Root canal treatment cost

brook2jack

Most dental hospitals won't do repeated or complex root treatment either e.g. https://www.liv.ac.uk/dentistry/freedentaltreatment/

Owain_Moneysaver

Toothsmith wrote: »

If you needed a heart bypass and the NHS didn't commission specialist cardiac surgeons - you wouldn't be demanding that your GP did it would you?

Well, if the alternative was dying I might give it a go.

Not the former GP who couldn't even pull out a toenail properly though. :mad:

Anyway, when I need my molar root canalled my NHS dentist has said it will be £100 on NHS - he's got a special machine for root canals he enjoys using - or would cost £500 privately (if he didn't have the special machine).

dlp6666

StartAfresh wrote: »

Unfortunately with root canal work the tooth is normally more fragile so I expect I will have to pay another load of money, to NHS this time, to fit a crown in a few months time.

Loads of money for one tooth though, but worth it for me.

Pleased this worked out well for you.

Had you thought about extracting the tooth instead, though (obviously much cheaper)?

I'm currently in a quandary about doing what you've (successfully) done, or avoiding the whole risk [and cost!] and just having the tooth out (which has already degraded quite a bit but seems savable).

Thanks

StartAfresh

dlp6666 wrote: »

Pleased this worked out well for you.

Had you thought about extracting the tooth instead, though (obviously much cheaper)?

I'm currently in a quandary about doing what you've (successfully) done, or avoiding the whole risk [and cost!] and just having the tooth out (which has already degraded quite a bit but seems savable).

Thanks

It is always an option. But it was one of the main molars, used for grinding food etc, so I didn't want to lose it.
However even if it wasn't one of the main ones I would do my best to keep them all anyway (apart from wisdom teeth)

So I didn't really give extraction and leaving a gap much thought. Actually the only other option I thought about was having it extracted and then a tooth implant. That would have been more expensive but I thought it would be better in the long term. Dentist dissuaded me from that though, and probably a last resort.

Mind you I, and the wife, have a lot of disposable income (even though I personally have debts) so it wasn't too difficult a decision. If money was tighter then I would have probably asked my NHS dentist to see if they could save it and if they couldn't maybe an extraction would have been on the cards.
I appreciate not everyone can afford the money I spent.

It all depends on the chances your dentist puts on being able to save the tooth as well. Mine said I had an 80% chance. If he said something like 20% I don't think I would have spent the money.

ShaunParker

I just had my upper right molar done, it cost me £800 so far, I had one extra root apparently and the tooth also needs to be capped so the end cost with be £1000+ I would tear the arm off a dentist who was only going to charge £400 for sure.