u/redditorgreen

If you're from chengannur, make sure you do not visit St. Gregorious dental clinic, puthencavu chengannur.

Reason:

Incredibly expensive.
Says they are experienced but failed to simplify a complicated aligning related problem.

My experience:

I went there to take out a wisdom tooth. First, they mentioned it'll be somewhere in between 6k to 12k. After the procedure, they said its complicated and took 12k from me. Since the procedure and recovery was smooth for me, my brother went to the clinic for his extra milk tooth and malaligned teeth issue.

They initially said 50k for aligners and never mentioned how much it would cost for investigations and tests. They took 3.5k for measurements and their consultation fee. They did not have a well equipped xray machine, so they sent us 10km away to thiruvalla to get xray which cost us another 1.4k. After all these investigations, they still do not call for another 2 days and the 3rd day they told us to come to the clinic to have another consultation with the surgeon, never mentioned earlier. Still no mention of whats the treatment plan. The surgeon sees and takes consultation fees and they say it'll be 2 lakhs to get an aligner for his teeth. And frequent follow up is necessary.

Since he is here for his holidays he cannot come frequently. So we said thats not possible. So in reality they cost us 5.1k and no treatment or proper advice whatsoever. The dentist says he has a deep bite, lower bite issue. While discussing this, a senior nurse comes in between and tells my mom, why my mom didn't get it corrected when she was younger, if she did then we wouldn't have this problem. Surely this lady has no idea about how genetics work.

We left the clinic insulted and our pockets empty. We went to another clinic where they do these investigations for 800rs.

Scam of a clinic. Not even super specialists will take this much.

Is it mandatory to be present at the exam centre at reporting time?