Reports from health insurance companies and others about large increases in the price of dentistry are misleading and wrong, the national dental society NMT said on Monday.

Dentists have been free to set their own fees since January 1, which the government hopes will force down prices and increase competition. But since then there has been a flurry of reports about price rises, and health insurance firms in many cases have reduced their coverage.
However, the NMT says there is no evidence to suggest the cost of visiting the dentist has risen sharply.
Insurers were already talking about higher fees in October, before any dentists had published their 2012 charges, NMT chairman Rob Barnasconi said in the Telegraaf.
According to health insurance group VGZ in the Telegraaf at the beginning of January, dentists’ charges are rising by an average of 10%, but will rise up to 30% for some treatments. VGZ has looked at the fees charged by 200 dentists.
Nos television painted a similar picture in its survey but says there are extremely wide variations in price.