I just finished ( Horray!!)聽 my dental treatments at the University dental school in Budapest.
I am very pleased with the care I got there.
Better then most of my other experiences with private dentists and the local dental clinic in my district.
It took well over one year to finish the entire process though. Slow going but my resident/ dental student was very careful and did everything by the book.
She wants me to come in anytime if I find anything not right, gave me her phone no. and kept things open.
I do have a HU medical card national health card, think you need to have that or be from the EU to try to get into the school.
It is a process where you go in and the students decide if they want to take your case or not.
I had been going to a nice private dentist in the 5th district but she did not have the proper microscope to see my tooth because of the odd way I had cracked it in half.
We wanted to save the tooth so off to the school I went.
The costs overall were not much less then a private dentist would of cost but the treatment felt like I was really getting 100%of the best they could do. Had oral surgery to build up some bone mass for a post before getting a bridge made up.
I could not actually even think of a proper amount to tip my dentist for all she had done over the year so I gave her a personal gift of silver handmade items, 5 nice pieces for her down time from work.
I fully trusted the students, more then most dentists I have encountered here, they were doing it to learn and not doing it only for profit.
Just be aware it is very slow going at the school.
I have gone to around 9 different dentists or more since the year 2000 here in Hungary.
One private clinic in the 7th district was good but they have since closed down.
A women in the 13th was good but for some reason my husband didn't want to go back after we had returned to Hungary, probably because her rates went up over the years.
Not all private dentists in Hungary have the proper equipment on hand.
Found out one dentist I liked couldn't do cleaning because she lacked some of the tools.
Had to go to the dental school because most private clinics do not have the costly equipment to do the full job in one place.
Usually private dentists send you all over town for x rays or other tests since they do not have the equipment in their offices, sort of rinky dink by western standards that way.
My horror dentist stories are really only from 2 different dentists.
all the others did ok work.
4 years back I had a crown on a very back tooth on the bottom that broke. Had the crown made a few years beforehand at the other dentist I found lacking in skills.
My husband searched the internet and found a private clinic about 30 mins away by tram run by 2 young men.
Had gone there for a filling or two in the past.
The dentist told me there was no way to save my tooth since the crown broke and the tooth had a root canal in the past. He needed to just pull it out, whatever was left had to go.
( Wish I went to the school, they could of saved it)
I let him start pulling it out.
OMG.OMG!!! He did not tell us before hand that he had an accident with his arm and about half the muscle mass was gone, he was as weak as a kitten.
Pulling tugging, blood everywhere over 90 mins in his chair and he couldn't remove my stub of a tooth, he broke it in half and was too tired to finish the job. He had to call another dentist to come in and help him out.
i did not panic when I looked in the mirror while waiting for his associate to arrive.However a women in the waiting room burst into tears when she saw my bloody face.
Waiting with blood all over my lips for an hour, the other dentist showed up and another round of 30 mins of tugging, he could not get all the tooth out because the other dentist had made such a mess of the remaining tooth, he just couldn't grab anything.
They gave me a script for anti-biotics and told me to see how it went.
Took the pills for 10 days like I was told to. Thought for sure I needed them after all that exposure to the elements. Remember taking the tram home and everyone staring at me, my lips were stained in blood like a vampire.
Those pills just about killed me. Upset my stomach so much that I had to be no less then 5 feet from the WC, could not keep any food down. Lost 11 lbs. in 3 weeks time ( I am skinny as it is) and could not dare to leave the house to even seek medical aid, refused to wear a nappie to the doctors. It was really a bad situation, my skin was itchy and dried out from loss of fluid from the pills.I stayed indoors for the whole 3 weeks of being sick.
Husband, sweetie that he is, took my stool sample to a internal specialist for tests, Those pills had stripped my insides raw and I was put on a diet of apples, rice and chicken breast nothing else fo another few weeks until my system calmed down.That was one of the worst medical things ever in my life, all because that dentist was too egotistic to let on he couldn't do the job. Darn we even paid for the treatments, insult with injury!!
They left a small piece of tooth in my jawbone. The school said I could wait until it starts to hurt before oral surgery to remove what they left behind.next time then...