[schaltjahr]

Dear Members

Does anyone know a good and trustworthy dentist in Pattaya ? Any help would be highly apreciated !

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

Dear Members

Does anyone know a good and trustworthy dentist in Pattaya ? Any help would be highly apreciated !

here we go again..the dentist beside the Dusit Resort entrance (in the pink stand-alone building) is my favourite. Not only is he fabulously handsome and talented but he spends 2 days in Bangkok teaching dentistry at Bumrumgrad hospital. Prices are so cheap you would drop dead..about a tenth of western prices. This dentist is the gentlest I have ever encountered..I am yet to feel a needle he has given me. And his work is superb.

Others of course will have their favourites.

[homintern]

I am yet to feel a needle he has given me

Oh so that's what you meant when you told me last week over lunch "I haven't had a prick in twenty years"

[joseph44]

Dear Members

Does anyone know a good and trustworthy dentist in Pattaya ? Any help would be highly apreciated !

I've good experiences with the dentist in the Pattaya Memorial Hospital. Absolute painless double root-canal-treatment and crown placement.
THB 15,000.
Just hop in there and make an appointment, very friendly people.

[drfrost3]

Dear Members

Does anyone know a good and trustworthy dentist in Pattaya ? Any help would be highly apreciated !

My dentist is in Jomtien "Smile time" Dr Preecha 406/335 Phratamnak Road. He is excellent and not pricey. Very near Mignon restaurant halfway between Family Mart and 7/11

[thrillbill]

Dr. Tepeset(not correct spelling). Great person...Thai but was raised and educated in the States. I don't like dentists and have run into some questionable ones in LOS, this dentist you can trust. Good sense of humor.

[rocket]

How well are the instruments cleaned by these dentist.I hear rave reviews of the dentistry here in Thailand...but. I get my teeth cleaned twice a year in the states and theres always some blood involved.The worst diseases are blood born,hep c,hiv. If the prices are so low,are they reusing stuff that should be thrown out? In Egypt a few years back,they reused syringes for an immunity shot and over a million people now have hep c.

[Marsilius]

Interesting to see, from the posts above, that dentists in Thailand are styled "Doctor X", "Doctor Y" or whatever. I recently discovered some surprising facts on that - certainly applicable to the UK and maybe to Thailand too?

In the UK, there is a growing trend for dentists to capitalise on the general public's ignorance by unilaterally calling themselves "Doctor", even though they do not actually have a qualification entitling them to do so. They are almost all rightly just "Mister". But it seems that, anxious to boost their social standing, UK dentists are now not only accepting it when patients call them "Doctor" but are also using it in their advertising, letterheads, nameplates, etc.

By the way, in actual fact, all medical practitioners in the UK ought also to be just "Mister X"* as all they possess is a Bachelor's degree in medicine [see http://www.yourgpguide.org.uk/Explanations.aspx for full details.] They are only "doctor X" in the sense that you or I might be "plumber X", "schoolteacher X" or "driving instructor X" - i.e. doctoring people is just the job they do, not their awarded qualification. When you are sick, you are calling in a doctor - not calling in the Doctor! Note too, by the way, how the very top medical practitioners - hospital consultants - are all happy to be called just "Mister", i.e. accepting both that they do not have an awarded doctorate in anything and that they are no longer "doctoring" directly to patients either.

* Except for a very small minority of medical researchers who might have gone on to obtain a PhD.

[dave_syd]

or maybe people who aren't doctors (ie medical practitioners) shouldnt be called Doctor? a person who has a PhD in economics is still an economist, not a doctor

[homintern]

or maybe people who aren't doctors (ie medical practitioners) shouldnt be called Doctor? a person who has a PhD in economics is still an economist, not a doctor

You are confusing the term "doctor" with "medical practitioner". Anyone holding a doctorate is entitled to be called "Doctor" if they so wish. Educated people are aware that a Doctor of Medicine is not the only sort of doctorate

[drfrost3]

It can be a bit confusing but in the UK:

General Practioners working in the Communites and Physicians working in Hospitals are called "Doctor" irrespective of whether they have a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) or not.
Surgeons are always "Mr" whether consultants or not
Consultant Physicians are called "Doctor" other Consultants are called "Mr"
Beacause they are Surgeons Dentists are called "Mr", however as mentioned above, they are beginning to call themselves "Doctor"

In the USA and most other countries all the above are called "Doctors"

[mahjongguy]

"It can be a bit confusing..."

Glad I don't live in the UK. I'd never get it sorted out.

In the USA it's simple indeed. Either you are a Doctor or you are not, and you are not a Doctor unless the government says so. This means the full ride: medical school, internship, residency, certification by an accredited hospital, and a license from the state. This takes at least 8 years.

And you can't be a Dentist unless you are first a Doctor.

And because of the status that is associated with the title of Doctor, Americans consider it to be in very poor taste to call yourself "Doctor Smith" or "Dr. Jones" if you only possess a doctorate in some non-medical field.

[topjohn5]

"It can be a bit confusing..."

Glad I don't live in the UK. I'd never get it sorted out.

In the USA it's simple indeed. Either you are a Doctor or you are not, and you are not a Doctor unless the government says so. This means the full ride: medical school, internship, residency, certification by an accredited hospital, and a license from the state. This takes at least 8 years.

And you can't be a Dentist unless you are first a Doctor.

And because of the status that is associated with the title of Doctor, Americans consider it to be in very poor taste to call yourself "Doctor Smith" or "Dr. Jones" if you only possess a doctorate in some non-medical field.

Yes, simple like my Chiropractor who calls himself a doctor......

[homintern]

And because of the status that is associated with the title of Doctor, Americans consider it to be in very poor taste to call yourself "Doctor Smith" or "Dr. Jones" if you only possess a doctorate in some non-medical field.

I learn something new every day! Americans have a concept of "good taste"

[francois]

"It can be a bit confusing..."

And because of the status that is associated with the title of Doctor, Americans consider it to be in very poor taste to call yourself "Doctor Smith" or "Dr. Jones" if you only possess a doctorate in some non-medical field.

Tell that to Dr. Einstein! Albert, that is.