I’ve suddenly come upon a situation where I’ve had to have 2 root canals on my very back molars on both sides.
I asked one dentist for an estimate of the cost of crowns and she said $8k-$10k, I’ve just asked a second dentist from the same practice as one of the root canals failed.
He said metal is $8k-$10k, porcelain and ceramic are $20k-$30k. I have a pretty severe metal allergy so really ceramic or porcelain will be my preference but I feel like my mom pays that just for a typical root canal without a crown in America.
Is this normal? I can’t afford $40k-$60k, I can’t get a definitive answer, and I’m scheduled to ‘complete’ the treatment in 2 weeks.
Do Taiwan dental schools offer dental services to the public at prices discounted from normal market rates? A very highly ranked dental school near me in the U.S. offers a 30-40% discount off normal rates, and takes insurance. However, your visits take longer, because faculty must supervise the students’ work. So you trade your time for lower prices.
I don’t know what they cost here, but I got a root canal and amalgam crown at Tufts Dental School in Boston a couple of years ago and it was still pretty pricey - somewhere around $1k, I believe.
I got root canal treatment in Cheers Dental Clinic, （心悅牙醫診所 ） Linkou a few years back, and all was covered by NHI.
I need like 8 visits from first consult, the treatment to last consult.
So 8*150= 1200 TWD.
The dentists are almost always occupied though, with average-good English. You need to book the time on working hours for easier slot.
We go there for normal stuff and wife went there for some teeth work. They train dental students there, so they do it properly, in theory.
I plan to use them to take my wisdom tooth out.
Speaking from my own experience, (even though I don’t live here yet I’ve been visiting month or two at a time for a few years and my wife’s dentist gives me the local rates :), this is the correct price, $1200 NTD, not USD.
About the same cost for a crown or a root canal, probably no combo discounts though, so ~$2400-ish NTD for both? Maybe $3k NTD if @KobayashiYuri has something funky?
Definitely ain’t no damn $8k though!
Edit: for anyone else perusing this thread later, my wife informs me that at the highest end, (e.g. porcelain front teeth) crowns can be a bit more, possibly even as much as NTD$8k.
(But it sounded like a dentist good enough to be able to charge that much would not be screwing everything else up as badly as OP’s experience. )
Oh I know the root canal treatment is covered! They were telling me crowns start at $8k.
I actually just had a horrific experience so I’m going to a university hospital now.
My filling fell out and I was having extreme pain. They did a second root canal, put another filling in, and scheduled me for my crown to be put on.
The next morning that same filling fell out so I went to KMU instead.
After x-rays and such, they were confused because I still had pulp left in both teeth so it was no wonder I was still in pain.
The Endodontist was nice enough to perform an emergency procedure on my hurting tooth. They gave me a clear guideline of the root canal treatment, and I go back at the end of February to continue the root canal procedure.
The other office was going to put me in crowns while I still had pain and nerves, even though they said my root canal treatment was complete.
Truly terrible service there, to the point one wonders when it makes sense to file an officil complaint. On the one hand maybe they only treat foreigners that way, (bad enough), on the other hand gross incompetence practicing medicine is bad for everyone and should lead to losing a license at some point. Did the U doc say anything about malpractice or whatever the local legal equivalent is?
Sadly this came from a recommendation of an entire foreign family who take their kids there as well.
They didn’t say anything about filing a report. I don’t think I have the brain power to do that. They were just concerned about getting me out of pain which I appreciated.
The whole team at the university was much more considerate and caring than the clinic was.
I am undergoing the same root canal treatment too in an dental clinic they say it’s 19.6 NTD for my crown would you suggest any hospital where I get dental crown at affordable prices
I have teeth like a row of social housing so I know the costs of dental hospitals and private clinics here. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much of an opportunity to save money by going to a hospital dentist when it comes to prosthodontics as this is where they stick you for money.
About five years ago, I cracked a tooth and had a crown fitted. It cost me 15000 for a silver crown. My wife cracked a tooth the following year and her dentist - NEXT DOOR TO MINE JUST A LESS FANCY ONE - charged her 10000 for a porcelain crown.
I needed a front tooth extracted and a partial denture so I got a quote from her dentist, my dentist, and the hospital dentist - 50-55000 for a partial denture that would have taken several weeks to receive. We ended up doing a mini tour of Thailand with the extraction and partial denture done on the same day. The vacation and dental work came within NT55000 budget.
Hi @KobayashiYuri I’m undergoing a root canal treatment in a dental clinic they say that Metal crown costs upto 8k NTD and porcelain Crown is 20K Is there any other hospital which charges less? Since you have experience in this matter could you suggest any asap?
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