Since when have general dentistry practitioners farmed out tooth extraction and root canals to specialists like oral surgeons and endodontists? And why?
Posted by Linkmeister at October 17, 2008 07:39 PM | TrackBackI don't know the answer to your question but I've noticed that too...and it costs lots more.
Posted by: Karan at October 19, 2008 08:28 AMcause then you get one(??) for the price of two....you now pay double for what used to be half. I go to my dentist who does what he does (and very well, I might add), he then sends me to an endodontist who does the extraction and then I go back to my dentist who does the crown-- (with all the crowns I have, I should really be running some third world country), and my bill is close to $4,000.
Posted by: cyn at October 19, 2008 08:36 AMAll of my root canals have been done by endodontists, back as far as the late 1970s. I didn't know that general dentists would do them.
Extractions are something different. I thought such brute-force procedures were right up the alley of general dentists. Though I must note that my only extraction since the wisdom-teeth days was done by a prosthodontist, removing a tooth so that an implant could go in in its place.
Posted by: N in Seattle at October 19, 2008 11:26 AMactually I guess I said it wrong, cause for crowns, I think they just take out the root, leave the tooth so a crown can go on it. You would think I would know since I have at least 4 of them. Ahhh well....
Only extractions I ever had were wisdom teeth or some of them about 40 years ago.........and that was my dentist.
Posted by: cyn at October 19, 2008 04:00 PMMy dentist has done the two crowns I have, but he sent us off to an oral surgeon for a tooth extraction. It took 40 minutes to get to his office downtown, 15 minutes to have the tooth taken out, and 30 minutes to get home.
Posted by: Linkmeister at October 20, 2008 11:38 AM