Re-root canal on the nhs

welshman83

Hi all,

Been to the dentist today, now I admit my oral hygiene has not been good over the years.
I currently have two root canals and she has suggested that they both require a re-root canal but that this is not available on the NHS.
Is she right, I don’t currently have any pain and I don’t want to have the teeth extracted.
Hope someone can advise

John.

elsien

If you don't trust your dentist to tell you the truth, maybe you should be looking for another one.

brook2jack

Some re root treatments can be easy , but eg if they are on a back tooth , or the root canals are particularly curved or small , they can be very difficult and need a specialist with a microscope and other equipment to treat successfully.

In virtually all the U.K. root treatment specialists are not available on the NHS

In other words if you want to see a root canal specialist it will be private with costs of £400 to £600 per tooth.

However if you are not taking exceptionally good care of your teeth it is difficult to justify spending this money either on the NHS or privately.

The main thing now is to make the changes to your diet and cleaning to stop you needing any more drastic treatment like root fillings.

welshman83

brook2jack wrote: »

Some re root treatments can be easy , but eg if they are on a back tooth , or the root canals are particularly curved or small , they can be very difficult and need a specialist with a microscope and other equipment to treat successfully.

In virtually all the U.K. root treatment specialists are not available on the NHS

In other words if you want to see a root canal specialist it will be private with costs of £400 to £600 per tooth.

However if you are not taking exceptionally good care of your teeth it is difficult to justify spending this money either on the NHS or privately.

The main thing now is to make the changes to your diet and cleaning to stop you needing any more drastic treatment like root fillings.

Thanks.

Yes I have taken steps to change my routine and have altered my diet.
I also now have a 1 year old and need to make sure that I am sett By the right example going forward.
I cannot Change my past but I can my future and that is what I am trying to do.
From reading if Private was the only way then so be it, I was just checking the facts and it seems where rct is concerned that some dentist will take it on and some won’t.

Saffythecat

I am in the middle of re-root treatment on an upper molar which was actually giving me no bother, but it had a missed canal which showed up on an x-ray. I am paying £468 for each stage with a specialist endodontist. He found the missed canal in the first treatment, removed all the old material (which was SO weird, despite being numb I could feel the scraping sensation practically in my eye!) and the next session will finish cleaning out the canals, fill them, and put a filling on it. I then need to have it crowned by my own dentist, which will be NHS (Scotland) and I think is something like £98. So around £1100 in total.