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From 24 to 147 euros, the price differences of a filling in Spain. The mail

Facua-Consumidores en Acción has denounced that the Spanish dental clinics currently have considerable differences in the price of their dental treatments, which, in some cases, can present differences of up to 200-300 euros for the same intervention. The organization has carried out a study on the estimated prices of four usual dental treatments in 150 dental clinics in fourteen cities, and the results show that patients can pay up to eleven times more for the same service depending on which facility is chosen, with differences of up to 228 euros in the case of a dental extraction.

The study has analyzed the rates of clinics in Badajoz, Barcelona, ​​Bilbao, Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Toledo, Valencia, Valladolid and Zaragoza. While the most economical ones charge 22 euros for a simple extraction, 24 for a simple filling, 12 for a dental cleaning and 100 for a single-root canal with basic reconstruction; there are centers that can bill up to 250, 147, 110 and 480 euros respectively for the same treatments.

Of the 198 centers surveyed by telephone by Facua during the last month of July for this study, 141 provided complete telephone information on the prices of these four treatments, while in nine they limited themselves to offering one or some of them. In any case, the required rates were always requested as a guide and, at all times, taking into account the subsequent criteria of the professionals in their own final diagnoses.

In the case of so-called extractions or extractions, the average rate for the fourteen cities is 54.21 euros. When the personnel of the surveyed clinics required information on the piece to be extracted, it was clarified that it was a molar and not the wisdom tooth, since these interventions are usually more expensive.

Endodontics

Of the 147 centers that provided the amount of their extractions, the clinic with the highest price was located in Barcelona, ​​asking 250 euros for this intervention. But also in the Catalan capital, in addition to Zaragoza, it is where the two establishments are located with the cheapest cost, only 22 euros. The margin between these two clinics and the first is 228 euros, reaching a 1,036 percent difference.

As for the average price by city, the highest is calculated in Barcelona, ​​with 72.20 euros, and the cheapest in Badajoz, with 31.60 euros. For its part, the dental clinic with the highest price for the practice of a filling is located in Valladolid and charges 147 euros for the filling. Instead, the cheapest rate has been found in a clinic in Badajoz, at a cost of 24 euros.

As for the average price by city, the highest is calculated in Valladolid, with 69.72 euros, and the cheapest again in Badajoz, with 41.50 euros, with the margin of difference being 68 percent .

Dental cleaning

For dental cleaning, the standard rate they have observed is 49.80 euros per session, according to the data obtained in the study, but the most expensive clinic comes to charge 110 euros for this service in Valladolid, while a center in Seville He does it for only 12 euros, a difference of 817 percent. Regarding the average price by city, the highest is calculated in Valladolid, with 65 euros, and the lowest in Valencia, with 37.10 euros, with a difference margin of 75 percent.

For endodontics, the intervention in a lower lateral incisor tooth -of a single canal- was used as a reference, with subsequent reconstruction but without the use of a pin or crown, and the price was 204.73 euros on average. What is requested is the 480 euros they charge in a dental clinic in Barcelona. In contrast, a center in Santiago de Compostela has the tightest rate, doing endodontics with reconstruction for only 100 euros, 380 percent less. The average price for cities shows that Valladolid is the one with the highest, with 251.70 euros, while the most affordable average is in Badajoz, with 157.40 euros, with the global difference being 60 percent.

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