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Going Abroad For Root Canals? Broke student solution

  • 22-11-2015 9:03pm
    #1
    Kelix
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 113 ✭✭


    I'm a student, I haven't got a lot of money and I need a root canal. I'm in a lot of pain from a recent filling that was too close to the nerve. I can't afford a root canal in this country but I can't keep taking pain killers everyday. Has anyone gone abroad to Belgium for example to get a root canal? I need a cheap alternative but I can't get the tooth pulled as it's my main molar and I don't want a gap there for the rest of my life in the middle of my mouth just because it happened while I was a student. Any solutions/ideas would be hugely appreciated


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    A molar root canal will cost 500 - 800 depending on the dentist and their training. A painful tooth may take 2 or more visits about 1 - 4 weeks apart. I don't think the economics work. Also Belgium it not a place you want to be going at the moment.


  • #3
    Hillmanhunter1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Hillmanhunter1


    Sylvie Long Engineer wrote: »
    A molar root canal will cost 500 - 800 depending on the dentist and their training. A painful death be will take 2 or more visits about 1 - 4 weeks apart. I don't think the economics work. Also Belgium it not a place you want to be going at the moment.

    ISIS comes to the defense of the Irish dentistry industry!


  • #4
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    Hillmanhunter1 wrote: »
    ISIS comes to the defense of the Irish dentistry industry!

    Ah Hillman me auld flower, how are you doing these days??


  • #5
    davo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,926 ✭✭✭davo10


    Doesn't Belgium have an insurance led dental service? In other words, you pay health insurance out of your wage and this entitles you to subsidised dental and medical treatment (like NHS in UK) I'm not sure that non residents are entitled to these subsidised prices do OP make sure you email a Clinic there first and be sure to tell them you do not have a Belgian social insurance number.


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