What is the average cost to have a tooth pulled at the dentist

What is the average cost to have a tooth pulled at the dentist?

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A simple extraction of a tooth can run between $95.00 and $132.00 per tooth. Price can be much higher if extra surgery is needed.

Related Questions Answered on Y!Answers

why is seeing a dentist so expensive?

Q: Am I the only one that thinks the price on dental surgery or even seeing a dentist for a regular check up, is ridiculously over priced?Seriously… to get a dentist to look at my teeth using a tiny mirror, clean my teeth with a pick, or tiny drill, and tell me weather I have a cavity in any of my teeth, it costs me at least $50 to $100…I could do these things myself if i had an office with the right tools….Once the dentist rips you with the first $80(average) checkup, and tells you that you have a small number of problems to fix but its not serious yet, you think phew its not that bad…then he pulls out a quote saying its gonna cost me something like $1000 to get it fixed.This is a small problem??? I’d hate to see how much a big problem costs!My health care wouldn’t even cover enough on this to make it affordable for me to pull off…If our government provides health care for unemployed people to attend a local GP for whatever reason, for free, then why cant they at least provide some cover on dental health?You can get bulk billed at a dental clinic in a hospital you say? yeah sure… after going on a waiting list for half a year or so… And by then, my teeth would be decayed beyond repair, making me a toothless freak who would scare away any employee I went to interview with making it even harder for me to join the work force…half a year ago, I had a tooth infection that I saw the doctor about.He said if i didn’t get dental surgery on it immediately, I would loose the tooth, and it could become life threatening, so he gave me a referral to the emergency dental clinic in the hospital.So I ring the clinic, and they tell me that I have to go on a waiting list, and that they wont do anything for it earlier unless it is life threatening!Which is exactly what ended up happening… I couldn’t afford the dental surgery from a regular dentist, so I had to wait until the infection spread to my lower jaw, and started to restrict my breathing.Is this really fair?Why the hell doesn’t someone do something about this?A doctor has to go through just as much or more schooling and education as a dentist does, and the costs of “sending the stuff off to the labs” is usually free, because the government pays for it.I am saying that the government should be able to at least, have some kind of cover in place, for dental work as well when people like me, cant afford it.So what if it meant people might pay an extra cent or 2 on their groceries, its better than paying those ridiculous prices.And for all you dentists trying to tell me “what about the costs of salaries and equipment… It would cost a whole lot less than a local doctor GP would to run as far as equipment and employment goes, yet I can go to a GP for free no matter what the reason is…

A: So what’s your answer Tom? You want free dental care? I have news for you. Nothing is free. Someone is giving away the service for nothing, or others (the taxpayers), are paying for it. What about the decade of learning that was spent in college and the loans of an average of $250,000 that need to be paid back? What about the average of $500,000 to set up and equip an average dental office? What about the 75% overhead costs to run a dental office including paying salaries and insurances to other staff workers. Is the dentist supposed to be paid minimum wages? Maybe they all should have become “talented” rock stars, actors, or athletes, and make millions a year and provide a great service for mankind. I don’t know what kind of system you are in to be sent to hospitals and be put on a waiting list to have your health care rationed, but it sounds like your government needs to fine tune their management system.

Denplan Care policy. Is it worth it?

Q: I was registered with a NHS dentist and now im forced to change cause I was not happy with the work. So now the work that has been done has left me sore and uncomfortable. And don’t want to go back as the dentist is saying I need a tooth pulled out. But I have made a appointment for a private dentist as desperation. As no one else will see me. It costs £50 for a check up. But they also offer Denplan. I’m only 23 yrs old and not really wanting to go private to pay all that money on treatment. But if I take out a Denplan policy I may not ever use it apart from going to check ups and visiting the hygeniest. So I am not sure if its a waste of money. As you could be paying £160 a year and only go for check ups. The Denplan website does not tell you prices. And I was looking at the policy that covers you for mostly everything. But does it cover extractions? And what is the average cost people are paying for that policy and is it worth it? Or should I try and find an NHS practice but that could take years.

A: If you want to join a Denplan policy, you will need to have an examination by the relevant dentist before you are accepted onto the policy, and you usually have to pay for the examination. You will be required to be dentally fit before you are taken onto the policy, if you need any work done eg the extraction, you will have to get it done, and pay for it before you are taken on to the policy. It is a maintenance policy, and covers most things once you are covered, but you can’t get covered if you need work doing. (thats like insuring your car, after you’ve crashed it!)Ultimately, its down to the dentist who you see. Denplan is only an administration service, and your actual policy will be taken out between you and the dentist. The dentist will set the prices for the policy, not Denplan (that’s why they’re not given on the Denplan site).Hope I haven’t made this sound too confusingYour Local Health Authority will have a list of NHS practices in you area

Would you read what JOHN STOSSEL from ABC found out in Canada and England and then ask yourself this?

Q: Why doesn’t President Obama REFORM health care which means NO Government Option BUT will lower costs, stop waste-full doctor law suits which drives up costs, make health insurance available so anyone can buy it anywhere?___________________________________________________Here is what HE found: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7968656&page=1President Obama says government will make health care cheaper and better. But there’s no free lunch. In England, health care is “free” — as long as you don’t mind waiting. People wait so long for dentist appointments that some pull their own teeth. At any one time, half a million people are waiting to get into a British hospital. A British paper reports that one hospital tried to save money by not changing bedsheets. Instead of washing sheets, the staff was encouraged to just turn them over. Obama insists he is not “trying to bring about government-run healthcare”. “But government management does the same thing,” says Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute. “To reduce costs they’ll have to ration — deny — care.” “People line up for care, some of them die. That’s what happens,” says Canadian doctor David Gratzer, author of “The Cure”. He liked Canada’s government health care until he started treating patients. “The more time I spent in the Canadian system, the more I came across people waiting for radiation therapy, waiting for the knee replacement so they could finally walk up to the second floor of their house.” “You want to see your neurologist because of your stress headache? No problem! Just wait six months. You want an MRI? No problem! Free as the air! Just wait six months.” Polls show most Canadians like their free health care, but most people aren’t sick when the poll-taker calls. Canadian doctors told us the system is cracking. One complained that he can’t get heart-attack victims into the ICU. In America, people wait in emergency rooms, too, but it’s much worse in Canada. If you’re sick enough to be admitted, the average wait is 23 hours.”We can’t send these patients to other hospitals. Dr. Eric Letovsky told us. “Every other emergency department in the country is just as packed as we are.” More than a million and a half Canadians say they can’t find a family doctor. Some towns hold lotteries to determine who gets a doctor. In Norwood, Ontario, “20/20” videotaped a town clerk pulling the names of the lucky winners out of a lottery box. The losers must wait to see a doctor. Shirley Healy, like many sick Canadians, came to America for surgery. Her doctor in British Columbia told her she had only a few weeks to live because a blocked artery kept her from digesting food. Yet Canadian officials called her surgery “elective.” “The only thing elective about this surgery was I elected to live,” she said. It’s true that America’s partly profit-driven, partly bureaucratic system is expensive, and sometimes wasteful, but the pursuit of profit reduces waste and costs and gives the world the improvements in medicine that ease pain and save lives. “[America] is the country of medical innovation. This is where people come when they need treatment,” Dr. Gratzer says. “Literally we’re surrounded by medical miracles. Death by cardiovascular disease has dropped by two-thirds in the last 50 years. You’ve got to pay a price for that type of advancement.” Canada and England don’t pay the price because they freeload off American innovation. If America adopted their systems, we could worry less about paying for health care, but we’d get 2009-level care — forever. Government monopolies don’t innovate. Profit seekers do. We saw this in Canada, where we did find one area of medicine that offers easy access to cutting-edge technology — CT scan, endoscopy, thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, etc. It was open 24/7. Patients didn’t have to wait. But you have to bark or meow to get that kind of treatment. Animal care is the one area of medicine that hasn’t been taken over by the government. Dogs can get a CT scan in one day. For people, the waiting list is a month.

A: “To reduce costs they’ll have to ration — deny — care.” The sicker you are the elderly,the poor and homeless would need health care the most but would be the least likely to receive it.The government would in effect have the power to say who lives and who dies.