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I’ve found that if you tell them explicitly that you want the tooth saved...they will.

They may want to pull it because they don’t have the expertise.

it just will cost you of course...

If it’s severely eroded a good specialist may be able to save it.

i had a prosto-dontist 1/ remove most of the old tooth.... 2/ do a root canal....3/ insert a titanium post (not an implant)  and the 4/ put a crown on top of the post.

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A root canal and crown is I guess the typical method of saving a tooth at a cost of lets say 25k (that i was daft enough to pay at Empress)

 

Removal cant be more than 2k surely?

 

But its not the dentists job to decide, he should only be advising on options for you to decide.

 

If he/she is incapable of inpartial advice then agree you must move on.

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Unfortunately there are some dentists who see any existing teeth as just being in the way of doing some highly profitable implants. As other have said its about communicating what you want, also avoid the clinics that specialise in implants and cosmetic etc

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On 11/24/2018 at 1:23 PM, bkk6060 said:

By the responses none of you are Dentists.

Making your own diagnosis and telling them what you want seems really stupid....

Telling them what you want is pretty important in my experience.

Then.. of course.. they will tell you what they recommend and what they can do and can’t do etc etc..

 

For example, one dentist recently had me booked into doing a crown on a tooth that was giving me some pain. That was his recommendation. But when I quizzed  him further he agreed there was actually nothing wrong with the tooth and that the crown was not essential.

 

Another time one dentist said ‘that tooth’s not worth saving it’s too far gone’

i went to a specialist and said I wanted it saved if she could.....and she did. In that case the original dentist was just a dentist...and he couldn’t actually do the specialist work.

So I said what I wanted ...and got it.

 

Another time I said I wanted to save a tooth and every dentist agreed it was impossible because of the extent of the infection in the gum ....in that case I lost that tooth.

So..

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On 11/24/2018 at 10:08 AM, eyecatcher said:

A root canal and crown is I guess the typical method of saving a tooth at a cost of lets say 25k (that i was daft enough to pay at Empress)

 

Removal cant be more than 2k surely?

 

But its not the dentists job to decide, he should only be advising on options for you to decide.

 

If he/she is incapable of inpartial advice then agree you must move on.

Yes that is the typical method. But as the Endodontist whom my dentist referred me to, told me, she didn't think the tooth would last more than 2 years and therefore she said the 20K THB expense of root canal/crown would not be worth it.  At some point in the next few weeks I will have the tooth extracted (about 2K THB). It's the back molar so it's not like anyone will see it.

 

Look for an honest dentist.

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Thaiphuket  What did you do about your tooth and if you had it fixed where did you go?
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