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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / September 2006Dentist Refuses Detailed Cost Estimate
I went to a dentist's office amd asked for a complete evaluation and treatment plan with costs. He took x-rays, pictures, performed a periodontal examination and even took an impression. I went back next week to the office and was told the the total would come to about $45,000 crowns implants etc. I asked for a detailed written estimate with costs that totaled up to $45,000 representing this conclusion and the dentist is refusing. For obvious reasons I would be foolish to submit to treatment without a detailed cost estimate, but for some reason the dentist refuses to give me one. I spent all of this money to obtain one and I made it clear that that was my intention form the beginning. What do I do now? > I went to a dentist's office amd asked for a complete evaluation and > treatment plan with costs. He took x-rays, pictures, performed a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > to obtain one and I made it clear that that was my intention form the > beginning. What do I do now? Forget about cost estimate--what is the treatment plan? What you do is get copies of your records (he may charge a fee for records duplication) and find another dentist. There is no reason not to be able to explain fees and planned treatment (understanding of course that a treatment plan this complicated may encounter some changes--some not forseeable--along the way). Not only bad dentistry, but bad business. Steve Try to get some of the $45,000 back ..... -- Joel34 > I went to a dentist's office amd asked for a complete evaluation and > treatment plan with costs. He took x-rays, pictures, performed a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > to obtain one and I made it clear that that was my intention form the > beginning. What do I do now? Sometimes when there is a lot of dentistry involved, I charge one flat fee=full mouth rehabilitation. There is nothing to itemize. The reason is that the treatment plan is very complicated in these situations and drafting out a detailed report all of the steps in a way that a lay person can understand while accounting for the unpredictable takes a lot of time which would not be compensated if the patient is just shopping around. So there is just one fee. In these complicated situations it is like asking to itemize all the steps in making a single crown, ... It is just not done. > I went to a dentist's office amd asked for a complete evaluation and > treatment plan with costs. He took x-rays, pictures, performed a [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > to obtain one and I made it clear that that was my intention form the > beginning. What do I do now? p.s. He told you what you needed to get done and the total cost of the treatment you should not need anything else, Unless you plan on going to one dentist for the root canal another for the crown which I do not recommend you doing because the second dentist's treatment can vary significantly and he may not want to place a crown on a tooth that was treated by someone else because that becomes his liability. In these cases it is a package deal. All you have to do is decide which dentist you trust and are you prepared to pay the total fee, itemizing is not going to be useful to you. Some procedures may have a la carte fees and Full mouth Reconstruction may have volume discounts and miscelanious services built in so it may not total $45K anyway. |
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