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Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Can anyone tell me an approximate price for a check-up and cavity fillings? I'm pretty sure I have a cavity. My co-teachers told me it's like 5,000 won for a filling, but I'm having a hard time believing that. My dentist in the US charged 40 times that amount.

Thanks,
Q~

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

well, for me a cleaning/check was 30.000 and a full root canal with gold (24K bling!) was 500.000. Bear in mind that I don;t have insurance and was sholdering the whole cost.

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Qinella,

Cleanings and fillings are absurdly cheap here, even without insurance. Unless you have some kind of special dental insurance, it won't cover most of it anyway. You can get your wisdom tooth take out for under 20,000 won easily. Getting a dentist who wears gloves AND changes them between patients is not so easy.

Oh, and check your pm box.

ohfamous · Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Location: Off the beaten path

6,000 normal check-up and cleaning
9,000 gingivitis cleaning and treatment (ewww..)
3,000 painkillers for post-treatment (dunno why..)

i've got the national insurance plan with my school.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Cool, thanks for the info! I'm so happy how cheap it is. I'm still paying for my US dentist bill from last November.

MixtecaMike · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:03 pm Post subject:

RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

Anyone know how much I'd be looking at for veneers?

Saunagukin · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 2:18 am Post subject:

I don't know about the veneers, but would like to. If anyone finds out, let me know. I have also seen laminates advertised. They're like veneers, but thinner and probably weaker.

My dentist has quoted me 400,000 for a gold crown and 450,000 for gold with white, ceramic surface.

A friend got 4 wisdom teeth pulled for 25,000...not in Seoul, with only local anesthetic. Yowch.

Oh, and I asked recently about getting wisdom teeth pulled in Gangnam. The dentist said that dentists in Korea don't use general anesthetic for pulling wisdom teeth unless they are impacked and infected. Can they be both? Anyway, has anyone had wisdom teeth pulled with general anesth?

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

All my wisdom teeth were pulled with a local only. Actually, make that local, local, local, FOR CRIPES SAKE LOCAL ME ALREADY AGAIN!

As for the kimchi crack...the dentists aren't dipping their hands in big bucket of kimchi between patients (and going to the bathroom) so your theory doesn't hold water.

Flossie · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:19 am Post subject:

I had all four taken out at once with just a local. I was fine and eating again the next day. Mine were all impacted and one was infected.

I went to the dentist here a while back just for a general clean up. They charged about 30,000 for that, then i had two cavities done and another clean done the next week for free. Apparently it was all included in the first week's bill. Amazingly cheap.

My cavities weren't painful. I had problems with the cleaning though. That hurt like crazy. So much so that they had to tell me to be quiet because I was making so much noise the other patients were wondering what they were doing to the poor foreigner who was crying so loudly. Mr. Green

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

400,000-450,000 for ONE crown????? Shop around! Your dentist is trying to rip you off!!! (Foreigner=money!)

I recently had 3 crowns done (gold/porcelain) for 750,000 TOTAL!!

bossaco · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: jongro-gu

i've had a gold crown done for 260,000 won last thursday...

dental office is at the 2nd floor of Lotte Castle... Dongmyo station, line 6, exit 2... Lotte Well Chi Kwa is the name of the clinic... the dentist studied english in canada

matesol · Joined: 23 Jan 2003

I can't wait until the technology to simply grow BRAND NEW teeth is on the market. They've alreadly done it in rats. In should work in any mammal. New teeth are LIVING tissue which you body recognizes as natural. Dentures, etc. are not. Thus new teeth will be better than anything artificial.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3679313.stm

http://www.dentalfearcentral.com/grow_own_teeth.html

http://www.odontis.co.uk/

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

Wait, a gold crown? Doesn't a crown cover like half of the tooth or more? So you essentially have some teeth that are gold?

Weird.

About the anaesthetic, I'm a bit worried now. Dentist visits are always painful for me. Would I be able to get nitris oxide, or a prescription for real pain killers afterward? (Not the crap individually wrapped ibuprofen.)

Saunagukin · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject:

There's a dentist in the Korea Herald, sometimes, that advertises Western Anesthesia. You'd have to check the Herald for details.