Hi - Just thought I'd share my experience.
I look after my teeth. I go to the dentist regularly. I always had one tooth (num 6) that was very heavily filled. Last June during a normal trip to the dentist he noticed that num 7 (same side) needed a filling replaced. He proceeded with this, but shortly afterwards I had pain. He thought that num 6 may have been the source of the pain (being so heavily filled) and so he referred me to the root canal specialist. He focused his attention on num 6 and after 5 months waiting, (putting up with intermittent pain for the sake of keeping the tooth) I got called to have this done - in fairness he was very professional and it was completed it one session, costing €675, plus the first consultation fee of €90. I was delighted when it was all over thinking this is the end of the pain I put up with etc. I knew it needed to be crowned afterwards. Didn't care too much about the money as I was glad it was over. However a few days after RC treatment, I had the pain back as bad as ever! the RC specialist told me to take pain killers for two days as this can sometimes happen post treatment, and contact him in a couple of days. The pain didn’t go away and I went back to his surgery. He blew air into num 7 and I hopped off the chair!!! yes it was num 7 that was the source of my pain not num 6 as had been treated. I was very disappointed but didn’t get too alarmed yet - I called my dentist and explained the situation. I went to see him and he replaced num 7 filling again with a sedative dressing in the hope that the nerve would calm down. It could be just filled again normally in 6 wks after the dressing takes effect (if sucessful). I had a bad feeling. I still had pain although I wasn’t waking up with it. I went about going to the crown specialist (today) to arrange crowning num 6 - I told him about the sedative dressing in num 7 and the story as above. He was able to use a microscope to examine the tooth. It turns out that num 7 tooth is fractured probably into the root, causing the pain. The only way again to keep it is another RC and Crown. I couldn’t hold back the tears!! (Big baby I know!) I am so disappointed. I couldn’t stop thinking about this all day !!! I'm not one to flare up and point fingers but I truly believe the dentist weakened the tooth (probably causing the fracture to begin with) by replacing the filling in June. I didn’t have pain up to that day.
I asked about the costs -
Another RC & consolation 90 + 675
Two crowns 950 x 2 = 1900
Two pins? 150 x 2 = 300
Consolation for the Crowns €100 (I already paid 100 to see him today!)
Apparently the crown price is good value has its his first year in business in this city.
I hope there is something you can take from the above and if there is anyone that you like to share an opinion pls do. I don’t think I have any option but to go ahead with this treatment. The dentist I'm sure isnt going to concur with what I've said, I haven’t got a leg to stand on, as really there is no way of proving otherwise. It’s very disappointing.