrays at a private and it came in under £50.. I wouldn't be complaining.

Last time I went I think I paid £60.

I'm not really questioning the price..

More that it seems a little suspect that all of sudden she was incredibly happy with the way the tooth was and actually no action was needed.

It feels to me as though she thought she'd do an X-Ray for the hell of it just to get some more cash out of me.

Ciphon · 4 Aug 2010 at 12:55

[FnG]magnolia;17086692 said:
OP sounds likes he's peed off because it took so long which is fair. Also sounds like he's peed off that she did a visual, x-ray then visual again, which is not. That's her job!

Well.. The wait was annoying, but that isn't really my issue.

It's more that she did a visual check - said I needed a filling.

Did an X-Ray.. which didn't show anything up.

Then another visual check, and then decided that actually she's completely happy with the tooth and no filling is needed.

Seems as though her first assessment was completely wrong - and I got charged an extra £20 for the pleasure.