Posted: 5/18/2010 1:07:52 PM EDT
| I need to have a root canal. Should I have me dentist do it or have a endodontist do it? Its on my #9 is the front left upper tooth. |
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I did this a couple of months ago and I had great results using a dedicated endodontist. There are a lot of things that can go wrong, like missing a tiny bit of the pulp. I'd rather work with someone who has done that kind of work all day for years and has seen everything. |
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My dentist wouldn't do it and he's really, really good. He referred me to a dental surgeon for my one and only root canal for a deferred dental problem.
That was the first and last time I ever deferred a dental issue. $1000 crown? I pay cash to take care of it on the spot. It would take a $10,000 bill to make me sit through another root canal. |
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Endodontist FTW!! +1 Didn't even need pain pills afterwards. And this was on a bottom back molar. I never needed any pain pills either. Remember you gotta have that tooth crowned afterwards. The crown lasted about 10 years and broke. NOt bad I guess. It was a 900 dollar root canal 10 years ago in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla. Best dentist I ever been to. |
| As a general I do 90% of my own endo I have done hundreds of root canals in my 10 year career, some have gone bad but a majority 95% are fine to this day. A lot of GD don't do endo because they do not get a lot of education on them in school. The trick is to take some classes after and get good at them. Trust me I have seen some shit from endodontist in my career just because they are endo does not gurantee they are better. |
| I will never have another. Have had several. Its only a matter of time before they become brittle and break. Might as well put your money into a bridge or implant right from the get go and save a grand. Nothing more frustrating than spending more than a $1000 for a root canal and a crown only to have it fall apart 3-4 years latter. |
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The cost wasn’t bad $700 the thing that sold it for me was the ice test. He had a stick of ice and places it on each one of my teeth around the one that got worked on. I could feel it on every one of my teeth except for the one that was dead. I have an existing crown in place on that tooth for grinding issues. It helps if you don’t grind through your teeth. I can’t use night guards I break them or make the problem worse. I shatter hard guards usually on the first or second night. <o:p></o:p> |