Costs of root canal treatment in Germany

I have just been quoted €1130 for root canal treatment on a back tooth...is this a reasonable price or not ??

Insurance job ??

try here: http://www.2te-zahnarztmeinung.de/

If the price includes a ceramic crown, and the tooth has four roots, that sounds about right to me. (I think the back teeth have four roots.)

I had one a couple of years ago, and I think that's about what it cost.

Probably Carm is the authority on this one, though.

I have just had the same thing done - Cost 1100 Euro !! Not cheap, but she did a good job

I just checked through my dentist bills and I've had one for 1060€ in 2003 (on a back tooth) and one in early 2004 for 950€ (on a front tooth).
So, I would say that the quoted price sounds reasonable.

ask carm about it, she should know!

depends on the tooth! An upper molar has generally 3 roots and canals, but you can find up to 5 canals sometimes (we use a microscope here) so the costs go up then, A Lower molar has 2 roots but up to 4 canals, so again, its the canals that have to be filled, the more there are the more it costs. Those costs seem resonable, my office charges more because we have a specialist and he uses the Microscope.

Remember that is just the cost of the Root Canal, you will still need either a filling or a crown afterwards, and those cost too.

I paid around 600 for the fourth (yes, fourth) RC on the same damned tooth, three previous numbnuts dentists having done incomplete work) and another 700 for the porcelain (Celay) crown. While it's expensive, I highly recommend the porcelain for crowns and inlays -- it looks natural, doesn't react with metal (so you don't scream and spit out a big bite of sandwich because a tiny bit of foil stuck on it) and it's durable as hell.

woof.

Well I've just completed the root canal treatment of one of my teeth, and got an invoice from the dentist for 450 EUR. Had to visit them around 6 times though to get everything done !

My tooth had 3 roots. But as Carm has just said, you then also need the crown. Maybe this price includes this ? I have not had that done yet, but the dentist wants me back in 3 months to start this treatment.

Also, hardly any pain throughout the entire treatment

Hi Carm,

What does the microscope do? Or what can the dentist do differently with one? If it's less painful, I'm all for it!

God I miss my American dentist. With him, I almost fell asleep in the chair, I was that relaxed!

The microscope can show fine detail that an xray cannot like 4th or 5th canals. Most RC fail because all the canals are not found, cleaned and filled, so there is always bacteria in them, with the microscope we can see to the apex of the the tooth, and often find the side canals off the main ones.

ps- I fall asleep here when getting treated, but I have complete faith in my bosses, they are the best in Germany IMO! (they can be assholes as bosses sometimes, but they do the best work I have ever seen!).

mine lasted 5 whole years then they had to remove whatever was remining of the tooth. wonderful, now I'm missing a lower molar & the top partner tooth is falling down.

sorry, that was 10 years ago, but i'm still bitter.

(I meant porcelain crown, and not ceramic, in my earlier post.)

If the tooth is too far gone, that's what haappens. A couple of my molars are really on shaky ground. Once the old (and large) amalgam filling gave out (allowing a bit more decay underneath before actually coming out) an inlay was the only hope for not losing the tooth. It was a €500 gamble with only 50-50 odds but four years later I still don't need an implant (my next recourse).

Another good thing about inlays is that the cusps of teeth which are lost due to fillings can be remade although it takes a bit of getting used to having them again.

woof.

ceramic, gold, porcelian... they are all good, depends on how well the tooth was prepped and how good the labor is that makes them, you would crap yourselves, if you saw what I saw everyday from new patients.

Carm, do you mean new patients come in with rotten decaying teeth, etc?

yep, some patients just had all their crowns replaces in another office and we have to redo all of them as they are poorly done! And on periodontally unsound teeth too!
Very dissappointing for the patient.

Thanks everyone...all this info has been most useful

There's some great info on this forum. So unfortunately my dentist says I have to get a root canal done on one of my upper premolars that he filled in earlier in the year. It got really sensitive a few weeks ago and then there was just a dull pain. Apparantly the sensitivity was the tooth fighting to live.

Anyway, he says I can either get the 20 min procedure that my health insurance covers, or the 45min one in which he will use a microscope which will cost 100Euros.

Is the 100 euros worth it, or should I just get the free one done?

spend the money now to save the thousands you will need in about 2 years to get an implant!

Thanks Carm