$2878.00 for root canal and crown to save lower back molar
$375 to have it yanked
I could fly to Thailand - get this done - stay at a hotel for a week drinking Mai Tai's on a beach - fly back for same price
tooth broke so I can't wait otherwise I would get a new passport
Yes but I would need a passport to fly in and I let my old one expire. It would take a few months to get a new one. I could get a one day pass and drive in thru texas or california which has its issues also. I'm thinking I will just have to put it on a credit card and deal with that. I need that molar to chew food so I really don't want to have it removed.
Damn, I was hoping for an easy solution that you hadn't considered yet.
That sucks bro. That estimate makes me wish death to America slightly more than I already do.
Virtually the opposite happened to me - during a bit of a depression (ADHD fucking up my first uni attempt), moved from the UK to stay in my mom's basement in Canada for a year, then had to get the same procedure as you.
...the dentists were sooooooo nice as they asked for all my savings. I'd been quite proud of actually working a job (Starbucks, and hell, I was a coffee-like-product assembling machine - not that that's good, yadda yadda) and earning a pittance.
Ah well, nowadays I'm back in the UK, and public dentistry has pretty much collapsed anyway.
I mean, if you were a savvy participant in the free market economy, you wouldn't have gone to live there. Teeth are luxury bones. You can still contribute to
The Line Going Upa healthy working class economy after all your luxury bones fall out.Vote Liberal! This absolutely didn't happen while we were in power! If you don't,
Canadian Donald TrumpPierre Pollywhofuckincares will have absolute power! He'll do a 0.1% bigger climate change by burning your teeth for a turbine!¹ We're approaching the most important election of our lives!¹ (This will also happen anyways, but won't it feel bad if you didn't VOTE?????
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Yet I can get a serious of 3 shots of a vaccine that costs $500 each and medical insurance pays 100%.
Why thr fuck dential isn't covered is beyond me.$2800 is cheap for an outpatient surgey for medical insurance point of view. Saddling an individual with thar costs and pain all at once is crazy - and the so called insurance doesn't even cover any of that for you, its so fucked up.
Was quoted over $3000.
Absolutely getting my dental work done overseas. The dentist I saw was a fratbro douchebag.
If you want the root canal and can wait until the start of next month, Delta Dental's "clear" plan sets fixed prices for these, and a year of the plan plus the treatment is still less than that. (You might also be able to cancel out after a month, idk).
I don't know if that's the best plan for that maneuver, it's just what I used in a similar situation.
Had to have 7 teeth removed about a month ago. Insurance didn't cover any of it for some reason. It was labelled as "non-essential" even though my wisdom teeth were destroying my other teeth, causing one to break off, and an impacted tooth causing an abscess that I've had for years that was causing a spike in my white blood cell count.
Cost $2000. I had to empty my savings to pay for it. They're still sending me some bill too that they say I owe, even though they told me that $2k covered everything.
It will go into the bin like all the other medical collections I have, probably totaling up to over $10k at this point
Sorry for you. Fucking hate dental bills. Literally had one put me in the hole for some four years.
Literally had to go through the same process starting at the end of October, except it was a top-left molar with a quarter of it missing, coupled with dozens of critical migraine attacks (some which literally caused me to collapse) and an otherwise fatal infection at the nerve, just as a little treat on the side. It cost me €900.
At least Estonia is cheap and this amount was less than 3 months of savings.
Death to AmeriKKKa
for this year.
