Root canal on tooth

djpailo

Old_Grey_Mare wrote: »

I saw an endodontist and has x-rays and a scan. The treatment took an hour and a half and cost £800.

Thanks. Do you know what tooth it was?


One thing I'm grateful about doing it privately is that the waiting time should be shorter! My local NHS dentist said the other NHS surgery which had a specialist did not get back to them and they also have long waiting times. She will now try and locate a private specialist, let me know by next week friday, and I'll go from there. I'll update when I know more. Hopefully by going private, the consultation and treatment will be completed before the end of the month/ first week of April. I've also checked the GDC list so I have a rough idea of who she might recommend.

Toothsmith wrote: »

Canine teeth are naturally darker than the incisors. They are thicker and have more dentine, so are less translucent, which makes them look darker.

I'm sure the dentist won't have gone into the wrong tooth. X-Rays taken beforehand would have shown where the problem was far more accurately than your 'feeling' - plus, if it was a perfectly healthy tooth she'd gone into, root filling it would have been dead easy! The complications she was describing could only happen in a poorly tooth!

Thanks for taking the time to respond, I really appreciate it. I understand what you are saying. I was just so sure it was the canine because that is the tooth that hurts the most. The incisor has never hurt. But either way, by going private, I will almost certainly get another x-ray and that will show definitively (although I have much less worry now after what you said). Is it possible what she was describing was because of a curvature in the tooth?

Toothsmith

Yes. Curved teeth are harder to treat

Old_Grey_Mare

djpailo wrote: »

Thanks. Do you know what tooth it was?


One thing I'm grateful about doing it privately is that the waiting time should be shorter! My local NHS dentist said the other NHS surgery which had a specialist did not get back to them and they also have long waiting times. She will now try and locate a private specialist, let me know by next week friday, and I'll go from there. I'll update when I know more. Hopefully by going private, the consultation and treatment will be completed before the end of the month/ first week of April. I've also checked the GDC list so I have a rough idea of who she might recommend?

It was a molar tooth. I had a root canal filling on the same tooth some years previously on the NHS and then a crown. It grumbled on and off over the years. A new dentist and x-rays showed some shadowing which indicated a low level infection and I was referred to the endodontist in Sheffield. A week later it was done. The x-rays showed one of the canals had been filled but the other one had only been half done.