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Thread ID: 136626	2014-03-24 00:29:00	Dentists	bruciebear (1478)	PC World Chat

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1371148	2014-03-25 08:32:00	I know this is no help but young dentists have been moving out of Auckland. Their problem is the huge cost of specialised plumbing and xray machines plus lots of medical stainless steel at NASA rates, just to set up or buy into a practise. Then there is the fearsome rent. They have to recover $300/hour to make ends meet only to find patients cannot afford that. In Invercargill we'd almost run out of dentists and were facing 2 1/2 hour trips to Dunedin. Suddenly that all turned around and we can now have our gums and bank account polished by a choice of keen young dentists. Not cheap but better than driving 200k.	Winston001 (3612)
1371149	2014-03-25 22:49:00	I have a good dentist in Tauranga and am hanging on to him, well, not physically. Compared to a lot of other places his prices are reasonable, possibly because I am regarded as a regular patient, if you can call mostly once a year regular. A friend, who is a travel agent, told me that she frequently makes reservations for people to fly to Thailand for what would otherwise be tremendously expensive dental treatment here. All-up costs are far below what they would pay in New Zealand. Type of treatment needed and arrangements are all done before they leave our shores.	Marnie (4574)
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