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I broke a tooth 3 years ago. It doesn't show and it didn't hurt so I ignored it. Well anyhow, now I have toothache and since giving up smoking I want to get my teeth whitened anyway and plus I've been meaning to get some work done on my teeth for ages. Well it's going to cost 800!

Being a tightwad I checked it out further and discovered that the same work in Poland would cost less than 400 and that includes a return flight (50) and weekend accomodation (60). It's not a commercial package, it's just booking a flight, taking a phrasebook and dictionary (I speak basic Polish but I'm not fluent) and see a dentist while I'm there.

Does anyone know anything about this or have any advice please? The place I'm thinking of has good recommendations and all of the staff speak fluent English and I have plenty of Polish friends that would come with me if I asked them.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Poland was famous for the polonez car...enough said

Whoosh! Way above my head! I don't drive! and have never heard of that car!

You wouldn't want to but you would hear it coming

So that's the travel advice in Poland sorted! My bf suggested I get it done in India (we're going to India to get married in Feb, finances willing) but I don't think I can wait that long to fix the broken tooth! Plus I want to look nice to meet his parents - not dribbling with an anaesthatised lip! I did think of Hungary but I don't speak hardly a word of Hungarian and it seemed better to improve my Polish bcz at least that's a language I'm studying.

Polish dentists may be the best for all I know...they retrained after being car workers mind

The people I work with are all really highly educated and intelligent but they don't speak perfect English yet! I think it was only May or June last year that Poland joined the EU and started this wave of immigrant workers here. One guy (off my own topic I know! ) worked 70 hours a week for 15 weeks and went back to Poland with enough money to pay his way through uni back home!

The trouble with England (or UK generally) is that we've got nowhere to go to do the same!

Yeah I worked with a Polish Carpenter for a couple of days in the summer, I was the only guy that would speak to him which was sad...he told me about his family back home and that he sent all his cash except food and digs money home.

Think he was getting £350 a week here and about £70 over there.(still ripped off mind, a skilled tradesman down here should get £100 a dayish.)

Yeh, it p*sses me off big time when people are xenophobic! When you're a child then everything is new and exciting but as you get older then nothing seems 'new' anymore. I don't understand why people are prejudiced against 'hanging out with' and making friends with foreign people. You learn new things and make friends at the same time!

I genuinely don't understand prejudice! I hope I never do.

I have a similar problem.

My tooth is broken, but I ignored it as its at the back and not painful.

Ive tried to find an NHS dentist but none will take me as I the dont have any dental records in the past 5 years for me.

NHS dentistry is scandalous, so I say go for it Molly.

thanks CC! It's funny isn't it how the governmental guidelines of seeing a dentist every 6 months were reviewed to only being necessary every year or 3 about the same time they were forced to admit that there was a shortage of dentists!

On a personal note, How will you get dental treatment if you need it then? They surely can't let you go without treatment can they? That would be unbearable and scandalous indeed!

My teeth are weak bcz I have low-calcium levels but if someone is in pain then they should have access to an NHS dentist otherwise what is the point in paying taxes!

We just found a local NHS dentist that will take us, as our old one decided to leave the practise and spend more time with her family and open up another practise elsewhere......I say it's local, it's a 30 mile round trip by public transport.....welcome to rural NHS dental coverage.

30 miles is not local!!! But you knew that already. Fecking disgrace!

We do not have a local NHS dental practise in this area.There was one about 8 miles away but that has since gone.To find an NHS dentist would require a 30 mile round trip on public transport for me too and thats assuming there isn't a waiting list.But it's nothing new.Has been like that out here since pre-Blair days

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On a personal note, How will you get dental treatment if you need it then? They surely can't let you go without treatment can they? That would be unbearable and scandalous indeed!
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Ive called around and the nearest I can find is in Worcester. How is that local?

I have one dentist which is a 2 minute walk from my house, but they wont take me. I offered to pay and they nearly snapped my habnd off! I guess Ill have to pay.

I also have weak teeth as Im aneamic.