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Thread ID: 105620	2009-12-08 21:34:00	Orthodontic charges	bk T (215)	PC World Chat

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837799	2009-12-09 07:12:00	We are going thro this stress at the moment . . . . . :crying dental nurse reffered to orthodontist, each appointment cost $45 ( 2 appointments) to be told she is on the severe abnormal catergory, over 15mm difference between top and bottom teeth . Next stage $450 to get moldings, xrays and photos to assess the next stage . $2000 deposit to start next stage, i couldnt come up with it, so we are referreed to hospital . we are awaiting a 6 month waiting list to see if they will reconstuct her jaw . . . (extend the jaw bones and remove teeth) or not, and then i think last costing was $5700 not including current bills and costs . this will involve a stay in hospital and possible wiring of jaw, shut . we are allowed to pay this off for the next two years, once i come up with the $2000, unless hospital think she is severe enough and they will do the op and braces, top and bottom and then send us back to the orthodontist for continued check ups . and her dad is not interested in helping out with the $$$$ part and i am unable to find that money so heres hoping the hospital will be kind to us . and this is way down in wangavegus city, best of luck, oh and my other child, well he will be doing this same activity in a couple of years, so i have plenty of time to save . . . . . . . . . . . . . lol :crying beetle	beetle (243)
837800	2009-12-09 08:39:00	Sounded very pessimistic, though. A hard decision for me to make for the year ending 2009 ??????? !!!!!!!!!!	bk T (215)
837801	2009-12-09 08:48:00	We had an interesting incident 20 years ago when our son was in his late teens. Just our experience. Doesn't apply to everybody!! Similar thing... starting with having a dentist remove a tooth so as to give room for the others to be braced and moved. Those were the orthodontist's instuctions. A friend of mine was a dentist and he removed the tooth. At the time he said "Hmmn, these don't look like they need work doing on them. They are not a bad set of teeth" After three months, son was ready to go back to the orthomoney man but SWMBO and I noticed his teeth looked so much better and the gap seemed to be closing naturally. We took him there and I asked to speak to the orthomoneytaker about this and just asked him if we maybe could wait another couple of months to see what further would happen. The freakin orthomoneytakinggreedybastard gave me a lecture on the fact that I was "obviously a mean old so and so who begrudged spending money on his sons teeth who wanted the money for rubbish things like booze and racehorses" All of this while he was smoking a fag. I nearly hit the barstard, but controlled myself - told him to go jump and walked out. Less than a year later my sons teeth looked pretty darned good, and my dentist friend told me that in his opinion, "a lot of these guys pushed treatment just for the money and that braces were a status thing to some people." Ken :thumbs:	kenj (9738)
837802	2009-12-09 09:32:00	I have this thing about chicks and braces.	prefect (6291)
837803	2009-12-09 09:37:00	I didn't want to be the one to say it. Glad you took the bullet, prefect. bk T: Pics of your daughter?	roddy_boy (4115)
837804	2009-12-09 09:42:00	I think there are much more medical pros without professional ethics nowadays than those days. I had a bad experience myself with a specialist about a year ago. I got a small growth on my left thumb and my GP referred me to a specialist (a bastard). So, made an appointment to see him and when I was there he took less than 1 minute to examine my thumb and concluded that its called a "ganglion", I need a surgery to remove it. The surgery will cost me $1,800. Ok. appointment made and went for the small operation which took about 15 minutes. That's fine. But a few days later, before the stiches were removed, I noticed something's not quite right, went back to his 'Office' the nurse checked and told me that's OK, not big deal, don't worry about it! A bit of relief, though; then, got the stiches removed (from memory, it's 7 days after the surgery) and I still noticed that it's not right and demanded to see the bastard specialist. But he was not available at that time, so made an appointment to see him the next day. Went to see him the next day and the bastard told me that it has recurred! Somehting that he hasn't experienced before (he's quite an old bastard) and he has to re-do the operation at my expense! Straight away, I told him that it's not fair for me to bear the full costs as it's quite clear that he did not performed a good job - the wound han't heeled yet! He refused to compromise and told me that decision is mine, whether to have it done again or not! Seeing that argueing with him at his office will not help and I walked out. Of course, they won't see me again at his office! The 'ganglion' has been bothering me for more than a year now, and the good news is, the growth is getting smaller and the jelly-like fluid is drying up by itself. I am angry with this bastard is that he DID NOT tell me that it may recur after the operation. All he interested was MONEY, MONEY & MONEY. Just for your info, the first consultation fee was $250.00 for 1 minuite of examining and about 4 minute telling me about his costs, and fixing appointment for the operation! What a BASTARD. sorry for using that word - I usually don't use such strong words especially in writing!	bk T (215)
837805	2009-12-09 10:11:00	bk T: Pics of your daughter? Explain the relevancy with respect to the thread?	Renmoo (66)
837806	2009-12-09 10:18:00	Oh dear! is it relevant????? I'm using a cell phone without camera, but if you want to buy me one, that's great!	bk T (215)
837807	2009-12-09 10:20:00	FWIW my daughters braces are costing $6000 in Invercargill......sob...... Daughter's orthodontic work cost around $1500, but that was quite a few years ago, so the cost is relevant. (She has a brilliant smile :)). It's always been expensive. kenj and bk T no section of society is completely without some bad apples in their bunch. We just tend to feel far more upset when one of those of those in a profession; and one we thought we could trust, let's us down.	Marnie (4574)
837808	2009-12-09 10:21:00	bk T: I read your post on professional misdemeanor with interest. Should you feel that an unfair health treatment has been received in the future, feel free to contact the Health & Disability Commissioner on ways to complain about it. Link: http://www.hdc.org.nz/ Cheers :)	Renmoo (66)
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