Dental care nowadays is extremely expensive if you go to the private clinic. Most of us prefer private dental care because of the shorter queue and flexibility of time. Government dental clinics have fixed days for extractions and for filling or scaling. Some of us find it hard to accomodate for those times, so instead we prefer to spend money on our most treasured asset-a fine set of natural teeth. However, that is not always guaranteed by the amount of money we are willing to put in. Dentists are such an arrogant lot!
A tooth extraction normally costs about fifty ringgit , scaling costs eighty ringgit whereas filling costs fifty to eighty depending on the size of the cavity. However, I have a feeling this kind of money is not satisfying some dentists. Some prefer to earn from the 'higher end' kind of jobs namely crowning, bridges and the like, which at the minimum, costs about eight hundred ringgit for one crowning.
One thing about the dentists is we have to trust our teeth to them. We won't be sure how many holes we have in our set of teeth or how bad they are except to trust them. Besides, we are not too sure the work they have done is good enough for us to pay that much. There is no guarantee although we may have paid hundreds to the thousands of ringgit. Though some dentist will advise to have an X-ray done to show how the cavities are before doing, many will just proceed without having it done at all, because the X-rays are going to mean extra costs to be paid.
At the end of the day, there is no proof of how your teeth are before the job is done. Once, I was having my teeth done and the dentist was in a hurry to go somewhere. He kept on asking the nurse beside him if he had missed out any procedures. Poor me , because I was thinking that the 'fate' of my teeth was going to be in his hands! I did not want a shoddy job done to my teeth and I wanted my natural teeth to last longer! Most of all, I cannot afford to 'throw away my money' for the crowning and root treatments and whatnots if I can avoid them!
A tooth extraction normally costs about fifty ringgit , scaling costs eighty ringgit whereas filling costs fifty to eighty depending on the size of the cavity. However, I have a feeling this kind of money is not satisfying some dentists. Some prefer to earn from the 'higher end' kind of jobs namely crowning, bridges and the like, which at the minimum, costs about eight hundred ringgit for one crowning.
One thing about the dentists is we have to trust our teeth to them. We won't be sure how many holes we have in our set of teeth or how bad they are except to trust them. Besides, we are not too sure the work they have done is good enough for us to pay that much. There is no guarantee although we may have paid hundreds to the thousands of ringgit. Though some dentist will advise to have an X-ray done to show how the cavities are before doing, many will just proceed without having it done at all, because the X-rays are going to mean extra costs to be paid.
At the end of the day, there is no proof of how your teeth are before the job is done. Once, I was having my teeth done and the dentist was in a hurry to go somewhere. He kept on asking the nurse beside him if he had missed out any procedures. Poor me , because I was thinking that the 'fate' of my teeth was going to be in his hands! I did not want a shoddy job done to my teeth and I wanted my natural teeth to last longer! Most of all, I cannot afford to 'throw away my money' for the crowning and root treatments and whatnots if I can avoid them!
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