Son has cavity but no dental insurance...?
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check around your area and see if there is a dental college nearby. they can do the same work at a fraction of the cost
why dont you call a dentist and ask them.
I'm sure you can find a dentist who will accept a payment plan. You certainly don't want to let it go for too long. Will go from a relatively simple filling to a root canal which is MUCH more costly.
Getting a cavity filled shouldn't cost any more that a couple hundred dollars. Well worth it for a healthy mouth!
Check with your son's school, a dental school or your community, there may be a plan for children without insurance that are income sensitive. You can call around and ask "any" dental office for a payment plan or if they know of any "help" available for you in your present situation. Most all dental offices know who you can contact for help if they can't offer it. At any rate, do get this tooth taken care of before it gets worse. Letting it go for months can make the decay larger and does only make it more expensive to repair. A single surface restoration or filling is around $100.00 and goes up from there. If left too long it could end up needing a root canal procedure, then a post and core build up and crown. You could be looking at spending a few thousand dollars on just one tooth, if you put if off too long.
I hope I've been of some help and wish you the best of luck with your son and this tooth.
Additional information: As I stated previously; "a one surface restoration is approximately $100.00 and up." I'm afraid you will have to look around in your community for a dentist and ask if they will accept payments, some do but usually with established patients, most don't with a new patient. You will have to check around, start by asking friends or relatives about their dentist, you may get a referral to a dentist that will do the payments for you from one of them.
go to a dental school, takes a but longer but much cheaper
The cost will vary depending on how big the cavity is. Plus you will have a cost of an exam and an xray if you go to a dentist office that has never seen your son. Some places will allow you to go on a payment plan and other place require payment up front. You dont want to let it go to long because the longer he has it the more it will cost and the more pain he can be in. It may require a root canal the longer you wait
It really depends on where you are located. I am in central Florida, and a filling for a patient is $101-$159, depending on how big it is. If it needs a crown, that's about $220, and if it needs extraction with space maintainer, then that would be about $325-$465 depending on if he needs a unilateral (one side) or bi-lateral (two sides) space maintainer. The extraction alone is about $111. If he need nitrous oxide, that is about $60, and conscious sedation is about $130. Hope this helps.
Oh, and by the way, most dentists only do payment plans in halves (like if your total is 500, they'll do 250 and then hold your credit card number and do 250 a month later.
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