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CanTex   1

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Okay, I should go every six months, I've been busy with USCIS alright? So it's been 1.6 years. 1 hour (almost) for a cleaning. Get my new toothbrush, floss and I'm out of there. $301.00. R U serious? Wellllll, there was 3 units of scaling = $191; Polishing = $30.00; Flouride = $60.00 and okay I broke down and bought an electric toothbrush for $20 (all the rage these days u know ). Holy frig.

My fiance, in Texas, goes in - gets his scaling, polishing and flouoride for $60.00. W.T. F?

I'm in Alberta. Anyone else pay these outrageous fees?

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Okay, I should go every six months, I've been busy with USCIS alright? So it's been 1.6 years. 1 hour (almost) for a cleaning. Get my new toothbrush, floss and I'm out of there. $301.00. R U serious? Wellllll, there was 3 units of scaling = $191; Polishing = $30.00; Flouride = $60.00 and okay I broke down and bought an electric toothbrush for $20 (all the rage these days u know ). Holy frig.

My fiance, in Texas, goes in - gets his scaling, polishing and flouoride for $60.00. W.T. F?

I'm in Alberta. Anyone else pay these outrageous fees?

Does your fiance have dental insurance by any chance? Not every employer offers it, but its good to have. Dental work is by no means cheap here in the US either, but dental insurance sure helps a bit.

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Flames9_RN   358

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He must have insurance!! I just had a check up (here in VA) not too long ago, and the estimate would be more than what you paid. I just have a $50 co pay

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Okay, I should go every six months, I've been busy with USCIS alright? So it's been 1.6 years. 1 hour (almost) for a cleaning. Get my new toothbrush, floss and I'm out of there. $301.00. R U serious? Wellllll, there was 3 units of scaling = $191; Polishing = $30.00; Flouride = $60.00 and okay I broke down and bought an electric toothbrush for $20 (all the rage these days u know ). Holy frig.

My fiance, in Texas, goes in - gets his scaling, polishing and flouoride for $60.00. W.T. F?

I'm in Alberta. Anyone else pay these outrageous fees?

Do you have supplemental insurance to help you out while you are in Alberta? In Ontario, if I had not had the supplemental insurance from my work place, I would have been paying that too.

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Udella&Wiz   325

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Those are pretty standard fees, not outrageous at all. I used to work at an insurance company and entered dental claims.

For Dental services each service has a particular rate or by which tooth it's done on and that's what they submit to the Insurance company. If you don't have insurance, you pay the full price. If you have insurance, the insurance company will pay the dentist back what they consider 'reasonable and customary' for a particuler service no matter what the dentist submits cost-wise.

No insurance puts you at a disadvantage because they can charge you what they want....hope the explanation above makes sense

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Thats pretty much the standard cost with no insurance. My mom used to work for a dentist for many years and everything there is so expensive.

I have to go next week for my 6 month cleaning and I KNOW i have 2 cavities so that right there is going to run me a little over 300$ just for that.

I also decided to go ahead and whiten my teeth before the wedding day and all that good stuff and that is going to run me about 300$ as well. But at least with the whitening I am having a mold done of my mouth so if i ever want to whiten them again I have the mold and just need to buy the special gel from my dentist.

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Ouch. I'm glad my FIL is my dentist.

NICEEE. I wish I had that kind of connection.

"...My hair's mostly wind,

My eyes filled with grit

My skin's white then brown

My lips chapped and split

I've lain on the prairie and heard grasses sigh

I've stared at the vast open bowl of the sky

I've seen all the castles and faces in clouds

My home is the prairie and for that I am proud…

If You're not from the Prairie, you can't know my soul

You don't know our blizzards; you've not fought our cold

You can't know my mind, nor ever my heart

Unless deep within you there's somehow a part…

A part of these things that I've said that I know,

The wind, sky and earth, the storms and the snow.

Best say that you have - and then we'll be one,

For we will have shared that same blazing sun." - David Bouchard

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Malrothien   6

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Ouch. I'm glad my FIL is my dentist.

NICEEE. I wish I had that kind of connection.

I often tell hubby that's the only reason I married him. :lol:

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ScottThuy   140

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There are alternatives to the normal dentist, but at what price?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Dental/story?...0312&page=1

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Those "outrageous fees" are only paid if you don't have supplemental dental insurance. It's the same on both sides of the border.

True. I would have paid about 50 for the same in Alberta, with supplemental from Blue Cross.

Here, I would pay about yes, 300. WITH the best darn insurance in the state of Washington. :hehe:

Go figure.

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All I can say is, "Drill, Baby, Drill." :P

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