Dentique is a family dental practice on CP Ramaswamy Road in Alwarpet. Drag the slider to see work we did here in Chennai — and what each case actually cost.
Open 9 am to 8 pm, Monday to Saturday. Two emergency slots are held empty every working day.
We look at every tooth, your gums and your bite, and take one or two small X-rays to see what the eye cannot.
₹600 – ₹900
The hardened plaque along your gum line is broken up with an ultrasonic tip and washed away, then the teeth are polished smooth.
₹1,200 – ₹1,800
The decayed part is cleaned out and rebuilt with composite resin matched to your tooth. No silver, no black line.
₹1,500 – ₹3,000
The infected nerve inside the tooth is removed, the canals are cleaned and sealed, and the tooth is closed the same day.
₹6,000 – ₹9,500
A series of transparent trays, changed at home every ten days, that move crowded or gapped teeth into line. You take them out to eat.
₹1,20,000 – ₹1,90,000
A titanium post is placed in the jaw where a tooth is missing, left to fuse for three to four months, then a crown is fitted on top.
₹38,000 – ₹55,000
Each card is what the patient walked in with. Open one to drag the slider across to what they walked out with, and read what it cost.
Thirteen years of appointment books, sorted onto the tooth each entry belongs to. It is not spread evenly, and once you see where it collects you can guess most of what we spend the day doing.
Teeth 36 and 46
The lower first molars carry more work between them than the four upper front teeth put together. They arrive at six years old, into a mouth that cannot yet brush the back properly, and their grooves are deep enough to hide a bristle.
Teeth 18, 28, 38, 48
Wisdom teeth. Almost everything recorded on them is removal — usually the lower two, usually between 22 and 30, usually because the tooth in front of them has started to decay where it cannot be cleaned.
Teeth 11 and 21
The two upper front teeth, and the corner broken off one of them. Scooters on Santhome High Road, a cricket ball at Nandanam, and one doorframe in a flat off CP Ramaswamy Road.
Almost everyone who books one has been told a story about it by somebody else. Here is the tooth, and here is what we take out of it.
The hard white shell. It has no nerve in it at all, which is why a chip can look alarming and feel like nothing.
Softer, yellower, and full of microscopic tubes that run inward. Decay moves quickly once it is through the enamel and into here.
Nerve and blood supply. This is the part that keeps you awake at two in the morning, and the part a root canal takes out.
A lower first molar usually has three, sometimes four. Every one has to be cleaned the whole way to its tip — miss a millimetre and the tooth aches again in a year.
Infection that has left the tooth and started on the jawbone. On an X-ray it is a dark circle. It is also the reason we do not simply give you antibiotics and send you home.
Ninety minutes, one appointment, and the tooth is closed before you leave. Dr. Suresh does four of these in a normal week.
First 10 minutes
Local anaesthetic, then a rubber sheet clamped around the tooth. Nothing from the rest of your mouth reaches it, and nothing from it reaches you.
Next 20
A small door is cut through the biting surface into the chamber, and the canal openings are found. This is where a microscope earns its cost.
Next 40
Fine files and sodium hypochlorite take out the nerve and shape each canal. The working length is measured electronically and checked on an X-ray.
Last 20
Gutta-percha and sealer fill the canals, a core closes the opening, and you go home with a whole tooth. The bone around the tip fills back in over about six months.
Three dentists, no rotating panel of visiting consultants. You are told at booking which of them you are seeing, and if it has to change we tell you before you travel.
Saturday closes at 6 pm. Sunday is the emergency number only. Two appointments a day — 11.30 am and 5.15 pm — are never given out in advance; they are there for whoever wakes up in pain that morning.
BDS, MDS (Prosthodontics) · 18 years
Implants, crowns and bonding. She opened the practice above the tailor's shop on CP Ramaswamy Road in 2013 and still takes the first appointment of the day.
Speaks Tamil, English, Hindi.
BDS, MDS (Endodontics) · 12 years
Root canals and everything painful. He does the single-sitting cases and answers the emergency number himself after 8 pm.
Speaks Tamil, English, Telugu.
BDS, MDS (Orthodontics) · 9 years
Braces and aligners for adults, and every patient under fourteen. Thursday afternoons are kept for children only.
Speaks Tamil, English, Malayalam.
People rarely ask. They should. This is the route every instrument takes between one patient and the next, and you are welcome to stand in the doorway and watch it happen.
A logarithmic scale, because a check-up and an implant do not sit on the same ruler otherwise. The ranges are real. The estimate you get after the X-ray is a single number inside one of them, and we hold it for 90 days.
Only the implant crosses the dashed line. Aligners at ₹1,20,000 and braces at ₹35,000 sit off the right-hand end of this chart altogether — those we split as a matter of course, and nobody has ever been asked to pay for orthodontics in one go.
One implant with its crown — the treatment we are asked to split most often. Same work, same day, three different totals.
Three months costs you nothing extra — we absorb it. Six and nine carry Bajaj Finserv’s interest, shown here in rupees rather than as a percentage, because a percentage is not what leaves your account. You can also split it on your own card at whatever your bank charges. Nothing is signed before you have seen these three numbers.
“I had put off a root canal for two years because nobody would tell me what it would cost or how bad it would be. Dr. Suresh wrote down ₹8,000 and said it would ache for three days. It cost ₹8,000 and it ached for three days.”
Call or send a WhatsApp message with the tooth that is bothering you and a photograph if you can manage one. We reply within the working day, and we will tell you honestly if what you need is a check-up or nothing at all.
Two appointments — 11.30 am and 5.15 pm — are kept empty every working day. Call before 6 pm with pain, swelling, bleeding or a tooth that has been knocked out and one of them is yours the same day. After 8 pm, 98407 22118 rings Dr. Suresh directly. If a tooth has come out whole, keep it in milk and bring it.