Yeah, so, as the title explains, today I went to the dentist for the second time in my life. I'm twenty one and the only time I ever went to the dentist was when I was in early grade school and that whole time frame was a little messed up- anyways, long life story that I wont go into.
So, I've never really went to the dentist because my family is poor as dirt and I grew up in homeless shelters. By the time I went to the dentist he did so very much work on me, but it wasn't the greatest work. Two of the teeth he fixed with fillings weren't properly done and though the tooth looked great on the outside, it rotted through on the inside.
Well, years of having no way of taking care of my teeth have left me where I stand today.
So I had already decided that when I got money I'd go to the dentist and start fixing things. Out of pocket. So I went to the dentist and I need 9 to 10 root canals, tons of fillings, a sideways wisdom tooth removed and other fun things.
(Honestly when I was the X-ray of my sideways tooth I laughed so hard that I spat out the X-ray thing.)
What I'm getting at, is that the lady laid out the numbers for me. $10,000 for my top row of teeth. $12,000 for the bottom row. This didn't surprise me. With all the decay, the two broken teeth and cavities I wasn't too surprised. So I told her that I obviously don't have $22,000 to drop on my teeth, and for now I have $3,000. So she said we might be able to get a root canal on one tooth, and a filling. This left me reeling.
We were talking about my third molar on my left bottom side. The worst tooth in my mouth (and surprisingly, the only one causing me pain). But what I gathered from what she said, and what I've looked up online, a filling, well, a lot of filling would be under like, $600. So after my expression she told me that we can extract the third molar, root canal the second molar, and do this cleaning for that bottom section of my mouth for about $150 and later on we can pull up a wisdom tooth to replace the third molar.
She said she'd take $280 off the top leaving me with a payment of $3,060. She told me the pulling would cost $650 (I believe that number includes the bone grafting). So
Minus the tiny tiny cavity on the first molar, lets say $200, then take $650 off....
A root canal is $2,200?!
Off a random dental website "Expect the cost of a root canal treatment to be about $400 to $600 per front tooth and about $500 to $800 for a molar."
See the lady told me that they have specialists at the office. (And its a pretty nice- though highly anti-privacy office.) And that I don't have to pay extra for these specialists. Maybe they jack their prices up to cover the specialists?
Either way, is there anyway I can get my X-rays and pictures and cost sheets from them and take them to a different dentist? Is this price accurate? Or what? I'm so very confused.
So, I've never really went to the dentist because my family is poor as dirt and I grew up in homeless shelters. By the time I went to the dentist he did so very much work on me, but it wasn't the greatest work. Two of the teeth he fixed with fillings weren't properly done and though the tooth looked great on the outside, it rotted through on the inside.
Well, years of having no way of taking care of my teeth have left me where I stand today.
So I had already decided that when I got money I'd go to the dentist and start fixing things. Out of pocket. So I went to the dentist and I need 9 to 10 root canals, tons of fillings, a sideways wisdom tooth removed and other fun things.
(Honestly when I was the X-ray of my sideways tooth I laughed so hard that I spat out the X-ray thing.)
What I'm getting at, is that the lady laid out the numbers for me. $10,000 for my top row of teeth. $12,000 for the bottom row. This didn't surprise me. With all the decay, the two broken teeth and cavities I wasn't too surprised. So I told her that I obviously don't have $22,000 to drop on my teeth, and for now I have $3,000. So she said we might be able to get a root canal on one tooth, and a filling. This left me reeling.
We were talking about my third molar on my left bottom side. The worst tooth in my mouth (and surprisingly, the only one causing me pain). But what I gathered from what she said, and what I've looked up online, a filling, well, a lot of filling would be under like, $600. So after my expression she told me that we can extract the third molar, root canal the second molar, and do this cleaning for that bottom section of my mouth for about $150 and later on we can pull up a wisdom tooth to replace the third molar.
She said she'd take $280 off the top leaving me with a payment of $3,060. She told me the pulling would cost $650 (I believe that number includes the bone grafting). So
Minus the tiny tiny cavity on the first molar, lets say $200, then take $650 off....
A root canal is $2,200?!
Off a random dental website "Expect the cost of a root canal treatment to be about $400 to $600 per front tooth and about $500 to $800 for a molar."
See the lady told me that they have specialists at the office. (And its a pretty nice- though highly anti-privacy office.) And that I don't have to pay extra for these specialists. Maybe they jack their prices up to cover the specialists?
Either way, is there anyway I can get my X-rays and pictures and cost sheets from them and take them to a different dentist? Is this price accurate? Or what? I'm so very confused.