Dental help!!! Can anyone please recommend a dentist or oral surgeon for a tooth extract?
It's the upper back right tooth. It's a failed root canal. The pain started Christmas day (like being stabbed with an ice pick). Day after Christmas went to an emergency place that did X-ray's and gave me antibiotics for a large access. Scarred of dentists. Found dentistry4life on 16th and walnut very friendly. Sent me to Tec endodontics for a redo of the root canal (paid for 3 different types of xrays). The dentist told me I had significant bone loss and recommended against redoing the root canal because there was a 50/50 success rate a year from now. I can't thank her enough for her bedside manner, patience, answering all my questions, and how thorough she was. Most of all her honest professional opinion. Instead of just taking my money and doing the work I felt like she really cared about my health. So I go back to dentistry4life, very polite, and they say I need:
Extraction, sinus lift, bone graft, post, abutment, and crown.
This is to remove the failed root canal tooth and dental implant.
I was quoted close to $7,000 ? Is this normally how much it cost for good work?
I know it's a lot of work, and they have good reviews, it's also something I need to last a lifetime (29). However I have united healthcare community plan (medicaid) and they don't except it and that's more money than I have.
Sorry this was long. I need to see someone soon cause I started having slight fever on and off with throwing up. Any recommendations are greatly appreciated!