One woman in her 30s, Boyka, told the researchers: “We don’t have a dentist. It’s crazy. For us, it’s, like, impossible! In Ukraine the dentist industry is huge, you know, everywhere, and because it’s everywhere you just go and it’s like £10, £8, and you can clean it, whiten it like [a] Hollywood smile!
Some British families who have taken in Ukrainian refugees have noted that their guests organise dental appointments during their visits home.
Do dentists in other countries have the same sense of prestige as British ones? I used to work with a guy whose wife was a dentist and he constantly talked about being a dentist as being on the same level as a doctor. Said that entry requirements for dentistry at university is the same as medical doctors.
I mean, they try. Somewhere here in eastern Europe there’s always banter between those two. Dentists wearing the “i save people” mantra and MDs making fun of them for learning 2 teeth each year in school.
In my experience, people who talk a lot about how hard and respected the career is, care more about the prestige than their career.
It’s Dr. Evil, I didn’t spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called “mister,” thank you very much.
I had teachers in uni who would get mad if you didn’t call them “Licenciado”. Bitch that’s the Spanish version of. A bachelor’s degree. XD
A girl I went to school with told me they had a professor at uni called Dr. Death.
I’d insist on being called Doctor if that was my surname too
A true dentist is basically a surgeon.
There’s massive rightfully so prestige in that and they are a doctor by title.
But most aren’t that. Which is fine, not every dental appointment is a lower jaw line reconstruction. My mother had her entire bone “replaced” from her teeth to the nose line by a dentist. It was long ass surgery. It’s fair those people would like more than the “nhs rate” cleaning service.
That sounds fun. Especially the recovery!
Her teeth were basically “free floating” with a thin bridge holding them together as the fake bone was hardening.
She described it as basically sand being poured in and activated to solidify.
Wild stuff, it was done at the cost of the materials used and still cost thousands.
Moral of the story? Make friends with a dentist who will operate on you after hours for free.
I think they’re roughly the same in Ireland for what it’s worth