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Spin Zone / Re: Keep animals off your table
« on: April 24, 2024, 06:26:33 PM »While we're talking about teeth and dentistry, late last year I went in for my cleaning. They took the traditional bite wing x-rays and then the dentist, new to this practice, came in. She told me I had an infection starting in #2 and needed to go see an Endodontist to get a root canal. I go there, go through all kind of x-rays and the Endodontist comes in to tell me I don't need a root canal, here's a prescription for an antibiotic to stop the infection and your dentist need to pull the tooth. That was what I got for $400+. Says he'll send a report to the dentist office. The tooth has a crown and he says the tooth is split under the crown. I never heard from the dentist, the tooth has never bothered me. I think my cleaning comes up in May. Gonna thank them for costing me $400+.
Maybe she was not only new to the practice, but new to dentistry and didn't have the experience to know it was not fixable.
No, if it was like my dentist and endodontist, the dentist has basic x-rays, the endodontist has some sort of microscopic molecular x-ray that can see cracks that don’t show up on regular x-ray. Sounds like the split showed up on his endo’s fancy schmancy x-rays.
Another possibility, which Rush alluded to, would be that the endodontist has access to a cone beam, which the GP usually does not.