New Dentist Needed

[mikey88]

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Everywhere that I have been have price lists.

The price list price is the price you pay.

Being surprised with the bill after treatment has never happened to me.

I know the price before I sit in the chair.

[elektrified]

On 12/5/2016 at 7:52 AM, stament said:

I love these dentist threads that come up from time to time, everyone seems to have good and bad experiences about all those mentioned most of the time so it's diffcult to make a choice in most cases. Pricing also tends to become an issue and rightly so if it's major work as it can be very expensive as opposed to a routine check-up.

 

I am a simple guy, if I like my current dentist and I think he does a good job then provided the prices aren't hiked excessively I prefer to stay as I trust him. He has some some very good work for me, quite major work all which was pain free.

 

One thing I have noticed here is that dentists seem to distinguish between treating adults and children, whereas in England most dentists treat all patients. Is there any particular reason for this? I would have thought all teeth were the same, apart from the obvious milk teeth, but the principles I mean, which to me wouldn't necessitate separate "specialist" children's dentists like they have here. Am I wrong in my thinking?

 

Or do some dentists just prefer not to treat children perhaps due to their behaviour and others perhaps prefer not to treat adults for the same reason! . Interested to know the reason for this as I have tried to take my sons to dentists before here in CM only to be told, oh no we don't treat children or we only treat children on a Tuesday! Perhaps Tuesday is when the child dentist works? Or is it perhaps just the usual Thai logic being applied and no deviation however rational?

As Dante said, special training and also many dentists don't have a complete set of instruments and fittings for equipment for children's mouths. Yes of course, Tuesday is when the children's dentist comes to that clinic.

Edited December 11, 2016 by elektrified

[blorg]

On 01/10/2016 at 10:24 AM, cmsally said:

Another very good option is the dentist on corner of Moonmuang soi 2

 

I went to Pongsakorn recently after a filling fell out and was very happy with the service. It was I think only 400 baht for a new composite filling and checkup. No unnecessary work, although he did tell me there was a possibility it would not stay and would need a crown. Also got a cleaning which was another 400 baht. Dentist has good English and seems to know what he is doing.

[thai006]

On 31/08/2016 at 2:08 PM, eyecatcher said:

I needed a crown and root canal so I shopped around like the thrifty person I am.

 

After several recommendations on here, the same 2, Elite and Empress were on the list.

both places were coming in at circa 25k.

These were the most expensive places.

I was recommended by a Thai to go to the place opposite chiang mai gate market, lots of Thais go there and its run by the professor from the dentistry faculty at the uni. that sounded promising.

 

Went there,it was like stepping back in time....1980s, the place was a hovel, 3 or 4 chairs in bright blue all in the same room, with just one or two strip lights on the ceiling.

 

The price for the same treatment would be circa 16k; however the wait is 5 weeks to get the first procedure (of 5) underway.

 

The thing about the expensive places is they are now almost uniquely running for farangs, no one else can afford them and as such you can get any procedure started the next day.

 

I ended up with the Empress. The first time I went a farang came out and was asked to pay 50k baht for his crown works "but I already paid 50k three weeks ago"

"solly sir, but that was only for the gum surgery and root canal, not the crown"

 

He was floored, both me and the lady beside me just looked at each other in amazement.

 

Over 5 visits of mine, they added on bits and pieces to suit themselves....a difficult root canal or simple, up to them to decide, I pressed for it to be simple.

my root canal work was a pain; I had to cancel the following appointment becasue the dentist had trapped my gums with his clamps. they gave me some medecine of course and I refused to pay for that.

The final fitting of the crown procedure at the end was I think 14k, the cash in my pocket; yet the girl wanted to charge me 200bt for the xray for the benefit of the dentist checking he had fitted it correctly.

 

I refused, I created a scene, and told them how petty they were being after I had paid 25k.

In reply they tried to fob me off with a free tube of sensodyne toothpaste.

 

sensodyne...i ask you, I just had a root canal, why the hell do i need thier sensodyne

my experience was terrible, I think 4 different specialists carried out work on my tooth. in the uk it was one dentist to do the lot, its like everything else here, they always need at least two people to do every job.

 

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i will not be going back there in future.......the staircase is nice though.

i make a  crown in france this year and i pay 1000e but with my insurance  they give me back 1000e so was free, sometime we dont know how we lucky to live in a good place for medical 

[drtreelove]

I highly recommend BIG SMILE DENTAL CLINIC, Dr Supachai.  http://www.bigsmilechiangmai.dental/