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What is "Closed Curttage Periodontal / quadrant "

  • 20-11-2009 12:07PM
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭


    I was quoted quite a lot of money for this opperation, ie €400 + €400 upper and lower. What dose it exactly mean and involve? I was also quoted 2 quantities for upper and 2 quantities for lower? The job I am in for is two three root canal molars but thought the charge for the above was excessive.

    Cheers.


Comments

  • #2
    qwerty21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭qwerty21


    its basically a deep cleaning, often carried out by a periodontist. can also be called root planing, its where plaque and calculus above and below the gum line needs to be removed by scaling. Price sounds about average to me!


  • #3
    res ipsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 692 ✭✭✭res ipsa


    Gingival Curettage is an outmoded treatment.
    http://www.perio.org/resources-products/pdf/38-curettage.pdf

    Root Surface Instrumentation (non-surgical and surgical) are recognised and necessarytreatments for periodontitis (Gum Disease).


  • #4
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    qwerty21 wrote: »
    its basically a deep cleaning, often carried out by a periodontist. can also be called root planing, its where plaque and calculus above and below the gum line needs to be removed by scaling. Price sounds about average to me!
    I don' know how the job is quantified but it took less than an hour with ultrasonics and scraping. Thats €800 to clean my teeth. :eek:

    I got the job completed in one visit as opposed to the suggested two visits. When one compares this job to other time consuming dental treatments such as surgical extraction and root canal it seems very expensive. It has thought me a lesson to look after my teeth in future. :p


  • #5
    qwerty21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭qwerty21


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    I don' know how the job is quantified but it took less than an hour with ultrasonics and scraping. Thats €800 to clean my teeth. :eek:

    I got the job completed in one visit as opposed to the suggested two visits. When one compares this job to other time consuming dental treatments such as surgical extraction and root canal it seems very expensive. It has thought me a lesson to look after my teeth in future. :p

    I know it is crazy expensive, I assume it was a general dentist that carried out the treatment. It might help you to fell a little better knowing to see a specialist you would have paid in the region of 200 euro for a consultation and approx 300-400 per quadrant of the mouth!! Hopefully its an expensive lesson and you wont have to fork out for dentures in years to come, or implants as a result!


  • #6
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    res ipsa wrote: »
    Gingival Curettage is an outmoded treatment.
    http://www.perio.org/resources-products/pdf/38-curettage.pdf

    Root Surface Instrumentation (non-surgical and surgical) are recognised and necessarytreatments for periodontitis (Gum Disease).

    Nice referance there res, i never bough into it I have to say although my root debridement has a element of it but purely unintentional.;)


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