How to recognize dental scams
Health / / December 19, 2019
Marina Kolesnichenko
Dentist, chief doctor of dental clinic Beauty Line.
There are many ways in defrauding cash patients or, as the victims themselves, "divorce for money": highly inflated price of treatment with ordinary (sometimes frankly cheap and low quality) materials, the imposition of unnecessary services that do not affect the efficiency of operations, and the most expensive methods treatment. Here - "action" when the promise to lower the cost, but the price tag attributed to the fine print: "The price of ...". In practice, to get the service at such a low cost is unrealistic. the customer can find in the account services that he did not find themselves in the most severe cases.
Let us analyze more, all these methods and how to defend against them.
As dental swindlers deceive patients
1. Carry out low-quality diagnosis
The problem that sometimes patients even care about more than the extra costs, - low-quality diagnosis. Often, it is closely linked with attempts to pull out your wallet more money. Here and statements doctor that you urgently require a complicated and expensive procedure or treatment of more remaining teeth and their unwarranted removal for installation of implants, and treatment of healthy teeth. In the worst case, an unscrupulous doctor can even remove a healthy tooth.
Here you need to just be on the lookout. Firstly, a good specialist always clearly argues diagnosis and appointment of certain procedures. For this he uses the intra-oral camera that demonstrates the problem in the oral cavity, x-rays, computed tomography data.
Secondly, such a doctor often offers several alternative treatment plans with different prices, especially if you tell right away that expensive services available to you.
If a doctor after these words lost interest in you or started to blackmail your health, you should not have it treated.
Finally, the third: it is clear that in the course of treatment may reveal more complex problems, such as tooth with caries the doctor finds the roots of the inflammation. But in this case, a good dentist will always give a clear justification why you need additional procedures.
2. Indicate the non-existent services
This marketing snag: that the patient has come to the reception and found that the clinic does not provide the necessary service to him, will not waste time searching for a new doctor and agree on what to eat.
Of course, any treatment must have a testimony, and sometimes patients can not adequately assess the need for a particular procedure. But they often know exactly what they need. Consider this example in dental treatment under sedation. If the customer panic the dentist, which prevents him to cure your teeth, it is natural to look for a clinic where sedation is used so as not to run the disease to the point when it is and treat nothing.
In this case, no harm will be to find out if they have a license for the clinic treatment under sedation. This license anesthesiologist and the patient can check its presence at the clinic site or just ask at reception on the recording, if there is such. Similarly, you can do a number of other cases: check any implants or braces Becoming a doctor in the chosen clinic, what techniques are used and whether there is all this and certificates license.
3. They offer cheap dental implants
Separately should mention the implantation of teeth. It is the most modern method of recovery smileBut such an operation requires adherence to certain protocol, the presence of the physician's experience and qualifications, use of materials, in addition to the implant (eg, for bone grafting, if the patient has subsided bones). But many customers do not know about it, and therefore happily go to the clinic, where the price listed in the 5-8 thousand rubles for such a procedure.
Implant - a medical device that must be certified by the Ministry of Health and a certificate confirming its safety.
There are top-level companies that produce expensive implants, which gives a lifetime or a very long warranty (30 years, for example). And there are Chinese or Korean implants, which can be compared with the budget car segment: it is, of course, also goes, but behind the "Mercedes" in characteristics. Such implants are cheaper premium materials, and some clinics, using this, the price point only for the implant as a separate item. And on admission the patient finds out that you have to pay more and for the diagnosis, the surgeon work and many other things.
Here is based on what the customer has already come to the reception, would not seek another hospital, to refuse admission, re-take the time and so on. This is a marketing ploy clinics, where few patients - so they are trying to increase their number.
4. Promise to lighten the teeth 30 tones
clinics dishonesty can manifest itself not only in the accounts for the expensive treatment or misdiagnosis. Often, patients are confronted with fraud when applying for aesthetic services, and most often happens when a client comes for teeth whitening.
The most common way to lure money from unsuspecting patient - promise teeth whitening at 20-30 and even 35 shades according to Vita scale.
There is a certain palette of human tooth shades, made as a result of numerous studies of people of different races and ages (the teeth darken with age because the enamel becomes thinner and brighter shine through it localized in the dentin pigments). Thus it was structured in all possible shades of natural teeth. This is the palette, which is used by the doctor in different cases - the selection of colors filling or bleaching. Palettes are applied to the patient's teeth and thus determine their color.
All shades enamel are divided into 4 groups of the pigment hue: A (yellowish-pink), B (lemon), C (grayish-yellowish), D (pure gray). For example, A1 - the lightest tone, A5 - the darkest, and so on for all groups. When whitening teeth used palette aesthetic embodiment wherein the shades are not arranged in groups, and from the light to the dark itself. Whiten your teeth on this scale can be a maximum of 10-12 tones. For example, if bleached B5 to B1, it's only 4 colors, but even if we assume that the scale lordship, where B1 is on the first place, it's like 12 tones, and not 20 or more.
How to avoid fraud in the dental clinic
1. Contact the clinic tested
You need to follow the advice of the commonplace - be guided by feedback relatives, friends and colleagues. So you are likely to find yourself in a proven clinic and in the hands of a good specialist.
2. To compare the prices of services in different hospitals
prices should be compared in different clinics or use the aggregator site, which offers a comparison to find out what is the average price for the service that you require.
3. Check licenses and certificates
Before contacting a clinic need to study its website: in the premium segment of the clinics due to the high price of treatments using first-class materials and innovative techniques, the presence in the state of specialists with very high qualifications, and often a unique experience, develop their own methods treatment. A premium of clinics can find certificates and diplomas manufacturers, certificates of advanced training of doctors.
4. Insist that the doctor argued all appointments and diagnoses
Any appointments doctor should confirm the diagnostic data accessible and understandable to explain their actions and to always consider your financial opportunities.
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