I would change your dentist. Had been in couple different dentists over here (lived in Bergen before) and a full check up with cleaning/removal of tartar cost me 700 NoK in both opportunities, each visit (app 90 euros)
Lived in Germany before, dentist cost me 80 euros for a year check-up / cleaning, my salary there was 2x smaller than here
In my home country, a similar visit would cost me 60 euros. But in my home country my salary would be 5x smaller as well.
So imo, Norway has a very cheap dental cost to be fair
Meh I visit the dentist 3 times a year for cleaning and checking, which costs about $500-600.
I easily pay that much for car maintenance for a year's worth of oil, weatherization, detailing.
I plan to keep my teeth a lot longer than my car. So the cost are worth it.
Hmm that socialism isn't working too well for you now huh, Norway?
hehe I kid
OT: Just don't go, fuck it. Wait till your teeth get real bad and then go to hospital hahaha
I'd love to know what dentist OP goes to, since I've yet to pay more than 90 euro for a dental checkup, and I live in Norway as well. Also, my dental hygiene is absolutely horrible, I can't remember the last time I had a "rinse and retreat"-visit.
Seriously, Skyr, what overpriced idiot checks your teeth?
I'm in the states, have dental insurance and I'm still stalling because its going to cost five hundred, after insurance, to fix two of my teeth.
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Sounds to me like you need a better Union and/or Dental plan. I pay 0$ For every trip I make to the dentist. And since I li e in Canada Same goes for the doctor.
Although from what I understand someone up here will pay an exorbetent amount of money for the dentist. My last bill was over 500$ for 2 White enamel fillings. (The tooth coloured ones fuck silver) Luckily for me I have over 5500$ In coverage yearly between my fiance and myself. LIUNA 183 Might be a bunch of crooks but at least they give its members amazing benefits for what I pay. 100% Drug coverage as well.
My suggestion to you is find a job with a good union dental plan or find a company with good dental policies.
This thread reminds me of my recent visit to the emergency room because I dont have a primary care doctor in this area. I had a swollen eyelid and it itched like crazy. Basically all they did was take some vitals, look at my eye and write a prescription. With insurance it is costing me $100 for the vitals(really unnecessary anyway) and data entry and another $50 to the doctor for looking at my eye and writing a prescription. So it probably cost more than twice that without insurance. The best thing is that the diagnosis was wrong so I really got nothing out of it.
First I went to a regular dentist and have been going there for 10 years The prices were 25% cheaper. Still expensive.
I went to a dentist office with higher quality and noticed an extreme change. The current dentist told me I was entitled atleast 2000 euros worth of work done to my teeth at my previous dentist office becouse their work done to them was so poorly done. He adviced me to sue them.
Also told me there was so many things i was entitled to get refunded like broken teeth when i was younger caused by accident wich the previous dentist office charged me full price for.
Got 3 fake teeth refunded, like 15 fillings refunded when i changed to this new dentist office. Took him 3 minutes to find all the mistakes done in my teeth.
My previous office also when they did a regular checkup said I had 4 holes.
The new dentist office said I had 13. Some of them extremly small but better to fix it before it gets bigger. Will cost me less in the long run wich the previous dentist office did not give a simple fuck about.
Its in Stavanger btw
Capitalism my friend. Sounds like you need to study economics.
You've had to pay more for that then I've had to for braces, and it only cost me 50 dollars to get two teeth pulled. Perhaps try to find a different dentist or are they all like that?
Well, Stavanger IS one of the most expensive places in Norway to live, but I had no idea it could get this bad! o.O I mean, I live in Karmøy, and like I said I have yet to pay a four-digit sum in NOK.
Just curious, but have you asked your dentist if it would just be cheaper to get fake teeth(don't remember the fancy name in english)? Have they given you any specific tips for your unique dental condition?
Dentists here you can pay in full or in lump sums they can setup a payment plan if you really need too, when i was addicted to coke cola i think my bill got up too around $250 certainly kicked my habit havent touched cola in over a year now lol
I'm gonna let 'em know that Dolemite is back on the scene! I'm gonna let 'em know that Dolemite is my name, and fuckin' up motherfuckers is my game!
He had to pay and go to school for 8 years or more. He had to pay for the equipment, the office rent, the utilities, the gas to put you to sleep. He has to pay employees. He has to pay for gas to get to work everyday.....So you want him to charge you five bucks for an xray from a machine that he paid close to 80k to buy so he could run his business that he worked so hard to build?
Dentists don't make as much as you think. A dentist profits roughly a hundred grand a year, and he earned it. He didn't want to be some guy making hundred fifty a day, no offense.
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I dunno who you have been talking too but their really isn't any pain if you follow the dentists instructions and take the meds.
Main thing with dentures is you really need to wear them as much as possible so the natural shape of your gums stays molded with them otherwise you would need to have them replaced every so often.
Prices are over the top in Denmark aswell. My dad had really ugly teeth, he got all plastic teeth in turkey for 1/5th of the price here in Denmark.
Most people think "Turkey must have bad dentists etc. with those prices", but no, his smile is perfect and looks natural still.
Reason why the dentists in Turkey are better at doing these things is because its very common to get such surgeries made.
So if you intent to waste almost 6k euro on getting 13 holes fixed, you might aswell spend 3-4k euro on full renovation of your mouth and a nice 4 week holiday in a warm country at the same price.
That makes absolutely no sense for 2 reasons:
a) In Norway, dental care is not free. So in principle everyone has to pay.
b)As part of Norway healthcare laws, healthcare is "free" means healthcare is "free". You pay heavy taxes, and that entitles you to healthcare, i.e. no one is paying more expensive medical bills so half the country can have it free.
Wow thats pretty damn expensive. I feel sad for people who have bad "teeth-genes" so to speak.
In the past 1-2 years I was pretty damn lazy at brushing my teeth... Only brushed them 1-2 times a week if that. Mostly when I was going out.
I went to the dentists last week and got told that I have pretty much perfect teeth apart from some dental calculus which the dentist then removed (which took maybe 15 minutes). Apparently there was quite a bit of it since the last time I had been to a dentists and had it removed was like 4 years ago... But anyways after it was removed my teeth were back to being (almost) snow-white :P
Whole thing cost me around 80 euros or so, which is not all that bad. I might have some more checkups from now on, though :P Maybe once a year.
I was also smart and got my wisdom-teeth removed when I was in the army as you get free dental/healthcare during it