Friday, March 4, 2011

dental xray on just one tooth? cost?

can i just get an xray on one of my tooth ? I dont have dental insurance so i dont wanna pay for a full mouth xray...if i could do that, how much would it cost?
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In my office for a new patient it would cost $125.00. I know you say you can't afford the whole set, but just take note to remember this, without seeing what the condition of all your teeth are, the dentist may not be able to give you the best treatment options. If you intend to just tell him to pull it, then it is fine, but if you want it fixed, you might think about getting the full set. The reason being, your teeth are part of a set, and you need to make sure the set is good before you start fixing them one by one. For example: What if you have 10 other teeth in your mouth, that would require so much work done on them, that the price to fix your teeth would be enormous, or fixing them would just be a waste of time and money, because they were all in such bad shape. You wouldn't want him to do an extensive amount of work on that one tooth, only to discover later that alot of your teeth were in really bad shape, and you could have saved the money on that one, by knowing what was wrong with the others. That way you could have elected to put that money towards other teeth that might have been in better condition and cheaper to fix, instead of sinking all of it into just one tooth.
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