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i make an appointment in october for a root canal. $200, 3 tubes of lidocaine, and FIVE FUCKING HOURS later i have two cavities filled AND NO ROOT CANAL. i have to wait another 6 weeks for that, despite it being the fucking point of my visit.
FUCK DENTISTS IN THE ASS. they're worse than car mechanics,
- wait...a root canal @ $200?! Are you getting that done in Tijuana? haha... that price is insanely low (a single filling probably costs that) ??PonyBoy
- reread that ponyimbecile
- something something US healthcarescarabin
- yeah... it reads like you spent 200 and obviously didn't get what you went for... but also reads like you were expecting to pay 200 for a root canalPonyBoy
- nah, i was just expecting to get one in general. was also expecting simple cavities to be covered by insurancescarabin
- ah... gotcha... which tooth needs the root canal? a visible one or a tucked-back molar? i needed a root canal but was told i had to have my cavities handled...PonyBoy
- ... first. So I had them completed but by the time that was done I was out of money so I just had them remove the tooth as it was a back molar that's unseenPonyBoy
- I had the skin / tissue built-up though so the dentist can install a fake tooth down the road (that will never be seen but will make chewing normalized)PonyBoy
- it'll cost about a 1/3 of a root canal on a tooth would probably be pulled 10 years later anywayPonyBoy
- it was a molar... what got me is they suggested it in the first place, i called back to make the appt, then when i showed up they told me they dont even do themscarabin
- that i'd have to wait another 6 weeks for their guy. so they sold me on unrelated cavity shitscarabin
- when my friend got two root canals they were $700 each WITH dental insurance.sarahfailin
- that's nuts. i hate insurancescarabin
- fuck... that cost IS nuts w/insurance
insurance is a scam... *sigh... until you need it (I'm curious what your friend would've paid w/out being insured?)PonyBoy - I think root canals might be bad http://articles.merc…pinkfloyd
- the whole situation is fucked up. i had a small chip once i had repaired because i didn't want it to get worse. they ended up destroying half the tooth in orderscarabin
- to "repair" it and did such a shit job it broke a month later and they destroyed another huge part of it to repair that. despite 2-3 flossings a day it gotscarabin
- shitty inside because they didn't seal it up properly, necessitating the root canalscarabin
- now i'm dealing with the creepy shit pinkfloyd just posted. absolute utter bollocksscarabin
- dude... EXACT same reason I lost my tooth in the end. :( My tooth chipped... had it 'fixed' but destroyed in the process... 10 years later I find it's dead...PonyBoy
- ... and literally hollowing-out. One year later while eating my molar disintegrates in my mouth as it rotted away due to a shitty repair job years before.PonyBoy
- Just read that article from pinkfloyd... kinda feel lucky now that I opted to just have the dead tooth guttedPonyBoy
- all it would have taken is one competent dentist to tell me "nah it's cool, no need to fix that chip" instead of just trying to take my moneyscarabin
- but why do that when you can score 2-3 procedures and over a thousand dollars off some dude's worryscarabin
- thank Obama. :)bklyndroobeki
- A lot of f'ed up things in the u.spinkfloyd
- $900 for a root canal here in canuckakstanGnash
- god damn. i haven't been to the dentist in 8 years, how the the hell are you guys having these problems?garbage
- it's things like this that prove money is the root of all evil. When healthcare is a business, you know your world is fucked.********
- the root canal of all evil********
- Root canal, got my first one 3 or 4 months ago. Went well. Removing the nerves hurt like hell for like 0,5 secBen99
- @garbage, get your fucken teeth cleanedpinkfloyd
- @pinkfloyd my teeth are spotless. i don't drink soda or eat sweets, i brush after every meal and floss on the reg. #pearlywhitesgarbage