Areas we serve
Dentist in Jandabup
A practice near Jandabup that will plan treatment into fewer, longer appointments instead of four separate trips.
A treatment plan with four items on it is usually offered as four appointments. That is convenient for the practice and reasonable if you live five minutes away. From Jandabup it turns a fortnight of dentistry into a month of driving.
A lot of it does not have to be split. Two fillings on the same side of the mouth are one appointment and one lot of anaesthetic, not two of each. Several items can often be grouped into one longer visit, and where they can be, we will offer that.
Some things genuinely cannot be combined, usually because one has to heal or settle before the next. We will tell you which is which when the plan is written, so you can arrange the driving around it rather than discovering it appointment by appointment.
Claiming from Jandabup
Preferred provider for six funds, claimed at the desk. You pay the gap rather than the whole fee.
- HBF
- Medibank
- nib
- HCF
- Bupa
- CBHS
Also claimed here: HICAPS, Medicare CDBS, DVA.
Directions from Jandabup(08) 9306 2755Fewer visits, longer ones
Ask for it when the plan is written, because that is when the appointments are booked and when grouping them is easy. Afterwards it means unpicking a diary.
- Several treatment items grouped into one longer appointment where clinically sensible
- Told up front which items must be separate visits, and why
- Appointments long enough to explain and to stop, whatever the length
What we do
Everything a household in Jandabup is likely to need
The work most often written up as a multi-visit plan, and most often groupable into fewer.
Before you book
Questions we get from Jandabup
- Can you do several things in one appointment?
- Often, yes. Work on the same side of the mouth is the easiest to combine, because it is one lot of anaesthetic. Say when the plan is written that you would rather do fewer, longer visits and we will build it that way where it is clinically sound.
- Does a longer appointment cost more?
- The treatment costs what the treatment costs, whether it happens across one visit or three. What you save by combining is the driving and the time off, not the fee.
- What cannot be combined?
- Anything where one stage has to heal or settle before the next: an extraction before a denture, an implant before its crown, a root canal before the crown that protects it. Those waits are doing real work and shortening them costs you the result.
- How long can a single appointment run?
- Longer than the standard slot if it is booked that way, which is the whole point of asking. Tell reception what you are hoping to get done in one visit and they will allow the time rather than fitting you into a routine gap and running out of it.
- Is it better to have one long appointment or two short ones?
- It depends on what is being done and on how comfortable you are being in the chair for a stretch. Some work genuinely has to be split — a crown needs the laboratory in between — and some is far more efficient combined. We will tell you which yours is.
- Can several people in one household be booked into one run?
- Yes, and it is the same request as combining treatment: say so on the phone. Consecutive slots for two or three people turn three trips into one, which matters more the further out you live.
Booking
Book from Jandabup
Say at the consultation that you would rather come fewer times for longer. It is much easier to plan that way round than to rearrange it later.