29 March 2010

Dental Treatment in Ireland

It looks like dental care is taking a nosedive in Ireland. According to the Irish Independent newspaper dental patients in Ireland will have to have teeth extracted rather than properly repaired with fillings and root canal work because of dental funding cuts. Are we going back to the dark ages? It is ridiculous to consider pulling out teeth rather than repairing them properly with fillings, crowns and root canal work.

Is the situation any better here in the UK? We can only hope the proposed new dental contracts being piloted will make it worthwhile for dentists to undertake NHS dental work again. If you get the same payment for extracting a tooth, which might take seconds, as you get for spending hours doing root canal work which is the most cost effective option for the dentist?

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