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Found out yesterday that I need root treatment on a molar. I’ve got an estimate for the cost of work and under the circumstances I think that it sounds expensive, but not unreasonable.
Check-up, x-ray, root filling over two double sessions (argh!) and 2 more x-rays. £487.
Never needed anything like this before and I was just wondering what others have paid.
Band 3 treatment isn't it? About 250 all in. I'm guessing by that price you go to a private dentist.
Edit: root canal is band 2
NHS Dentist? Not where I'm from!
Really? None at all? There's at least 4 in my one horse town.
Will the NHS even pay for root canal treatment on a molar these days?
My NHS dentist said not, and referred me to a private dentist for this, although she finished it off with an NHS crown.
The current price (according to their website) is £687 - so you are getting a bargain (I hope!).
I naively assumed most people would live close enough to visit an nhs dentist. I'll count myself lucky I don't have to pay private fees for my dental horror show.
Holy cow..I got ripped off.
I naively assumed most people would live close enough to visit an nhs dentist.
Promimity isn't the issue. You quite literally join a waiting list for someone to either move or die.
starts at 700 quid near me (hudds) but thats private as the nhs guy has refused as its complicated . Ive needed mine doing for 2 years now. 🙁
Think mine was about £350 and that was private. I was offered it over two different appointments. but just wanted it done with so did it in one sitting. Didn't see the point of getting a temporary filling then having it removed a week after.
Mine went really well and she found the canals quite quickly, the worst thing about it was having mouth open far a long time
£62.10.
First appointment to drill and clean. Temporary filling put in and then back a week later for final clean and check followed by permanent filling.
NHS dentist as indeed they all should be.
I had a root canal done. It is not so nice experience. It didn't properly work so ended up taking the tooth out in the end. I swore never too have another root canal!
Can't remember cost though.
Seems quite good for a private job.
I'm on the waiting list now too get mine surgically removed now as the local dentist can't do it. I got 15 years out of it - not bad apparently.
Yeah the estimate for my pending one is way more than that. Private referral to a specialist.
I've had two root canals done in two molars on the NHS, around £250 each.
Harry - you're an engineer aren't you? How about some micro engineering in an inaccessible place accurately widening a hole 20+mm deep and curved in 3 dimensions starting at 0.1mm up to maybe 0.4mm? Imagine the fancy kit you'd need to do that on top of the fancy kit you need anyway to do your 'normal' job which isn't cheap because it's prefaced by 'dental'. Oh, then you need to learn how to use it and do it for a few years and maybe get a bit of extra training so that you're confident you're doing it right and less likely to be sued if it doesn't work even though it's 70-95% successful at the best of times. Ah, hang on, you need help to do the job too and those helpers need to be paid and ideally in the UK we do it inside where it's warm and dry but that means somehow paying for a building to work in as well.
That sounds like lower end normal private fees and I'm just trying to imagine what circumstances would make it seem more reasonable 🙂
HTH
We're pretty much stuffed on these prices until Yeti lower the financial barriers to owning their bikes.
On first visit: The x-ray will show what the canals are like, and how long it will take to drill and clean out the pulp, you might have 3-4 roots, and some of those might have 1-2 canals, and they might have odd angles, and that may effect the success or otherwise of the treatment. He might fill with an anti bacterial. temp crown on top.
second visit, remove temp crown, fill, seal, fit permanent crown (cost depends on what materiel you've chosen)
Pretty good for less than 500...
Depending on what the canals are like, dentist might refer to an endodontist, you're probs. looking at £600 for that part alone.
I had one recently, private, £685 (Outer London prices)
Dental insurance through work covered £350 of it.
I’ve had two root canals done on the ‘Elf. The first had a filling and 10 years later a crown after the tooth cracked which lasted about 5 years before it came out. It’s now been removed. The second is currently at the broken tooth stage with a temp filling because I can’t be arsed to pay for a crown.
In both cases I had an abscess under the tooth so the root canal was relative bliss in comparison.
I paid around £700 with a really good endo specialist in south Manchester. All done in one completely painless session and done properly. The rest was down to my NHS dentist who properly screwed up the crown. Now having to get that redone by a really good private specialist. Sigh...
Anyway, that quote sounds cheap given the complexity of the job.
NHS here, Scotland . If I needed another one on a molar I think I'd just ask for an extraction. All fillings and root canal did was delay the inevitable with a lot of carry on along the way.
NHS, root canel with nerve work is band 3 (whatever price that is now, was £220 when I had mine done about 5 years ago). Filling, which is what you describe OP, is band 2, £62.10.
I had a consultation yesterday for extraction under sedation, because my usual dentist couldn't get the tooth out under local, is band 2.
NHS, root canel with nerve work is band 3
Nope. Band 2. Usually you have a crown as well though which is band 3.
Oh and you try having root canal without nerve work.
Op
I had a similar quote
Then there was the crown on top
Expect that to be added, ask asap
Not sure that there will be many NHS dentists doing root canal treatment at the moment, there's a pandemic on don't you know!
I had an attempted root canal just before lockdown which was quoted as £350, but as the local dentist was unable to complete it, it's going to be £750 for an endodontist.
I'm still waiting for his schedule to catch up after being closed for 3 months, but the temporary seal has just about held on until now. Fortunately access is about as good as it gets, being the front half of the foremost molar that broke off.
Adding a crown will be another £500 on top. Would nearly prefer to get the whole thing pulled out, but wife has vetoed having a gaping hole where the foremost molar should be and a whole replacement tooth is spendy.
Think it cost me about 600 in Newcastle.
I'd ask about the likelihood of having a crown fitted. That could round it out to 1000.
A dentist might be able to correct me but my dentist tells me that the bda is now allowing all treatment with the right procedures. I've had a filling that cracked drilled out this week and a crown fitted in a bit. He is offering all treatments but there are reduced appointments.
eddiebaby
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We’re pretty much stuffed on these prices until Yeti lower the financial barriers to owning their bikes.
Well I laughed.😆
Don’t bother, just get it pulled out. I’ve had a couple of route canals. Over time the tooth becomes brittle because it’s dead and snaps, then you end up paying for crowns, then you end up for them to be refitted when they come loose / fall out after a number more years, then you end up getting quoted for bridges because they can’t crown it again. Save yourself a couple of grand and use get an extraction for £100 or whatever it costs now
Another vote for get it pulled out.
I've had one pulled this week as the tooth was broken and already had a filling, I had the option of root canal, followed by a crown, but there were no guarantees that the crown would last very long.
A dentist might be able to correct me but my dentist tells me that the bda is now allowing all treatment with the right procedures.
It's nothing to do with the BDA, they're more of a trades union than regulatory body, but this is correct. I've been doing it since July with appropriate PPE but in a dental hospital. Many dentists are not yet though, partly because they've had trouble getting PPE and partly because of the difficulty scheduling it in the day due to the clean up protocols. Also NHS dentists are still getting paid whether they do it or not as long as they do enough to maintain payments.