General pricing info for dental surgery.

dashboard_hula

Hello,

I am looking for some general information regarding pricing of dental treatment. I have read the charter and am aware that I can't ask for this information for dental treatment abroad, but if there's other rules I'm breaking please feel free to remove

On a recent dental check/cleaning, a friend of mine discovered that there was a small cyst on the bone beneath a tooth that had been damaged during sports while he was a teenager. This person has been attending dentists twice yearly for the past 20 years and the issue has only come to light at the last visit. He has been advised that surgery will be required to remove the cyst/repair the damage (hazy on the details) and the tooth may possibly need extracting.

This person does not have a medical card, as was made redundant very recently, nor has he health cover. He wishes to pay for treatment himself in order to avoid long waiting lists on the medical card, and is looking to get some general prices in order to budget and/or discuss financing options with the private dental surgeon he's been referred to.

If anyone on this forum can give a general guide price (I'm imagining up to 3000 for consultation, anasthestic, overnight hospital stay, surgery, post-op meds etc but I could be wildly off the mark) I'd really appreciate it. If this isn't the appropriate forum again, please let me know and I'll remove.

Thanks

helimachoptor

Op i honestly have no idea but it will be expensive!

I'm happy to leave this open until you get the information you need as it's a pretty non standard request (unless one of the other mods want to close it), but if it starts developeing into a go to eastern Europe etc then i'll lock it.

OS I would hazard a guess you'd be best placed to answer this??

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Dental cysts do no require going into hospital. Costs will be less than a thousand sometimes far less. A simple dental cyst can be removed by a root canal specialist, prices will vary but mostly less than 1k euro.

Oral Surgeon

Pricing really depends on what your friend needs;

I'm guessing that this is a front tooth if it was involved in a trauma, so...

If savable;
the tooth needs a root canal, sometimes this may cause the cystic area to resolve (a few hundred euro)
it may require a surgical removal of the cystic area (a few hundred euro)
This may sort you out...

If the tooth is not savable or the cystic area is too big...
You may need removal of the tooth and cyst (a few hundred euro)
Then you are into replacing the tooth;
denture (hundreds)
Bonded bridge (about a grand)
Implant with bone graft (about 2 & and half grand)

A hospital stay is not necessary for this stuff and just wastes money that you could be spending on the actual treatment itself....

If savable, an endodontist (root canal specialist) is your man
If the tooth is for the bin, then a oral surgery & restorative approach is needed.

Good luck,
OS

dashboard_hula

I appreciate your responses, it's given me a good bit to work on, along with a couple of PM's I got with further info. I might pop back into this thread once I've gotten the exact terms, but the timing of the whole thing was incredibly awkward as he was caught without work-provided health cover and no state cover. He really looks after his teeth as well, so it's just unfortunate.
It's a back bottom tooth btw, that got a belt of a baseball bat about 15 years ago. The dentist referring on to the dental surgeon (I think that was the term) is trusted, and the referral is to a man in a private hospital which is why I got confused about general anaesthetic.
Thanks again, you couldn't go past boards sometimes for straight answers

Oral Surgeon

Mmmm, a lower back tooth is generally not involved in trauma such as this, usually you get a broken jaw or a cracked cusp but usually not a luxated/moved tooth.... Your friend could have broken enough off the tooth to expose the pulp which then died and caused a cyst etc....

As this is a back tooth, I'd be steering down the extraction and cyst removal road.... Don't waste your money on a hospital stay and GA, this can be done under IV sedation in a clinic for a fraction of the cost...

Good luck,
OS