Am a lurker and very occasional poster and could do with some advice!!
Apologies for this being rather long and boring!!
I had a tooth abscess last week, went to the dentist who gace me antibotics and made an appointment for me to go in for a root filling today.
So, there I am in the chair, he's drilling away and finds the filling which was in my tooth is actually a temporary filling. The nurse reads through my notes and finds that they were giving me a root canal in that tooth in 2007 but had to stop as I got pregnant and couldn't have x-rays.
During my pregancy the dentist changed so when I went back for a couple of fillings, after having DD this was never picked up on. I have no memory of this, but had a very young toddler, was moving house, living at in-laws for a while as house wasn't ready, DD was a bit early and did not sleep, fed all the tme ets etc so to be fair that whole year is a blur!!
My point is, I need a crown now. On the NHS I can only get a metal one and a ceramic (?) one will be £350. However I may well have not needed a crown had it not been left for 2/3 years and the cost of the root canal, etc would have been covered by the fact I was on maternity and didn't need to pay for dental at the time.
Does anyone have any idea on whether I have a case to go to my dentist and say they should cover some of the cost??
Thanks in advance!!