Dentists and Price

Got a patient estimate through the post today for a crown E-MAX for my UR1 (Upper Right 1. which has been replaced once after breaking it as a kid the nice round figure was £600 quid.
Is this a bargain or not and is it an indication that the dentists that are doing sportives etc. are raising the price of bike parts with their over-inflated incomes. I mast say that my current dentist is by far the best I have ever experienced, it only goes to show me how poor most of them in the past have been. Some of them I wouldn’t trust putting up a shelf! And the manners, well just awful, but this guy is such a gentleman.
Never mind, I must just find time to do the lottery again of course.
Is this a bargain or not and is it an indication that the dentists that are doing sportives etc. are raising the price of bike parts with their over-inflated incomes. I mast say that my current dentist is by far the best I have ever experienced, it only goes to show me how poor most of them in the past have been. Some of them I wouldn’t trust putting up a shelf! And the manners, well just awful, but this guy is such a gentleman.
Never mind, I must just find time to do the lottery again of course.

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I think it sounds pricey, but I've never had this kind of work done.
Many people would pay that for a few day's traveling to experience the Etape, a transitory experience by comparison.
Never done the Etape because you need to be a dentist to afford it.
No shan't bother with the crown because you can get a set of Mavic Cosmic Carbons for that price and I look censored these days anyway.
This one made me smile (not a good idea if your crown starts below your gum) I'll try this on you folk and it's on a questionnaire at my Dentists, it read.... How many marks out of ten would you give for your smile?
Well :?:
;-)
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/dentalhealth ... ments.aspx says up to 204, but of course you have to find a dentist who'll do it on the nhs
http://www.cosmeticdentistryguide.co.uk/crowns.html says 300-1100, so 600 seems in line
fwiw i had to have two done last year, cost 1400 total
You might just be on to something here mate. I have had a multitude of nationalities in this country practicing as dentists so why not cut the cost, have a holiday and go there. With a crown though they have to make the crown to suit so there would be a delay and maybe two visits, one for 1hr to assess the situation and take some measurements and maybe x-ray. Next appointment half an hr to fit new crown, normally takes about a week for lab to make new crown. So fortnights holiday it maybe possible.
I have a good Portuguese ride buddy in the Algarve who is a dental technician, I'm there again in February for the Tour of the Algarve (Wiggins also!) and I might just have a word about the cost of a new crown.
we went on hols there twice, first trip they did most of the work, then it takes months for the implants to bond, second trip finished the job
it was all very clean and high-tech
overall cost was more than doing it in uk, but this way we also had two warm sunny holidays
fwiw my dentist in uk says a lot of the work i needed doing was due to the practice of drill and fill for even the first hint of damage that dentists followed in the past, but these days dentists *should* know that some minor/early damage can be halted or even repaired, and do that instead of geting out the drill
Like bankers it's was a form of public looting.
Is this the patient or the dentist getting the treatment :?:
I blame the Nazi's.