Dental prices

[RH]

After getting no response to my first message and reading the messages on this site i now understand why dentists all drive around in Porche and
Mercedes with private plates !!!!!!! i,ll enquire around the EU it will probably be cheaper and i can have a holiday as well.

[Webmaster]

RH I wouldnt be quite so harsh on the Dentists. Sure I think they earn a decent wage, but they do have to go through 7 ( I think) years of training (unpaid training with all their living expenses) and then they have to stare into peoples mouths all day! So quite a lot of investment and dedication to learn the trade, and then, well a lot of staring into people's mouths

Also the actual cost of running a dentistry is pretty high, all those medications cost s fortune and all the fancy Xray machines, dental tools, drills, suction thingies, they all add up!

[kj]

interesting, i am a dentist, and am 5 years post university and still owe over £25,000 debt plus interest for my university education.

[HiHo]

Welcome to the forum kj,

Are there any typical earnings figures for dentists that you could quote? It's obviously a very skilled job and as webmaster says takes a huge amount of time to train for but it would be interesting to know how much a dentist, on average, would earn.

As a perspective I know a carpet fitter earning £50k a year and he didn't do 7 years unpaid training!