can anyone here read a dental xray?

[Grasswire2]

Just looking for a clue ahead of appt that is two weeks away.

[uriel1972]

1. Medical advice is not permitted here, sorry...

legal and moral issues, you see. Sorry again.

[Grasswire2]

5. not looking for advice.

Silly.

Just wondering how much money to take with me.

I don't understand the dental business world today. Seems like a racket of referrals and more referrals and refusing to give estimates of cost up front.

I need an extraction of an old root canal that is infected. I know this. I've been told this. I was a patient at university dental school but they stopped seeing patients during the pandemic, and finding another option has taken me months of getting the runaround. A local dentist spent FIVE minutes max with me and charged me $139 for his time, made the appt for the extraction, and then got a callback that his schedule was too full.

And that was six weeks ago with me still looking. I even called Gentle Dental but they said they could not give me an estimate of cost. Forget that.

[lapfog_1]

2. here is a primer

Good...



Not so Good...

[Grasswire2]

4. haha and ouch! nt

[Aristus]

3. Not accurately, no...

n/t