Dental Check-up and Advice

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A fifteen minute examination of every tooth, the gums, the bite and the soft tissues, ending in a written list of what is sound, what is worth watching and what needs work, with a price against each line. The cheat in a dental check-up is not the check-up fee, it is what follows it: a spoken plan, no written estimate, work begun in the same sitting on a patient who is already reclined and numb, and a bill at the end that nobody agreed to. So nothing is begun on this visit unless you have read the estimate and said yes. The estimate is itemised, priced line by line, and it is yours to take away and price elsewhere. A second opinion on somebody else's plan is welcome here and is charged at the same Rs. 200, because an opinion that costs more when it disagrees is not an opinion. This fee is set off in full against any treatment taken here within 30 days. A diagnosis fee that is not adjusted is a charge for nothing, and stating which of the two ours is matters more than any promise about quality. About the X-ray: an intraoral film is Rs 250 a film, added at the chair, and it is taken only where a decision genuinely turns on it, never as a routine addition to every check-up. Two honest notes on it. The dose from a single digital intraoral film is very small, roughly the same as one ordinary day of natural background radiation, which is worth knowing because the fear of it keeps people from a film that would have settled a question. And the X-ray option CANNOT be delivered at all until radiation registration for the unit is granted through the eLORA system, which has not happened. Vitals Clinic at A.P. Colony is not open. There is no practitioner in post, no premises registration and no appointment book, and this page does not pretend otherwise. What is written here is the specification: the qualification the role requires, the register the person must appear on, and the licence the premises must hold. Booking opens when those exist, and not before.

• 15 scheduled minutes, all teeth, gums, bite and soft tissue
• A written itemised plan with a price against every line, yours to take away
• Nothing begun in the same sitting unless you have read the estimate and agreed to it
• This fee set off in full against treatment taken here within 30 days
• X-ray only where a decision turns on it, Rs. 250 a film, and not yet deliverable at all
• A second opinion on another clinic's plan costs the same Rs. 200 and carries no obligation
• The role requires BDS with current State Dental Council registration