thats some real b-s ….thats why i guess people go south of theborder for these things

Bing, I’m curious, did they pull your tooth or just take the nerve out? How did they do it so fast?

Now just imagine if you’d needed the root canal and you didn’t have $1900 to spare.

If the dental office could handle the insurance, why didn’t they file it and you have the copay billed to you? Or just cover the copay at the office. It sounds like the bill was more painful than the root canal – EEK!

Sounds like your experience was good ive had two root canals one for a baseball bat i took to the side of the head another from a rather painful surfing accident lets just say when you here the words and i quote “were going to need the bone grinder.” come out of your dentists mouth followed by the awful pain and smoke and sparks shooting out of your mouth a root canal seems anything but harmless but thats navy dentistry for you. well glad to hear that the ones with actual insurance instead of military healthcare get a nice experience out of it

Leonard Cohen! Awesome! So you DO have taste!

If you were in Greece i’d charged you for the same treatment 320 $.(including X-rays -though not digital)in two sessions.Working in private sector you would have no coverage from any insurance.Working in wider public sector you would have rebourse from social security about 30$.As you can see its almost the same ratio though extremely expensive in absolute rates even for U.S. i believe.

Let me tell you about my experience with a chipped tooth:

Trois Fontaine Ordnance Depot, France in June, 1952. I went to the Dentist on sick call to the “Dentist tent”. He assured me he would take good care of me.

I sat in this chair and adjacent to it was this bicycle seat with bicycle pedals affixed to it. I was amazed. I thought what a unique experience.

The Captain (Dentist) proceeded to repair my chipped tooth. His assistant proceeded to jump on the bike and start peddeling. My mouth stuffed with cotton and numb with novacaine, he ground my tooth, energy efficiently, while his aasistant had on the job exercise peddeling the “drill”.

The smoke was a bluish color. The sensitivity intensified and he said it would subside after he put a plug in the tooth.

He didn’t tell the truth.

Fortunately a few months later I was on T.D.Y. in Lechfield, Germany where the Dentist had one of those new fangled x-ray machines. He x-rayed the tooth determined it was abscessed and yanked it.

About 6 months later the dentist in Captieux, France worked three weeks to get the gold caps and false tooth completed in a bridge to brighten my smile and abort the nickname I picked up–snaggle tooth.

This is a situation where I would say, glad I can pay!!

Where did you find such a good clinic? Can I have the info?

Thanks,
Warsha

You spent $1900.00 on one tooth,I can buy 4 sets of dentures for that, boy they saw you coming didn’t they.Hey kid Would you like to buy some Mexican diamonds.

Interesting timing post with this blog. I read it last Tuesday the 18th, said “Thank GOD I don’t have to get a root canal” and then went home from work to enjoy dinner.

During dinner, I took a nice big bite of a hidden bone fragment in my pork steak. It hurt for just a moment. The next night, a small fragment of filling came out of my mouth. At this point I knew I had to go to the dentist. Sigh. So I made an appointment for Friday.

Thursday morning I wake up with this odd, throbbing pain in my lower left quadrant of my mouth. Sigh.

Friday I go to the dentist in the morning. He takes a few X-Rays, and then gives me the great news that I need a root canal.

Oh, and I have NO insurance but could not care less. I’ll pay the bill in a few installments and just deal with the cost. I’m more concerned about the quality of work done.

Just my $.02

Insurance companies love dental insurance because it’s so profitable for them. The insurance runs about $500/year and then pays only 80% with a cap of about $1500.

Better are dental discount plans.

You pay $100/year and pay lower “negotiated” fees that the insurance company would pay the dentist.

Berkshire-Select offers dental and other discount plans.

Root canal treatment is done when there is no chance of tooth to be saved, and the patient doesn’t want it to be extracted although decayed. It is done to kill the vitality of the tooth and then filling it with mechanical components, and placing a cap over it.
The procedure involves the removal of the nervous elements of the tooth which have been infected or decayed already due to microbial action or any physical pressures.
Root canal Treatment