Rockhopper
Newbie
Hi,
I'm looking for a good densist at Stafford to treat a decay. Could you give your advice ?
Many thanks
I'm looking for a good densist at Stafford to treat a decay. Could you give your advice ?
Many thanks
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Dentist : best value at Stafford?
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Glam
Mad Cat Woman
Hillcrest Dentists up on Highfields.
Having had toothache for the best part of 6yrs, and living off painkillers for that long, I can't recommend this practice enough. I have a seriously morbid fear of the dentist, they didn't make me feel stupid or daft for being nervous. So, 1 tooth pulled, a filling done and an old root removed. I am now pain free.
Feed The Goat
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Yep, Hillcrest on Highfields are my choice.
kyoto49
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My advice is that best value is irrelevant when selecting a dentist as your teeth are invaluable to you. You're not buying the best value beans or something
David Gardner, Pure Dental on Eccleshall Road. The best dentist I've ever been too by some margin *(and I've been to plenty!!)
You get what you pay for is never truer than in dentistry sadly.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
My Daughter is 29, I hadn't been since I was pregnant with her. I'm glad you found a nice 1 x
kyoto49
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Yet these same people usually can afford to drink, smoke, own pets, have Sky TV, the internet and annual holidays. Our teeth are more improtant than all of those and then some. Infact, nothing is more important really so everyone should get the best treatment available. Almost always this involves paying.
Carole
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Seriously how judgmental are you?
Just because something is important to you, it doesn't mean that it's important to others...and it doesn't make them wrong.
If they would rather go on holiday than have perfect teeth, isn't that up to them?
By the way...
@kyoto49 ignores my posts so if anyone agrees with me then they need to quote me, so that she sees it.
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Glam
Mad Cat Woman
I go an NHS dentist, mainly because I believe in the NHS! Why spend more of my hard earned money (believe me, doing the job I do, I earn every single penny) than I have to?
Wormella
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I go there too - never had an issue there - always friendly and helpful and they were fab with Master Wearn last week.
kyoto49
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The sad state of NHS dentristy is such that so long as all you need is an amalgam filling, or other basic work then you'll be fine. Need to save a tooth with complex reconstruction and you're f*cked ................basically! The Dentist is paid a maximum amount to save a tooth, if you're treatment costs more than the very low ceiling the governemnt enforce, then extraction will be your only option on the NHS - trust me! I lost a tooth unnecessarily at an NHS dentist that could have been saved. Sadly it was cheaper to extract. I learnt a valuanle lesson that day - your teeth are irreplacable!
Not attending an NHS dentist does not mean I don't believe in the NHS, and it's a ludicrous link to make frankly!. I work in the flippin NHS, I'm a staunch defender and seupporter, but their dentistry is minimal and out dated. Complex tooth saving technology is not available, and amalgam fillings ..........yuk!
It depends what you think is an excellent job. Big black fillings everywhere? Yes, they are excellent at those
. It's not about the training the dentist receives, it's the severe financial restrictions imposed on NHS dentists to keep costs down. Cost in NHS dentristy is more important than saving teeth. I'd rather not have a cost benefti analysis done on my teeth if I need treatment. I prefer to have all the necessary treatment to save my teeth. Thankfully my dentist is so good on the preventative work that I haven't needed much work, but any fillings that have been replaced have been done with white fillings, not the mercury heavy amalgam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_amalgam_controversy
Each to their own, but good private dentristy is streets ahead of good NHS dentristy because the private dentist is not restricted byt the NHS financial restrictions so can offer more varied and complex treatments. Until you've tried a good private dentist you'll not realise that the difference between the 2 is night and day. I love the NHS, but their dentistry needs a lot of financial investment that just isn't going to come sadly.
kyoto49
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