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oksis215 t1_jb0w164 wrote

Reply to comment by placebooooo in Dental Schools by DriveThruOnly

so if i have a super dead tooth (previously a root canal but all the filling is gone) and a dentist said it was infected and sent me off, would temple still do 3-4 initial appts? ive been calling temples endodontics department but they never answer and theyre the only people accepting state ins

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placebooooo t1_jb0wx7o wrote

So the one thing temple sucks terribly at is phone calls. They’re all over the place.

To answer your question, it depends.

You said the tooth already had a root canal done previously, but now it needs to be redone? Are you going back to your original dentist to continue treatment and just want the root canal done at temple and that’s all?

If the answer to the above questions is “yes” then you need to look up and contact the graduate endodontics department at temple, tell them you have a referral to redo a root canal. They will do it for you in 1-2 visits and bypass all the other appts I mentioned, then they will send you back to your original dentist for further treatment if needed.

If you want to become a patient of the school and want the school to be your primary dental provider, then you will have to go through the whole process. I hope this isn’t too confusing.

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oksis215 t1_jb0xilp wrote

My original dentist did 2 root canals in 8th grade, never got crowns or caps just filling. In 10th grade the filling on the left was gone and tooth was broken, they pulled the tooth.

I went to a different dentist last month (21 now) and they did xrays and said there was an infection on the right side, the fillings all gone. they gave me a paper with 4 referrals of endos accepting medicaid. 3/4 no longer accept it.

Im not sure if theyd pull it or cap it or something, but I dont really have a primary dentist anymore, do you think I should try to become a patient at for Temple?

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placebooooo t1_jb0xy7z wrote

That’s your call. It sounds like you have a lot going on. If you are tight of finances, I would definitely become a temple patient. It’s a process, but if you show motivation to constantly come in for your appts, you can get things done somewhat quicker and with better affordability relative to outside dentists. Good luck

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