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Special care dentist and root canal treatment.

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rootcanaltreatment · 25/02/2021 18:29

DS1 has additional needs and is seen by the special care community dental team. He was waiting for a filling at the hospital under GA or IV sedation. However, due to Covid delays x rays now show a root canal is needed. The dental service say this isn't done under sedation or GA, so it would be an extraction that is needed. I'm desperate to avoid this if necessary.

I'm wondering if it is possible to get a second opinion or root canal under sedation or GA privately?

Please don't judge, DS1 has medical conditions, one of which affects tooth development and another's treatments are harsh on teeth.

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MargaretThursday · 30/10/2024 21:21

Yes, she's had IV sedation several times and root canal of a molar (and an incisor another time)

The dentist has really worked hard with her, and we've gone from her hardly able to get into the dentist, to being able to have small amounts of treatment without sedation.
But part of that is she knows that if she puts her hand up and says she can't cope any more the dentist will down tools and phone his friend and organise it to be done under sedation. It costs us about £200 for an hour sedation, and then I think it's £75 per hour after that, which is money well spent.

Our dentist is absolutely amazing.

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Where are you in the uk as I’m in Wales and it’s near impossible here to find someone who is willing to treat my son locally on the NHS. I think your also in a better position are your daughter is older if she had treatment aged 16, but have read that it’s possible to have IV sedation at age 12. If you could give me your dentist contact details I could make enquiries. You don’t mention if this is a community dentist giving treatment or a private practice. Thanks for posting, glad to hear you got a good outcome.

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rootcanaltreatment · 30/10/2024 21:55

@MargaretThursday if this is done in a medical setting and not a run of the mill high street dental practice (it was concluded it wouldn’t be safe for DS to have IV sedation outside of a medical setting because of his additional needs), could you please let me know the dentist?

£200 per hour is amazingly cheap.

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MargaretThursday · 30/10/2024 22:19

I'm afraid it's a run of the mill high street dentist. It was nhs when we joined about 25 years ago but went private shortly after.
We do pay for any treatment on top. I don't know whether he'd treat under 16s though. I'll ask him next time we're in.

Passenger42 · 31/10/2024 18:11

MargaretThursday · 30/10/2024 22:19

I'm afraid it's a run of the mill high street dentist. It was nhs when we joined about 25 years ago but went private shortly after.
We do pay for any treatment on top. I don't know whether he'd treat under 16s though. I'll ask him next time we're in.

Hi are you able to tell me what town you live in or give me the practice name or a phone number as i can call them direct. You don’t mention where you are? It would save me a lot of searching if they could assist us

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