Dentist before flight

[Chris Perkins 228]

Tomorrow (Sunday) I fly to England for a week. Today, a filling decided to fall out and now I have half a tooth missing about 16 hours before I have to catch a plane! We called the emergency dentist and he can fit me in tomorrow moring, and will have at most 1hr 20 mins before I have to leave him to catch the plane.

So, that should be fun!

[Hussulo 6]

Tomorrow (Sunday) I fly to England for a week. Today, a filling decided to fall out and now I have half a tooth missing about 16 hours before I have to catch a plane! We called the emergency dentist and he can fit me in tomorrow moring, and will have at most 1hr 20 mins before I have to leave him to catch the plane.

So, that should be fun!

Dentist oh no!

That should be cutting it close. Good thing your not going to the emergency dentist in the UK I’ve heard a couple of horror stories locally. People going into get fillings done and getting their teeth pulled out instead, as it is quicker and cheaper for the emergency dentist. Plus it’s quite hard to get on a dentists list here. I had a lot of trouble getting back with a local dentist after I left the Royal Navy as I was no longer on my local dentists books.

So are you back to the UK for business or pleasure?

[Geordie582 18]

You are very lucky! You found a dentist - a dying breed here. My wife lost a filling and we trawled the local area, 40 mile radius - with no takers, even when we wished to pay! We ended up 101 miles away in Tyneside to have the repair done! A round trip of 200 miles is not unusual in England apparently, the practice has people on its books from the London area

Oh! to be in England.......

[scottishmoney 34]

Wonder that dentists are scarce because of insurance hassles?

Here we have dentists all over the place, you have a choice of them. What you are talking about here reminds me of the dentists we had in Ukraine. There it was anything goes.

[Red Riley 2]

You are very lucky! You found a dentist - a dying breed here. My wife lost a filling and we trawled the local area, 40 mile radius - with no takers, even when we wished to pay! We ended up 101 miles away in Tyneside to have the repair done! A round trip of 200 miles is not unusual in England apparently, the practice has people on its books from the London area

Oh! to be in England.......

Typical of medical care generally in the UK. I'm convinced my cat gets better medical treatment than I do.

[scottishmoney 34]

Typical of medical care generally in the UK. I'm convinced my cat gets better medical treatment than I do.

Your cat is cared about more by you than you are by your government insurance programme. Benevolence stops whence one attains power.

People in the USA gripe about healthcare here, it is expensive, and not everybody is insured. But if you are you have pretty good care by comparison to say Canada where they have a similar system of medical care as in Britain. Need open heart surgery, get on the list and wait 6 months.

While people in the USA go to Canada to have their medicine prescriptions filled, it is the opposite with Doctor or hospital visits, the Canadians go to the USA for care.

[Gary D 76]

Typical of medical care generally in the UK. I'm convinced my cat gets better medical treatment than I do.

Your cat is cared about more by you than you are by your government insurance programme. Benevolence stops whence one attains power.

People in the USA gripe about healthcare here, it is expensive, and not everybody is insured. But if you are you have pretty good care by comparison to say Canada where they have a similar system of medical care as in Britain. Need open heart surgery, get on the list and wait 6 months.

While people in the USA go to Canada to have their medicine prescriptions filled, it is the opposite with Doctor or hospital visits, the Canadians go to the USA for care.

The wife and I will be having a full MOT done while we are in the Philippines in about 3 weeks time. You can have the full works done, full spectrum blood test, ecg etc for a few pounds. You try and have it done here in the uk. Private very expensive, NHS no chance.

[scottishmoney 34]

The wife and I will be having a full MOT done while we are in the Philippines in about 3 weeks time. You can have the full works done, full spectrum blood test, ecg etc for a few pounds. You try and have it done here in the uk. Private very expensive, NHS no chance.

Lots of people go to Thailand or Phillipines, where the Doctors usually graduated from the same schools that most of the Doctors in the USA graduated from... Delhi, India etc. It is a case of insurance pricing out Physicians from practicing in Western countries unless they charge usurious prices, or they get sued etc.

[RLC35 288]

One of the U.S. Presidential Hopeful's (Hillary Clinton)is pushing socialized medicine, as a part of her Polictical platform. But the more I hear from you all on the forum about making dental appointments, makes me wonder, if that is really a betterment!

I hate to go to the dentist, and always have, but it is really easy to accomplish here...you just call up and make an appointment. Usually a day or two at the longest.

I think I better hope that we stay where we are, with respect to medical care!

Have a great week everyone!

Bob C.

[scottishmoney 34]

One of the U.S. Presidential Hopeful's (Hillary Clinton)is pushing socialized medicine, as a part of her Polictical platform.

Bob C.

I expect that one to go as far as the last one she proposed back in ca. 1993 when she was President by proxy.

[RLC35 288]

One of the U.S. Presidential Hopeful's (Hillary Clinton)is pushing socialized medicine, as a part of her Polictical platform.

Bob C.

I expect that one to go as far as the last one she proposed back in ca. 1993 when she was President by proxy.

I'm with you Scotty...good call!

Bob C.

[Red Riley 2]

One of the U.S. Presidential Hopeful's (Hillary Clinton)is pushing socialized medicine, as a part of her Polictical platform. But the more I hear from you all on the forum about making dental appointments, makes me wonder, if that is really a betterment!

I hate to go to the dentist, and always have, but it is really easy to accomplish here...you just call up and make an appointment. Usually a day or two at the longest.

I think I better hope that we stay where we are, with respect to medical care!

Have a great week everyone!

Bob C.

I think that really depends where you are in the social strata. If you are on benefit, then it would be a massive improvement, but everybody else would end up paying for it; the rich would carry on going private as they always have. The problem with insured schemes (certainly as they exist in the UK) is that they don't cover existing conditions and this means that in the likely event of a recurrence of a previous illness, you find yourself back on the state system.

Carping about the NHS is a national pastime (as I proved above!) but few people would swap its certainties for any other form of healthcare.

[Chris Perkins 228]

I'm back in Germany now. The filling was painless and the tooth didn't hurt afterwards either, which is good.

In Germany there is no NHS system like in the UK. Over here people that are PAYE (i.e workers on a fixed wage) have money taken for their healthcare automatically from the wage. If you're self employed here, as I am, the only choice is a private health insurance policy which is more expensive than basic NHS cover in the UK. It does have benifits though, like shorter waiting times than the proles! But, finding a dentist here is easy (at least it has been for me). You just pop along for an appointment and get done and dusted pretty quick. I have 2 dentists within walking distance and have been to both in the past.

My bill for the large filling (which was one entire side of a tooth, right down to the gum) was EUR150. I don't know how that compares to the UK, and I suspect each treatment is slightly different. I expect I'll pay that bill myself because if I send it to my insurer they'll just put my premium up next year, which annoys me! I'd much rather have a basic cover like the NHS and be free to pay for private things when I want to. I am 29 and pay about £80.00 per month. I've never actually sent them a bill for anything, so it's a complete waster of £80 each month as far as I can tell.

[josie 8]

just update.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7041291.stm

Thier are thousands of dentist in the philippines .

[RLC35 288]

Josie,

The dental system seems a little hard to deal with in the uK. The prices are much less than they are in the U.S. though.

Congress is again talking about National HealthCare here. It really sounds like a solid concept, but in real practice, I don't think it has lived up to the hype.

Thanks for the article.

Bob C.

[josie 8]

US and GB are develope countries if there are problems it is very little compared to the undevelope or third world counties or developing countier like Philippines ,the thing is everything is getting harder that kind of situation is going to knock on the doors of develope countries that health service are pure business and not a public service just a opinion.

Then it will go in full circle again govt health building and services will be sold to private firms.

[Geordie582 18]

Then it will go in full circle again govt health building and services will be sold to private firms.

Effectively the British government have already done this! NHS dentists are a dying breed here.

[josie 8]

Thank you Geordie .I didnt know that.

[scottishmoney 34]

Unless you are insured health care anywhere is creating "medical tourism" where you fly to India or Thailand or or Mexico to have elective surgeries. I know someone that flew to Russia to have RK surgery on her eyes, it was far less expensive there, and besides they were the developers of the whole procedure anyway. Malpractice insurance expenses have practically rendered health care to be a luxury afforded by few. Whilst many in Canada travel to the USA for elective surgeries, many in the USA travel to Canada for prescription drugs, they are far cheaper in Canada than in the USA, even with insurance coverage for prescription meds.

[Colin G. 147]

Unless you are insured health care anywhere is creating "medical tourism" where you fly to India or Thailand or or Mexico to have elective surgeries. I know someone that flew to Russia to have RK surgery on her eyes, it was far less expensive there, and besides they were the developers of the whole procedure anyway. Malpractice insurance expenses have practically rendered health care to be a luxury afforded by few. Whilst many in Canada travel to the USA for elective surgeries, many in the USA travel to Canada for prescription drugs, they are far cheaper in Canada than in the USA, even with insurance coverage for prescription meds.

You are stuffed either way, poor treatment over here or the old carbon footprint guilt trip if you travel!! They will be expecting us to paddle to Russia soon for our treatment

[scottishmoney 34]

I am much less concerned with my carbon footprint than Princess Charles is. Thankfully I don't have to jet set to get away from Camilla for the weekend.