The most unpleasant impression from childhood and adolescence is dental treatment, for the rest of my life I remember painted aunts in white coats, huge drills, the smell of arsenic, ether … brrr horror, , I think because of this many people of our generation have huge problems with teeth, especially men.
For the last ten years, I have been going to a paid clinic near my house, yesterday’s visit made me so angry that I decided to write this article ..
I came at the appointed time about the pain in the tooth, the administrator and the hostess of the institution, happily reported about the unprecedented number of patients, and said to wait a short time for an hour ..
Her husband is a “magician” and is engaged exclusively in the installation of implants.
Three sofas in the lobby are occupied by very elderly women 70+.
Ancient old women are discussing implants!!! Who managed to spend how much money on this wonderful invention of modern medicine, from a conversation I heard the amounts spent by women and was shocked, hundreds of thousands .. I don’t like to count other people’s money, but somehow I thought, grandmothers will soon go to the “thinking sector” and this huge money will be buried with them.
Elderly women rush to clinics, having learned about the imminent price increase, apparently I was not aware of the standard of living of Russian pensioners, one implant costs 40-45 thousand rubles, which is surprising there was not a single old man, the husbands of these women have long been in the churchyard, new teeth they don’t care.
An hour later I go into the office, the dentist is 35 years old, recognizes the patient, was not more than a year ago and visited this clinic for a month, gave 35 thousand instead of the declared 25, in the course of work there are always various problems that apparently need to be found …
For 20 minutes of simple manipulations, I paid three thousand rubles.
– You need to solve the problem completely, until prices have risen, since April 1, the price will double, if not triple, – says the peasant.
Offers to clean native teeth at the root and insert pins, then crowns on them, since native teeth are short-lived..
-Listen, I’m not going to live forever, but I know that some problems exist, calculate how much it will be, I say to the dentist.
– Yes, nonsense, 60 thousand, hurry up, now we have to start, in a month it will be under a hundred – the doctor answers, writing down the amount and work on a piece of paper …
– Designated 60, so meet the 80 thousand, I think to myself.
I left the clinic, a friend from the village calls, sadly I explain the situation, he also has problems with his teeth, like all the men of the Soviet generation, Zhenya is an excellent stove-maker, the only one in the whole region, he turned 60 the other day.
-My dream is that a summer resident-dentist ordered to make a stove, you can’t find another stove-maker, if only I had broken the price!!!- Evgeny swears.
I am not against paid hospitals, without much damage to the budget, you can go to any doctor except a dentist.
On my street, I counted 6 paid clinics, they all work and apparently prosper, so what is the price of these doctors ??? Excluding material and rent…
In connection with the increase in prices, I wish these clinics a speedy bankruptcy, these are not doctors, but grabbers.
Let the remaining grabbers fight for each client and work in their own apartments, then prices will go down, there won’t be enough old women for everyone, this type of medical activity has become accessible only to rich people and some kind of “fabulous” pensioners.
I remembered my grandmother, at the beginning of the 50s she was left completely without teeth, a military doctor at the infantry school, where at that time they lived with their grandfathers, made prostheses, and left with them in 2004 at the age of 92 years.