Day 159 among immigrants
Everyone knows that countries in North America have two knives, one is a lawyer and the other is a dentist. People say this because hiring a lawyer and seeing a dentist is very expensive. The day before yesterday, our family finally experienced a dentist's knife, so today I will tell you about the whole process of my son going to the dentist, so that everyone can understand how much it costs to see a pediatric dentist without buying insurance.
Back a month ago, my youngest son suddenly said one day that he had a toothache. We carefully examined his mouth and found that he had a small pustule with a sharp tip on the gums of his tooth decay, and he really wanted to take the child to see a doctor, but he did not give the child dental insurance, and heard that the teeth here are very expensive, so he did not take him to the dental clinic at that time. Thinking about brushing your teeth every day may be able to make the go down. But just the day before yesterday, we inadvertently examined his gums again and found that the sharp pustules had begun to form a lump. We felt the seriousness of the matter and felt that we could not delay any longer, and that we had to go and see it no matter how much it cost. So I decided to find a dentist to see it that day.
Since we didn't have any experience in this area, and only listened to my daughter-in-law say that the family general practitioner didn't care about the dental, we started looking for a dental clinic again. At first, I didn't have much idea, but I remembered that the usual place to find good food and fun is to go to Google Maps to see netizen reviews and ratings, so I decided to use this method to find a dental clinic. I searched for dental clinics on Google Maps and found a dental clinic with a 5-star rating and 397 reviews, just a 15-minute walk away. But my daughter-in-law told me that you don't go to the clinic when your head is hot, and foreign countries are all booked first, and they don't make an appointment or show it. I said you pull down, the clinic is not always busy, even if there is no appointment and can not be treated, but also let the doctor or nurse to give us a little look, come up with ideas, really can not make an appointment on the spot, the child is now like this, as long as we do not bomb out on the spot, today we must go to see. My daughter-in-law thinks it is also right, after all, the child's pustules are all in pieces, or go to see it first.
After arriving at the clinic, the overall environment is still quite comfortable. The younger son didn't feel nervous at all. After tossing and turning on the sofa in the reception area, I ran to the small chair and sat down. The nurse also changed the cartoon for him, which made me feel as if he had forgotten to see a dentist. When my daughter-in-law filled out the form, she told me that it cost more than 60 Canadian dollars to see it once. I feel a little expensive after hearing it, but we hang a special need in Beijing is only 300 yuan, and I think we should look at the special needs.
When entering the treatment hall, the physician assistant first took several photos of the child's tooth decay, which you can see as a long white electronic device with lighting. This step is done by allowing the physician to initially diagnose the extent of tooth damage from the appearance. After waiting for more than 10 minutes, the physician assistant said that he also needed to take an X-ray of the child's teeth, and the cost was 30 Canadian dollars. I said to my daughter-in-law, you ask the assistant to tell the doctor if you can stop shooting, directly extract the tooth or treatment, after all, we are not insured. The assistant went into the house and communicated with the doctor for a while, but he still had to make a film. Because the child's tooth decay is a bit serious, taking a film can see it clearly and take the right medicine. I want to shoot it, just do it, just cure it.
The assistant put on sunglasses for the child, wrapped a radiation-proof bib, and then lay down on the chair to take X-rays. After the shooting, the attending physician came out and looked like an Indian. I talked to my daughter-in-law for half a day, of course, I must not have understood a word. Since it was almost time for Dabao to finish school, I had to leave early. Before leaving, I instructed my daughter-in-law to say something, if the tooth extraction exceeds 200 Canadian dollars, I will take medicine to eliminate the pus. If it's less than $200 CAD, we'll pull out our teeth that day. In addition, tell the doctor that we are not insured, can you give this discount. After saying that, I was gone.
After taking Dabao home, about 15 minutes later, my daughter-in-law also entered the house. I asked her if the child had a tooth extracted, and she said it wasn't. Then asked how much it cost, she said $123.06. I looked at the payment list, and of the $123.06 CAD, $69.67 was diagnostic costs, $32.32 CAD was the cost of filming, and $21.07 CAD was medicine money. As in the cartoon, he also issued a small award before leaving, gave children toothbrushes and toothpaste, and also gave a small toy.
The doctor's plan is that because the child is too young, the tooth extraction needs to use nebulization anesthesia, and these equipment clinics do not have, so they will help contact a large hospital for treatment, and for the time being, they will use drugs to remove the puss for the time being. I asked how much it cost to go to the hospital for tooth extraction, and she said that the upfront examination cost about 180 Canadian dollars, and the anesthesia and tooth extraction were calculated separately, and the specific amount of money needed had to be asked to the doctor at the hospital.
I thought to myself: $180 for the examination, not five or six hundred dollars for tooth extraction. I asked my daughter-in-law when she would next get dental insurance, and she said it was August of this year. I said how much to pay and what the reimbursement rate was. She checked and said that it would cost 200 yuan for her young son and 300 yuan for a family, and the reimbursement rate was 80%. I said that way, before going to the insurance, first take medicine to fight inflammation, and then extract the teeth after the insurance. She thought about it and could only do this, otherwise it would be too expensive.
Now the child brushes his teeth three times in the morning, middle and evening, and the medicine is also once in the morning, middle and evening, hoping to persist until August this year.
Finally, to summarize:
1. You don't have to make an appointment to go to the clinic
2. The inspection fee is 69.67 Canadian dollars, and the color photos and X-rays are 32.32 Canadian dollars
3. Insurance is $200 for a child and $300 for a family
4. Dental reimbursement ratio of 80%
Well, that's all there is to it, and hopefully it will help you. As for the North American dentist's knife is not fierce, I believe you already have the answer in mind.
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