I paid 600 euros for root canal in Italy, Plus the git answered his mobile whilst still drilling my tooth

My wife is a dentist so I dont care

A dentist in Canada?

Not in Canada yet, but she'll have to get herself registered once we move over. I know she'll have to pass exams etc for that purpose. Thats whats she tells me

Rather more than that. Search on biiiiink's old posts, her husband is a dentist. Getting him reformatted for Canada involved them having to live in Winnipeg.

Maybe you should, then you can find out the difference.


I suppose it depends a lot on your teeth too. If you have perfectly arranged teeth and a brush/ floss reaches all the corners you might get away with it.

Mine are not exactly straight inplaces, and there are spots where plaque / tartar builds up that escape the attention of both brush and floss. Its like night and day before and after the hygenist, who of course is also on the look out for other problems too. I think of it as an insurance policy against far more expensive problems years down the line.

Dentistry here is certainly better than I experienced in the UK, but thank God for benefits to pay for it!

Wow, i think you have been ripped off with that. My last visit to the dentist in Vancouver set me back ~$300 if i recall correctly for 2 fillings and all the trimmings that come with it.

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Really?

My dentist is from Casablanca and trained in France. She only had to do one exam when she came to Canada. We discussed this a few weeks ago.

Bestest dentist I ever had. And the prettiest.

Thanks dbd. I'll get her to have a look at that. I hope its not extremely tough to work in Canada as a dentist for new immigrants

It can't be. As my previous post indicates, my current dentist is an immigrant. The one before her is from Croatia.

Not sure if I was ripped off or if Calgary dentists generally rip people off. I guess it is the naivety in me thinking they all charge the same but I don't have much experience with actual "work" from dentists so have very little to compare with. My husband had fillings redone and they were much cheaper, more like $100-$150 each, but that might be a cheaper as less work involved? He also said he was in a rush so no need to bother with anasthetic Apparently that knocked 30 minutes off the appointment time!

I really do think they treat the plan you have rather than the patient, but as I said in my first post the palative care was fantastic and I would rather see this dentist whom I actually like and is professional. The first one I had spent half the time in the room discussing his new car with the hygenist!!

I'm not claiming to be an authority but my memory of the story is:

- qualifications to be converted by taking a course (one year, two? long enough that they bought a house near the school anyway)

- course covered only stuff he already knew

- some issue about residency being required and hardly any places being available making it difficult to get in

Maybe it was problematic that his qualification was from the UK, perhaps he could have gone to France, requalified there and challenged the Canadian exam. Perhaps the rules have changed. Perhaps it's different in Quebec.

On here? Could you send me the link to that post please? Dont mean to hijack this thread but we have just started our research on how can my wife get registered in Canada so we'll appreciate any sort of help or would like to hear from people who have done it

I'm guessing that it's a Quebec thing. Provincial law here is similar to the Napoleonic Code used in France. Maybe the similarities extend?

Either way, I asked her a very direct question and got a very direct answer.

"mmmmm mmmm gag mmmm gag mmmmm"

"I just had to sit one exam".

Not on here, no. It was a discussion with my dentist.