What do you think?
The other day, while eating fried corn, a small piece of my tooth exploded while I was chewing...
I didn't realize that it had broken, I thought some of the corn had simply gotten stuck to it, but immediately afterward I noticed that the tooth had a sharp edge scratching my tongue.
It was 8 pm so I went to the first dental centre that was still open...
The consultation was quick, they cleaned and filed the tooth and put a kind of putty in the cavity that relieved the scratching of my tongue. They then presented me with a quote of almost 900 Euros to perform a root canal, that is, kill the dental nerve, and implant a crown with a false tooth on top, and they told me how lucky I had been to have broken this small piece of tooth while I was chewing fried corn because the tooth had a cavity inside.
I was impressed, 5 minutes and 900 Euros, and the intervention was planned in 4 sessions... OMG!
At that moment, as I didn't have any pain, I decided to leave and not accept the quote... I preferred to think about it and ask for a second opinion.
I came from another dentist, this one was more honest in my opinion. According to him, it doesn't seem advisable to do a root canal and that he would prefer to leave the tooth alive and fill the cavity. In any case, the root canal can always be done if necessary.
I haven't thought about it anymore, I prefer the "conservative" intervention, then we'll see, besides the price is a tenth of the first one's quote...
But I'm impressed by how some treat you only as a business or merchandise when there are more efficient and much cheaper alternatives...
@toofasteddie