Polish dentists - good and cheap?

Most Polish dentists are great - mine is wonderful (as you can see from my teeth in the avatar picture), but like anything else, the more expensive ones in any given town tend to be the better ones.

And some of the best ones have so many patients that they are busy all the time.

It's got to do as much as your eating the pillow during some surgery.
Couldn't you have had something more substantial beforehand?

The best dentists in the World that I have met have been South African. I do not know why? Maybe their education is excellent in these sciences? However, I must say that I always remember mine in Guildford and he was a young dentist but superb.

Michal,

let's set some things straight.
When you had your dental treatment in Poland it was what? 15 years ago? 20?

At that time the problem was not so much with the dentists as with the equipment and materials they had to use. Low speed boring devices, lousy filling compunds etc.

That problem was prevalent throughout Poland's entire medical system. A good dental office outfit would have cost about as much as all the dentists in a given city made in a year. A CatScan machine would have probably cost more than the entire nation's budget for health care.

I am not encouraging you to go to Poland and see how things changed, but I do know how much better it is now, and I know it from Americans and Canadians.


There is nothing wrong with Polish medical education. Check what Swedes, and Brits for that matter have to say about that. Students do come to Polish medical schools from the US and Canada, and none have any problems with getting their diplomas recognized, except when (strangely) they are Polish citizens.

One word of warning if you go to a Polish dentist, they do not have injections to numb the pain. I remember very well when I was in Moscow many years ago and my Polish girl friend at the time, had bad tooth ache. She explained to me that in Poland it was very unusual to get an injection against pain in a Polish dentist surgery. Maybe now they have more money but who knows...

Its easy to explain why. No dentist will ever use a pain killer when they figure out that they have an a**hole for a patient.

I wouldn,t give you any pain killer either....

Is that true of all Polish patients then?

must be only true in your case because it is a standard procedure to have an injection prior to any treatment that will involve pain. whilst having my root canals done in February this year, i would get one injection after another until i said it didnt hurt anymore and they could carry on. i dont know (and dont really care) where did you go and how many centuries ago, but you talk rubbish and nobody should listen to your out-dated advice. after all, what else should we expect from somebody who uses archaisms in their everyday language? crawl back to your rocking chair old man and leave your ranting for the grand kids.

Stick with JustysiaS's answer....

It is a fact that under communism you rarely got injections at the dentist and it was also a fact that I received no injection for my operation, until, that is, the 'surgeon', if I can call him that, realized that he had made a a mistake. This was a private hospital too.


It is interesting that you say 'stick with her answer' yet interestingly she is in England and is not in Poland at all. All these first generation Poles come on to this forum and defend their homeland so doggedly yet they are all thousands of miles overseas themselves. During the Communist period the Poles had no time for the British and it was always Churchill who sold Poland to Stalin, God how many times I heard that from the Poles. I might use old Polish forms like 'ku' and 'mię' but at least I do not slag off the British all the time and then expect to use the English education and medical facilities for free like 1.5 million Poles are doing at this moment in time! Always the same old scenario-'do as I say, not as I do'.

- It's a fact that even in communism they weren't too keen on taking piggies to the dentist, unless in a dead pork form, let alone giving them anaesthetics. The only exception where the pretending-to-be-human Orwellian piggies, and those got all the best care there was. So this Orwellian piggy (pretending-to-be-English and expert on Poland) seems to be lying again.

:)

did i not say i had my tooth done there in February? not 20 years ago like you, but in February this year. im not defending my homeland 'doggedly', im just saying dentists are much cheaper there and the standard and quality is the same as in uk. It looks like you think you are always right because youre so old. but youre not right, your advice is out-dated and if you wanna do a favour to people on this forum asking about Poland and whats it like - keep you mouth shut because your information is not useful.

Well said, J :)

And with the excpetion oif Michal, most posters on here have convinced me that I'll be doing the right thing by getting my veneers in Poland.

good decision, i can assure you you will save a lot of money. last time i saved £££s (had 2 teeth needing root canals done, which i was told would cost me about a grand in UK. i paid a fraction of that) most, if not all private Polish dentists will speak English and know the English vocabulary for all the dental treatments etc. my dentist has not only Polish, but British certificates too, many dentists in Poland go and get more qualifications abroad and have the best equipment there is!

Excellent - I've been talking statmedica.com and the lady there was telling exactly the same. But it's good to hear it on here too - so not just part of a sales pitch.

Still, she knows more about Poland than you do. JustysiaS may not remember well, or at all, how it was in Poland during the 70-80’s, but unfortunately for you I do.

i was born in 1985 so no i dont really remember lol. i just dont see why somebody with out-dated information comes here and gives out-dated advice to people who want to know what Poland is like now. and he still argues that hes right. what a sad creature.

Indeed

Hello,
My name is Rick Durham, I live in England and have been searching names of Dentist in Gdansk. After reading your mail on Polishforums, maybe you could give me advice and or names of Gdansk dentists. I`m wishing to have some dental implants, so your help would be much appreciated.

Thankyou, Rick.

There is a very good dental office in Sopot
artoral.pl/index_pl.html

Click on "kontakt" for contact info.
Ask for Dr. Zbigniew Piankowski or Dr. Adam Ziemlewski (implants are his speciality)

Dr. Ziemlewski also has another office (Gdansk-Kowale)
ziemlewski.pl
again click on "kontakt" for contact info

Hi Grzegorz, you always make me laugh.

Polish dentists do appear to be quite good. My boyfriend is from Poland and he had to have a good bit of dental work in his youth (schoolyard fights, he was a high-spirited child). Anyway, you would never know he's even had anything done. He has one of the most perfect smiles I've ever seen, and not just because I'm smitten with him. Anyway, to this day, even after 6 years in the US, he flys back if he needs anything done.

Word to the wise, though, go private. That's straight from his (impressively perfect) mouth.

Don't go to a Polish dentist because a man on the internet said someone else said to him that they are sadists!


Oh well!

Thread attached on merging:
How's Poland in terms of dentistry?

SOoo I'm wondering how has poland advanced in the dentistry field basically because I think it might be a smart move financially to get ones teeth done in Poland rather than in North America and paying an arm and a leg.

So Im thinking, porcelain veneers / dental veneers / cosmetic dentistry or another form of a quick fix, not that my teeth are bad but I'd like that perfect "hollywood" smile.

This might not be the best place to post this but worth the shot.

Where would I find some good info on dentist offices that provide such treatment.

If youre unsure what porcelain veneers / dental veneers / cosmetic dentistry are look here:

animated-teeth.com/porcelain_veneers/t1_porcelain_veneers.htm

Im I correct by thinking It would be cheaper in poland?

My ex was a dentist. Her e-mail address is asiawl@poczta.onet.pl. She'll be able to, eh, fill u in. She now works in London

Definately cheaper than in western Europe but with so weak dollar I'm not sure If cheaper than in the USA.

poland has been in the top tier of dentistry for decades.

I agree with plk123, Poland has very good technology and a well respected dental industry. Their dentists are much sought after in Sweden and in the UK as elsewhere I'd guess.

cool well good to know.. I guess I could email my cousin this is actually his field I just found out... I knew hes a dentist but not a sergical specialist or whatever.

thanks people