One of the main reasons for the continuous neglect of regular dental check-ups is the high charges of dental treatment. With the increasing inflation in the country, dental services are also affected. However, there are many other reasons for expensive dental treatment, in this blog, we’ll highlight a few key points to make you understand why dental treatment is expensive. (دانتوں کا علاج کیوں مہنگا ہے؟)
- Qualification of the dentist:
It’s obvious a dental specialist will charge you more than a general dentist because they provide you with specialist care services. The years of post-graduation specialist training, knowledge, and expertise of the Specialist/Consultant is more than a general dentist. In Pakistan, dental specialists/consultants possess the qualifications like FCPS, and/ or MDS (recognized by PM&DC) in addition to a 4-year BDS degree.
2. Experience of the dentist:
After qualification, years of experience are the second most important factor for high-priced dental treatment. The more experienced the dentist is, the more charges will be because there will be fewer chances of patient complaints and high satisfaction. Similarly, a Professor will charge more than Registrar.
3. Sterilization and cross-infection control:
It is one of the essential requirements for patient safety to provide infection control services. Every instrument to be used in patients should be autoclaved (sterilized) to make sure its germ free and prevent harmful infections like Hep B, C, and HIV. To maintain and provide international standard sterilization and disinfection protocol service, good clinics charge more. Those who keep the treatment charges low will compromise on infection control to maintain their profit.
4. Quality of treatment:
It refers to the quality of material used in dental treatment, as low-priced dental treatment cannot be offered with high-quality dental material. So, if you want good quality dental material (e.g., Filling material, crown, or implants) to be used obviously the price will be higher.
5. Quality of services:
The clinic provides you with reasonable services, like a comfortable waiting area, free car parking, clean drinking water, temperature control (e.g., AC in summer) and a washroom will charge you more to maintain these services and provide you with high-quality treatment.
6. Equipment and material cost:
The clinic is equipped with the latest and advanced dental machines like digital X-ray and intra-oral scanners and 3D dental printers will charge you more than clinics that don’t provide these facilities and outsource patients to 3rd party services like dental X-ray imaging centers for X-rays (radiographs). Now clinics are replacing traditional impression material with intra-oral scanners thus increasing the treatment price at the cost of short treatment time. In the past, root canal treatment (RCT) was done using hand instruments, now rotatory instruments have replaced them facilitating the dentist and patients with decreased chair time at the expense of increased dental charges.
7. Location of the dental office:
This is also an important factor in deciding treatment charges obviously the clinic located in a well-developed area will charge you more than a regular clinic in a local shopping area.
We recommend you choose the dental clinic which provides you with the best dental treatment at an affordable and reasonable price considering the aforementioned points.
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