How To Know If Your Dentist Is Good?
26 August 2022
A full dental health check, so you know where you stand
£25 Usual price £50 50% off
Summer offer, ends 10 September
00 days 00 hrs 00 min 00 sec- A full intra-oral examination
- Full X-rays
- A treatment plan, in writing
- Your finance options, explained
- Discounted prices on any treatment you go ahead with
£50 is what this appointment normally costs.
Not sure which appointment you need?
This is a guide to the right first appointment, not a diagnosis. Your dentist will talk through what is right for you once they have had a look.
Would rather just talk to someone? Call 01709 872292 or send an enquiry.
What it costs
- Routine examination, adult
- Private £30
- Membership plan Included twice in 12 months
- Routine examination, child under 18
- Private £15
- Membership plan £15
- Scale and polish
- Private £60
- Membership plan Included twice in 12 months
- Tooth-coloured restoration, back tooth from
- Private £140
- Membership plan £130
- Crowns from
- Private £550
- Membership plan £500
- Full dentures, upper and lower from
- Private £650
- Membership plan £595
Fees are reviewed regularly. Please ask us for a current estimate.
Been a while since your last check-up?
A look at where things stand, told plainly, with anything that needs doing put in a sensible order and priced before you agree to it.
What a new patient appointment covers
- A full initial examination
- Jaw joint, gum and teeth checks
- A conversation about your concerns
- Prevention advice and your treatment options
- A treatment agenda for anything running over several visits
- A written quote for anything you need
£30, all in. No obligation to go ahead.
Most dentistry is not dramatic
It is an examination every so often, a clean, and a small repair before a small problem becomes a big one. That is the bulk of what happens here, and it is the part of dentistry that makes the most difference over a lifetime.
If it has been a while, that is genuinely fine. Nobody here is going to lecture you about it. We will look at where things stand, tell you plainly what we find, and set out the options in an order that makes sense.
Keeping teeth healthy
Most dentistry is easier, cheaper and quicker when a problem is caught early. These are the appointments that do the catching.
Repairing a tooth
When a tooth is decayed, cracked or worn, the aim is to keep as much of it as possible and rebuild the rest.
Replacing a tooth
A gap changes how you bite and how the teeth beside it behave. There is more than one way to fill one.
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Check-ups, hygiene and repairs. Send an enquiry and reception will ring you back to arrange a time.
One practice in Wath upon Dearne, easy to reach from across the area
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Questions people ask
How you find out which treatment you need, what a long absence actually means, and who agrees to what.
How do I know which of these I need?
You do not, and you are not meant to. Working that out is what the examination is for, which is why it is the first thing on this page rather than one option among ten.
What is useful to bring is the symptom rather than the treatment. Something is sensitive, something has broken, something has been aching at night, a tooth feels loose, or nothing is wrong at all and it has simply been a while. Any of those is enough to book on.
You will be told what we find, what needs doing, what could be done and what could safely wait, with the reason for each. If you arrived certain you needed a crown and a filling would do the job, we will say so.
It has been years since I was last at a dentist. What actually happens?
The first appointment is an examination and a conversation, and that is all it is. Nothing is drilled or taken out on the day you arrive, unless something is hurting and you want it dealt with there and then.
After a long gap there is usually a list rather than one thing, and a list is easier to look at than it sounds. It gets put in order: anything causing pain or actively getting worse first, then what is worth doing soon, then what can be watched. You can stop at any point in that order.
Stopping after the examination is a real option too. Finding out where you stand and then going away to think about it is a normal outcome, not a wasted appointment.
Who decides what gets done?
You do. Your dentist works out what the options are, explains what each involves, and recommends one. Agreeing to it is a separate step, and that step is yours.
So no is an answer, and so is not yet. If you would rather watch a small cavity for six months than fill it today, say so, and you will be told honestly whether that is reasonable for that tooth or whether waiting costs you more of it.
Nothing starts before you have the plan and the cost in writing. If a plan changes once treatment is under way, and occasionally it does, you are told before the change happens rather than at the desk afterwards.
How do I find out what it will cost before I agree to anything?
In writing, itemised, after the examination and before anything starts. That is the reason for doing it in that order.
The fees for the common treatments are published, so the shape of it is visible before you come in. What the written estimate adds is which of them apply to you and how many of each, which is the part a price list cannot tell you.
There is also a membership plan, which spreads routine care across monthly payments and charges less than the standard private fee for some treatments. Whether it works out cheaper depends on how much treatment you actually have, so ask reception to run it against your own mouth rather than taking it on principle.
Do you see children?
Yes. A child's examination is its own appointment at its own fee, and the prevention that goes with it is on the fee list too: fluoride varnish, and sealants on the biting surfaces of the back teeth.
Is everything done here, or would I be sent elsewhere?
Nearly all of it is done here, and the page for the individual treatment says so where that is not the case. Gum disease that is not responding, and the occasional root canal that turns out to be more complicated than it looked, are the two that are sometimes better handled by somebody who does only that.
If that applies to you it gets said rather than pressed on with, and you will be told why.
Start with a look and a written plan
You do not have to know what you need before you come in. Tell us what is on your mind, and leave with a written plan and the cost of it.
Book an appointment Call 01709 872292
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