- Feb 22, 2005
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So when I was 10 I had some cavities, and my family dentist drilled n filled em. Apparantly one of them was pretty bad, because it was a big filling, and a few months ago it fell out (I'm 25 now). I moved up to Canada in May, couldn't apply for health care for 90 days, finally applied, it's been another 90 days and the government keeps "losing" my paperwork. I finally got coverage from my wife's medical carrier, and for the past week that tooth has been absolutely killing me. I'm talking an 8-hour Tylenol Ultra would keep the pain gone for 2 hours tops.
So in I go to the dentist today, my first visit to one in a year. She takes one look at the xray and the tooth, and says that my family dentist should've never filled it, that it was so bad that he should've just capped the tooth back then, and because of how he filled it my tooth now had an abscess. She gave me two options:
1) Root canal, fix the abscess, and a crown. $2500 probably.
2) Extract the motha, $150.
Now, considering that my wife's dental allows for up to $1500 per year per person, with only 80% coverage on basic and 50% on crowns, of that $2500 I'd be looking at over a grand easy, probably more. Compare that to the extract, which with 80% would cost me like $30 tops. It was a top far back molar, very back of the mouth, on the side I don't usually chew on (no idea why, I prefer my right side).
I told her to yank it, she agreed that was probably the sanest choice.
What would you have done? Keep in mind that even with a crown, the tooth could still fall apart sometime down the road, making that $2500 totally useless.
So in I go to the dentist today, my first visit to one in a year. She takes one look at the xray and the tooth, and says that my family dentist should've never filled it, that it was so bad that he should've just capped the tooth back then, and because of how he filled it my tooth now had an abscess. She gave me two options:
1) Root canal, fix the abscess, and a crown. $2500 probably.
2) Extract the motha, $150.
Now, considering that my wife's dental allows for up to $1500 per year per person, with only 80% coverage on basic and 50% on crowns, of that $2500 I'd be looking at over a grand easy, probably more. Compare that to the extract, which with 80% would cost me like $30 tops. It was a top far back molar, very back of the mouth, on the side I don't usually chew on (no idea why, I prefer my right side).
I told her to yank it, she agreed that was probably the sanest choice.
What would you have done? Keep in mind that even with a crown, the tooth could still fall apart sometime down the road, making that $2500 totally useless.
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